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I will use the virtual appliance to backup the server.
I want to separate the traffic using the service and backup networks.
1. Can the virtual appliance have two IP addresses ?

2. Does the virtual machine need to be able to communicate with the backup destination NAS ?

I know that the physical server needs to be able to communicate with the backup NAS.

 

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Hi,

1. You can simply add a new virtual NIC to virtual appliance from vSphere client: right-click on appliance->edit settings->add NIC (select vmxnet3 type) and connect it to required virtual network. After that configure the NIC IP settings in the appliance console GUI: see screen shot where both NICs are configured. After that simply configure the backup location in backup task and point it to NAS using it's IP from desired network. There is no possibility to assign multiple IP addresses to the same NIC interface in appliance (though I'm quite unsure how this would solve backup traffic separation problem, as even with 2 IPs it would still go through the same NIC).

2. No - the backed up VM doesn't have to communicate with the backup destination. The backup destination must be accessible only from the agent which performs the VM backup/restore operations (appliance in this case), since it's agent-less concept.

Thank you.

Hi, Vasily.

The reply was delayed. Because Japan was a long vacation.

What I did not understand was settled.

I will actually set it and try backing up.

Thank you.