I will note that I do have Veeam configuration backups, but I also do a Veeam replication job of our backup server to another host as a secondary measure. Part of Our DR plan is making sure that we have backups of all critical network devices - firewalls, switches, ESXi hosts, WAPs, etc - anything that isn't covered by Veeam, essentially! I've done the ESXi host config backup before and it was easy enough, but never had to restore. I have never heard anyone take backup of ESXi, so cant comment. You cant test a recovery if possible, by both and see the RTO, whichever is better you can use that during recovery as and when needed. With regards to vCenter you can take both via the Veeam VBR server and also the database backup via vCenter Server. We had this customer who wanted to backup the VBR VM and we had to involve a personnel from Veeam and he had advised that backup is possible, however not recommended, and if they still want the VBR backup then they would need to disable application aware image processing and take a crash consistent backup. I think I saw somewhere that backup jobs that include backup backup proxy hosts should not mingle with the other backups taken, or performance drops will take place.Īs for the latter, it's a 7.0 vCenter appliance.Īny hints/advice and especially pitfalls to avoid? With regard to the former first: let me add that it's running the server, the main backup proxy, the console and it will probably host a WAN acceleator (150-200Gb storage).

My questions are about backing up the Veeam B&R VM itself, as well as the vCenter VM.

This is a simple, 2-host ESXi cluster under a VMware essentials plus license. I've been backing up my ESXi-based infrastructure with 11a, with the exception of certain VMs. You dont have to worry about ESXI, I encounter many times to reinstall ESXI cause PSOD, it wont be hard stuff to do i think. Okay, your first thread said about VBR and vCenter backup anyway and then now ESXi. If you have any (extensive) link on how that is done, feel free to throw it my way TBH, setting ESXi from scratch to the way it was scares me shitless. I understand that I'm going a bit off-topic here, but assuming some catastrophic event that would leave me with me with my ESXi hosts wiped, how would I go about recreating things? I mean, does a vcenter config contain things like NIC allocations/FC mappings to the storage etc? I'm also taking backups daily via VAMI for vCenter to a Synology password protected SMB share (snapshotted, just in case). For the backup server, I'm already taking configuration backups to the hardened/immutable backup repo.

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