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chas
chasComes here often
posted in Veeam Backup & Replication
Veeam Blueprints

Hi everyone.I run the Solution Architects organization for the Americas here at Veeam, and I am happy to introduce you to our Technical Blueprints. These are produced by our Solution Architects in collaboration with Veeam Product Management, R&D and our alliance partners - it truly takes a village.Our goal was to produce short, easy-to-digest reference documents that offer a prescribed architecture that mirrors situations we have seen in the field. As you can appreciate with a software-defined solution, there are countless variables that impact design and we consciously wanted to avoid "could do..." type documents so we worked to strike a balance between short and useful.The documents are firmly technical (again - prescribed architecture) but should be easily accessible to those with knowledge of Veeam. They are not designed to replace the product documentation (at helpcenter.veeam.com), be a full architecture and design (we have a different process for that, and partners add massi

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coolsport00
10 months ago
vmJoe
vmJoeVeeam MVP
posted in Alliance Vendor
Single production datacenter to offsite datacenter Hitachi Content Platform (HCP)

The environment described in this architecture is one main data center containing 5,000 VMs and 100 physical servers. Each VM and physical server has an average of 200 GB of used storage space. All backups will be targeted to a primary backup repository and copied to a secondary offsite location. Proxies are installed on a physical server and use the network transport (NBD) method. The backup target will be Object Storage, which is set for Immutability and accessed via Gateway servers.

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leduardoserrano
1 month ago
vmJoe
vmJoeVeeam MVP
posted in Alliance Vendor
Single production datacenter to offsite datacenter with Dell PowerEdge R760xd2 & Data Domain 9800 10,000 VMs

The environment described in this architecture is one main datacenter containing 10,000 VMs and 100 physical servers. Each VM and physical server has an average of 200 GB of used storage space. All backups will be targeted to a local primary backup repository and copied to a secondary offsite location. Proxies are installed on VMs and use the virtual appliance (hotadd) backup method. The primary Veeam Hardened repository will be on Dell PowerEdge R760xd2 server and the secondary repository will be on Data Domain 9800.

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vmJoe
1 month ago
vmJoe
vmJoeVeeam MVP
posted in Alliance Vendor
Single production datacenter to offsite datacenter with Dell PowerEdge R760xd2 & Data Domain 9300 5,000 VMs

The environment described in this architecture is one main datacenter containing 5,000 VMs and 100 physical servers. Each VM and physical server has an average of 200 GB of used storage space. All backups will be targeted to a local primary backup repository and copied to a secondary offsite location. Proxies are installed on VMs and use the virtual appliance (hotadd) backup method. The primary Veeam Hardened repository will be on Dell PowerEdge R760xd2 server and the secondary repository will be on Data Domain 9300.

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vmJoe
1 month ago
vmJoe
vmJoeVeeam MVP
posted in Alliance Vendor
Single production datacenter to offsite datacenter with Dell PowerEdge R760xd2 & Data Domain 6800 1,000 VMs

The environment described in this architecture is one main datacenter containing 1,000 VMs and 100 physical servers. Each VM and physical server has an average of 200 GB of used storage space. All backups will be targeted to a local primary backup repository and copied to a secondary offsite location. Proxies are installed on VMs and use the virtual appliance (hotadd) backup method. The primary Veeam Hardened repository will be on Dell PowerEdge R760xd2 server and the secondary repository will be on Data Domain 6800.

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vmJoe
1 month ago
vmJoe
vmJoeVeeam MVP
posted in Alliance Vendor
Single production datacenter to offsite datacenter. Monitor and protect critical business data with Progress Flowmon

The environment described in this architecture is one datacenter containing 1,000 VMs and 100 servers. Each VM and server has an average of 100 GB of used storage space. All backups will be targeted to a local primary backup repository and copied to a secondary offsite location. Flowmon provides full network layer visibility of potential attacks so customers can leverage early detection and warnings to trigger data protection workflows in Veeam® Backup & Replication™ using the Veeam Incident API. 

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AndrePulia
1 month ago
vmJoe
vmJoeVeeam MVP
posted in Alliance Vendor
Nutanix AHV (500 VMs / 100TB) to Hardened Repository

The environment described in this architecture is one main datacenter with 500 Nutanix AHV VMs with 100TB of source data. All local backups will be targeted to Hardened Repositories grouped in a Scale-out Backup Repository. Offsite backups will also target Veeam Hardened Repositories. VMs will require 2vCPUs, 4GB of RAM, and 200GB of disk space.

