My customer has a windows server physical machine running with another backup solution and connected to DataDomain using FC. I sold veeam to this customer and have to deploy it. I want to use VMs for backup server and proxy server to deploy my solution so my solution will use IP not FC. The issue is that backups have to be done to the datadomain and is connected to infrastrutcure with FC. Can i use this physical machine as gateway server to help my VM backup server to use DataDomain to create repository?
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Have you seen these documents? They are a good reference for how to configure Veeam with DataDomain. The best practice guide recommends having the proxy and gateway on the same server so, while you can have a separate physical gateway server, you may find better performance with the recommended best practice configuration.
https://bp.veeam.com/vbr/3_Build_structures/B_Veeam_Components/B_backup_repositories/datadomain.html
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Will the other backup solution be run down or will it be active on this server?
In the second case the other backup solution and the Veeam gateway server could influence each other on the same system….
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Or the only thing to do if i want to use this datadomain to create my repository is to make sure that datadomain is also connected to infrastructure using ethernet because my backup server is on ethernet network
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https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backup/vsphere/dell_dd.html?ver=120
“Important
For Dell Data Domain storage systems working over Fibre Channel, you must explicitly define the gateway server that will communicate with Dell Data Domain. As a gateway server, you must use a Microsoft Windows server that is added to the backup infrastructure and has access to Dell Data Domain over Fibre Channel.”
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Or the only thing to do if i want to use this datadomain to create my repository is to make sure that datadomain is also connected to infrastructure using ethernet because my backup server is on ethernet network
Yes, you can add the physical server as a managed server in Veeam console then can select it to the Gateway/Proxy for backup jobs to the data domain repository you also add to the console.
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That way i will create a another VM for repository server and map RDM disk on it that i will use for repository on veeam
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No problem. Let us know how it goes.
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For my final solution. i Create CIFS share on datadomain and added it in VBR server as repository
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For my final solution. i Create CIFS share on datadomain and added it in VBR server as repository
I am surprised you could not use DD native and DDBoost versus the CIFS. Glad the solution worked for you.
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