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Configuration Guide

Dell EMC PowerProtect DD Series Appliances with Veeam Backup & Replication: Configuration Guide

Abstract This document describes the configuration and integration of Dell EMC PowerProtect DD series appliance as backup target for the Veeam Backup & Replication software

December 2020


Revisions Date Description

December 2020 Initial release

Acknowledgements Author: Abhishek Shukla, Senior Technical Marketing Engineer, Data Protection Solutions.

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Table of contents Revisions............................................................................................................................................................................. 2

Acknowledgements ............................................................................................................................................................. 2

Table of contents ................................................................................................................................................................ 3

Audience ............................................................................................................................................................................. 4

Scope .................................................................................................................................................................................. 4

1 Introduction ................................................................................................................................................................... 5

2 Reference Architecture ................................................................................................................................................. 6

3 Configuration ................................................................................................................................................................ 7

3.1 Configure Veeam Backup & Replication for Backup Infrastructure ............................................................................. 7

3.1.1 Add Virtual Infrastructure .................................................................................................................................... 7

3.2 Configure NFS on Veeam Backup & Replication and DD series appliance ................................................................ 8

3.2.1 Create an NFS export in an MTree .................................................................................................................... 8

3.2.2 Configure NFS share on Veeam Backup & Replication for DD series appliance as backup target ................ 11

3.3 Configure CIFS on Veeam Backup & Replication and DD series appliance ............................................................. 12

3.3.1 Create a CIFS share in an MTree .................................................................................................................... 12

3.3.2 Configure CIFS share on Veeam Backup & Replication for DD series appliance as backup target ............... 14

3.4 Configure DD series appliance Virtual Tape Library and Veeam Backup & Replication ........................................... 15

3.4.1 Setup and Configure VTL on DD series appliance ........................................................................................... 15

3.4.2 Configure VTL on Veeam Backup & Replication server................................................................................... 19

3.5 Configure DD series appliance appliance with DDboost as backup target ................................................................ 21

3.5.1 Create User for DDboost .................................................................................................................................. 22

3.5.2 Create Storage Unit .......................................................................................................................................... 23

3.5.3 Configure Backup Repository ........................................................................................................................... 23

3.5.4 Configure Backup Proxy ................................................................................................................................... 25

3.6 Backup Job with DD series appliance as backup target ............................................................................................ 26

3.7 Replication Process .................................................................................................................................................... 28

3.8 Restore Job ................................................................................................................................................................ 29

3.8.1 Restore from backup ........................................................................................................................................ 30

3.8.2 Restore from Replica ........................................................................................................................................ 30

3.9 Configure Cloud Tier .................................................................................................................................................. 32

A Technical support and resources ............................................................................................................................... 39

A.1 Related resources............................................................................................................................................. 39


Audience The document is intended for customers, technical consultants and customer engineers who are familiar with Veeam Backup & Replication software and DD series appliance operations

Scope This document describes how to configure DD series appliance as a backup target for Veeam Backup & Replication software for CIFS, NFS, DD VTL and DDboost protocol. The document is based on the following version of Veeam Backup & Replication and PowerProtect DD operating system (DDOS)

• Veeam Backup & Replication version 10 (Part of Veeam Availability Suite) • DDOS version 7.x (DDVE version 6.0)


1 Introduction This section provides the brief overview of DD series appliance and its integration with Veeam Backup and Replication

DD series appliance appliances deliver the most trusted platforms for protection storage. It also ensures unparalleled data integrity, industry leading deduplication, scalability, reliability and performance for smooth and reliable recovery and a broad ecosystem of backup and archive applications.

DD series appliance is an appliance that can be deployed physically or virtually. The virtual appliance is called as PowerProtect DD Virtual Edition (DD VE) which is a software-defined data protection solution of PowerProtect DD, thereby maintaining all the core differentiating features of DD series appliances. DDVE is fast and simple to download, deploy, and configure. DD VE delivers increased transactional and operational efficiencies, reliability and lower Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) by utilizing object storage in addition to block storage. DD series appliance appliances support multiple front-end protocols such CIFS/NFS, DD VTL and its own DDboost protocol.

