The Veeam Cookbook Series
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Recipe: Adding a HPE Nimble Storage
Expected deliverables:
A HPE Nimble Storage added to Veeam Inventory, which can be used as source for VMware vSphere backups and restores from storage snapshots.
Time to complete: 10 minutes
Ingredients:
- A VMware Proxy Server already available in Veeam Infrastructure with FibreChannel or iSCSI access to the storage system
- An enterprise storage system with HPE Nimble Storage volumes used for VMware datastores.
- A user account with Administrator or Power User permissions on the HPE Nimble storage system.
Assumptions:
You have a Veeam Backup and Replication server installed. The iSCSI or FibreChannel connectivity between the storage system and Veeam Proxy is established.
Method:
- Open the Veeam Backup & Replication Console and select the Storage Infrastructure view on the left side.
- Click on Add Storage and select Hewlett Packard Enterprise and select HPE Nimble on the second page of the wizard.
- In the name step:
- Enter the DNS name or IP address of a HPE Nimble storage system.
- Select the checkbox for Block or file storage for VMware vSphere. Click Next.
- Click on Add… to provide credentials for the storage system or select exisiting credentials from the Credentials list. Click Next.
- In the VMware vSphere step:
- Make sure the iSCSI or FibreChannel protocol is selected.
- Click on Choose… at the backup proxies to use and select one or multiple proxies with access to the storage system.
- From the Mount Server list, select a server that you want to use as a mount server for file-level and application items restore. Click Apply.
- View the log and click Next if all is completed successfully.
- Review the summary and click Finish to finalize the task and let the proxy start a rescan of the storage system.
- View the rescan log and click Close when finished.
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