The Veeam Cookbook Series

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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:

It’s assumed that you already have a Veeam Backup Server fully working in your environment.

Method:

1. Open the Inventory view. Click the Physical Infrastructure node in the inventory pane and click Create Protection Group in the working area.
2. At the Name step, specify a name and description for the protection group. Click Next.
3. At the Type step select the Individual computers option.
4. 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.
5. 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 automatically 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 Auto-update backup agent check box is selected
   • Select the Install changed block tracking driver on Windows Server OS check box if you want to install the advanced CBT driver on servers protected with Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows.
6. 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.
7. 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

Links to Resources:

• Veeam Guides and Helpcenter
• Veeam Community Forums
• Veeam Best Practices

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