Backup Solution using Veeam?

Hi there,

First of all, i'm sorry for my poor english writing skills. I hope you can understand me.

We are planning to use Veeam Backup as our backup solution and I recieved a proposal from a member of the IT team.

Currently, we have an only ESXi host with some VM's installed, MS and Linux. Our intention is using that hardware only, creating a VM for each server we need.

The proposal is; virtualize the Backup Server in the same hardware. I never applied such a solution and it makes me doubt about it.

I did always use a different hardware to take control of the backup tasks.

Could this proposal work properly or it's not recommended? And why?

I'll appreciate the answers.

Thanks!