Evaluation design
In case you prefer to evaluate the solution and its functionality before implementing in production, you can go for a Single-Server installation. This design does not follow the best practices, but it allows you to check out the solution’s capabilities and UI. Do not turn this evaluation design into a production design. Instead start over with a proper production deployment.
In a production environment, the recommended deployment is to spread out the different roles/services onto different servers. This way we can balance the load and add more resources to specific components when needed.
Order of deployment and dependencies
VSPC uses the tunneling technology of Veeam Cloud Connect (VCC) to create secure connections over public networks to the remote components such as Veeam Agents and Veeam Backup & Replication servers. Even if VSPC is only used for remote monitoring or licensing, VCC needs to be deployed.
The different components should be installed in the following order:
- Veeam Backup & Replication (with a Cloud Connect license)
- Veeam Service Provider Console
Database choice
Starting from v12, VCC can also use PostgreSQL as a database engine. Therefore in a Single-server deployment, VCC will be deployed with the default PostgreSQL and VSPC with the default MSSQL Express.
Veeam Cloud Connect (VCC)
Components
Similar to VSPC, all VCC components can be installed on a single Windows machine. This will combine all of the following components onto the same machine:
- Database Server
- VCC Server
- VCC Cloud Gateway
Veeam Service Provider Console (VSPC)
Web traffic from remote clients destined to the VSPC Web UI should ideally come in on TCP port 443 and be forwarded internally to the VSPC Server on TCP port 1280.
Backup traffic from remote clients destined for VCC comes in by default on TCP port 6180 on the VCC Cloud Gateway(s) (unless changed).
Components
This will combine all of the following components onto the same machine:
- Database Server
- VSPC Server
- VSPC Web UI
Design
The Single-Server design has two Windows machines (VSPC and VCC), each hosting all of the minimum required components.
