Deploying Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows
To deploy Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows using Veeam Deployment Kit, perform the following steps:
- On the Veeam Backup & Replication side, create and export Veeam Deployment Kit. You can do that in the following ways:
- Using PowerShell:
- Start a Veeam PowerShell session. For more information, see the Starting Veeam PowerShell Sessions in the Veeam PowerShell Reference.
- Run the Generate-VBRBackupServerDeployerKit cmdlet to generate the Veeam Installer Service temporary certificates and Veeam Installer Service and OpenSSL installation packages. Use the -AllPlatforms parameter to download setup files for Microsoft Windows computers. To learn more, see the Generate-VBRBackupServerDeployerKit section in the Veeam PowerShell Reference.
- Using Veeam Backup & Replication console:
- Open the Inventory view.
- Click the Physical and Cloud Infrastructure node in the inventory pane and click Create Veeam Deployment Kit on the ribbon. Alternatively, right-click the Physical and Cloud Infrastructure node in the inventory pane and select Create Veeam Deployment Kit.
- In the Create Deployment Kit window, specify a path to the folder to which Veeam Backup & Replication will export Veeam Installer Service temporary certificates, Veeam Installer Service and OpenSSL installation packages.
- Upload the obtained files to the computer that you want to protect.
- On the Veeam Agent computer side, install the uploaded files. You can do this in one of the following ways:
- Automatically, using a script provided with the installation files. To use this deployment option, navigate to the directory where you have saved the files on the computer and run the InstallDeploymentKit.bat script.
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You may need to modify the script according to your system configuration. |
- Manually:
- Navigate to the directory where you have saved the files on the computer, open the Windows subfolder and install OpenSSL and Veeam Installer Service.
- Navigate to the directory where you have saved the files on the computer, open the Certificates subfolder and install the certificates:
C:\Windows\Veeam\Backup\VeeamDeploymentSvc.exe --install-server-certificate /path/to/server-cert.pem --key /path/to/server-key.pem C:\Windows\Veeam\Backup\VeeamDeploymentSvc.exe --install-certificate /path/to/client-cert.pem |
- Restart Veeam Installer Service:
net stop VeeamDeploySvc net start VeeamDeploySvc |
- On the Veeam Backup & Replication side, create a protection group with the following parameters:
- At the Type step of the wizard, select Individuals computers.
- At the Computers step of the wizard, specify a computer and select the Connect using certificate-based authentication method to connect to the computer.
To learn more, see Creating Protection Group for Individual Computers.
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You can also find detailed instructions on the Veeam Agent deployment in the readme.txt file that is available among the setup files generated by Veeam Backup & Replication. |
After you create the protection group, Veeam Backup & Replication will rescan the protection group. During the rescan operation, Veeam Backup & Replication will replace the Veeam Deployer Service temporary certificate, connect to the Veeam Deployer Service and install Veeam Agent. To learn more, see Rescan Job.