Veeam Availability Suite 9.5 Installation and Configuration

About Veeam Backup & Replication

Veeam® Backup & Replication™ is a data protection and disaster recovery solution for virtual environments of any size and complexity. Veeam Backup & Replication provides fast, flexible, and reliable recovery of virtualized applications and data.

It unifies backup and replication in a single solution, increases the value of backup and reinvents data protection for VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V virtual environments.

Veeam Backup & Replication supports the entire virtual infrastructure with industry leading features such as 2-in-1 backup and replication, streamlined VM recovery and instant file-level recovery, built-in compression and deduplication, scalability, centralized management and many more.

Veeam Backup & Replication infrastructure comprises a set of components needed to perform data protection and disaster recovery tasks. The backup infrastructure that we will use for evaluation includes the following components:

Veeam backup server: a physical or virtual machine running Veeam Backup & Replication. The Veeam backup server performs the role of the main management component: it is the configuration and control center of the backup infrastructure.

Virtual infrastructure servers: ESX(i) hosts used as the source and the target for backup and replication.

Backup proxy: a 'data mover' component that retrieves VM data from the source storage, processes it and transfers to the destination.

Backup repository: a location used to store backup files and auxiliary replica files.

Simple Deployment

In a simple deployment scenario, you will need three components:

·        Veeam backup server

·        Source ESX(i) host

·        Target ESX(i) host (used for a replication scenario)

The Veeam backup server performs three roles:

It is the 'control center' of the backup infrastructure, coordinating job performance and other administrative activities.

It is the default backup proxy. When you perform backup or replication, VM data is processed directly on the Veeam backup server and then moved to the target. All services necessary for backup proxy functioning are installed locally on the Veeam backup server.

It is the default backup repository: all backups and auxiliary replica files are stored on the Veeam backup server, in the Backup folder on the volume with the greatest amount of free disk space.

Distributed Deployment:

In the distributed deployment scenario, Veeam backup server, backup proxy and backup repository roles are assigned to three different servers. This type of deployment enables efficient data transfer and use of resources in the backup infrastructure because you move the data processing load from the Veeam backup server to a dedicated backup proxy and store data to a dedicated backup repository.

 Features:

• ·         Restore entire VMs in minutes with Instant VM Recovery®
• ·         Recover individual files effortlessly with Instant File-level Recovery
• ·         Quickly and easily restore Microsoft Exchange items with Veeam Explorer™ for Microsoft Exchange
• ·         Recover Active Directory objects, entire containers, OUs and user accounts with Veeam Explorer for Microsoft Active Directory
• ·         Restore entire SharePoint sites; return deleted items back into production with Veeam Explorer for Microsoft SharePoint
• ·         Fast transaction-level recovery and point-in-time restore of Oracle databases with Veeam Explorer for Oracle and SQL Server databases with Veeam Explorer for Microsoft SQL Server
• ·         Leverage snapshots from the world’s leading storage providers for recovery of single files or entire VMs with Veeam Explorer for Storage Snapshots
• ·         Cloud restore for any Veeam backup with Restore to Microsoft Azure

Veeam Availability Suite 9.5 Installation:

Double click the setup.exe to start the installation.

Select Veeam backup & Replication.

Accept the License.

Add the License File.

This will install the following components.

System Configuration check and install the missing features by pressing the install button.

Enabling the missing features.

System configuration check passed.

Default Configuration Settings.

Now the install process starts. First it installs Sqlserver 2012.

Then it will create the Backup Catalog.

Then installs the Backup & Replication Server.

After installing all the components explorer then stats the service.

Finally, Veeam Backup & Replication successfully installed.

Login to Veeam Backup & Replication Console.

Components updates automatically taken place.

Home view, to configure and Monitor.

Add VMware vSphere server or Hyper-V or Windows server to inventory.

IN Storage Infrastructure, you can add the Storage objects.

Using General Settings, You can manage user credentials and passwords.

You can set I/O Control, SNMP, Email Notifications also.

If you need you can set the Traffic rules also for your backup, replication and restore.