Summary

This chapter provided you with the tools required to install Veeam Backup & Replication v12 and the components that make up the installation. We discussed the prerequisites, including the versions of SQL Server or PostgreSQL that you can use – Express or SQL Standard/Enterprise and PostgreSQL locally installed with Veeam or a remote instance on Windows/Linux. Then, we addressed how to set up Proxy Servers, the configuration best practices, and optimal settings. This part was then followed by a discussion on repositories and how to create them and included best practices and optimizations for best performance. Afterward, we looked at Scale-Out Backup Repositories and how to set them up, including the Performance Tier and the Capacity Tier, and how to manage 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 11a to 12 and convert the backup chains into the new Per-VM backups.

This chapter should have helped ensure that you have all the basics covered. The next chapter will cover many core architecture changes within Veeam Backup & Replication v12.