Hi all
We are looking to purchase Veeam Backup & Replication Enterprise for Hyper-V to backup our Hyper-V infrastructure (4 VM's) and I was wondering what spec of machine anyone with previous Veeam experience would recommend it be installed on.
The Veeam recommended system requirements are as follows
CPU: x86-64 processor.
Memory: 4 GB RAM plus 500 MB RAM for each concurrent job.
Disk Space: 2 GB for product installation. 10 GB per 100 VM for guest file system catalog folder (persistent data). Sufficient free disk space for Instant VM Recovery cache folder (non-persistent data, at least 10 GB recommended).
Network: 1 Gbps LAN for on-site backup and replication, and 1 Mbps WAN for off-site backup and replication recommended. High latency and reasonably unstable WAN links are supported.
I was wondering if I should give the machine more memory? I was thinking 8GB but didn't know if the 500MB was a minimum per concurrent job.
Additional network cards?
SSD for the OS and Veeam install?
The machine I am thinking about is just a standard desktop with Server 2012 R2 installed (to take advantage of de-dupe). Would I be best backing everything up straight to an iSCSI connection on our Synology NAS box or have enough storage locally and backup the VM's to the Veeam backup box and then replicate to the NAS once complete?
Any help appreciated.