New to Veeam - Vsphere 6.7

[cmoe1983]

Hi everyone,
We are new to Veeam and currently in the process of testing Backup and Replication. We are currently setting up a Linux Hardened repository on a host that is connecting to a san via iscsi.

Our production environment is vmware vsphere with multiple hosts connecting to our production san via isci.

Again we are new to this and just don't know exactly how we should set this up...
We were thinking that we would setup our veeam backup server and veeam proxy as vm's inside of our vsphere and then have them push the backups to our linux hardened repository that is, as mentioned above a physical server running linux and connecting to another san via iscsi for the backup repository.

If we decide to run the backup server and the proxy as vm's, is there any particular recommendation on how to connect them into our production iscsi network? Can we connect the backup and proxy vm's to our existing vsphere iscsi network? Since we are new to this we want to make sure we don't misconfigure something network wise and kill off any throughput.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

[PetrM]

Hi Calvin,

Welcome to Veeam R&D Forums! I suggest to consider the Linux server for proxy role as well. This approach allows you to reach higher processing rate because data read from production datastores will be performed in Direct SAN mode mode via iSCSI and both source and target data movers will be running on the same machine without additional usage of network bandwidth.

If Direct SAN is not possible, then you can install the backup server and proxy on VMs and run backups in HotAdd mode. Also, have a look at the preferred network settings if you want to route backup traffic over the dedicated network.

One more source of knowledge is our best practices document: here is the page about backup server deployment and this page provides recommendations for proxy server setup.

Thanks!