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MSA2040 SAS Controllers & Veeam

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I have an MSA2040 with 2 SAS controllers, and I have two esx hosts plugged in with a 2 port sas hba, one connection per controller.
I would like to plug my physical vcenter server that has veeam installed on it, directly into the MSA2040 as well with a 2 port SAS HBA. Will I be able to perform veeam backups in this configuration and is it supported?
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Hi John,

Are you trying to configure something similar to this setup??

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Sort of, in that scenario the person is connecting each host to the SAN controller via direct ethernet connections. In my scenario I am connecting directly to the hosts via direct SAS connection.
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If this allows the vCenter server/Veeam backup server connect to the hosts and manage it/see it, then backups will be also possible. Let's see if other community members have done anything similar.
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Re: MSA2040 SAS Controllers & Veeam

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Hello,


we run a similar setup; we have 3 physical ESXi hosts directly connected to our MSA 2040 via SAS and 1 physical veeam server also directly connected to the SAN via SAS. We had to install MPIO iirc on the 2008R2 veeam server.

Veeam runs in direct-SAN-access mode with exceptional backup speeds.


Kind regards, -sd
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