NetApp storage snapshots

[TDG]

Hi we have an old Win 2012R2 VM with Veeam 11 (VBR11). Think it's doing storage snapshots via ONTAP on VBR 11

I can see this is set on the ESX host which the VBE11 VM is running (& This PCI is also set on the VBR11 VM setting as well)
PCI Devices
PASSTHROUGH-ENABLED DEVICES
0000:08:00.0
Enabled
Emulex Corporation Emulex LightPulse LPe16000 PCIe Fibre Channel Adapter
0000:08:00.1
Enabled
Emulex Corporation Emulex LightPulse LPe16000 PCIe Fibre Channel Adapter

Now I have a new Win 2022 VM (VBR12) running on the same ESX host with Veeam 12

How do I get this ONTAP added to the new VBR12 VM ?

Planning to de-com the old

Please advise

[tyler.jurgens]

Sounds like you're going to need to cut over and pass through the Fibre Channel adapter to the new Veeam VBR.

I would recommend upgrading your existing V11 to V12 and taking a configuration backup. Then configure the new V12 VM with the Fibre Channel passthrough, make sure that's working, and then restore the Veeam configuration to it.

[TDG]

Thanks Tyler Jurgens. But I don't want to touch the old V11 (It's a mess apart from the NetApp storage snapshot) . I Got the new V12 running nicely & I have recreated all jobs manually & sending a copy to Wasabi. All I wanted to do is configure the new V12 VM with the Fibre Channel passthrough & setup the jobs from new & disable all on V11 & and after some time kill the old V11 ?

[foggy]

Basically, the same way you did it for v11: https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backu ... ml?ver=120

[rennerstefan]

Thanks Tyler Jurgens. But I don't want to touch the old V11 (It's a mess apart from the NetApp storage snapshot) . I Got the new V12 running nicely & I have recreated all jobs manually & sending a copy to Wasabi. All I wanted to do is configure the new V12 VM with the Fibre Channel passthrough & setup the jobs from new & disable all on V11 & and after some time kill the old V11 ?

Yes, essentially that is what you will need to do. If you keep the old running, e.g., for restores until your new one fully took over, you have to create new pass-through adapters in VMware and zone them properly. Don't forget that you will need to manually add the WWPNs in the igroups on ONTAP to get it to work.
In addition, keep in mind, that the new VBR will not take over the responsibility for your existing ONTAP snapshots, that means, if you shut down the v11 one while there are still snapshots present, that were created by the v11 one, the v12 one will not expire them as it is a new installation, you have to take care manually about it.
That should be about all to remember, other than that its just a new VBR with ONTAP.

[TDG]

Thanks Stefan. PCI pass-through adapters in VMware is good ? or we have a better way now ?

[rennerstefan]

well that depends on a lot of things.

In general, when I was a field SA, I tried to avoid pass-through and rather went for physical servers being the proxies and having physical FC cards.
I always tried to seperate the backup from the source completely.

For NetApp one thing that would work as well is using iSCSI to backup the data, that would mean you don't need FC at all.
But that of course means having the bandwidth and security for iSCSI availalbe.

Other than that your solution will just work fine as it does today (I guess).