With the release of Veeam V11 there is also the release of Veeam Backup for Azure v2 and Veeam Backup for Google Cloud Platform (see this blogpost). With VBAv2 there are additional features that can be used and the integration with VBR goes a step further.
How to integrate an existing VBAv2 appliance and how to use it?
That’s pretty simple and I’ll show it in a few simple basic steps.
First of all, from the VBR console go to “Backup Infrastructure” and right-click “Managed Servers”, select “Add server”. You will get the following screen in which you can select “Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure”.
Select to “Connect to an existing appliance”.
Select your Microsoft Azure compute account.
Select the Subscription and the Data center.
Select the existing Veeam Backup for Azure VM (in my case VBA02).
Select the “Connection type” (in my case I have a Site-to-Site VPN to my Azure environment so I choose “Private Network”).
Select the “Credentials”.
Select the “Repository” and make sure that specific settings have been filled in like: “Credentials” and/or “Encryption Password” for the Repository.
Click “Apply” and VBR will do the rest and make the connection and add it to the console 🙂
So now: how to use it?
After the VBAv2 has been added to the VBR console we can see it as a “Managed Server” on the “Backup Infrastructure” page. What we can also see is that if the VBAv2 has already made backups and/or snapshots of Azure VM’s we see the section “Snapshots” and “External Repository” on the “Home” page.
From here on we can restore Azure VM backups with lots of options. We can recover it “Instantly” to VMware/Hyper-V or we can even restore it to AWS or another Azure tenant.
Many options that make “Cloud Mobility” and gives you the power and confidence to go from cloud to on-prem or vice versa or even from cloud to cloud, all without complications!
From the VBR console we can now also choose to make a new backup job for “Microsoft Azure”. In that case it opens up the VBAv2 webinterface on the page where you can create a VBAv2 backup policy.
All in all good improvements for VBAv2!