Veeam Backup & Replication is a data protection solution. It provides centralized console for administering backups, restore and replication operations. Veeam Backup & Replication uses Data domain as protected storage for deduplication, reliable backups, fast recovery, secure replication and intelligent data re-use. It uses DD Boost technology which offers some advanced features and benefits. Veeam Backup & Replication supports following features

• Advanced Load Balancing and Link Failover • Distributed Segment Processing • Virtual Synthetics • In-flight Data Encryption • Per storage Unit Streams

Additionally, Veeam Backup & Replication supports PowerProtect DD Storage Systems working over following protocols

• TCP/IP Protocol • Fiber Channel Protocols


2 Reference Architecture Veeam Backup & Replication uses two Data Mover Services to communicate with DD series appliance. These services are responsible for data processing and data transfer.

1. Veeam Data Mover on the backup proxy 2. Veeam Data Mover on the gateway server

Veeam Data Mover services are not hosted on DD series appliance storage. So, the gateway server is deployed in order to communicate with DD series appliance. A gateway server is an auxiliary backup infrastructure component that connects the backup server and backup repository.

When any job is run, it addresses the backup repository, data mover service on the gateway server establishes a connection with the data mover service on the backup proxy, enabling efficient data transfer over the network

Note: For DD series appliance storage systems working over Fibre Channel, the gateway server must be defined explicitly that communicates with DD series appliance

DD series appliance is presented to Veeam Backup & Replication software as a DDBoost, CIFS, NFS or DD VTL storage target or depending on the media agent platform. For CIFS/NFS, the first consideration to address is what level of CIFS or NFS sharing is wanted for the DD series appliance storage.

By default, the entire DD Series Appliance directory structure (\\datadomain\backup) can be shared by CIFS/NFS/DDBoost to all or selected hosts. Alternatively, subfolders or an MTree can be created for explicit sharing. The choice will depend on the specific use case for the customer environment.


3 Configuration This section provides an overview of how to configure Veeam Backup & Replication server to integrate with PowerProtect DD series appliance. Configuring DD series appliance as a backup target for Veeam Backup & Replication requires the following steps

1. Create CIFS shares, NFS exports, DDboost storage units and VTL libraries on DD series appliance 2. Configure Backup infrastructure 3. Configure Veeam Backup & Replication with DD series appliance as backup target 4. Create Backup Policies 5. Perform Backup and Restore process

Pre-requisites 1. A DD series appliance S: eries Appliance running DD OS version 6.1 or later with DDBoost, DD VTL

and Cloud Tier license 2. Veeam Backup & Replication software 10 or later with valid license 3. VMware vCenter server and ESXi hosts on which Veeam Backup & Replication virtual machine is

running. 4. Backup sources i.e. Windows file servers, Linux servers and NDMP servers 5. Required ports should be open between ESXi hosts and Veeam Backup & Replication machine

3.1 Configure Veeam Backup & Replication for Backup Infrastructure This section describes how to setup the backup infrastructure before performing data protection and disaster recovery tasks with Veeam Backup & Replication. The backup infrastructure may vary depending upon customer environment and strategies. A typical backup infrastructure consists of following components

• Backup Server: the server on which Veeam Backup & Replication is installed • Infrastructure Servers: virtual hosts used as sources and targets for backup, replication and restore • Backup Proxies: The backup proxy role is assigned to Veeam backups server and act as Data Mover

component • Repositories: Locations where backups, replicas and VM copies are stored

3.1.1 Add Virtual Infrastructure

1. Login to the Veeam Backup & Replication console


2. Select INVENTORY 3. Select Virtual Infrastructure 4. click on ADD SERVER dialog box 5. Select VMware vSphere 6. Select vSphere and enter the details • Name: Specify DNS name or IP address of VMware Server • Credentials: Select server’s administrator’s credentials from the drop down. If required, specify

additional connection settings including web-service port number.

