You're reading from Mastering Veeam Backup & Replication 10 Protect your virtual environment and implement cloud backup using Veeam technology

Product type Paperback

Published in Feb 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781838980443

Length 332 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Hyper-V

Concepts

Cloud Computing

Author (1):

Chris Childerhose

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Table of Contents (15) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Installation – Best Practices and Optimizations

2. Chapter 1: Installation – Best Practices and Optimization FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: The 3-2-1 Rule – Keeping Data Safe

4. Section 2: Storage – NAS Backup, Linux, SOBR, and OBS

5. Chapter 3: NAS Backup

6. Chapter 4: Scale-Out Repository and Object Storage – New Copy Policy

7. Chapter 5: Windows and Linux – Proxies and Repositories

8. Chapter 6: Object Storage – Immutability

9. Section 3: DataLabs, Cloud Backup, and Veeam ONE

10. Chapter 7: Veeam DataLabs

11. Chapter 8: Cloud Backup and Recovery Using Veeam Cloud Connect Provider and the Insider Protection Feature

12. Chapter 9: Instant VM Recovery

13. Chapter 10:Veeam ONE

14. Other Books You May Enjoy

Discovering the requirements and prerequisites for Instant VM Recovery

There are a few components from Veeam Backup & Replication that are necessary to take into account. Storage space also needs to be considered:

vPower NFS service: This service should be installed on a Windows server, which allows it to act as an NFS Server for mounting the backup files for the Instant VM Recovery process.
Disk space for cache folder: Instant VM Recovery requires additional free space for the cache folder (non-persistent data, at least 10 GB recommended).
Production storage: If you are going to use Storage vMotion or Quick Migration, then you will need enough storage for the VM to restore based on the size of the VMDK files.

Instant VM Recovery's main component is the Veeam vPower NFS service since it performs the bulk of the workload during the entire process. As noted previously, this is the Windows service that gets installed on any server to allow it to act as...