Virtual Lab: Creating 9+ isolated networks without 9+ matching NICs

[AVavav]

Hi all,

I've legacy Virtual LABs with 13+ isolated networks and the 9 NICS (maximum as set by VMware).
I can work around the NIC limitation but need to call out 13+ isolated networks to keep Surebackup job tidy.
As I'm retiring the Hosts the legacy Virtual LAB resides on, and can't find a way of migrating the legacy VLAB to a new host (even maintaining the same hostname name won't work I think due to host id used).
I would ideally have a single Virtual lab same as I have one, as the big Surebackup job contains VMs of many different VLANs (about 13 VLANs)

I've looked at using Powershell but it didn't work (or I did it wrong):
powershell-f26/creating-virtual-lab-thr ... 72490.html

This 'Error: "Virtual lab supports a maximum of 9 networks."' KB isn't helping either:
https://www.veeam.com/kb4353


Any idea?

[Andreas Neufert]

Hi, I forwarded this request to the responsible product manager. The answer will take some days as he is at the VeeamON event currently.

[Egor Yakovlev]

Hi AVavav,
From which VBR version you are migrating from? For last 3 years such configuration was not possible (it is 1:1 relationship between isolated networks and vNIC count).
There is no mean to move virtual labs from one host to another - a fresh deployment is the way.

[AVavav]

I've being migrating Veeam from v9 or 10 onwards with the Virtual LABs and hosts not being changed, as you've mentioned back then it was possible.
The problem is that the physical host is being retired and I won't be able to keep the Virtual LAB unless it can be migrated (doesn't seem to be possible to change host and host id it was built on.
This is why I'm asking to be able to do same on new one.
It works well if you've isolated networks for each and can even manage with one vNIC using 255.0.0.0 subnet (in my case) so I don't need matching vNICs to isolated networks which is enforced by Veeam and also causes 9 to be the maximum VLANs I can have covered by isolated networks on the SureBackup job (not enough for us).

[Egor Yakovlev]

True, and you will have to deploy a few new labs to fit that upgrade scenario.
We do track the need of 9+ networks in the lab configuration for a while now, and have some ideas how to solve it in the future.

[AVavav]

Hi AVavav,
True, and you will have to deploy a few new labs to fit that upgrade scenario.
We do track the need of 9+ networks in the lab configuration for a while now, and have some ideas how to solve it in the future.

If you're looking for a beta tester, let me know