In my previous post, I looked at the architecture you may want to implement to test the various features of Veeam Backup and Replication, including features from v10.
I thought it would be a good idea to break down the architecture into sections, and provide some ideas of what features/configurations can be tested in each section. This of course is not an exhaustive list.
I’ve broken down the original diagram into 5 Sections.
Section 1 – VMware Cluster
- Backup Virtual Machines and files
- Restore Virtual Machines and files
- Instant VM recovery
- Storage Integration
- Orchestrate snapshots
- Orchestrate snapshots replication
- Backup from Storage Snapshot
- Backup from Snapshot replica
- Veeam Explorer for Storage Snapshots
- Backup Repository
- Local disk
- Local disk using ReFS
- S3 Object Storage
- Encrypt backups
- Deploy Linux backup proxy
- Deploy Windows backup proxy
- Veeam ONE reporting
- Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager
- API access
- Self-service restores
Section 2 – Hyper-v Host
- Backup Virtual Machines and files
- On-host proxy configuration
- Off-host proxy configuration
- Restore Virtual Machines and files to Hyper-V host
- Restore Virtual Machines and files to vSphere host
Section 3 – vSphere host
- Replicate virtual machines
- Perform failover and failback
- Restore files from replica
- Use WAN Accelerator components
Section 4 – Additional Workloads
- Application Awareness – Using Veeam Explorers for restore
- Active Directory explorer
- SQL Explorer
- Veeam Agent for Windows
- Application Awareness (AD, SQL etc)
- Restore entire machine, file level restores
- Veeam Agent for Linux
- Application Awareness
- Restore entire machine, file level restores
- NAS Backup – File Shares
- Deploy File Proxy
- SMB
- NFS (windows + linux)
- Backup Repository
- NFS Share
- SMB Share
- Linux share with XFS (block cloning support)
- Nutanix CE
- Backup and restore to/from another hypervisor
Section 5 – AWS and Azure
- Restore to AWS
- Restore to Azure
- Instant recovery from Object storage (Blog post)
- Veeam Cloud Tier copy mode
- Scale-out backup repository – offload to object storage
- Archive Tier of Scale-Out Repository
- Veeam Backup for AWS
- Restore VM on-prem
- Veeam Backup to Azure
- Restore VM on-prem
Regards
Dean