Specifying Preferred Networks for Veeam Plug-ins in Managed Mode

You can specify networks over which Veeam Plug-ins in managed mode must transport data when you perform data protection and disaster recovery tasks on remote backup repositories. This setting applies only to Veeam Plug-ins network traffic, without affecting the data traffic of other Veeam Backup & Replication components. Setting a dedicated network for Veeam Plug-ins backup and replication operations can help to reduce heavy network loads.

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By default, if there are no specified preferred networks for Veeam Plug-in data traffic, Veeam Plug-in will connect to preferred networks specified in Veeam Backup & Replication. To learn more about setting preferred networks in Veeam Backup & Replication, see the Specifying Preferred Networks section in the Veeam Backup & Replication User Guide.
Veeam Plug-in does not save information about failed network connections. If backup or restore operations fail, Veeam Plug-in tries to connect to the following network from the preferred networks list to finish the started operations. Regardless of the first unsuccessful connection, Veeam Plug-in will try to perform the next backup operations first on the failed network.
Veeam Plug-in network preferences take priority over Veeam Backup & Replication network preferences. Only if the preferred networks for Veeam Plug-in data traffic are not available for any reason, Veeam Plug-in will try to connect to the Veeam Backup & Replication preferred networks.

To specify networks for data transfer, you must create a list of preferred networks. When Veeam Plug-in needs to transfer data, it uses networks from this list. If a connection over any of the preferred networks cannot be established for any reason, Veeam Plug-in will automatically fail over to the following network from the preferred networks list.

For more information on creating and managing the list of preferred networks that specific Veeam Plug-ins will use, see the following sections: