Summary
This chapter has provided you with the tools required to install Veeam Backup & Replication v11a and the components that make up the installation. We discussed the prerequisites, including the versions of SQL Server that you can use – Express or SQL Standard/Enterprise. Then, we addressed how to set up proxy servers, configuration best practices, and optimal settings. This part was then followed by a discussion on repositories, how to create them, and included best practices and optimizations for best performance. After, we looked at scale-out backup repositories and how to set them up, which included the performance tier, the capacity tier, and managing them once they've been set up. Lastly, we looked at the upgrade process for Veeam Backup & Replication to update an existing instance from version 10 to 11a.
This chapter should have helped ensure that you have all the basics covered. This will help in the next chapter, where we will look at the 3-2-1-1-0 rule and keeping data safe.