Veeam Cookbook
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Recipe: Create a Protection Group to deploy and manage Veeam Agents for individual computers
Expected deliverables:
A Protection Group to deploy Veeam Agents to one or more computers (Virtual or Physical) and add them to the inventory in the Veeam Backup & Replication console, by specifying individual objects.
Time to complete: 10 minutes
Ingredients:
- Make sure that all computers added to the protection group are powered on and may be accessed over the network.
- To deploy Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows, an account to connect to computers included in the protection group with access to the administrative share (admin$).
- To connect to the Linux-based computer where you want to install Veeam Agent for Linux, you must specify the user account that have a home directory. Users without home directories are not supported
Before you start:
- Make sure the operating system on the computers are supported by Veeam Agents.
- It is recommended that you do not add a computer to a protection group by specifying a dynamic IP address assigned to this computer.
- Adding computers to multiple protection groups with different computer discovery and Veeam Agent deployment settings will result in additional load on the backup server.
Assumptions:
You have a Veeam Backup and Replication server installed.
Method:
- Open the Inventory view. Click the Physical Infrastructure node in the inventory pane and click Create Protection Group in the working area.
- At the Name step, specify a name and description for the protection group. Click Next.
- At the Type step select the Individual computers option.
- At the Computer step, click Add to add individual computers to this Protection Group:
- Provide the Host Name or IP address of the computer.
- Click in Connect using admin credentials to provide a user account that has administrative permissions on the computer.
- At the Options step specify settings for protected computers discovery and Veeam Agent deployment.
- In the Discovery section, define schedule for automatic computer discovery within the scope of the protection group.
- In the Deployment section, from the Distribution server list, select a Microsoft Windows server that you plan to use as a distribution server.
- If you want Veeam to automatically deploy Veeam Agents on all discovered computers in the protection group, make sure that the Install backup agent check box is selected.
- If you want Veeam to automatically upgrade Veeam Agent on discovered computers when a new version of Veeam Agent appears on the distribution server, make sure that the Enable auto-update for installed components check box is selected
- Select the Install changed block tracking driver check box if you want to install the advanced CBT driver on servers protected with Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows.
- At the Review step, click Apply. Then, at the Apply step, Veeam will create the configured protection group. Wait for the operation to complete and click Next to continue.
- At the Summary step, complete the protection group configuration process. If you want to perform computer discovery later, you can clear the Run discovery when I click Finish check box. Click Finish to close the wizard
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