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Recipe: Adding Worker Configuration

Expected deliverables:

A new Worker configuration do deploy Worker instances in a specific Google Cloud Region to perform data protection and disaster recovery operations

Time to complete: 5 minutes

Ingredients:

• Access to Veeam Backup for Google Cloud appliance using a browser
• At least one Google Cloud Project and Service Account to deploy the worker instance. It could be either a dedicated Project for backup, or any of the other existing Projects.
• A VPC network and a subnet in the same región where Worker instances will be deployed.
• A route whose destination IP address range is 0.0.0.0/0 and whose next hop is the default internet gateway must exist for the selected VPC network.
• The selected subnet must have Private Google Access enabled.
• If you plan to back up Cloud SQL instances using a staging server, the selected VPC network must have private services access configured.
• A firewall rule allowing HTTPS traffic to all VM instances on the specified VPC network.

Before you start: You must have enough resource quotas allocated between your projects to deploy the number of worker instances required for a backup or restore process.

Assumptions: You have an existing Veeam Backup for Google Cloud deployment.

Method:

1. In a web browser, navigate to the Veeam Backup for Google Cloud web address. Also you can access from VBR Console, from Backup Infrastructure > Managed Server, righ-click to the Veeam for Google Cloud Appliance, and then click in Open Console
2. Click in Configuration in the upper-right corner, then navigate to Workers > Network and click in Add
3. Click the link in the Project section. In the Choose Project window, select the required project and click Apply.
4. Click Add in the Worker configurations section to launch the Add Worker Configuration wizard.
5. At the Region step, select a region for new worker instances and an availability zone to provide network resources. Click Next.
6. At the Network step
   • Select a VPC network and a subnet to which you want to connect worker instances.
   • Select a firewall rule that will be used to control traffic between resources in the specified VPC network. The selected firewall rule must allow direct network traffic to Google Cloud resources.
   • Click Next
7. At the Summary step, review summary information and click Finish.

Links to Resources:

• Veeam Guides and Helpcenter
• Veeam Community Forums

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