In order to add a new Linux proxy to your backup environment, you’ll have to go to Backup proxies > Right click > Add VMware backup proxy (if you’re willing to add VMware VM). Once Veeam 10 is released, you’ll check the requirements for Linux proxy, but one of them is to secure the system by leaving open only the required ports, before deployment.Īs for Operating System (OS) sizing, a VM with 2vCPU should be fine, together with 4Gigs of vRAM but, again, check the requirements when the product will be released. However, with the evolution of Veeam’s products, we might see some further enhancements down the road since this will be v1 release only.
According to the latest testing, the top performer would be Ubuntu 19, Debian 10, followed by OpenSUSE 15.1 and Cent OS 8 (which is the least performant candidate).Ĭompared to Windows proxy, Linux proxy performs approximately at the same speed and performance level without having superior performance over Windows. There might be other distros added later on.
The Red Hat, Ubuntu and Debian will most likely be the first Linux distributions to be supported. Backup proxy optimizes data paths for backup traffic and makes the data transfers as efficient as possible. So, in essence, the main goal of Veeam backup proxy is to facilitate the tasks of the main Veeam backup server which would, otherwise, become too busy to handle the load. The installation is done remotely over the network via Veeam backup console. You can deploy a backup proxy to a Virtual machine (VM) or to a physical server. The proxy is also used during replication tasks, copy or migration tasks, or during restores so if you’re using the replication feature of Veeam’s product to replicate your production VMs to remote site (or to the next building), you can benefit of the performance boost of Veeam proxy. With large architectures, the more proxies you have, the faster your backups will be able to be processed as backup proxies take care of the data traffic between the hypervisor (VMware vSphere or Microsoft Hyper-V) and the storage repository. If you have a medium or large environment, you’ll need more backup proxies.
Veeam proxy is a Veeam software component which is deployed and installed on Windows or Linux systems. Veeam Backup creates a connection between the source Veeam Data Mover and target Veeam Data Mover, and transports data from/to backup repositories via gateway servers. Linux proxy can also act as a gateway server – the backup infrastructure usually has a gateway server when used with Shared folder backup repositories or with deduplication appliances.
You still won’t be able to install Veeam on Linux, even though many users would like to, but Linux Proxy will add significant flexibility to Veeam’s backup product. The feature’s name is Linux Proxy, and it will, basically, have the same function as Windows Proxy, which, until now, was the only way of using it. With Veeam Backup and Replication 10, there will be a new feature that will greatly enhance the overall Veeam backup architecture without any additional cost.
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