Veeam Backup FREE Edition question

[Sonic007]

So I hear everyone raving on about Veeam.

I've got the free edition so there are bound to be some limitations.

 

Those of you who use the free edition...

 

Can I backup my 2 HyperV VM's and host using Veeam?

 

Is it quite straight forward?

 

 

many thanks,

 

Have a good weekend.

[Guest Guest]

The community edition is limited to 10 VMs and there are several other limitations. We're using it to backup 8 VMs over 2 HyperV hosts and it works fine, however we will be upgrading to a paid edition in April as we're going to be using Cloud Connect

[sparkeh]

If you are using the free version then make sure you take a look at the Powershell module as it extends the functionality a lot.

[willtech]

So you have 10 licences built in. VMs take up one licence if you backup a physical server it takes 3 licences as far as I am aware. With what you have said you would still have 5 licences left to play with.

[Sonic007]

Thanks everyone.

 

Ive just been experimenting with it.

 

For some reason I seem to be able to add the HyperV servers and it goes off and adds the Veeam files to those servers and adds Firewall rules.

 

However when I go to start a new backup job, I input the servers IP address, get to the credetials bit, and then it fails saying either wrong server name or wrong credentials, yet these are the credentials I used earlier to add Veeam to the clients.

 

Veeam is sitting on the host non-domain machine and I want to backup it's hyper V servers.

 

 

Where am I going wrong?

 

 

Thanks for the help.

Edited February 10, 2020 by Sonic007

[kmount]

Hi there,

 

If I’m reading your post correctly it’s expecting a domain account to talk to the individual vms it backs up.

 

Sounds like you’ve added the hyper v hosts using local administrator account which is fine, and you’re on the application consistent backup page in the wizard where it wants credentials to talk to the vms.

 

To confirm you could untick that box and it’ll do crash consistent backups which don’t need to talk to the individual vms. Only good for testing though you definitely want application consistent backups (vss in windows).