Considerations and Limitations

When you plan to use Veeam Plug-in for HPE Morpheus VM Essentials, keep in mind the following limitations and considerations.

Configuration

When configuring Veeam Plug-in for HPE Morpheus VM Essentials, consider the following:

• The HPE Morpheus VME manager must be able to establish a direct IP connection to the backup server. Connections through NAT gateways are not supported.

• After you make changes to your HPE Morpheus VM Essentials environment (for example, you migrate a VM between cluster nodes), these changes may not appear in Veeam Backup & Replication immediately — the data synchronization process between the backup server and the HPE Morpheus VME manager may take up to 15 minutes to complete. You can speed up the data synchronization process by rescanning the HPE Morpheus VME manager.

Backup Repositories

When managing backup repositories, consider that Veeam Plug-in for HPE Morpheus VM Essentials does not support storing backups in HPE Cloud Bank Storage repositories. However, you can use them for storing copies of backups created with Veeam Plug-in for HPE Morpheus VM Essentials.

Workers

When configuring workers, consider the following:

• Veeam Plug-in for HPE Morpheus VM Essentials requires at least one worker deployed in the same cluster where protected VMs reside.
• Worker images are stored in the default storage.
• Veeam Plug-in for HPE Morpheus VM Essentials does not support the 3PAR and HPE Alletra Block Storage Bare Meta datastore type for storing system files of workers.

Backup

When protecting HPE Morpheus VM Essentials resources, consider the following:

• Veeam Plug-in for HPE Morpheus VM Essentials does not support VM replication.
• If you choose to use the HPE Morpheus VM Essentials quiescence functionality in backup job settings, Veeam Plug-in for HPE Morpheus VM Essentials requires the QEMU Guest Agent to be installed on protected VMs beforehand.

Restore

When restoring HPE Morpheus VM Essentials resources, consider the following:

• Veeam Plug-in for HPE Morpheus VM Essentials does not support entire restore of a HPE Morpheus VM Essentials VM to the original location if the original instance exists in the cluster in the Locked state.