Today I will share a successful case of using Veeam Backup & Replication Server and Dell Data Domain Appliance. I just upgraded Veeam Backup & Replication Server to v11. The Figure 1 is the high level of physical diagram. This is a great Veeam scenario for reference.
Physical Diagram
Environment
Preferred Site:
vSAN Stretched Cluster (preferred vSAN nodes)
Veeam Backup & Replication Server v11 (VM)
Veeam Primary Storage Repository
vCenter Server 7.0 Update 3 and vSphere 7.0 Update 3
VMware Site Recovery Manager 8.5 and vSphere Replication 8.5
Dell Data Domain Appliance (Primary)
Secondary Site:
vSAN Stretched Cluster (non-preferred vSAN nodes)
VMware vSphere 7.0 Update 3
Remote Site:
vSAN Standard Cluster
vCenter Server 7.0 Update 3 and vSphere 7.0 Update 3
VMware Site Recovery Manager 8.5 and vSphere Replication 8.5
Dell Data Domain Appliance (Secondary)
Logical Diagram
Figure 2 is the logical diagram of this solution.
The Purpose of the Physical Veeam Server as a Primary Storage
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Veeam recommends 3rd party Deduplication Appliances (e.g. Dell Data Domain) to be used as Secondary Storage due to rehydration performance.
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Rehydration for restore will be faster when restoring from a Veeam Server’s local Primary Storage Repository.
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Avoid rehydration process that happens during DD-to-DD replication.
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Future option to Tape-Out from physical Veeam server. VM based Veeam server does not support Tape-Out.
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Lower VM processing resource requirement for the VM Veeam Server.
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Lower VM storage resource requirement for the VM Veeam Server.
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VMware SRM can be utilized for Veeam’s own disaster recovery due to the VM Veeam Server not being used as a Primary Storage Repository.
