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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

 

Figure 1 - 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.

 

Figure 2 - Logical diagram

The Purpose of the Physical Veeam Server as a Primary Storage

  • Veeam recommends 3rd party Deduplication Appliances (e.g. Dell Data Domain) to be used as Secondary Storage due to rehydration performance.

  • Rehydration for restore will be faster when restoring from a Veeam Server’s local Primary Storage Repository.

  • Avoid rehydration process that happens during DD-to-DD replication.

  • Future option to Tape-Out from physical Veeam server. VM based Veeam server does not support Tape-Out.

  • Lower VM processing resource requirement for the VM Veeam Server.

  • Lower VM storage resource requirement for the VM Veeam Server.

  • 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.

Very cool scenario Victor. 👍🏼

Nice environment Victor.

How many VMs and how much data do you process with this?

good job @victorwu . 👋

Thx for share scenario on vSAN cool.

Nice environment Victor.

How many VMs and how much data do you process with this?

@JMeixner Around 300 VMs and 90TB storage.

good job @victorwu . 👋

Thx for share scenario on vSAN cool.

Thanks, @Link State 😄

Very cool scenario Victor. 👍🏼

@Chris.Childerhose I like this design of vSAN and backup. ^^

Very cool scenario Victor. 👍🏼

@Chris.Childerhose I like this design of vSAN and backup. ^^

Yeah I need to explore VSAN more but need to move my NUCs back to booting from USB if that is the case. 😋

Very cool scenario Victor. 👍🏼

@Chris.Childerhose I like this design of vSAN and backup. ^^

Yeah I need to explore VSAN more but need to move my NUCs back to booting from USB if that is the case. 😋

@Chris.Childerhose Suggest you take the VMware vSAN training. 😀

Very cool scenario Victor. 👍🏼

@Chris.Childerhose I like this design of vSAN and backup. ^^

Yeah I need to explore VSAN more but need to move my NUCs back to booting from USB if that is the case. 😋

@Chris.ChilderhoseSuggest you take the VMware vSAN training. 😀

Would love to but too pricey and not needed where I am unless I can convince my company to start looking at VSAN.  Highly doubtful with the arrays we use and partnerships to storage vendors. 🤣

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