7. The vCenter is added. You can verify under Virtual Infrastructure > VMware vSphere > vCenter

Servers > vCenter

3.2 Configure NFS on Veeam Backup & Replication and DD series appliance

3.2.1 Create an NFS export in an MTree An Mtree is a filesystem which provides the ability to perform data management such as access policies, snapshots, replication and data retention. Following are the steps to create an NFS export in an Mtree.


For reference, the name of NFS export is NFS

1. Login to DD System Manager with sysadmin credentials 2. Click on Data Management from the left pane of dashboard 3. Click on Mtree 4. Click on CREATE 5. Specify the Mtree Name. Mtree will be created at the location /data/col1/-


6. Mtree with the name /data/col1/MtreeforVeeam is created

7. Under Protocols section, you observe NFS Exported is NO 8. Click on Create Export 9. Specify the Export Name 10. Verify the directory path is same Mtree you created 11. Click + to add clients and several options are available such as NFS version, permissions 12. Click + to add Referrals (referrals apply only to NFSv4 enabled clients) 13. Click OK to create NFS export. To Verify the export, follow the instructions below

14. Click on Protocols


15. Click on NFS 16. Select Exports 17. NFS export is created with name NFS and path /data/col1/MtreeforVeeam 18. Repeat the steps to create another Mtree

3.2.2 Configure NFS share on Veeam Backup & Replication for DD series appliance as backup target

Following steps are used to configure Veeam Backup & Replication to use DD series appliance system as a backup target. The backups can be stored on an NFS export mounted from DD series appliance system to an intermediate Linux system

1. Login to Veeam Backup & Replication console 2. Click on BACKUP INFRASTRUCTURE 3. Select Managed Servers 4. Click on Add Server (or right click on Managed Servers and select Add Server) 5. Select Linux

New Linux Server: Specify DNS name or IP address of linux server. The server must have SSH and Perl installed

• Name: Specify the name or IP address • SSH connection: Select the ‘root’ credentials or can be added • Summary: Verify the details and click on Finish to complete the configuration

6. Select Backup Repository 7. Right click on Backup Repository and select Add Backup Repository 8. Select Network Attached Storage


9. Select NFS Share and specify the details • Name: Type in a name and description for this backup repository • Share: Specify the folder to store backups in and gateway server to access NFS share through.

Automatic gateway selection functionality requires NFS tools are installed on registered Linux Servers • Repository: Specify the path to the NFS export on the Data Domain Mtree • Mount Server: Choose specific mount server you created • Review: Verify the setting • Apply: Apply the settings to complete the configuration 10. The NFS share is configured

3.3 Configure CIFS on Veeam Backup & Replication and DD series appliance

A CIFS backup repository provides similar setup process as NFS configuration but less throughput for Veeam Backup & Replication. CIFS protocol is used for small environment or environment that cannot accept a Linux system

3.3.1 Create a CIFS share in an MTree Consider creating a CIFS share in the MtreeforVeeam Mtree on DD series appliance. For reference, the name is CIFS share is CIFS

1. Login to DD System Manager with sysadmin credentials 2. Click on Data Management from the left pane of dashboard 3. Click on Mtree 4. Select /data/col1/MtreeforVeeam from Mtree name list 5. Under Protocols section, you observe CIFS share is NO


6. Click on Create Share 7. Specify the Share Name 8. Verify the directory path is same Mtree you created 9. Click + to add clients 10. Click + to add Users and Groups 11. Click Ok to create CIFS share. To Verify the share, follow the instructions below 12. Click on Protocols 13. Click on CIFS

14. Select Share Name 15. CIFS share is created with name CIFS and path /data/col1/MtreeforVeeam 16. Repeat the steps to create another Mtree


3.3.2 Configure CIFS share on Veeam Backup & Replication for DD series appliance as backup target

A CIFS backup repository provides similar setup process as NFS configuration but less throughput for Veeam Backup & Replication. CIFS protocol is used for small environment or environment that cannot accept a Linux system

