Veeam Best Practise 9.5u4a Release 1.0.0

Jun 15, 2020

Welcome

1 Veeam Best Practice V9.5u4a3 1.1 Veeam & Replication Best Practices...... 3 1.2 layout: default title: Introduction permalink: / nav_order: 01...... 3 1.3 Introduction...... 3 1.3.1 About This Guide...... 3 1.3.2 Intended Audience...... 4 1.3.3 Authors...... 4 1.4 layout: default title: About permalink: / nav_order: 02...... 4 1.5 Contacting Veeam Software...... 4 1.5.1 Online Support...... 5 1.5.2 Customer Support...... 5 1.5.3 Company Contacts...... 5 1.6 layout: default title: DNS Resolution permalink: / nav_order: 03...... 5 1.7 DNS Resolution...... 5 1.7.1 Example hosts file...... 5 1.8 Backup Server...... 6 1.9 Deployment Method...... 6 1.9.1 Virtual deployment...... 6 1.9.2 Physical deployment...... 6 1.10 Backup Server Placement...... 7 1.10.1 Host and Storage Discovery...... 7 1.10.2 File-level Recovery Data Flow...... 9 1.10.3 Disaster Recovery Optimization...... 11 1.10.4 Examples...... 11 1.11 Sizing and System Requirements...... 13 1.11.1 Compute requirements...... 13 1.11.2 ...... 13 1.11.3 Disk space...... 14 1.11.4 Other software...... 15 1.11.5 Installing Veeam Backup & Replication updates...... 15 1.12 Veeam Backup & Replication Database...... 16 1.12.1 SQL Server Edition...... 16 1.12.2 Database Placement...... 16 1.12.3 Sizing...... 17 1.12.4 SQL Server Configuration Tips...... 17 1.12.5 Modifying Database Connection Settings...... 17

i 1.12.6 Migrating Veeam Database...... 18 1.13 Protecting Veeam Backup & Replication Configuration...... 18 1.13.1 Protecting the Veeam Backup Server...... 18 1.13.2 Planning for Disaster Recovery of Veeam Backup Server...... 18 1.13.3 Antivirus on Veeam Servers...... 19 1.14 Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager...... 20 1.14.1 Whether to Deploy?...... 20 1.14.2 Using Enterprise Manager for Restore Operations...... 20 1.14.3 RESTful API Service...... 22 1.15 Veeam vCloud Director Self-Service Portal...... 22 1.15.1 Requirements and limits...... 22 1.15.2 File Level Restore for Windows VMs...... 23 1.15.3 File Level Restore for VMs...... 24 1.15.4 Multiple concurrent restores...... 28 1.16 Indexing...... 30 1.16.1 Indexing and Search Overview...... 30 1.16.2 When to Use Indexing?...... 31 1.16.3 How Veeam Indexing Works...... 31 1.16.4 Temporary VM Disk Usage...... 31 1.16.5 Sizing Enterprise Manager Catalog...... 32 1.16.6 Recommended Settings...... 32 1.16.7 Using Veeam Backup Search (Optional Component)...... 33 1.17 Proxy Servers - Intro...... 33 1.17.1 Intelligent Load Balancing...... 34 1.17.2 Parallel Processing...... 35 1.17.3 Backup Proxy Services and Components...... 35 1.18 Proxy Server - VMware vSphere...... 35 1.18.1 Storage optimizations...... 35 1.18.2 Veeam Advanced Data Fetcher (ADF)...... 36 1.18.3 Intelligent Load Balancing...... 36 1.19 Transport Modes...... 36 1.19.1 Direct Storage Access...... 36 1.19.2 Virtual appliance mode...... 37 1.19.3 Network mode...... 37 1.20 Direct Storage Access...... 37 1.20.1 Pros...... 38 1.20.2 Cons...... 38 1.20.3 Example...... 38 1.20.4 Recommendations...... 38 1.20.5 Security Considerations for Direct SAN...... 39 1.20.6 Summary...... 40 1.21 Virtual Appliance Mode...... 40 1.21.1 Pros...... 40 1.21.2 Cons...... 41 1.21.3 Considerations and Limitations...... 41 1.21.4 vSphere 6.5 and Encryption...... 41 1.21.5 Recommendations...... 42 1.22 Network Mode...... 42 1.22.1 Pros...... 44 1.22.2 Cons...... 44 1.22.3 Recommendations...... 45 1.23 Backup from Storage Snapshots...... 45 1.23.1 How it works...... 46 1.23.2 Configuration...... 48 ii 1.23.3 When to use...... 49 1.24 NetApp Data ONTAP...... 49 1.24.1 Backup from secondary snapshots...... 49 1.24.2 Snapshot Orchestration...... 50 1.25 Nimble Storage...... 52 1.25.1 Storage array configuration...... 52 1.25.2 Snapshot only jobs...... 53 1.25.3 Snapshot replication...... 53 1.25.4 Backup from secondary storage...... 54 1.26 S