Veeam VBR (v11)

What is VBR?
"Veeam® Backup & Replication™ (VBR) delivers Availability for ALL your cloud, virtual and physical workloads. Through a simple-by-design management console, you can easily achieve fast, flexible and reliable backup, recovery and replication for all your applications and data."

Veeam...

Veeam is agentless
Built-in advanced replication
Instant VM Recovery
Instant File-Level Recovery
Instant application-item recovery
Automated recovery verification
Built-in, source-side compression and deduplication
Simple offsite backup
Storage agnostic
Easy to deploy and configure

Veeam Cookbook for Veeam Backup & Replication

Veeam Architects Site

Dive into VBR with a guided hands‑on lab experience. - Within 15 minutes, you will get a confirmation that your lab is ready. Once you submit your promo code you will have 3 hours to use the lab before it expires.

Basic Veeam sizing questions...

How much source data (in TB)?
How many VMs/Servers need to be protected? (Optional: Number of disks?)
What is the backup window (in hours)?
What is the daily change rate in percentage? (5% optimistic-9% conservative)
What is the required retention schedule? (Optional: What are your RPO and RTO values?)

"Veeam VBR 11 Editions Comparison.pdf" (Click Here)

Please contact me for the "Veeam VBR 11 Editions Comparison.pdf" document.

Veeam Universal License (VUL) along with a Socket License
If you still use a socket license, we recommend you talk to your sales representative about migrating it to VUL for the ultimate capability and flexibility. However, if you must continue using sockets, please be aware of the following limitations:

When combining VUL with a legacy socket-based license in a merged and centrally managed environment, the socket edition and support level always takes precedence and dictates the feature edition level of the entire environment.
- Example: Combing a Standard legacy socket license with VUL will restrict certain platform capabilities like the Scale-out Backup Repository.
If a feature isn’t available with a socket license, like cloud machine protection for example, it will be available when a VUL is merged with socket licenses.
In the presence of a socket license, all VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V VMs will consume the socket license. In other words, you cannot use VUL to protect some of your VMs unless you migrate the socket licenses to VUL, which can freely protect all workloads regardless of hypervisor, workload or environment.
VMs on hypervisor hosts that are licensed with a socket license can now be protected with any Veeam product without needing an additional VUL license, so long as the protection is managed by the same backup server. For example, protecting a Windows failover cluster based on vSphere VMs with Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows does not additionally consume a VUL license for the agent."

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"Veeam Backup & Replication Community Edition is the must-have FREE backup software for VMware and Hyper-V, as well as physical servers, workstations, laptops and cloud instances. Use Community Edition to protect VMs, cloud instances, physical servers, workstations, laptops or unstructured file data. Protect your production environment, your remote worker endpoint devices, use it in your home lab or even for migrations at no cost — it’s like a FREE gift from Veeam!" (How to setup Veeam to manage all the backups in your home)

Non-Technical Information...

Veeam Backup Server Best Practices
Recommended Veeam backup server configuration is 1 CPU core (physical or virtual) and 4 GB RAM per 10 concurrently running jobs. Concurrent jobs include any running backup or replication jobs as well as any job with a continuous schedule such as backup copy jobs and tape jobs. The minimum recommendation is 2 CPU cores and 8 GB RAM.

Max number of *concurrent* jobs

1 CPU core for every 10 actively running jobs at its busiest.

Max number of *concurrent* jobs

512 MB for every actively running job at its busiest.

Space usage

Logs: 3 GB for every 100 VMs that back up once per day.
Working space for indexing: 100 MB /1 million files on Windows, 50 MB / 1 million files on Linux.
Indexing post-processing: 2 MB / 1 million files (compressed)

Laws of physics...
How long will it take to transfer 10 TB of data over a 10 Gbps link?

10 TB = 10 * 1,024 (GB) * 1,024 (MB) = 10,485,760 MB
10,485,760 MB / 900 MB/s = 11,651 seconds - (Note: 10Gb/s Ethernet is 1250MB/s theoretical, or 900 MB/s field experience.)
11,651 seconds / 60 seconds in a minute = 195 minutes
195 minutes / 60 minutes in an hour = ~3 hours 15 minutes

Technical Design and Architecture...

