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Hi guys, 

im just starting build veeam backup infrastructure for vsphere 8 from the beginnig.

I would ask to some best-practices. i have more than 8 year experinence but now i have also S3 compatible storage. 

  • 3 x DELL R750 with vSphere 8
  • 1 x DELL powerstore 500T NvME 60 TB storage / FC SAN
  • Network on 10 GbE 
  • Quantum i6 with 2x LTO 8 drives  / FC
  • Quantum P100 Object Storage with 100 TB usable capacity /10 GbE 
  • Veeam v12 

 

Which scenario is best for veeam ? 

  • Virtual Machine on vSphere cluster with VBR 
  • HW Tape Proxy server Win/Linux
  • Primary backup to S3 
  • every sunday backup to tape and export tape to offline partition. 
  • on each node - veeam ubunutu proxy

or

  • veeam backup server on physical server + tape proxy role 
  • direct backup to S3 
  • every sunday backup to tape and export tape to offline partition. 
  • on each node - veeam ubunutu proxy

? 

or do you have another best-practices deploy scenario ? 

thankyou.

tom

Personally I would go with option 2.
Just to separate the backup environment from the production environment.

 

So the post summarizes to: is a physical or virtual Veeam server better?! 😅

Hi Tom, I agree with Joe, having it physical is better for several reasons, including security..however, the convenience of a virtual server, and especially taking snapshots before upgrades is unbeatable!

So the post summarizes to: is a physical or virtual Veeam server better?! 😅

Hi Tom, I agree with Joe, having it physical is better for several reasons, including security..however, the convenience of a virtual server, and especially taking snapshots before upgrades is unbeatable!

Right!

For me, I will go with option 1! 😜

I liked the option to snap before upgrading, and also I love the option to have it under HA in vSphere!

I usually separate the network for backups, to try to isolate as much as I can, in a “blind” VLAN, with visibility only for the extracted components involved in the backup tasks.

But both options are valid, and by the way, nice hardware though!

cheers.

First, VBR is recommended to be virtual not physical. minimum 2 proxies.

guys, thanks very much.

for my opinion is better to have physical vbr server, i had situation, when whole VMware was encrypted by ransomware, vm with veeam also, all datastores was gone... we had luck, that i configured the snapshots on the storage array sc3020 when i deployed the infrastrucuture few years ago. 

 so the physical vbr is safer maybe, of course without domain, disabled winrm and rdp :) 

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