Veeam Backup & Replication • Veeam lab on vmware workstation?

Hi there

I would like to build a lab environment for Veeam vmce study. Unfortunately I have no dedicated lab equipment but I do have a workstation with 64 GB of RAM. I was thinking of doing this in VMware workstation. Anyone tried this that can put me in right direction?

I am thinking of setting up nested esxi. Earlier on I created a VM with VBR and another VM as backup target (directly on workstation, not nested) but that did not work. The VBR blue screened on me

I am thinking of creating

-Windows 2022 DC/DNS
-Windows 2022 VBR
-Nested ESXi which will host small windows and Linux VM.
-Another Nested ESXi so I can do failover etc

Cheers

Statistics: Posted by Gravelrider — Mar 31, 2025 5:37 am

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