The company I work for is looking to improve its BCDR capabilities utilising Veeam and Azure. Currently in a DC we have VBR (physical server with local storage repo) copying to Azure blob storage and Enterprise Manager on a vm. We are aiming to change the Veeam license to include VRO with the idea of being able to stand up VMs in Azure in the event of the DC going down. My questions are about the placement of the various components. Do we need a second VBR server in Azure? Should the Enterprise manager be shifted to Azure? Would it be best to build the VRO server in Azure? Also where does ONE fit into this? We are talking to an MSP about getting this set up but wanted some advice from the expert community to put my mind at ease. Thanks!
Hybrid architecture
Best answer by MicoolPaul
Morning,
You’d want to place your VBR and VRO servers outside of the “fault domain” you’re attempting to protect. So in this case as you want to protect your DC, I’d suggest placing both VBR & VRO outside of the DC, into Azure.
You mentioned you have a physical VBR server with local storage, you could migrate the VBR configuration to a new VM within Azure to run the main VBR application, whilst continuing to use the physical server for proxy/repo/guest interaction etc as appropriate for your environment.
A key benefit here will be the immediate ability to utilise both your VBR and VRO servers in a DR without needing to rebuild either of them first to then orchestrate your restorations.
+23Morning,
You’d want to place your VBR and VRO servers outside of the “fault domain” you’re attempting to protect. So in this case as you want to protect your DC, I’d suggest placing both VBR & VRO outside of the DC, into Azure.
You mentioned you have a physical VBR server with local storage, you could migrate the VBR configuration to a new VM within Azure to run the main VBR application, whilst continuing to use the physical server for proxy/repo/guest interaction etc as appropriate for your environment.
A key benefit here will be the immediate ability to utilise both your VBR and VRO servers in a DR without needing to rebuild either of them first to then orchestrate your restorations.
Hello stranger, thanks for the reply. Makes perfect sense. If I move the config to a new VBR server, do I need to reconfigure the current one to keep using it as a repo?
+23You would want to do a backup configuration, stop the VBR services, import the backup configuration onto your new VBR server, and once you’re happy everything is working, uninstall the VBR server from your original server. You don’t want to remove the components used by your new server just the base VBR application and tidy up any databases used by the old VBR server.
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