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Hi ladies,great news, to share today Veeam Vanguard nominations for the 2026 class are open, and because I am determined to change the face of IT 😅 I would love to see some of you applying!If you are a Veeam enthusiast who is passionate about our products, and you publish content on your channels (blog, youtube, vlog, etc) and wants to develop their knowledge and expertise, this is your opportunity to be involved in the Community.There are many benefits, for being part of this selected group. Veeam Vanguards gain early access to beta products, with the opportunity to test them and share feedback with our development teams. Members also have access to our product strategy and product management teams. Participate at the Veeam100 Exclusive, monthly, 90-minute, product-focused sessions with technologists, CTOs, product owners, and analysts from product management as well as Veeam Global Alliance Partners.And of course participating to the Veeam 100 Summit!Few days ago I also described my

Anyone can help me to resolve this issue.   

I try to connecting the SMB server to as VBO repository and always access denied, even i can write to the SMB folder using windows explorer.In this article KB2971: How to add SMB repository to Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 i can see we must computer name authentication on the share permission,In my case the SMB server and VBO server is not joined to the domain, both of machines is standalone.Anyone here know how we can use the SMB fo repository?

Hi Community, During Veeam Agent backup, you may see: Collecting recovery media files. Details: Windows recovery image file not found This means Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE) is missing or disabled. Solution: Work for me this morning.Run on target VM. reagentc /setreimage /path C:\Windows\System32\Recovery; reagentc /enable!--scriptorendfragment-->!--scriptorstartfragment--> Note: If WinRE files or the recovery partition are missing, you can ignore this warning backup is valid.(See diagram below for quick steps.)   

Snapshots and VeeamI have been a long time fan of storage snapshots. With the hot topic of immutability, having immutability on the source of the data means that even Veeam and Veeam Service accounts can’t modify the snapshots. If you follow storage and security best practices, you will be in a great spot for your production storage , and have additional immutable storage elsewhere for Veeam backups on a repository.But wait, storage snapshots are not just a feature that can be accessed from the SAN itself. When integrated with Veeam Backup & Replication, they become fast, flexible recovery points directly visible in the Veeam console. Using IBM FlashSystem as an example, here’s how snapshot-based workflows add real value without adding complexity. Backup and Recovery from Storage SnapshotsWith Storage Snapshot integration, Veeam can trigger application-aware storage snapshots and use them as the backup source. Instead of reading from production disks, Veeam mounts the snapshot to a

I have installed Veeam Software Appliance on fresh hardware. My intent is to recreate my backup infrastructure around it and then deprecate my current Windows server that handles the jobs. I am not finding anywhere to download a license key for version 13. It does not show in my account portal as an option for generating a key.

V13 - The environment described in this architecture is one main datacenter containing 1 PB of NAS data. The NAS environment contains 10 shares and 200 million files. The Veeam components are hosted on the Veeam Software Appliance and Veeam Infrastructure Appliance. All backups will be targeted to a local Veeam Hardened Repository Appliance group in a Scale-out Repository (SOBR) and copied to the Veeam Data Cloud (VDC) Vault. The Veeam Infrastructure Appliance that host the  proxies are installed on physical servers. The general-purpose proxies and cache repositories will be collocated on the same server hardware.

Disclaimer:I actually wanted to publish this post earlier, but I had a small health issue that delayed my plans a bit. In this post, I mainly want to share a few brief thoughts. There are already so many incredibly good and informative blog posts about the recent Veeam 100 Summit in Prague. Therefore, I will focus less on technical details (which cannot be fully shared anyway) and instead provide some impressions from my personal perspective and perception What is the V100 Summit?The Veeam 100 Summit takes place once a year and is now hosted at different locations on a rotating basis. This year, it was held in Prague – a truly beautiful city! Veeam invites all Veeam Vanguards, Veeam Legends, and VeeaMVPs to come together, network, and exchange ideas on the latest topics. In addition, a lot of information is shared that is not public, giving us, as members of this exclusive group, the opportunity to actively contribute to the development of Veeam products. Arrival:Luckily, my hometown o

