Part 2: VEEAM Backup and Replication v6 setup and config (Installation steps)

This is part 2 of a 5 series post on VEEAM installation and configuration. In this section, I will show the installation steps for VEEAM Backup and Replication v6.

Read my other posts on this topic:-
Part 1 (Introduction and Pre-requisites)
Part 3 (VEEAM Configuration)

Part 4 (VEEAM Backup job creation)
Part 5 (VEEAM Troubleshooting performance issues)

In this guide, I installed VEEAM on a Windows Server 2008 R2 virtual machine. The client wanted to save the cost of a physical server, plus they did not had many VMs to be backed'up so I guessed that a VM would suffice their needs. (In the part 5 of this series I will show you the performance issues that I faced while running VEEAM on a VM and the steps that I took to resolve them.)


1. Double click the Veeam_Backup_Setup_x64.

2. Click next to start the installation.

3. Accept the license agreement.

4. Enter the path of the license file.

5. Select the options that you want to install.

6. Select the options for SQL database installation. I went with the default option to install a new database.

7. Specify the VEEAM Backup and Replication service account settings. This account should be a member of local administrators group on the local server and it would have the database owner rights to the VEEAM Backup and Replication database.

8. Specify the location for Catalog and vPower NFS data. vPower NFS folder is used to hold any changes that will be written any time you have Instant Restored VM's. Generally 50-100 GB of free disk space is recommended.

9. Click Next and on the next window, click Install to begin installation.

10. Click Finish to complete the installation.

This completes the VEEAM installation steps. Next, we will configure the newly installed VEEAM software.

Click here to go to Part 3 (VEEAM Configuration)