Before You Begin

Before you create and start a SureBackup job, check the following prerequisites:

• A valid license for Enterprise Edition of Veeam Backup & Replication must be installed on the backup server.
• All applications and services on which verified VMs are dependent must be virtualized in your environment.
• The ESX(i) host on which you plan to deploy a virtual lab must have a VMkernel interface. Otherwise the vPower NFS datastore will not be mounted on the ESX(i) host. For more information, see Veeam vPower NFS Service.
• If you plan to verify VMs with a ping test, the firewall on tested VMs must allow ping requests.
• If you plan to verify VMs with a heartbeat test, VMware Tools must be installed in tested VMs.
• If you plan to use the advanced multi-host networking mode for VM replicas verification, you must configure a DVS beforehand. For more information, see Advanced Multi-Host Virtual Labs.
• [For storage snapshots] The storage system must be added to the backup infrastructure.

Mind the following limitations:

• Verified VM replicas must be in the Normal state. If a VM replica is in the Failover or Failback state, you will not be able to verify it with the SureBackup job.
• Veeam Backup & Replication does not perform SureBackup verification for backups of vCloud Director VMs, backups created with backup copy jobs and backups stored on cloud repositories. You cannot add VMs from such backups to application groups or link such backups to SureBackup jobs.
• The source backup or replication job has a higher priority than the SureBackup job. If the source backup or replication job starts when the SureBackup job is running, and this job is about to modify the restore point from which the VM is started, Veeam Backup & Replication automatically powers off VMs in the virtual lab and completes the SureBackup job.