Hello guys, I’m using the Calculator on a daily basis, and am pretty sure the calculation is wrong (or maybe I’m?? :D) when you consider Immutable GFS Backups to Object or local storage.If you backup Immutable the Calculator will ask for a immutability Period, this in fact does not matter when using GFS as always one Full Backup will be kept for the configured GFS Retention.Or at least as far as I’m aware.Heres my test:Lets say we have 16TB of source Data, this is the immutability with 14 days and gfs.​​​​​​ As far as I understood it, 16TB is round about the source capacity, of course we will shrink it a bit thanks to compression.Lets say a full backup will then be 10TB which seems surreal already. And lets now turn gfs off in the calculator.Now we only have 14 Dailies immutable but we are missing another 11 Full Backups as stated, GFS will always take full backups. Am i doing something wrong? Is the calculator not able to predict this scenario? 

It seems the FILE EXCLUSION tab is missing in Veeam Community edition even though the only thing it is supposed to be limited don is the number of workloads. When I go to the job, guest processing and edit, there is no choice to exclude files. What am I missing here? 

 Nutanix changed how they version their Prism Central product so older versions of VBN plugin might fail to discover clusters. It occurs in versions of PC greater than 7.3. We caught it early, so version 9 should work just fine. Once this issue is addressed, we will update the forums post below.https://forums.veeam.com/nutanix-ahv-f51/prism-central-7-3-t101443.html

ciao, il titolo è un po’ involuto ma non riuscivo a farlo migliore. Volevo condividere una difficoltà che mi trovo ad affrontare, specie adesso che “lavorare con Veeam” comporta interagire con tecnologie e mondi sempre più numerosi e diversi. Solo pochi anni fa c’era VMware e un po’ HyperV, il backup di O365 e poco altro… ora ci sono N nuovi hypervisor, tutte le parti cloud (M365, EntraID eccetera), i plugin enterprise con Oracle SAP etc etc, i DB come Mongo e Postgres e, ultimo ma non meno sconvolgente, il mondo container di Kasten.  In questo scenario, se lavori per aziende di consulenza e dici che sei uno specialista Veeam (e supponiamo che tu lo sia 😊), magari hai la VMCE, oggi i tuoi clienti/capi/colleghi si aspettano che tu sappia muoverti e soprattutto abbia esperienza su TUTTO. Mentre, per esempio, quando ho fatto la VMCE due anni fa i nastri non erano argomento di esame…  Nella realtà per conoscere le tecnologie e avere esperienza bisogna averle provate, il che comporta di av

Hi All,Following on from this years in person event in London we are looking to get feedback to see if we should bring the VUG to other locations.Please vote below or provide feedback on where you you like to see us in person next.Your feedback is important.

HI folks,We are increasingly deploying Hyper-V environments following recent changes in VMware’s pricing model. In my designs, I typically separate production and backup infrastructures into dedicated VLANs.However, when using an on-host configuration, applying this architecture means that traffic will inevitably pass through the firewall, which could lead to excessive load and negatively impact backup performance.The most straightforward approach today is to implement both Veeam and Hyper-V components within the same subnet to avoid any routing.  How are you currently handling this in your environment?

Hi Community, Is there a PowerShell command or script to create multiple backup policies in Veeam Backup & Replication? Thanks!

Hello Veeam Community,I have a question regarding cross-platform restore. If we have a backup of a VM running on VMware ESXi, can we restore that backup to a Microsoft Hyper-V environment using Veeam Backup & Replication?Both environments are supported by Veeam, but I want to confirm if this type of restore is possible and what the recommended approach would be (e.g., direct restore, conversion, or any limitations).Has anyone implemented this scenario successfully? Any best practices or considerations would be appreciated.Thank you!

