Is it supported to protect/replicate a VCSA 7.x VM with Veeam Replication?

[MJMSRI]

Hi All, 

I am aware of VCHA for VCSA however in this instance we are looking to utilize Veeam Replication for protection of VMs to a 2nd Site and want to know if VMware support this?

So could the VCSA 7.x with embedded PSC be replicated to a 2nd site with Veeam Replication and is that supported?

The searches i have seen show the below where @depping covered this years ago allude to this NOT being supported however now we have the VCSA maybe this is supported?

https://www.yellow-bricks.com/2012/09/21/can-i-protect-my-vcenter-server-with-vsphere-replication/

[depping]

I don't know if Veeam supports it, I was purely talking about vSphere Replication...

[sjesse]

Doesn't veeam use vcenter in the replication process, you can't really restore a vm when that vm is required for the restore process to work. The vsphere replication on "works" but isn't really a process you would want to go with, your better off restoring a backup and then trying a command-line heavy restore process.

[MJMSRI]

@depping ok, so does vsphere replication support this now?

[depping]

not that I know.

[Ajay1988]

https://www.veeam.com/kb2443

https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backup/vsphere/platform_support.html?ver=110

I don't know whether it is supported by Veeam or vSphere Replication. But I don't see any harm with that as it should just consider VC as a VM.

Problem would be how to recover it ; if VC is actually down. May be this can work if I have 2 VC's and 2 vSphere Replication(VR) and the VC and VR VM is under the other VC inventory . Just a thought . 💭

NOTE: vCenter HA(vCHA) protects the vCSA against host and hardware failures and is not a disaster recovery product such as Site Recovery Manager and VMware vSphere Replication.

[VMG27]

Hi all

Basically you are able to replicate the vCenter and as well to recover it. 

Now it's important to know what needs to be done.

It's a permanent failover to the replica? Because your vCenter is broken? 

It's just a test to test the replica? That one is a little bit tricky. Because at that moment you will poweroff your vCenter and do the failover. After your test you would like to "Failback to production". That means that Veeam will create a Snapshot and commit it to the production VM. This operation needs a working vCenter, unless you add all ESX Hosts and point the Restore to a specific ESX Host where the powered off vCenter resides.

Regards

Giuseppe