Veeam Availability Suite v9.5 - Backup Server Installation

I have been using Veeam Availability Suite in my previous working place and I thought to write a series of blog posts which anyone can easily understand and follow the steps to deploy and the configure. Few guys were asking about this software and hope this series of posts can be found as very useful to them.

I have downloaded the Veeam Availability suite v9.5 from the Veeam Web site, I’m using my VFR license and you can get 30 days of free trail license for the testing purpose.

Veeam Components system requirements can be found here.

Mainly there are several components in this Veeam infrastructure.

Backup Server
Backup and Replication Console
Virtualization Servers and Hosts
Backup Proxy
Backup Repository
Scale out Backup repository
Guest Interaction Proxy
Gateway Server
Mount Server
WAN Accelerators
Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager

In this Article I’m going to install Veeam Backup server, Backup and Replication console in a single server. I have placed a Windows 2008 R2 server in my environment. Fully patched the server and installed the Service Pack 1 which is one of the Primary requirement. Windows 2008 R2 without the service pack 1 or 2 doesn’t work with this. See the system requirements for each and every component.

Mounted the downloaded ISO image and run the installation

Installation pre-check will do a scan and will provide the system check, it will install the required components in your system and you have to install below software manually in your system

Microsoft PowerShell 2.0 or later (optional)
Firefox, Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge or Microsoft Internet Explorer 10.0 or later

Clicked “OK” to proceed with the installation and it started the installation

Accept the EULA and proceed with the installation

Browse and provide the Downloaded license and continue the installation

At the next step I installed the Veeam Backup and Replication, Veeam Backup catalog and Veeam Backup & Replication Console.

System Configuration Check will provide the missing components and click on “Install” to install the components

At the next step, I wanted to specify the different settings for the NfsDatastore and the VBRCatalog. So checked the check box and continue the installation

Service Account should be selected and I selected the “LOCAL SYSTEM account” which is the recommended setting for this.

I used the same server for the SQL Database and and set the credentials for the SQL access, you can select a different server or SQL account for the authentication