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AndrePulia
1 month ago
vmJoe
vmJoeVeeam MVP
posted in Alliance Vendor
Single production datacenter to offsite datacenter with Dell PowerEdge R760xd2 1,000 VMs

The environment described in this architecture is one main datacenter containing 1,000 VMs and 100 physical servers. Each VM and physical server has an average of 200 GB of used storage space. All backups will be targeted to a local primary backup repository and copied to a secondary offsite location. Proxies are installed on VMs and use the virtual appliance (hotadd) backup method. The Veeam hardened repository will be on Dell PowerEdge R760xd2 servers.

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AndrePulia
1 month ago
vmJoe
vmJoeVeeam MVP
posted in Alliance Vendor
Single production datacenter to offsite datacenter with Dell PowerEdge R760xd2 10,000 VMs

The environment described in this architecture is one main datacenter containing 10,000 VMs and 100 physical servers. Each VM and physical server has an average of 200 GB of used storage space. All backups will be targeted to a local primary backup repository and copied to a secondary offsite location. Proxies are installed on VMs and use the virtual appliance (hotadd) backup method. The Veeam Hardened repository will be on Dell PowerEdge R760xd2 servers.

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AndrePulia
1 month ago
vmJoe
vmJoeVeeam MVP
posted in Veeam Backup & Replication
Regional datacenter and remote site to VCCE in a central hub site – 10000 VMs

The environment described in this architecture is one Regional Datacenter with 10000 VMs and 100 physical servers and a ROBO site containing 100 VMs and 10 physical servers. Each VM and physical server has an average of 200 GB of used storage space.  All backups will be targeted to a local primary backup repository and copied to a secondary offsite location secured with Veeam Cloud Connect for the Enterprise (VCCE).

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AndrePulia
1 month ago
vmJoe
vmJoeVeeam MVP
posted in Veeam Backup & Replication
CDP Replication for Average Write Rate of 100 MB/s

Updated - V12.1The environment described in this architecture are two datacenters and multiple VMs in a cluster with a total average write rate of 100 MB/s, consuming 30 TB of primary storage. The VMs will be replicated from the primary datacenter to the target cluster in the secondary datacenter through continuous data protection (CDP). The source and target cluster will be managed by a single vCenter. Each datacenter will contain a CDP proxy that is installed on a physical server. Networking speed between components in each datacenter is 10 Gbps.

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AndrePulia
1 month ago
vmJoe
vmJoeVeeam MVP
posted in Veeam Backup & Replication
CDP Replication for Average Write Rate of 500 MB/s

Updated - V12.1The environment described in this architecture are two datacenters and multiple VMs in a cluster with a total average write rate of 500 MB/s, consuming 150 TB of primary storage. The VMs will be replicated from the primary datacenter to the target cluster in the secondary datacenter through continuous data protection (CDP). The source and target cluster will be managed by a single vCenter. Each datacenter will contain a CDP proxy that is installed on a physical server. Networking speed between components in each datacenter is 10 Gbps.

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AndrePulia
1 month ago
vmJoe
vmJoeVeeam MVP
posted in Veeam Backup & Replication
NAS Backup 500TB to a Veeam Hardened Repository

The environment described in this architecture is one main datacenter containing 500 TB of NAS data. The NAS environment contains 5 shares and 200 million files. All backups will be targeted to Hardened Repositories grouped in a Scale Out Backup Repository. The general-purpose proxies and cache repositories will be collocated on the same server hardware.

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AndrePulia
1 month ago
vmJoe
vmJoeVeeam MVP
posted in Veeam Backup & Replication
NAS Backup 500TB to immutable Object Storage

The environment described in this architecture is one main datacenter containing 500 TB of NAS data. The NAS environment contains 5 shares and 200 million files. All backups will be targeted to Immutable Object Storage. The general-purpose proxies and gateways will be collocated on the same server hardware.

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AndrePulia
1 month ago
vmJoe
vmJoeVeeam MVP
posted in Veeam Backup & Replication
NAS Backup 1PB to Hardened Repository

The environment described in this architecture is one main datacenter containing 1 PB of NAS data. The NAS environment contains 10 shares and 400 million files. All backups will be targeted to Hardened Repositories grouped in a Scale Out Backup Repository. The general-purpose proxies and cache repositories will be collocated on the same server hardware.

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AndrePulia
1 month ago
vmJoe
vmJoeVeeam MVP
posted in Veeam Backup & Replication
NAS Backup 1PB to Object Storage

The environment described in this architecture is one main datacenter containing 1 PB of NAS data. The NAS environment contains 10 shares and 400 million files. All backups will be targeted to Immutable Object Storage. The general-purpose proxies and gateways will be collocated on the same server hardware.

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AndrePulia
1 month ago
vmJoe
vmJoeVeeam MVP
posted in Veeam Backup & Replication
NAS Backup 5PB to Hardened Repository

The environment described in this architecture is one main datacenter containing 5 PB of NAS data. The NAS environment contains 50 shares and 2 billion files. All backups will be targeted to Hardened Repositories grouped in a Scale Out Backup Repository. The general-purpose proxies and cache repositories will be collocated on the same server hardware.

