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Recipe: Installing I/O Filter for CDP

Expected deliverables:

CDP I/O filters installed in each cluster where the VMs that you plan to protect reside and where VM replicas will reside.

Time to complete: 5 minutes

Ingredients:

VMware vSphere edition must be VMware vSphere Standard Edition or higher. Minimum ESXi version required is 6.5 U2.
vCenter Server is required. Standalone ESXi hosts are not supported.
Backup server, VMware CDP proxies, vCenter Server and ESXi hosts must be able to resolve each other DNS names.
All hosts in a cluster must be of the same major version: 7.x or 6.x.
The target cluster must support hardware versions of VMs on the source cluster (VMs that you plan to protect)

Before you start:

CDP I/O filters will be automatically deployed by Veeam into the selected vSphere cluster.

Assumptions:

It’s assumed that you already have a Veeam Backup Server fully working in your environment. If you need to install Veeam Backup Server, please refer to “Installing Veeam Backup & Replication All-In-One Base system” recipe.

Method:

Open the Veeam Backup & Replication Console.
Open the Backup Infrastructure view. In the inventory pane, navigate to the Managed Servers > VMware vSphere > vCenter Servers > node and right-click it. Select Manage I/O filters.
At the Clusters step of the wizard, select check boxes near clusters on which you want to install I/O filter. If you select check boxes near clusters where the filters are already installed, Veeam Backup & Replication will update the filters. If you clear check boxes, Veeam Backup & Replication will delete the I/O filter from these clusters. Click in Next.
At the Apply step of the wizard, wait till Veeam Backup & Replication installs I/O filter. Click Next.
At the Summary step of the wizard, review on which clusters I/O filter is installed and click Finish to exit the wizard

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