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Veeam Infrastructure Appliance - Clarification on roles

  • March 10, 2026
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Dear Community,

 

As we transition to Veeam 13 I may be getting a bit lost on the usage/purpose of the above Appliance.

  • I have deployed the VSA ver 13 as in-house demo to explore the features and usage.
  • I also deployed the Veeam Hardened Repository 2.0.0.8 and I like how it makes things easier.

However the Usage of the Veeam Infrastructure Appliance which can also be used to deploy the Linux VHR has other roles/features that may not be clear on how they plug-in to the entire deployment.

 

I am reading this part https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/vbr/userguide/linux_infrastructure_appliance_byb.html?ver=13 and I would like to understand which components that we used to integrate and configure in VBR ver 12 can be compared.

 

Hope its clear. 

Though I hope for some more Videos on deployment of the same, on the Veeam Youtube channel on the same with demos.

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      lukas.k
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      • lukas.k
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      • March 10, 2026

      Hi ​@Denis9ACS,

      Welcome to the Community!

       

      About the ISOs, it can be explained in a simple way.

      The VSA (Veeam Software Appliance) has its own iso. With that you can deploy the VBR server (Veeam Backup & Replication) and the VBEM (Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager).

      There is a second iso - the Veeam Infrastructure Appliance (VIA) ISO. With that you can deploy proxies, repositories and hardened repositores.

       

      The main purpose of the ISOs are the same: Make management and security more handy. Each of the ISOs refer to the Rocky Linux distribution that is pre-hardened by Veeam.

       

      You can deploy all the components based on your requirements and needs and make them work together. You can use a VHR (hardened repo) and add this to a VBR infrastructure, same for proxies.

       

      Hope that helps!

      Lukas

      LK | Enterprise Architect @ Veeam Software | Former Veeam Vanguard | Security Specialist
        Chris.Childerhose
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        Also the newer ISOs are the latest release compared to the 2.0 VBR.  I believe somewhere on here someone went over updating the 2.0 to the new one or might have been a replacement.  You can deploy the new one and create a SOBR to decom the old and move data.

        Chris Childerhose (Enterprise Architect) - VMCA | VMCE | VMCE-SP | Veeam Vanguard 9* | Veeam Legend 6* | VUG Canada Leader | vExpert 7* | Toronto VMUG Leader | VCAP-DCV/VCP-DCV | Object First Ace | Cisco Champion | Twitter: @cchilderhose | Blog Site – https://just-virtualization.tech
          coolsport00
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          • coolsport00
          • Veeam Legend
          • March 10, 2026

          Hi ​@Denis9ACS - to expound on what Lukas was saying...the VIA ISO can be used to deploy several different Veeam components, not just the VHR. It can deploy several kinds of Proxies and Repositories, as well as other components listed in the URL you posted. You use those other Components only if you have certain Jobs configured for certain use-cases in your environment. For example, you don’t need a Gateway Server if you don’t have Jobs pointing to Cloud (Object Storage), for example. A Guest Interaction Proxy isn’t needed if you’re not using Application Aware Processing, etc.

          Hope that helps. Let us know if you have further questions.

          Best.

          Shane Williford - Veeam VMCA/VMCE | Veeam Legend | VUG Leader | VCP-DCV | Twitter: @coolsport00
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            • Denis9ACS
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            • Not a newbie anymore
            • March 11, 2026

            Thank you all for the contributions.

             

            I now understand the usage better.

             

             

              coolsport00
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              • coolsport00
              • Veeam Legend
              • March 11, 2026

              Glad to help out ​@Denis9ACS . 👍🏻

              Shane Williford - Veeam VMCA/VMCE | Veeam Legend | VUG Leader | VCP-DCV | Twitter: @coolsport00
              Chris.Childerhose
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              Happy to have helped ​@Denis9ACS 

              Chris Childerhose (Enterprise Architect) - VMCA | VMCE | VMCE-SP | Veeam Vanguard 9* | Veeam Legend 6* | VUG Canada Leader | vExpert 7* | Toronto VMUG Leader | VCAP-DCV/VCP-DCV | Object First Ace | Cisco Champion | Twitter: @cchilderhose | Blog Site – https://just-virtualization.tech
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