Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 NATS Server

The NATS server is a message broker for proxies, proxy pools and controller. It builds processing queues and maintains operational streams for jobs, sessions and more. It can be running on a Linux or Windows host where we’ve a prefference for a Linux installation

NATS can be set up as a single node or in a cluster configuration. The basic setup is installing the NATS service alongside with the Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 Server services, but it might be required to deploy it in an advanced way for larger environments. For advice on deciding for a dedicated NATS server, please see the sizing page.

Think of the following when deciding for a NATS solution:

• Use a single node for performance optimization.
• Use a 3-node cluster for redundancy and accept a possible performance reduction.

Per default the NATS server does not use TLS encryption. It is recommended to enable TLS to enhance the security: Helpcenter

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