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VMCE Practice Question - 23 July 2025 (Community)

  • July 23, 2025
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coolsport00
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It’s Wednesday, which means another VMCE Practice Question; and yet another one from you all in the VMCE Community! I really appreciate the efforts team! This week’s question (and for the next few weeks), comes from a new Community member - ​@Michael Funke . Thank you Michael!

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You as the Backup Admin are asked to install Veeam Backup and Replication on a physical server. There will be approximately 2500 VMs needing to be backed up. There is no additional funding in the budget to purchase a database solution. What configuration database option should you select during the Veeam installation? 

  1. PostgreSQL supplied with the product
  2. MariaDB on a separate server
  3. Microsoft SQL Server Express Edition supplied with the product
  4. Microsoft SQL Server Enterprise Edition

11 comments

DavideAbrigo
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  • Experienced User
  • July 23, 2025
  1. PostgreSQL supplied with the product

I would use PostgreSQL even in a big budget environment 😁

 


Chris.Childerhose
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  • Veeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard
  • July 23, 2025
  1. PostgreSQL supplied with the product

 


MarkBoothman
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  • Veeam Vanguard
  • July 23, 2025
  1. PostgreSQL supplied with the product

 


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  • Comes here often
  • July 23, 2025

PostgreSQL supplied with the product

 

Since the instances to be backed up are 2,500 you only need the PostgreSQL that is supplied during the Veeam installation, which covers up to 10,000 instances. Otherwise, if the instances are more than 10k, Microsoft SQL Server is the recommended choice of database

 


Dynamic
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  • Veeam Vanguard
  • July 23, 2025

a - PostgreSQL supplied with the product

 


Marcel.K
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  • Veeam Legend
  • July 23, 2025

MariaDB is not an option. SQL license requiers budget. So a) is an answer.

 


replicatius
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  • Comes here often
  • July 23, 2025

PostgreSQL supplied with the product

 


Tommy O'Shea
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  • Veeam Legend
  • July 24, 2025
  1. Postgres

 


coolsport00
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  • Author
  • Veeam Legend
  • July 25, 2025

Ok folks...below is the answer to this week’s question….

This is a pretty good static question provided by Michael, meaning the question offers requirements, goals, and answer options of various Veeam features, all of which you should be fairly familiar with for the VMCE. With that said, let’s get to the answer. We can eliminate 2 options from the bat → b. MariaDB is not a supported DB for Veeam installations; and d. SQL Server Enterprise can’t be used due to the budget constraint shared in the question. This leaves the remaining 2 options of a. PostgreSQL and c. SQL Express which are still both part of the Veeam installer. Due to the amount of VMs needing to backup, this is a limitation of using SQL Express (and may also run into a DB size limitation, which is 10GB). Thus, a. PostgreSQL supplied with the product is the correct answer.

For further reading and info, see below URLs:

https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backup/vsphere/system_requirements.html?ver=120#backup-server

https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backup/vsphere/install_vbr_sql.html?ver=120

https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backup/vsphere/installation_byb.html?ver=120

 


AndrePulia
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  • Veeam Vanguard
  • July 30, 2025

b

 


AndrePulia
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  • Veeam Vanguard
  • August 7, 2025

a