Veeam Software Appliance Deployment - ISO
For deployments on physical hardware or other hypervisors we will need the ISO
To get this head here and click Download on the Veeam Software Appliance 13 section, you will need a valid Veeam login for this
Then select the Bootable ISO and click Download
The VM will need to be specced with whats listed in the overview, the VM compatibility is Rocky Linux and the ISO will need to be mounted to the server, if this is a physical server ensure you burn it with Rufus in DD mode else it will fail to install
When you boot the server, you will see this screen, press Enter on Veeam Backup & Replication
Then press Enter on Install
Click Yes here
And the system will automatically install everything
Veeam Software Appliance Deployment - OVA
For deployments in a VMware environment we can install this directly with an OVA template downloaded from Veeam’s website
To get this head here and click Download on the Veeam Software Appliance 13 section, you will need a valid Veeam login for this
Then select the VMware OVA and click Download
In VMware, right click the cluster and click Deploy OVF Template
Click Local File, then Upload Files
Double click the OVA file
Then click Next
Give the VM a name and optionally select a folder, then click Next
For the compute, select the cluster and check the box to automatically power the VM on, then click Next
Click Ignore, then Next here
Select a datastore and change the virtual disk format to Thin Provision, then click Next
Select the vSphere network and click Next
Check everything is setup as you need and when you are happy, click Finish
The full guide can be found here
https://blog.leaha.co.uk/2025/12/23/veeam-data-platform-13-ultimate-deployment-guide/