#VEEAM BACKUP FROM STORAGE SNAPSHOTS UPDATE#
The first step to enable the Storage Integration is adding the NetApp cluster to the Veeam Backup & Replication server (in my test lab the version 9.5 Update 3 is used). To serve NFS traffic to the ESXi hosts and the backup proxy both networks need to be added to the export policy. As mentioned earlier, both interfaces uses different Ethernet ports as backing. In my test environment the interface svm-nfs_data represents the NFS Network and svm-nfs_backup the backup network. But for this concept one additional interface for the backup traffic must be added. To serve NFS Datastores to ESXi hosts from a NetApp SVM only one interface in the NFS network is necessary.
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Veeam NetApp Backup from Storage Snapshot configurationįor the setup of this backup method we need to take look at three components, the NetApp SVM configuration, the Veeam setup and the vSphere infrastructure. The only way (at the moment) to prevent Veeam from falling back from Direct NFS Restore to Network Transport Mode is access to the NFS Network with the Direct NFS Proxy.
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If the additional backup proxy will be placed in the backup network the traffic through the firewall will be dramatic reduced.Įven with the additional Hot Add Proxy the restore process will use network transport mode. It is possible to enhance the concept with an additional Proxy for virtual appliance transport mode, this proxy will be used if VM Snapshot exists.
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Minimal impact to the production environment.My tests quickly turned out, that the Veeam NetApp Backup from Storage Snapshot is the best transport mode to reach this goal. The main requirement was to deliver constant performance at any time. As a part of a larger Veeam project I was looking for the most efficient Veeam setup with minimal impact to the whole virtualization and storage environment during the backup window.