What is the Virtual Lab and how is it configured?

The virtual lab is an isolated virtual environment in which Veeam Backup & Replication verifies VMs. In the virtual lab, Veeam Backup & Replication starts VMs from the application group and the verified VM. The virtual lab is used not only for the SureBackup verification procedure, but also for U-AIR, On-Demand Sandbox and staged restore.

The virtual lab itself does not require that you provision extra resources for it. However, VMs running in the virtual lab consume CPU and memory resources of the ESXi host where the virtual lab is deployed. All VM changes that take place during recovery verification are written to redo log files. By default, Veeam Backup & Replication stores redo logs on the datastore selected in the virtual lab settings and removes redo logs after the recovery process is complete.

The virtual lab is fully fenced off from the production environment. The network configuration of the virtual lab mirrors the network configuration of the production environment. For example, if verified VMs and VMs from the application group are located in two logical networks in the production environment, the virtual lab will also have two networks. The networks in the virtual lab will be mapped to corresponding production networks.

VMs in isolated networks have the same IP addresses as in the production network. This lets VMs in the virtual lab function just as if they function in the production environment. For SureBackup recovery verification, Veeam Backup & Replication offers two types of the virtual lab configuration:Basic single-host virtual lab & Advanced single-host virtual lab.

[benjensen]

This was a great video man thank you. You very simply explained away all of the fears a less experienced user would have.


Give this man a raise!

[RudolfPezzei]

thank you - so clear articulated! Pleasure to watch and learn!

[thuyhang]

Character In the video It's great, I like it a lot $$

[davidtuttle]

11:39 would be nice to see an example on screen along with the explanation. I think I get it, but want verification.

[radekn]

All great but Veeam while testing ex ping is directly asking IP behind proxy so all in all you need to add at firewall rule to access this network from VBR server. So for what is proxy?

[bujivf]

5:54 Please tell that the Lab Proxy VM must stay in the Same Network as your Veeam Server! That took my hours to find out!