Step 4. Set Up Proxy Appliance

At the Proxy step of the wizard, configure the proxy appliance settings.

1. Select the Use proxy appliance in this virtual lab check box to enable automatic recovery verification of VMs. The proxy appliance acts as a gateway that provides access from the backup server to VMs in the virtual lab. If you do not select this check box, during recovery verification Veeam Backup & Replication will only start VMs in the virtual lab and perform the heartbeat test for VMs. You will have to manually test VMs or perform manual item-level restore using the VM console.
2. By default, the proxy appliance uses the virtual lab name that you have specified at the Name step of the wizard. If you want to change a name of the proxy appliance, a production network or production network VLAN ID, click Edit and specify the necessary settings.
3. Click Configure and select a production network in which the proxy appliance will be created. Select IPv4 or IPv6 or use both. Specify an IP address for the proxy appliance in the production network and settings of the DNS server to be used. You can choose to automatically obtain an IP address and DNS server settings or set them manually.

4. If you want to let VMs in the virtual lab access the internet, select the Allow proxy appliance to act as internet proxy for virtual machines in this lab check box. In the Port field, specify a port for HTTP traffic. By default, port 8080 is used. In the Production proxy field, you can optionally specify an IP address or a fully qualified domain name of an Internet-facing proxy server that VMs must use to access the Internet.
5. Adjust proxy settings in the Internet options on every VM that you plan to start in the virtual lab. To do this, on the VM open Internet Options > Connections > LAN Settings > Proxy server and specify the IP address of the proxy appliance on the isolated network and port number.