Hi all,
I'm planning to deploy the Veeam Software Appliance and wondering — is it generally better to run it on physical hardware or as a virtual machine (e.g. on vSphere)?
I know both are supported, but looking for real-world experience on pros/cons of each approach. Things like performance, reliability, and best practice recommendations would be helpful.
Thanks in advance!
+21Either works as stated. To me physical would have a slight edge as it removes the virtualization layer, but then you don't have HA within virtualization. Plus if you want to do HA Cluster it would be easier on a virtual platform.
+22Virtual gives you more flexibility
How much are you backing up? Are you doing tape or cloud? My data center tape server has 62 Gbps of network bandwidth. 6 x 10 Gbps connections that one goes to each subnet/VLAN. 2 Gbps that backs up other stuff. 3 tape drives, LTO 5. 21-23 GB/min backup speed. I use tapes because once ejected they are safe from ransomware attacks.
+5either would work. In my opinion I think virtual is best. But it would depend on your requirements and space availability to build out.
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