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AndrePulia
1 month ago
vmJoe
vmJoeVeeam MVP
posted in Veeam Backup & Replication
CDP Replication for Average Write Rate of 1000 MB/s

Updated - V12.1The environment described in this architecture are two datacenters and multiple VMs in a cluster with a total average write rate of 1000 MB/s, consuming 300 TB of primary storage. The VMs will be replicated from the primary datacenter to the target cluster in the secondary datacenter through continuous data protection (CDP). A single vCenter will manage the source and target cluster. Each datacenter will contain a CDP proxy installed on a physical server. Networking speed between components in each datacenter is 10 Gbps.

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AndrePulia
1 month ago
vmJoe
vmJoeVeeam MVP
posted in Veeam Backup & Replication
Veeam Replication for 500 VMs

This environment consists of 500 VMs that require traditional Veeam replication and CDP replication to an offsite datacenter. The VMs average two disks each, and consume 75TB of source datastore space, averaging 150GB per VM. The VMs requiring CDP have a combined average write rate of 500MB/s.  For critical workloads, a short-term RPO of 15 seconds within a four-hour window and an RPO of eight hours for long-term retention within a 48-hour window. An RPO of 12 hours for residual workloads, which requires replication to occur twice a day, completing within an eight-hour window of starting.  The inter-site link is 10gb/s. This deployment will not share proxy resources with any existing backup tasks.

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AndrePulia
1 month ago
vmJoe
vmJoeVeeam MVP
posted in Veeam Backup & Replication
NAS Backup 5PB to Object Storage

The environment described in this architecture is one main datacenter containing 5 PB of NAS data. The NAS environment contains 50 shares and 2 billion files. All backups will be targeted to Immutable Object Storage. The general-purpose proxies and gateways will be collocated on the same server hardware.

842
AndrePulia
1 month ago
vmJoe
vmJoeVeeam MVP
posted in Veeam Backup & Replication
Migrate an existing backup platform to Veeam Backup & Replication with new hardware

The environment described in this architecture consists of one primary data center containing a mixture of VMs and physical servers. A third-party backup solution currently protects the environment. Veeam Backup and Replication has been purchased and will replace the existing backup solution. In addition to Veeam Backup and Replication, block-based storage hardware has been purchased to hold the production backup archives and a replica of the backup archives at an off-site location.

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AndrePulia
1 month ago
vmJoe
vmJoeVeeam MVP
posted in Veeam Backup & Replication
Migrate an existing backup platform to Veeam Backup & Replication with temporary swing space

The environment described in this architecture consists of one primary data center containing a mixture of VMs and physical servers. A third-party backup solution currently protects the environment. Veeam Backup and Replication has been purchased and will replace the existing backup solution.Veeam Backup and Replication will ultimately use all the existing backup storage target. To help with this, a small storage array has been acquired as temporary swing space to host Veeam Backup and Replication backup archives until enough storage space becomes available (i.e., the legacy backups age out of retention) on the existing backup target to host all Veeam Backup archives.

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AndrePulia
1 month ago
vmJoe
vmJoeVeeam MVP
posted in Veeam Backup & Replication
Veeam Architecture Discovery

The first phase of the VeeamDesign Methodology is the Discovery phase. This phase is devoted to collecting relevant information for later phases. Stakeholders should be consulted to develop a detailed list of objectives and capture environmental data to form requirements.This document contains example technical discovery questions that should be answered before a Veeam Architecture is created.

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AndrePulia
1 month ago
vmJoe
vmJoeVeeam MVP
posted in Alliance Vendor
Single production datacenter to offsite datacenter with Dell PowerEdge R760xd2 5,000 VMs

The environment described in this architecture is one main datacenter containing 5,000 VMs and 100 physical servers. Each VM and physical server has an average of 200 GB of used storage space. All backups will be targeted to a local primary backup repository and copied to a secondary offsite location. Proxies are installed on VMs and use the virtual appliance (hotadd) backup method. The Veeam Hardened repository will be on Dell PowerEdge R760xd2 servers.

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AndrePulia
1 month ago
vmJoe
vmJoeVeeam MVP
posted in Cloud Backup
Veeam Backup for Google Cloud 1,000 workloads

The environment described in this architecture is a Veeam Backup for Google Cloud deployment with 1000 workloads to protect.  The protection scope includes Google Compute Engine(GCE) and CloudSQL.  All backups will be targeted to an object storage repository in Google Cloud Storage(GCS) with Standard Storage Class and archived to GCS with Archive Storage Class.

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waqasali
2 months ago

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