Veeam Backup & Replication v9 - Installation and Deployment

hi my name is Tom Siler and I'm the principal Solutions Architect for Veen I'm here today to show you how to install and deploy beam back up in a replication version 9 into your production environment so let's jump right to it installing theme back up in replication version 9 starts by using the setup wizard to start the setup wizard simply mount the ISO and click on setup after running setup you'll see the Veen backup and replication setup wizard in this screen you can see the various components that can be installed as well as links to documentation and training information on the VMware Site to proceed with the installation of Veen backup and replication version 9 simply click the install button this will launch the install wizard the install wizard will guide you through the installation of being backup and replication version 9 you must accept the license to continue setup on the next page it will prompt you for the license file browse to your file system and find the license file that has been sent to you simply select and choose next it is possible to install them without a license file but it will operate only in free edition mode for the primary veem install you want to make sure to install all three components the veeam rap backup and replication server the catalog service and the Veen backup and replication console so defaults will do for this screen finally theme gives a summary of the default configuration for an install however there is also an option to customize much of the setup in this screen theme lists all of the default configuration in many cases you may not need to change anything and you can simply click the install button however if you need to customize any of these settings you can check the box to allow you to specify additional settings and the wizard will continue allowing you to customize various options let's discuss some of those options in this screen Veeam lists the service account that will be used for the install by default VM uses the local system account however it is also possible to use any service account that the user has created simply by selecting the box and entering the user and password VM will grant log on as a service rights to this particular user by default theme installs a local instance of Microsoft sequel Express this is sufficient for the vast majority of installs however if you would like to use an external sequel server or you have a very large environment for example more than 500 VMs are more than 50 hosts you may wish to use an external sequel server for better performance the options are available on this screen to allow you to select an external sequel server and instance a database name as well as additional authentication by default Veen uses the windows service account from the previous screen for authentication to sequel however it is also possible to use sequel server authentication by entering a username and password in the wizard below port configuration generally can remain default unless you have a conflict in your environment if you do need to change ports this is the screen where you should do it Dean backup and replication has multiple data locations that can be configured during setup the v-power NFS right cache folder is used during instant VM recovery when a VM is recovered instantly the backup file is read only but the VM itself needs to support writes the cache folder holds these rights while the VM is running from the backup until it is moved back to production storage if it is not sized with enough space you may not be able to run the VM long enough to move it to production storage by default the location is the C Drive on the Veen server however it is a good idea to choose a location with additional space or perhaps of higher performance if it is available the guest file system catalog is used for beam file indexing this is primarily used with deme Enterprise Manager to allow functions like one-click file level restore if you have a large number of VMs with a large number of files you may need a larger catalog directory information regarding sizing of the Veen catalog is available in the veem best practices guide this is the screen where you can select an alternative location for the Veen catalog by default it is stored on C Drive finally after customizing the settings e m-- once again provides a summary of the settings before the install actually takes place if you are happy with the settings simply click install so once the install completes you can simply click finish to complete the wizard a restart may be required after reboot Vigne backup and replication installation is complete you can access the console by simply clicking on the console icon new in version 9 the console actually allows for remote connectivity by default the local console connects to localhost using the logged in Windows credentials however you can use alternative Windows credentials as well simply click connect to connect to the local instance of beam backup and replication after the initial install when you open the Veen backup and replication console it will immediately take you to the manage server screen here you can add your VMware vSphere or Microsoft hyper-v environments in this demo we're going to add VMware vSphere to add a vSphere environment simply click on the VMware vSphere link in the GUI simply enter the DNS name or IP address of your V Center and provide credentials veeam will verify the certificate of your vCenter server if you would like to view the certificate you can do so at this time to validate that you're connecting to the correct V Center once validated simply click connect then we'll store this connection for future to validate against man-in-the-middle attacks after adding your infrastructure then we'll return to the menu and you'll be able to configure your proxies and repositories after the setup everything is configured as an all-in-one installation the veeam server acts as both