In my home lab I want to experiment with the new Veeam VBR v13 appliance. On one hand to try it out before migrating at the organization I work for, on the other hand because I love to try new things out and thinker with it.
So I use the ISO deployment method to deploy on a virtual machine on Proxmox PVE, that is a supported scenario as I read in the documentation. I go through the installation procedure, slightly annoyed that I can’t select a keyboard layout and have to type a difficult password on the wrong layout, but I can manage that 😉. On my first attempt I’ve set a static IP and a simple hostname (not FQDN) and disabled IPv6. I’ve chosen not to create a security officer account, since it’s just me anyways. The option is there to skip, so I assume it’s supported. After completing the process, I can access the host management on port 10443 just fine using IP address or using the hostname(created a DNS record for it). However the normal webUI on port 443 is not responding, it just gives a timeout without an error. I tried different browsers, I even tried curl or lynx, it just times out.
This is a simple 1 network setup, with the PC in the same network as the Hypervisor and the created virtual machine (fine for a home lab). The host management webUI (10443) works, so network is fine. When accessing the console I can login and enable SSH, that also works fine. When I check with “ss -tulpen | grep :443” I see an nginx process listening on 0.0.0.0:443. I assume the firewall on the appliance is blocking the connection, but I can’t manipulate that. I tried rebooting the appliance to no avail. Tried changing the hostname, enabling ipv6, to no avail.
So, I presumed it had something to do with the static network configuration on the appliance. So I started over and beforehand made a reservation on the DHCP server. This time during install I left the network settings on DHCP, set a FQDN hostname and did not change the timeservers but did change the timezone. After completing the process again, the same situation is presented. WebUI (443) doesn’t work, host management (10443) does.
Is it just me? Am I doing something wrong here? I would love to know. Thanks
