Veeam Design Question

[emashaal]

Hi,

Does anyone know if when deploying veeam for replication to use a veeam server at the DR site to "drive" the replication. The main site would have a proxy that is SAN,HOTADD,NBD capable) while the DR site would control the job and and have the metadata on the replicas.

In this case when the main site goes down this would allow us to drive the replicas from a veeam server.....

does veeam support this type of configuration?

Veaam Server Main site
-is used for backups
-is used for restores
-has a proxy (all modes)

Veam Server DR site
Jobs are created here for replication from Main site to DR

[Jfmoots]

Absolutely. It's a great design.

6.1 will even allow you to share proxies between your two Veeam console.

[habibalby]

Hi,
You are only replicating to DR or you are going to initiate the Backup from DR too?

If replication will shipped from Production to DR, I would assume you will initiate the Backup of VMs at the DR Site; In this case I think you will require an additional proxy beside the main backup server to decrease the workload on that server and one Repository Server to off-load your backup to disk-to-tape.

[emashaal]

Thanks much for your reply's...

Using this design I noticed a huge improvement on the "calculating digests" literally rips through 600GB SSD in less than an hour. I think the "wan" setting on the repl job causes it and also displays it further by revving up the cpus on the Veeam VM.