the main management server as well as a proxy and repository however in many cases this is not what you want for your actual configuration as you can see the default repository is configured to C colon backslash backup which in most cases is not going to be where your actual backups are going to be stored to actually configure a backup repository especially if it's on a remote server we need to add a server to do that let's walk through the wizard to configure a repository and see how easy that is once you select a backup repositories you can slip simply select the add repository button here will give the repository a name after providing the repository name Veen gives you an option to choose the type of repository that you're going to add dean supports four different repository types Microsoft Windows servers Linux servers shared folders such as NAS devices and deduplicating appliances such as EMC data domain and HP store ones in this demo we're going to add a Microsoft Windows server as a repository simply select the Microsoft Windows server option and click Next the closest server that we are using hasn't been added I will need to use the add new button to add a new managed server to the environment simply click add new here and enter the IP address or DNS hostname of the Windows machine which hosts the repository in this case I'm going to use the IP address to connect to this machine you can also add a description finally you need Windows credentials if this was a Linux machine here you would actually enter Linux credentials then automatically reaches out to the machine and detects if any previous version of veem had been installed if not it will automatically install all of the appropriate components if it finds any previous components it will automatically upgrade those components typically it takes only a few minutes to add a server as a managed server to Veen after the installation is complete veem shows the OS tight core count and default ports for the installation that is just completed click finish to continue the repository wizard now that the server has been added as a managed server you can select it as one of the repositories simply select it from the pulldown and click Next on the next screen you can select exactly where to store backups simply use the Browse button and find the location on the file server where you would like to store backups in this case we've selected the C Drive on this server but in many cases it would be a different Drive by default Veen configures a repository with a concurrent task limit of 4 however in many cases servers with more drives may be able to support many more tasks certainly that 4 is a good place to start however feel free to increase this number if you feel you have plenty of drives for example recommended settings would normally allow a task count of 1 for every 3 drives in a raid array so if you have a large server with 60 drives you may be able to increase this count significantly you could also choose not to limit processing count at all however this may saturate the repository with IO on the next screen you choose a mount server the mount server by default for Windows servers is the repository itself the mount server deserves some attention it's a new feature in version 9 and it actually allows you to select which server and that will be used for file level restores with previous versions whenever you did a file over restore the image was actually mounted on the Veen server itself in scenarios where there was a remote office this may not be ideal for example if you had a repository at that remote office and you performed a file every store the file level mount heard at the Veen server that may be located at headquarters with version 9 you can select the mount server to actually remain at that remote site thus keeping the traffic local to the remote site and not requiring any traffic across the land this drastically improves performance for file level restores across the network the v-power NFS service also runs on the mount server whenever you perform an instant recovery the cache directory will be used to store writes for any VM that has been recovered by default this is stored in the C Drive similar to the options we configure during setup however in this screen you can pick an alternative location for your cache in many cases you may want to create a cache directory in your repository so that it's large enough to store any changes for in streak of ur VMs during the recovery process simply click Next to complete the wizard in some cases a reboot of the remote repository may be required the wizard will instruct you if this is a necessary step however we do not automatically reboot the server you'll have to do that manually after the configuration of the initial repository vigne backup and replication will prompt you to change the location of the configuration back up by default themes backs up its configuration once a day but because the initial install only had a repository on the local C Drive that backup is stored on the VM server itself once you've added a remote repository it's a really good idea to reconfigure the backup configuration to store on a remote repository somewhere else so normally the recommendation would be to answer yes to this question as you can see you can change the location of the configuration backup at any time using the configuration backup settings available in the options because I answered yes to this question it's already changed the backup to my remote repository but once again you can change that anytime in the future you can also configure how many restore points to keep and provide it a password encryption for the configuration backup to protect your saved passwords that have been entered in veem for your infrastructure once you've added at least one remote repository and change the configuration backup to point to it the default repository is no longer required you can actually simply remove it and this is probably a good idea to