1. Login to Veeam Backup & Replication console 2. Click on BACKUP INFRASTRUCTURE 3. Select Backup Repository 4. Click on Add Repository (or right click on Backup Repository and select Add Backup Repository 5. Select Network Attached Storage 6. Select SMB Share 7. Specify the details to create repository • Name: Type in a name and description for this backup repository • Share: Type in UNC path to share (mapped drives are not supported), specify share access

credentials and how backup jobs should write data to the share. Under Gateway Server section, select server from the list if you perform backup and replication over WAN or slow connection. The selected server must have a direct access to the shared folder. Else, select Automatic Selection to select the server automatically based on network connection

• Repository: Select the backup repository settings and enable the applicable options • Mount Server: Specify settings for the mount server that you plan to use for file-level and application

items restore. To make the backup repository accessible by tbe Veeam vPower NFS, checkbox Enable vPower NFS service on the mount server. vPower NFS service allows fcr running virtual machines directly from backup files, enabling advanced functionality such as Instant VM recovery, SureBackup and On-Demand sandbox.

8. Follow the next steps without changing default settings. At Summary, click Finish to complete the backup repository


3.4 Configure DD series appliance Virtual Tape Library and Veeam Backup & Replication

DD series appliance Virtual Tape Library (VTL) is a licensed feature that needs special license registered on both DD series appliance and for backup server. To configure DD series appliances as a VTL backup target device, follow below section in detail

3.4.1 Setup and Configure VTL on DD series appliance

3.4.1.1 Verify the license and VTL service running 1. Login to DD System Manager with sysadmin credentials

2. Click on Administration tab from the left pane of dashboard 3. Click on Licenses 4. Under Feature Licenses section and verify VTL is available 5. Click on Protocols on the left pane of dashboard 6. Click on DD VTL


7. Verify that the status is Enabled: Running and licensed

3.4.1.2 Verify the Fibre Channel Connection, Ports, link status, Endpoints & Initiators Before discovering the VTL device with Veeam Backup & Replication server, ensure that operating system and HBA drivers discover the VTL devices. Verify the Fibre Channel connectivity between DD series appliance and Veeam Backup & Replication infrastructure. The fibre channel status should be running, ports must be online, endpoints should be enabled with link status as “Online”. Also verify the zoned initiators are visible with endpoints.

1. Login to DD System Manager with sysadmin credentials 2. Click on Hardware tab on the left pane of dashboard 3. Click on Fibre Channel


4. Check the Status as Enabled: Running

5. Click on Ports section and check the link status as “Online”

6. Click on Endpoints section and verify the link status as “Online”

7. Click on Initiators to verify if configured and endpoints are added


3.4.1.3 Create a VTL group on the DD series appliance VTL group can be created from the DD OS command line or with the web interface. Check the "DD Virtual Tape Library" chapter of the PowerProtect DD Series Appliance OS Administration Guide for more information about the VTL feature, including the creation of virtual tape drives, virtual tape media, and virtual changers. For the reference, VTL group name “VeeamVTLlibrary” is created

1. Login to DD System Manager with sysadmin credentials 2. Click on Protocols tab from the left pane of dashboard 3. Click on DD VTL 4. Expand DD Virtual Tape Libraries 5. Click on + to expand DD VTL Service 6. Click on Libraries 7. Click on MORE TASKS dropdown list (IBM-LTO-7 is default) 8. Click on Create under library 9. Create Library: Specify the following details

• Library Name: Specify the name (6 for an example for demo) • Number of Drives: Specify the number of drives you want to create • Drive Model: Select the drive model from the existing by clicking on dropdown • Number of Slots: Specify the number of slots you want to create. The number of slots must

be equal to or greater than the number of drives. (20 by default) (Optional) • Number of CAPs: Specify the number of Cartridge Access Ports (CAPs). You can specify

upto 100 CAPs per library (Optional) • Changer Model Name: Select the desired model from the dropdown list. (L180 is default) • Options: Auto-eject and auto-offline, choose the appropriate one from default (disabled),

enable and disable and barcode-length, automatically set to 6 for L180, Restorer L180 and DD VTL changer models.

