Chapter 1: Installation – Best Practices and Optimization
Veeam Backup & Replication v10 is part of Veeam Availability Suite, which is ready for the modern data center and allows you to back up all of your workloads, including Cloud, Virtual, and Physical. It is simple, yet flexible, when it comes to meeting your most challenging business requirements. In this chapter, we will discuss the installation of the software, what components make up Veeam Backup & Replication v10, and some best practices and optimizations. There will be practical examples throughout the chapter of how to optimize specific elements that make up the Veeam environment. We will also touch on some of the websites, including the Best Practices Guide for Veeam, among others, to give you the resources to help set up Veeam in your environment. As they say with Veeam – It Just Works.
In this chapter, we're going to cover the following main topics:
- Understanding the components of Veeam Backup & Replication
- Understanding the best practices for Veeam installation and setup
- Configuring and optimizing proxy servers
- Setting up repository servers for success
- Understanding the scale-out repository
