Version 10 questions

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Hello,

Returning customer, used to be very active on this forum. We bought a new Dell R740xd about six months ago and finally have some time to work on it. We are currently running version 9.5.0.1536 and plan to install a fresh new version 10 on the new hardware machine.

Here is the plan for the new system.

- Dell R740xd.

- Windows 2016 Standard (will be using MS NIC teaming instead of the Broadcom Advanced Control Suite which doesn't work, piece of junk).

- Connecting to VCenter 6.5

I have a few questions below.

1) With the current setup, we mounted a few iSCSI volumes from AWS (Storage Gateway) onto the machine so the machine sees the volume as local drives. The backjob writes straight to the iSCSI volumes. Will that be the same on version 10?

I was told a while back that Veeam was working on a feature where it allows the backup job to write to a local drive of the machine then has the ability to move the files to a cloud drive such as the mounted iSCSi volumes. Is that available on version 10?

2) I want to be able to verify network communication from the Veeam server to the virtual servers that need application-aware processing (what it takes to be able process this). How do I test before installing the Veeam backup application? I remember years ago it was some type of MS share testing via UNC. Its been a while ago.

Thanks,
TT

[Andreas Neufert]

1) This is a not supported statment. https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backu ... ml?ver=100 "Object storage gateway appliances that are used to store backup data in filer (CIFS/NFS) or block device mode (iSCSI/FC/SAS) are not supported if the backup data is offloaded to object storage and is no longer stored directly on the appliance."

v10 can interact directly with AWS S3. You Backup to local storage (ScaleOut Backup Repository) and then use a AWS S3 capacity tier extend for the copy.
https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backu ... ml?ver=100

2) You can check access by any RemoteRPC test tool/script that you can find in the internet.

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Thanks for the reply.

[cidmchd]

Some of VMware features and permissions are not granted by default at the start of VMware Cloud on AWS (VMC). Thus, some depending Veeam Backup & Replication features will be limited or not operating. Depending on VMware update releases for VMware Cloud on AWS.