10. Click OK and wait for the task complete window

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11. The created library is visible under Libraries, with 6 drives and 1 changer

3.4.2 Configure VTL on Veeam Backup & Replication server This section provides the procedure to configure VTL with Veeam Backup & Replication Server. Check https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backup/vsphere/tape_supported_devices.html?ver=100 for supported devices and configuration for tape libraries

To configure tape infrastructure, tape server must be added to Veeam Backup & Replication console. The tape server is a backup infrastructure component which helps transferring data between source and tape device. The tape server runs Data Mover service that creates a communication point over which data is transferred between the tape device and backup repositories. Tape server must run Microsoft Windows and must have access to DD VTL on DD series appliance and to connect DD VTL over Fibre Channel.

3.4.2.1 Add Tape Server 1. Login to Veeam Backup & Replication console

2. Click on BACKUP INFRASTRUCTURE on the left pane 3. Select Managed Servers 4. Click on Add Server (or right click on Managed Servers and select Add Server) 5. Select Microsoft Windows 6. New Windows Server

• Name: Specify DNS name or IP address of Microsoft Windows Server • Credentials: Specify the credentials and port settings Microsoft Windows server • Review: Follow the next steps without changing default settings • Apply: Click on apply if the steps are verified • Summary: Click on Finish to complete the server configuration

https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backup/vsphere/tape_supported_devices.html?ver=100


7. The created servers are visible under managed servers > Microsoft Windows 8. Click on TAPE INFRASTRUCTURE on the left pane 9. Click on Add Tape Server on the top (or right click on tape infrastructure and select Add Tape server)

10. New Tape Server • Server: Choose a server to install Tape server components on. You can only select between

Microsoft Windows servers added to the managed servers tree in the console • Traffic: Review the network traffic rules that apply to this server • Review: Review the settings and click Apply to continue • Summary: Select Start tape library inventory when I click Finish. When you complete the

tape library configuration, Veeam Backup & Replication automatically inventories tapes in the tape library connected to the tape server, Click Finish

3.4.2.2 Configure a Tape Media Pool Tape Media Pools are the logical tape containers used by Veeam Backup & Replication to manage tapes. There are three types of media pools can be created

• Service Media Pools: These pools are used to sort tapes automatically and manage free tapes intended for writing data. These pools are created automatically. They cannot be created or edited

• Customer Media Pools: These pools are used as target destinations. To archive data, at least one custom media pool is must manually

• GFS media Pools: GFS stands for Grandfather-Father-Son. These types of pools are used to create GFS tape archives. GFS keep one backup per 4 tiers: weekly, monthly, quarterly and yearly. These are created manually.


To Create custom media pool

1. Login to Veeam Backup & Replication console 2. Click on TAPE INFRASTRUCTURE 3. Click on Media Pools and select Add Media Pool 4. New Media Pool

• Name: Type in the name and description • Tapes: Configure global media pool settings and allocate tapes for the pool. In the tape

library section, select the library from which the tapes are allocated for the media pool. To add multiple libraries, click Manage > Add to add the libraries. Use Up and Down buttons to position the failover order. Also select the events on which the media pool must failover to the next library such as Library is offline, No media available and All tape drives are busy. Check box Add tapes from free media pool automatically when more tapes are required to make media pool replenishable.

• Media Set: Specify media set name and how often a new media set should be automatically created.

• Retention: Specify the period during which the data on tapes must be stored. When the retention period ends, the tape becomes available for overwriting.

• Options: Specify parallel processing and encryption settings. Hardware encryption will be used if the tape drive supports it. Otherwise, software encryption will be used which may result in small performance penalty

• Summary: Follow the next steps and click Finish

3.5 Configure DD series appliance with DDboost as backup target Veeam Backup & Replication leverages two components of DD series appliance to support the DD Boost technology,

• DD Boost Library: DD Boost library is embedded into the Veeam Data Mover Service setup. The DD Boost library is automatically installed on the added server together with the data mover service when Microsoft Windows server is added to the backup Infrastructure.

• DD Boost Server: The DD Boost server runs on the operating system of DD series appliance storage system. It is a target-end component

This section provides how to set up DD series appliance as backup target and to assign backup repository role to DD series appliance storage systems with DDboost. The user must be created on Data Domain which has access from Veeam infrastructure. The user must have storage unit attached.


