PowerShell Script to Deploy Veeam Backup & Replication

In this blog post, I will show you how you can deploy Veeam Backup & Replication 9.5 with Update 3 to a virtual machine. This is a really handy little script because it can help you get Veeam going in your lab in a snap. The basic steps to accomplish this are as follows.

1. Create a virtual machine running Windows Server 2016. In my case, I created a Hyper-V VM called Management01.

2. Download a copy of Veeam Backup & Replication and prepare either an already existing license file or request a trial one from the same download page.

3. In our case, we stored both files in F:Temp1.

4. Grab a copy of the PowerShell script from my GitHub repository and save it to the same F:Temp1 location.

5. Open an Administrative PowerShell Prompt and change the path to F:temp1. Then type Import-Module .Install-Veeam-HyperV.PS1 -Force -Verbose and press Enter. This will load the Install-Veeam Module, which we will use to deploy Veeam to our lab.

6. Type Install-Veeam -VMName Management01 -GuestOSName -Management01 -VMPath F:dcbuild_test and run it.

7. On the Please Select the Veeam 9.5 UR3 ISO window, browse to F:temp1VeeamBackup&Replication_9.5.0.1535.Update3.iso. 

8. On the Please Select the Veeam License File window, browse to your license file prepared at step 2. In my case, I used my Veeam NFR license.

At this point it is time to sit back and relax as the next steps will happen automatically:

Your finished product will look just like this:

I hope you enjoyed this post, and please feel free to update my code and use it in your lab. As always, happy learning!

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Dave Kawula is an Enterprise Consultant, Technology Evangelist, Best Selling Author and all-around geek. He loves Microsoft Technology and is considered one of the best in his field. He holds over 50 + Microsoft Certifications and is also a Microsoft MVP. Dave is also a Senior Technical Evangelist for 5nine Software, Veeam Vanguard, and Nutanix NTC. He can be followed on Twitter.