- #VEEAM BACKUP PHYSICAL SERVERS INSTALL#
- #VEEAM BACKUP PHYSICAL SERVERS UPDATE#
- #VEEAM BACKUP PHYSICAL SERVERS MANUAL#
- #VEEAM BACKUP PHYSICAL SERVERS WINDOWS#
#VEEAM BACKUP PHYSICAL SERVERS INSTALL#
My hope here as the product matures is that we might see a better process to go from a physical server install and export that over to a VM without having to manually create a VM, etc.
#VEEAM BACKUP PHYSICAL SERVERS WINDOWS#
In my case with a Windows Server 2012 server from Dell physical hardware, the process was fairly painless. The Veeam Windows Agent Bare Metal Restore to VM process is not too bad.
On the first boot, Windows recognizes hardware has changed and of course starts the “getting devices ready” process.Īfter a short wait the server boots sucessfully. When we click Finish we are prompted to Reboot computer now.
#VEEAM BACKUP PHYSICAL SERVERS MANUAL#
Notice now the restore layout shows Manual since I have manually mapped them.įinally, we get to the Summary screen showing us our chosen options.Īfter the data is restored, the process finishes. I chose to customize disk mapping which lets you manually map the disk to the particular volume backup that Veeam has with the backup point. It brings up what looks like disk management console to show us the mapping. You can also select to view automatically detected disk mapping if we want to see what Veeam is recognizing as our disk layout and how it will automatically restore. Here we can choose to restore entire computer, system volumes only, or manual restore (advanced). Next, we select the particular backup job we want to pick a restore point from. Next we need to populate our backup server and then enter credentials with permissions to connect. If we look at the properties, we set an IP address here. To show what this looks like, after clicking the configure network settings we get a screen that shows our available network adapters or if we need to load network drivers, we can do that here. Also, we can click the configure network settings if you have no DHCP server running or need to make other network configuration changes for connectivity. You CAN run the “export disk contents as virtual disks but you only have the raw VMDK files exported, no VMX file created, etc.Īlso, if you only have 20 gigs worth of data in the backup of the server and the disk size is 1 TB, Veeam will export the raw VMDK files as thick provisioned disks so you will have to wait on entire size of the disk to export instead of just data. This would be desirable and make this process much easier.
#VEEAM BACKUP PHYSICAL SERVERS UPDATE#
So far as I can see in the Windows agent interface from your Veeam Backup and Replication 9.5 update 1 interface, there is not a slick way to export if you will the physical backup to a VM in one fell swoop. The server is Dell hardware with Windows Server 2012 loaded, running SQL 2014. To setup my lab test here, what I did was create a backup of a physical SQL server that had multiple volumes for data, logs, and backups on top of the operating system volume. Veeam Windows Agent Bare Metal Restore to VM Let’s look at the Veeam Windows Agent Bare Metal Restore to VM process. I wanted to see the process of dumping a backup of a physical server into a shell VM and any hiccups that one might experience doing that. Let’s take a look at a common scenario of taking a physical box and P2V’ing that box to a VM by using the Veeam Windows agent. Veeam Agents solve these issues by closing the gap that some enterprises face with large, heterogeneous environments and further enabling workload mobility by delivering availability for cloud-based workloads.A few days ago I wrote a post about the Veeam Windows Agent Beta Install and Configuration which showed the installation and config of the new Beta 2 of the Windows agent. Thus, everyday occurrences such as lapses in connectivity, hardware failures, file corruption, ransomware or even theft can leave an organization’s data at risk. Can Veeam backup physical servers Pioneers of instant virtual machine recovery, Veeam started as a virtual-only solution but began offering agents for. Due to various factors, some physical servers cannot be virtualized, along with endpoints that might not be protectable in their entirety by leveraging back-up solutions built for virtualized systems. Veeam® helps them to provide and increase availability of critical workloads running on their systems.
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