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Initial Deployment of Veeam Backup and Replication v13 (BETA 2) as a VM from ISO

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In this post, I'll show you how to deploy Veeam Backup and Replication v13 (BETA 2) as a VM within your ESXi/vSphere Environment. This beta 2 is not public, but is accessible to the v100 members (Vanguards, Legends, MVPs) so we can play with it and report annomalies). It has much less “TBD” labels than the BETA 1, but it is still not the final product. The features found in the BETA 2 might be the same as in the GA, but there might also be changes. That's not the most important right now. Let's get into it.

The fact that you have an ISO, you can install/deplly VBR 13 directly on a bare metal server. This is certainly my preffered scenario instead of creating a VM within an environment you're trying to protect, right? Veeam Backup and Replication v13 has a High Availability (HA) where you'll need at least two nodes for this to function. In case of a node failure, the HA kicks in.

System Requirements

After downloading the ISO, you can upload it to a datastoinre visible to your ESXi host and create a new VM with following specifications:

  • Two hard disks, each with at least 256 GB of capacity
  • 4 vCPU
  • 20 Gb of RAM
  • Chose “Rocky Linux x64” as a template.

Veeam Backup and Replicaiton (VBR) 13 starts with asking whether you're willing to do a clean install or not. In our case yes, we do clean installation.

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Then without any other user interraction, it starts the deployment (I'm recording the whole sequence as a video). The process takes a while as it installs 724 packages in total!

What is new in Veeam Backup and Replication v13?

I have recently published two posts so in case you do not want to repeat myself here once again, the posts are here:

Once the installation from the ISO finishes, the installer will reboot automatically the VM to complete the installation.

NOTE: I'm using VMware Workstation and nested ESXi host which will then run the software so most likely, there is a substantial performance hit compared to someone who has a bare metal machine! Just to say, it took me nearly 30′ to get to this point…..

Once you reboot, you have to go to the console and configure:

  • Accept the EULA
  • Configure Hostname
  • Network config
  • Set a new password for the veeamadmin account
  • Configure MFA (Optional)
  • Set a new password for the veeamso account (Veeam Security Officer)
  • Once you log in using the username veeamadmin, the password you previously created, and the 2FA code from your preferred MFA mobile app, you'll finish the config and you can then access Veeam Host Management console via https://YourHostIP:10443

Once Installed, you're presented with a web console.

NOTE: You can download console if you want to manage your VBR server from Windows machine.

Here is the step by step video from the deployment  (and my 2 cents as comments).

That's all folks -:)

If you want to follow a step by step with screenshots, then you can have a look at fellow's Veeam Vanguard blog post by Victor Wu. He has all the screenshots.

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