Before You Begin

Before you create an application group, consider the following:

• A valid license for Enterprise edition of Veeam Backup & Replication must be installed on the backup server.
• All applications and services on which verified machines are dependent must be virtualized in your environment.
• If you plan to scan machines data for malware, check requirements and limitations.
• If you plan to verify machines with a ping test, the firewall on tested machine must allow ping requests.
• If you plan to verify machines with a heartbeat test, VMware Tools must be installed in tested machines.

• If backup file that is used to add the machine to an application group cannot be found, Veeam Backup & Replication will search for other backup files containing this machine.

• VM replicas must be in the Ready state. If a VM replica is in the Failover or Failback state, you will not be able to add it to the application group.
• You cannot add to application groups VMs from backups of VMware Cloud Director VMs, backups created with backup copy jobs and backups stored in Cloud Connect backup repositories.

• [For storage snapshots] The storage system must be added to the backup infrastructure.