The special-purpose .local top-level domain (TLD) is not designed for use in the global Domain Name System (DNS). Rather, multicast DNS (mDNS) uses it to resolve hostnames to IP addresses within small networks, eliminating the need for a dedicated DNS server. Specifically, mDNS operates on the local network link and uses the .local TLD for this purpose. When an mDNS client needs to resolve a hostname that ends with .local, it sends queries to the mDNS IPv4 link-local multicast address 224.0.0.251 or its IPv6 equivalent ff02::fb.Top 5 reasons why it is a bad ideaLet’s dive into why using the .local top-level domain (TLD) can lead to a handful of issues.Standards Compliance: The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) reserves the .local TLD for mDNS in RFC 6762. If you use it in another context or within a traditional unicast DNS context, you may face non-compliant behavior and conflicts. Compatibility Issues: Systems, particularly those running Apple’s Bonjour service, frequently use mD

Hello Community, Sharing an update that Veeam announced about production license distribution. This will matter for anyone who handles orders or helps customers access their license files. What’s changingStarting December 4, 2025, production license files will no longer be sent as attachments in order confirmation emails.This includes purchases through the online store, public marketplaces, and distributor marketplaces.Going forward, the designated license administrator for the customer will need to download the production license directly from the My Account portal under Production Licenses.Trial and NFR licenses are not affected. Why this matters• Improves security and keeps license access tied to the right admins• Makes it easier for customers to retrieve licenses in one place• Partners need to make sure the correct customer license admin is specified on every order or the customer may not see their license in the portal Figured this would be helpful for the community since many of

In this post, I analyse the issues involved in backing up a VDI environment in a VMware vSphere environment with TPM enabled. The VMs being backed up are Windows 11 with Microsoft Office 365 licences.The configuration of Veeam for backing up encrypted VMs requires this architectural prerequisites:The backup proxy must be working in the Virtual appliance or Network transport mode: The backup proxy working in the Virtual appliance transport mode must be deployed on an encrypted VM. The backup proxy working in the Network transport mode uses the NBD protocol by default. If you want to use NBDSSL, select the Enable host to proxy traffic encryption in Network mode (NBDSSL) check box in the Transport Mode window. Note that traffic encryption puts more stress on the CPU of an ESXi host and can decrease performance. With this proxy configuration, we can perform consistent backups.For VM restoration, consider the following:If possible, use the "entire VM restore" option to the original locatio

IntroductionTo enable monitoring of your Veeam Software Appliance (VSA) with VeeamONE, the Veeam Analytics Service needs to be deployed on the VSA.The Veeam Analytics service not only enables communication with Veeam Backup & Replication servers to collect data but also allows to send remediation commands.Since the VSA is secure by design (hardened Linux-based OS, DISA STIG compliance, automated patching…) and that it enforces Zero Trust principles with role-based access control, SAML SSO, and certificate-based pairing, it is important to know what are the available options to connect VeeamONE securely. In this article, we will cover 2 methods of connection and highlight their pros and cons:Via the Veeam Analytics Service Offline BundleORManaged by VeeamONE via the Data Source Wizard Connecting to the VSA with the Offline BundleThe advantage of using the offline bundle is that you don’t need to store VSA credentials anywhere. Simply hand off the bundle to your Veeam Backup and Repl

HI..I create user account for myself in Enterprise Managerbut when i logon using my account why i got error ‘Cannot find backed up machines where the user belongs to Local Administrators group’ 

We are facing an issue with VBR where the application is down and cannot connect to the backup server. The error message shown is: “No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it 127.0.0.1. Make sure the backup server you are connecting with is 12.3.2 version.” Has anyone encountered this issue before? What steps or permanent solution can resolve this? Any guidance would be appreciated.    

In questo post analizzo le problematiche del backup di un ambiente VDI in un ambiente VMware vSphere con TPM attivo, le VM sottoposte a backup sono Windows 11 con licenze Microsoft Office 365.La configurazione di Veeam per il backup di VM criptate (encrypted) richiede dei prerequisiti a livello architetturale:Il proxy di backup deve funzionare in modalità Virtual appliance o Network transport: Il proxy che funziona in modalità Virtual appliance transport deve essere distribuito su una VM crittografata. Il proxy che funziona in modalità di trasporto di rete utilizza il protocollo NBD per impostazione predefinita. Se si desidera utilizzare NBDSSL, selezionare la casella di controllo Abilita crittografia del traffico host-proxy in modalità di rete (NBDSSL) nella finestra Modalità di trasporto. Si noti che la crittografia del traffico sottopone a maggiore stress la CPU di un host ESXi e può ridurre le prestazioni.  Con questa configurazione del proxy potremmo effettuare dei backup consist