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Recipe: Deploying the Veeam Infrastructure Appliance
Expected deliverables:
A fully installed pre-hardened Veeam Infrastructure Appliance (JeOS), ready to be used as a Hardened Repository or another role in Veeam infrastructure.
Time to complete: 30 minutes
Ingredients:
- Server (Virtual or Physical) with at least 2 Cores, 8GB Ram, and two disks of at least 120GB each.
- The Veeam Infrastructure Appliance ISO downloaded and available to the target machine.
Before you start:
The Veeam Infrastructure Appliance is a pre-hardened, Linux-based (JeOS - Just Enough Operating System) appliance that contains only services and components required to deploy and manage Veeam infrastructure components with specific roles including hardened repositories and backup proxies.
Assumptions:
You are performing a fresh installation on a dedicated machine. A fresh install wipes any existing data on the target disks.
Method:
- Attach the Veeam Infrastructure Appliance ISO to the machine and power it on.
- In the Boot Manager, select the drive where the ISO is mounted and press [Enter].
- In the installation menu, select one of the following options and then press [Enter].
- Veeam Infrastructure Appliance, to be used for multiple roles like VMware Proxy, Gateway Servers and more.
- Veeam Infrastructure Appliance (with iSCSI & NVMe/TCP), to be used as a VMware Proxy for backup from storage snapshots using the iSCSI or NVMe/TCP protocol
- Veeam Hardened Repository
- In the installation menu, select Install and press [Enter]. Confirm when prompted, as this wipes the target disks. Wait for the installation to complete and for the appliance to reboot into the Initial Configuration wizard.
- At the License step, read and accept the License Agreements.
- At the Hostname step, specify the hostname for the appliance.
- At the Network step, review the network configuration and adjust if required, otherwise keep the default (DHCP).
- At the Time step, review the time zone and NTP servers, adjust if required.
- At the Host Administrator step:
- Set the password for the default veeamadmin account
- Then complete the mandatory MFA enrollment: scan the on-screen QR code (or enter the code) in your authenticator app, then enter the one-time password to finish.
- At the Security Officer step, set the password for the default veeamso account.
- If you do not want to configure the security officer account, select Skip setting up Security Officer. This account can’t be enabled later, and it will require the VSA to be reinstalled.
- At the Summary step, review the configuration and select Finish. Wait for the configuration to apply.
- Open a browser to https://[appliance-address] and log in with the Host Administrator (veeamadmin) account.
- Install your license when prompted (paid versions). The appliance is now ready for use.
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