3.5.1 Create User for DDboost

1. Login to DD System Manager 2. Navigate to Administration on the left pane of dashboard 3. Click on the drop down and Select Access 4. Select LOCAL USERS from Access Management 5. Click CREATE 6. Enter the details

General: • User: Specify the username • Password: Specify the password • Management Role: Select the role from the drop down • Advanced: This option is to manage the advanced features of user i.e. Password aging policy and to

disable the user account. 7. Click OK


3.5.2 Create Storage Unit 1. Login to DD System Manager 2. Navigate to Protocols on the left pane of dashboard

3. Click on DD Boost 4. Click on STORAGE UNITS 5. Click on Add sign (+) to create storage unit 6. Specify the Name and select or create user from the dropdown 7. Click on CREATE

8. Storage unit is created and is available under storage unit list.

3.5.3 Configure Backup Repository 1. Login to the Veeam Backup & Replication console 2. Click on BACKUP INFRASTRUCTURE on the left pane of dashboard 3. Click on Backup Repositories 4. Click on Add Repository on the top (Or right click and select Add Repository) 5. Select Deduplicating Storage Appliance


6. Select Dell EMC Data Domain and specify the details • Name: Type in a name and description for this backup repository • Dell EMC Data Domain: If the Data Domain system works over TCP, specify the FQDN or IP

address. If Data Domain system works over FC, specify the data domain server name. A gateway server must be defined explicitly to communicate with Dell EMC domain.

• Type in Data Domain Name: Specify the name of Dell EMC Data Domain server name • Credentials: Specify the user that is created to access Data domain and click Next • Repository: Specify the storage Unit created to access and click Next • Mount Server: Specify if there is any other mount server or else it takes the default server • Review and click on Apply • Port: Specify the port number (By default, VMware web services port is 443) • Click on Apply • Verify the certificate and click on Continue 7. Click on Finish


3.5.4 Configure Backup Proxy

1. Login to Veeam Backup & Replication console 2. Click on BACKUP INFRASTUCTURE on the left pane of dashboard 3. Select Backup Proxies 4. Click on Add Proxy at the top (or Right click on Add VMware backup proxy) 5. Click on VMware vSphere to add proxy 6. Select New VMware Proxy and specify the details • Server: Choose a server for VMware backup proxy. You can choose between any Microsoft Windows

or Linux servers added to the managed servers which are not assigned a VMware backup proxy already.

• Choose Server: Specify the server details (the backup sever is by default selected) • Proxy Description: Specify if there is any description • Transport Mode: Choose applicable transport Mode (Automatic Selection is by default) • Connected Datastores: Choose applicable datastores (Automatic Detection is by default) • Max concurrent tasks: Specify the number of tasks • Traffic Rules: Review network traffic encryption and throttling rules which apply to this backup proxy. • Click on Apply and wait while required components are installed and configured. • Click on Next and Summary tab confirms that backup proxy is created successfully • Click on Finish.


7. Backup Proxy is successfully added

3.6 Backup Job with DD series appliance as backup target In Veeam Backup & Replication, backup is a job-driven process. To backup VMs, backup job must be configured. The backup job defines how, where and when to backup VM data. One job can be process one or more VMs. Veeam Backup & Replication performs both full and incremental backups. During the first run, it creates full VM backup and all subsequent job cycles create incremental backups.


1. Login to the Veeam Backup & Replication console 2. Click on HOME 3. Click on Backup Job 4. Select Virtual Machine (or right click on the Jobs > Backup > Virtual machine) 5. New Backup Job • Name: Name of the backup job • Virtual Machines: Select VMs to process • Click on Add to select the VM from the list • Click on dropdown on Hosts and Clusters • Click on vCenter server IP • Select Datacenter • Select Cluster • Select VM and click on Add • To exclude VMs from VM container or backup only specific VM disks, Click on Exclusions and specify

the objects to exclude 6. Storage: Specify processing proxy server to be used for source data retrieval, backup repository to