VMware vSphere Data Protection Guide - Technical | December 14, 2022 14 min to read
Veeam VMware vSphere Backup Proxy
Why logical deduplication is completely illogical
Veeam Backup & Replication - What Is Data Replication?- 26:54
Deduplication, Compression & Encryption - What's the difference? - 6:06 video Matt Price
How to determine which type of backup type do you need - 10:45 video by Matt Price
How to properly load balance your backup infrastructure - 7 min to read
10 Worst Practices Using Veeam Backup & Replication
Repositories - SOBR - and Tiering - 22:20 video by Veeam Animal
Introducing the Veeam Scale-Out Backup Repository - 14:22 video by Rick Vanover
How to archive Veeam backups to AWS S3 - 6:30 video
How to plan for an optimal Veeam SQL Database - 20:56 video by Matt Price
Delegate permissions and user roles using Recovery Delegation - 7:04 video by Joseph Monahan
How to restore Microsoft SQL databases with Veeam Explorer for Microsoft SQL- 5:12
Replication Over the WAN: In-depth Guide to Veeam Backup & Replication for Disaster Recovery - 56:46 video
Veeam Backup and Replication Sizing Best Practices - 1:17 video by Tim Smith

Technical Details...

Veeam Backup & Replication - Console Overview - 18:28 video by Matt Price
Veeam Backup & Replication - Installation - 16:58 video by Matt Price
How to create a VM Backup Job - 9:46 video by Joseph Monahan
How to create a backup copy job using Veeam Backup & Replication - 9:09 video by Joseph Monahan
How to manage VM Backup Jobs - 6:39 video
How to configure Backup from Storage Snapshots - 7:16 video
Veeam Backup & Replication - NAS Backup - Changed File Tracking - Deep Dive - Tech Field Day Follow Up - 4:03 video
How to restore from native storage snapshots using Veeam Explorer for Storage Snapshots - 8:11 video by Joseph Monahan
Veeam Backup & Replication - How to perform Full VM recovery - 6:30 video
Veeam Backup & Replication - How to perform Instant VM Recovery - 8:00 video
Veeam Backup & Replication - How to setup a preferred Transport Mode - 10:15 video
Veeam Backup & Replication - What Is Data Replication? - 26:54 video
How to perform Instant file-level recovery - 6:53 video
How to perform virtual disk and VM file restore - 9:48 video by Matt Price
How to use Veeam's Native Tape support - 3:21 video
How to perform a Staged Restore using Veeam Backup & Replication - Matt Price
How to generate reports for a backup Job - 5:58 video
How to configure Veeam SureReplica - 10:41 video by Matt Price
What are the benefits of using WAN acceleration in Veeam Backup & Replication- 11:34 video by Matt Price
How to backup and restore IBM AIX operating systems- 10:42 video by Joseph Monahan
How to backup from Nimble Replicated Copies - 4:36 video
What is On-Demand Sandbox and how you can use it? - 8:34 video by Matt Price
How to set up the On-Demand Sandbox from Storage Snapshots - 8:04 video by Matt Price
What is VeeamZIP and when can you leverage it - 9:27 video
Backup & Replication v10a – Platform Support and Performance Enhancements!
Veeam Backup and Replication Sizing Best Practices - 1:14:00 video by Tim Smith
Veeam Backup & Replication Best Practices
Windows Server 2016 Deduplication
Advanced ReFS Integration with Veeam Overview
Advanced guide to NAS Backup from Storage Snapshots
Veeam Secure Restore - Walk & Talk
Veeam - Disaster Recovery to the Cloud
How We Saved 10 Terabytes of Disk Space Using Windows ReFS with Veeam (Including Script)

Virtual Lab / DataLabs...

Agents...

How to organize, automate and deploy Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows - Joseph Monahan
How to deploy and configure Veeam Agent for Linux - Joseph Monahan
Agent. Veeam Agent. Veeam Agent for Linux, to be precise

Application Awareness...

How to restore Microsoft SQL databases with Veeam Explorer for Microsoft SQL- Joseph Monahan
How to restore Active Directory application items with Veeam Explorer for Microsoft Active Directory - Joseph Monahan
How to restore Microsoft Exchange email items using Veeam Explorer for Microsoft Exchange - Joseph Monahan
How to restore SharePoint content with Veeam Explorer for Microsoft SharePoint - Joseph Monahan
How to backup and restore Oracle Solaris operating systems- Joseph Monahan
How to restore Oracle databases

Cloud...

Global Cache on Spinning Disk

Link <3Mb/s - WAN likely saturated; processing rate dependent on data reduction ratio (estimated 10x)
Link >3Mb/s and <50Mb/s - WAN will not be fully utilized; expect ~5MB/s processing rate but less bandwidth
Link >50Mb/s - WAN will not be fully utilized, using direct mode copy will use more bandwidth but likely be faster

Logs: C:\ProgramData\Veeam\Backup\Utils\VMC.log

Cryptographic Module Validation Program CMVP