How to improve performance and reliability with Veeam Gateway Server

When you are working in Medium/Large environments one of the issues that face every IT Department is how can backup and replicate Servers and files to remote locations with best performance and reliability.

Lot of times we use Backup Applications that can do the jobs that we want but the performance is less than optimal.

The result is when we want to take advantage of a DR Site or Backups from Remote Location most of the times is useless because of performance issues.

Offline backups is also one of my issues in every customer because of the time that takes to be complete.

Evert Backup Software has different way to take Backups in offline location.

Today i would like to explain how can improve performance when we have to take Backup Offline in Remote Location with Veeam Backup & Replication 9.5.

Let's start

Scenario

Let's talk with Real Scenario that face.

I have 2 Location

Production Environment
Disaster Recover Site
QNAP Nas for Monthly Yearly Backups in Disaster Recovery Site

Connection between 2 Sites with Line 10Mbps

Problem

Veeam Backup Copy every month for 35 Virtual Servers.

Ports that will be used in Firewall

These are the ports that must be open in Firewalls to work correct with this infrastructure.

From HYPER-V Host to Veeam Backup Server and Veeam Gateway Server

Dynamic RPC Ports

From HYPER-V Host to Backup Repository

Tcp ports 135,137,139,445

From Veeam Backup Server to HYPER-V Host must be open

Tcp ports 6162,6163,6160
Dynamic RPC Ports
Tcp port range 2500-5000

From Veeam Backup Server to Gateway Server

Tcp port range 2500-5000
Tcp ports 6162,6160

From Veeam Backup Server to Backup Repository

Tcp ports 135,137,139,445

From Veeam Gateway Server to HYPER-V Host must be open

Tcp port range 2500-5000

From Veeam Gateway Server to Backup Repository must be open

Tcp port range 2500-5000
Tcp ports 135,137,139,445

From Backup Repository to HYPER-V Host

Tcp port range 2500-5000

Setup Veeam Backup Job

With Veeam Backup & Replication if you want to have Month/Yearly Backups you can use the Backup Copy Jobs to Keep Restore points as full backups.

Open Veeam Backup& Replication Console
From the Menu select Backup Job - - Microsoft Hyper-v
Type your Job Name and click Next

Click Add to select the Virtual Machine that you want.

Leave the Backup Proxy as it.
Select the Backup Repository that install above and click Next.

Click in Advance Button
Select Storage Tab.
Change the Storage Optimization to WAN Target

You will get a Warning related with Gateway Server. Click OK .

Do any change that want for the Backup if you must enable application-aware-processing. The VM that will backup don't need to enable anything of this feature. So I will click Next.

Schedule your backup and click Apply

Click Finish to create the Backup Job.

Now let's run the Backup Job and monitoring the performance without Gateway Server.

Improve Performance with Gateway Server

After finish the Backup Job without Gateway Server let's try to setup a Veeam Gateway Server to see the results

Before proceed you must already create a new Windows Server 2012 R2 or have ready a Server to install the componets of Veeam to enable the Gateway Server

Select Backup Infrastructure
Click Add Server from the Top Menu

Select Microsoft Windows

Type the Ip Address of the Server that will use as Gateway Server.

Add the Credentials of the Server. Click Next.

Now you can see that Veeam will install some componets in the Windows Server. Click Apply
Wait to finish the installation and click Finish.

Now from the left side click Backup Repositories

Select with right click the Repository that you have for your Backup and click Properties
Select Share from the left side
In Gateway Server add the Server that will install before.
Click Finish