store the backup files produced by this job and customize job settings if needed • Backup Proxy: Choose if you have proxies setup, Automatic Selection is set by default • Backup Repository: Choose Data domain as backup repository, else default backup repository is

selected (If you have multiple Data Domain configured, select Map Backup to specify the exact target. • Retention Policy: Specify the number of restore points or days • Check box if you need to keep certain full backups for archival purposes • Check box if you have secondary backup destination to the same job. • Advanced: Advanced job settings include backup mode, compression and deduplication, block size,

notification settings, automated jobs. 7. Guest Processing: Choose guest OS processing options available for running VMs 8. Schedule: Specify the job scheduling options. If you do not set the schedule, the job will need to be

controlled manually, click on Apply to set up backup job 9. Summary: Check box to run the job immediately 10. Click on Finish

11. The backup job is successfully created with name, type, objects, target and other details. To run the backup job status is stopped. To run the backup job immediately, right click on the backup job and click on Start


3.7 Replication Process In Veeam Backup & Replication, replication is job-driven process. To perform replication, replication job needs to be configured. A replication job defines when, what, how and where to replicate. One replication job can be used to process one or more VMs.

1. Login to the Veeam Backup & Replication console 2. Click on HOME 3. Click on Replication Job 4. Click on Virtual Machine (or right click on the Jobs > Replication > Virtual machine) 5. New Replication Job • Name: Specify the name and description for this job and provide information on your DR site • Virtual Machines: Select one or more VMs to replicate. Use exclusion settings to exclude specific VM

and virtual disks from replication if any. • Destination: Specify where replicas should be created in the DR site • Host or cluster: Provide host IP address or choose from the list • Resource Pool: Choose resource pool of vCenter • VM folder: Choose VM folder if any • Datastore: Pick datastore for the replicas or Click on Pick Datastore for selected virtual disks • Job Settings: Specify backup repository located in the source site to host metadata in, replica suffix

and retention policy and customize advanced job settings if required • Data Transfer: Choose how VM data should be transferred to the target site. • Source Proxy: Choose backup proxy servers for this job. For redundancy, it is recommended to

select at least two proxies. If Automatic selection is selected, the job will automatically select the most suitable backup proxy from all available backup proxy servers

• Target Proxy: Similar to Source proxy • Direct: Select this option for local and off-site replication over fast links


• Through built-in WAN accelerators: Select this option for off-site replication over slow links • Gust Processing: Choose guest OS processing options available for running VMs • Enable application-aware processing: Check this option which detects and prepares applications for

consistent backup, performs transaction logs and configures the OS to perform required application restore steps upon first boot

• Guest Interaction Proxy: Guest interaction proxies are used to offload guest processing from backup server, select if there is any preferred proxy, else most suitable proxy will be selected as automatic selection

• Guest OS credentials: Choose from the list or add new account • Schedule: Specify the job scheduling options. If you do not set the schedule, the job will need to be

controlled manually and click on Apply • Summary: Check box to run the job immediately and click on Finish

6. Replicas are created successfully at the target provided

7. Verify on the target (vCenter) if the replica is created with the suffix

3.8 Restore Job Veeam Backup & Replication uses the same image-level backup for all data recovery operations. You can restore VMs, VM files and drives, application items and individual guest OS files to the most recent state or to any available restore point. Restoration can be done with following two different methods


• Restore from backup • Restore from replica

3.8.1 Restore from backup This method performs restore from a backup file

5. Login to the Veeam Backup & Replication console 6. Click on HOME 7. Click on Restore 8. Click on VMware vSphere

9. Select Restore from backup Select the type of restore you want to perform. Below types are available.

• Entire VM restore: It restores the entire VM or its individual components i.e. virtual disks • Instant VM recovery: Specify the details • Machines: Select machines to be restored, you can add individual machine from backup files by

clicking on Add and then select “From infrastructure” for virtual infrastructure or vCenter or “From backup” for the backup saved either locally or on DD

• Restore Mode: Specify whether selected VMs should be restored to the original locations or to a new location or with different settings

