Installing the new Veeam Software Appliance v13

By Tomica Kaniski in Other 0 Comment

It’s finally here – the Veeam Software Appliance, v13!

 

What is it?

A simple to deploy, hardened Veeam instance, which is not installed on Windows anymore, but comes with it’s own (Rocky) Linux – everything packed in a nice software appliance!

Very nice!

 

Naturally, should be installed ASAP! 🙂

 

Installation

So, without actually reading the manual, I went and installed it in my lab (that’s how easy is to start with it!). There will be plenty of time to read the manual once issues start… right?!

Installation has a few steps:

  • obtain the installation ISO image from here (or from your account page):
    • be careful to select Linux appliance, and not the Windows installation ISO

  • prepare hardware to install it to – for me, it’s a Windows Server 2025 Hyper-V VM (4 vCPU, 18 GB RAM, 2×240 GB HDD, SecureBoot (MS UEFI CA) enabled):
    • check the requirements here

  • once you selected and prepared your hardware, you can start the installation – it looks like this:

  • in case you didn’t read the hardware requirements, you may face this error (so, go back, re-read the hardware requirements and update your hardware):

  • and after this question, the (automatic) installation proceeds, with no more inputs required from your side:
    • while waiting for it to install, I recommend you take a look at the nice, shiny, new What’s new document!

  • installation took ~35 minutes on my machine

 

Initial configuration

After the automatic installation finished, there are a couple of initial settings that have to be taken care of:

  • accepting the necessary agreements:

  • assigning a hostname
  • setting up networking
  • configuring time source
  • setting up passwords for the admin accounts (Host Administrator and (optionally) Security Officer):
    • really liked the process of setting up the MFA for host administrator here (as SO is optional, MFA for this account will be setup later, inside the web interface)!
    • don’t use passwords that are too short… or the same! 😁

  • summary:

And… that’s it! Veeam is installed and initially configured, and now you can access it via browser:

  • host management at https://<vsa-ip-address>:10443/

  • Veeam Backup & Replication web interface https://<vsa-ip-address>/
    • (or just use the Windows console for full experience)

What a nice installation experience! Well done, Veeam people! 👏

Of course, next I’ll install my license, add rest of the infrastructure, setup my backup jobs, and connect it to (Veeam One) monitoring.

After all, it’s a “normal” Veeam solution we already know and work with.

Cheers!

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