In many small environments that are already using some kind of Ethernet based storage, an iSCSI volume presented to the Veeam server in a VM, and formatted using ReFS is a common configuration.īut it has the problem that if the Veeam server is compromised so is the backup storage. ISCSI offers some better options depending on how you connect it and to what. In the first case, SMB is the least efficient method for Veeam and also the least secure. Use the NAS to share an iSCSI volume to a backup server Use the NAS as it was originally designed and use SMB or NFS file shares to store backups. The scenarios that I see most often are : On top of that, the NAS suppliers are moving upmarket and now have very credible rack-mounted options that can handle a lot of disks and are available with 10GbE and 25GbE networking. In the wild I see a lot of smaller and mid-sized organisations using Synology or QNAP NAS boxes as the storage for their backup repositories as they are significantly less expensive than their “enterprise” counterparts and you can use disks from any supplier and not have to pay the exorbitant markup from. Veeam has done some really good work on the implementation of hardened backup repositories to help protect against advanced ransomware attackers that go after backups as well as primary data.
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