• Secure Restore: Scan the selected backup from malware • Reason: Specify reason for performing this restore operation and click next • Summary: You can copy this configuration information for the future reference and click on Finish

3.8.2 Restore from Replica 1. Login to the Veeam Backup & Replication console 2. Click on HOME 3. Click on Restore 4. Click on VMware vSphere


5. Select Restore from replica and select the type of restore you want to perform 6. Select Entire Replica to perform failover or failback operation on replica VM and choose applicable

option 7. Select Planned failover to a replica. It performs planned failover to a replica, preventing any data loss. 8. Specify the VM by clicking on Add VM and select “from replicas” 9. Click on Job name and select from the list 10. Click Finish

It will take few moments to complete the process. Once completed, the replicas will be in active state under replica tab.

11. To restore it to target (vCenter), right click on the VM name 12. Click on Failback to production and choose replicas you want to failback 13. Choose target location and click on Finish


3.9 Configure Cloud Tier Veeam Backup & Replication allow users to store and restore physical and virtual machines from DD series appliance active tier to cloud tier. With Cloud tier, data is natively tiered to the public, private or hybrid cloud for long-term retention.

To configure cloud tier on DD series appliance, cloud capacity license must be available, and the cloud tier storage should be presented by cloud provider for the DD series appliance to support cloud units.

1. Login to DD System Manager using sysadmin credentials 2. Click on Data Management on the left pane of dashboard

3. Click on File System 4. Click on Disable to disable file system 5. Click on Enable Cloud Tier 6. Click on CONFIGURE STORAGE


7. Verify the device is available under Addable Storage and click on checkbox 8. Click on ADD TO TIER and verify the device is available under Cloud Tier

9. Set passphrase and click on ENABLE to enable cloud Tier


10. Verify the CLOUD UNITS tab is available now with file system

11. Enable file system and verify the Cloud Tier details under Summary tab

12. Click on CLOUD UNITS 13. Click on Add and specify the details

• Name: Specify the name of Cloud uni • Cloud Provider: Select from dropdown • Storage Class: Select the class from dropdown • Storage Region: Select the region from dropdown • Access Key: Provide the accurate access key


• Secret Key: Provide the secret key accordingly • HTTP Proxy Server: No is by default, Click on Configure if required • Click on ADD to finish

14. Cloud Unit is added successfully

Note: Data Movement Policy for Mtree is added to which data is backed up by Veeam Backup & Replicatiion


15. Click on Data Management 16. Click on Mtree 17. Click on Add under Data Movement Policy

18. Select created cloud unit from the dropdown 19. Click on ADD 20. Data Movement Policy is created successfully

Cloud Tier Configuration is completed and the data can be moved from Active tier to Cloud Tier now.


21. Click start to move data from Active Tier to Cloud Tier.

22. Data has been moved to Cloud Tier.


23. Data can be recalled from Cloud Tier to Active Tier for restore.


A Technical support and resources Dell.com/support is focused on meeting customer needs with proven services and support.

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A.1 Related resources Dell EMC DD series appliance

• Dell EMC DDOS Version 7.4 Administration Guide • Dell EMC DD Boost for Open Storage - Administration Guide - 7.4 • Dell EMC DD Boost for Partner Integration - Administration Guide - 7.4 • Dell EMC DDOS Command Reference Guide - 7.4

Veeam Backup & Replication Guide

• https://www.veeam.com/documentation-guides-datasheets.html

http://www.dell.com/support

http://www.dell.com/storageresources

https://dl.dell.com/content/docu101344_DD_OS_7.4_Administration_Guide.pdf?language=en_US

https://dl.dell.com/content/docu101348_Data_Domain_Boost_7.4_for_OpenStorage_Administration_Guide.pdf?language=en_US

https://dl.dell.com/content/docu101349_Data_Domain_Boost__7.4_for_Partner_Integration_Administration_Guide.pdf?language=en_US

https://dl.dell.com/content/docu101345_DD_OS_7.4_Command_Reference_Guide.pdf?language=en_US

https://www.veeam.com/documentation-guides-datasheets.html

Documents

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