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name: vmwaresolutions-veeam-bms-archi-intro
title: Veeam on bare metal server introduction
description: As of 17 July 2025, new automated installations of Red Hat® OpenShift® for VMware® are no longer available for new or existing deployments of VMware Cloud Foundation for Classic - Automated instances. You can still use or delete your existing Red Hat OpenShift for VMware automated installations until 16 July 2026. The service will no longer be available from 17 July 2026.
last-updated: 2025-10-24
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> ## Documentation Index
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> Use these files to discover more information as needed.

# Veeam on bare metal server introduction
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As of 17 July 2025, new automated installations of Red Hat® OpenShift® for VMware® are no longer available for new or existing deployments of VMware Cloud Foundation for Classic - Automated instances. You can still use or delete your existing Red Hat OpenShift for VMware automated installations until 16 July 2026. The service will no longer be available from 17 July 2026.
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The Veeam® on bare metal server for IBM Cloud® for VMware Solutions service can be used as a dedicated and all-in-one backup solution for VMware Cloud Foundation for Classic - Automated instances or Regulated Workloads.

The Veeam on bare metal server solution is built on standard IBM Cloud bare metal servers. The servers have a dedicated compute and dedicated local storage. This solution provides a backup infrastructure that is physically isolated from other IBM Cloud Storage services.

The solution uses Direct Attached Storage (DAS), that is, local SATA disks with RAID 6 attached to the bare metal server, as the Storage Repository for backups. For scaling up, customers can add more proxy servers to the solution to add backup capacity and performance. They can also use IBM Cloud Object Storage together with Veeam's scale-out backup repository functions for redundancy (copying backups) or long-term retention (offload backups).

## Related links
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* [Veeam Backup and Replication](https://www.veeam.com/products/veeam-data-platform/backup-recovery.html?ad=menu-products){: external}
* [Veeam Help Center technical documentation](https://helpcenter.veeam.com/?ad=menu-resources){: external}