Let’s take a look at configuring Veeam Virtual Appliance Mode for VMware vSAN as this is the recommended configuration for backing up virtual machines on vSAN using Veeam. With Veeam Virtual Appliance Mode we can backup VMware vSAN virtual machines much more efficiently. Veeam has a backup proxy configuration called Virtual Appliance Mode. There are some considerations to be made when thinking about backups of vSAN using data protection solutions such as Veeam to backup vSAN.
When backing up VMware vSAN, data protection solutions can still take advantage of VMware vSphere Storage APIs – Data Protection as they do backing up virtual machines from any type of VMware storage as it is storage agnostic.