keep people from accidentally selecting it especially if your C Drive happens to be little in space it's quite easy for someone to pick the wrong repository run backups and fill up the hard drive on your backup and replication server after configuration of repositories it's time to talk about proxies by default the Veen backup and replication itself will act as your only proxy however in many environments you may wish to have additional proxies adding a proxy is also a simple task simply select the add proxy button and choose the VMware or hyper-v proxy option because we've added VMware vsphere in this case we're going to add a VMware proxy after selecting the platform that will start the new VMware proxy wizard to add a proxy simply select one of the already added manage servers from the drop down you can also use the add new button to add additional manage servers in most cases you'll want to accept defaults for all the options Veen will automatically detect the number of cores in the server and set the maximum concurrent task appropriately it is recommended to leave these at default simply click Next to continue through the wizard traffic rules allow you to define encryption and throttling rules but those won't be covered in this particular session simply click Next and the proxy has been added this system can now be used to pull backup data from your vSphere environment and send it to your repositories at this time you may want to remove the original proxy the Veen backup and replication server while it can be used as a proxy it may be ideal in larger environments to actually have it dedicated to management tasks to remove the proxy simply right-click and remove now your remote server will be used both as a proxy and repository while the veem server will be dedicated is simply managing the backup process itself after installing and configuring Veen backup in our application it's time to install backup Enterprise Manager vean backup Enterprise Manager is a web interface that allows you perform day-to-day operations on your Veen backup and replication installation installing it is very simple simply click the install button from the setup wizard once again select the License Agreement and choose your license file just like the original backup and replication setup the default options are correct for most installs the Enterprise Manager also includes a Cloud Connect portal for service providers which can be optionally installed however it is not configured by default after installing the prerequisites and verifying they all pass you can click Next just like the backup and replication setup the Enterprise Manager setup shows the default configuration if you're happy with the defaults you can simply click install however the Enterprise Manager setup offers many of the same configuration options to customize let's take a look at just a few of those once again we can customize the service account by default the system uses local system also you can use remote sequel or by default the local sequel Express instance that was installed with the original bnr setup and finally you can customize ports these are the ports used to access the Veen backup and replication service as well as the rest api and other services built on top of it you can also select a custom certificate for SSL by default theme will generate a new self signed certificate however if your company uses a certificate issued from a certificate authority you can choose to select it here and they will leverage that certificate for its web services after checking the customized settings simply click install to complete the install a backup Enterprise Manager once the install is complete simply click finish to complete the wizard the Veen backup and replication setup wizard also includes the option to install Veen backup and replication console remote this allows you to install the Veen backup and replication console on any Windows server in your environment this is a new feature in version 9 is very useful for remote administration after Veen backup Enterprise Manager has been installed simply click on the icon to open the web interface and complete the configuration on initial login to the backup Enterprise manager you'll see the dashboard however you will need to go and add your backup a server to the configuration simply click on the configuration tab under backup servers click Add and add your local bean backup server it's also possible to install Enterprise Manager on a separate machine but in this case because they're both installed on the same machine we're going to choose localhost you can verify the collection is working by clicking on sessions and checking the status of each individual session as you can see catalog replication has already completed in database replication for this backup server is currently in progress additional information about the session can be seen by clicking on the log from here you can see the progress of the collections session once collection has complete your configuration of backup Enterprise Manager is also finished you should be able to see the vCenter servers that have been added and you can go back to the main dashboard and you'll be able to see that the backup server has been added successfully because we have not configured any jobs or other information most of the panels in this screen will be empty however at this point backup Enterprise Manager is configured for use and any jobs added in the backup and replication GUI would automatically appear in the Enterprise Manager this completes the configuration of backup Enterprise Manager now that you have learned how to install and deploy Veen backup and replication version 9 be sure to visit vin comm for more information on all of the great features thanks for watching

Channel: Veeam

Views: 392,034

Keywords: Veeam, Veeam Software, Virtualization, Backup, Disaster Recovery, Availability, Recovery

Id: b4BqC_WXARk

Length: 22min 28sec (1348 seconds)

Published: Tue Jan 19 2016