Blogs and Podcasts

I have been looking forward to testing Veeam Data Cloud for quite some time. I first discussed it during the Veeam Summit in Berlin (2024) and again in Prague (2025). Today, I finally have the opportunity to experience it firsthand. Thank you very much @Karinne B. Veeam Data Cloud is a comprehensive Backup-as-a-Service (BaaS) platform that provides cloud-native data protection for modern workloads. Unlike the self-managed Veeam Data Platform, this SaaS offering includes the backup software, infrastructure, and storage in a single package. I have previously discussed Why you should back up Azure, Entra ID, and Microsoft 365, and s

 Veeam Data Platform v13 is one of the most significant releases in Veeam’s history. It introduces major advancements in security, AI-driven threat detection, cloud recovery, performance, and operational simplicity. Rather than being just another upgrade, v13 positions Veeam as a true cyber-resilience platform, helping organizations detect threats, protect backup data, and recover cleanly and confidently.In this blog, we’ll cover two key areas:What’s new in Veeam v13 and the features worth getting excited about A complete Veeam v13 Adoption Playbook — phases, risks, and best practices for rolling out the new platform What’s New in Veeam Data Platform v13Veeam v13 brings major enhancements across security, cloud recovery, performance, observability, and platform flexibility. Below are the most impactful additions. 1. Security-First De

This article explains how to set up Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager (VBEM) and manage user roles. VBEM provides a centralized web-based management and reporting platform that allows administrators to control multiple Veeam Backup & Replication servers from a single console.This article covers deployment steps, accessing the Enterprise Manager interface, and configuring user accounts with specific roles. The guide also highlights best practices for assigning permissions and securing access, ensuring efficient management of Veeam environments.Since my goal is to create articles detailing every product and feature, today I bring you a walkthrough on how to set up Veeam Enter

Many companies breathe a sigh of relief once they have implemented a professional backup solution like Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 for their Microsoft 365 environment. The assumption is: „Now our data is safe, and the backup topic is taken care of.“ However, it’s not that simple. Unlike traditional SaaS services, where the provider often bears full responsibility for the service, with Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365, a crucial part of the responsibility remains with the customer.’’ This means: Even though Veeam reliably handles the backup and recovery of your M365 data, you as the customer are responsible for the availability and integrity of the backup service itself. This includes maintaining and managing the underlying infrastructure (such as the backup VM), ensuring accessibility of the backup software, and guaranteeing the perman

A new blueprint has been added to the Veeam Communities hub site in collaboration with Joe Gremillion. The E-Series is a general-purpose all-block SAN array. This design includes copying jobs to Veeam Vault. We currently pair an E-Series model with a Veeam hardened repo for immutability support. The E-series family includes the E4012 and the E4060 The E4012 has a 12-drive disk shelf with external storage capabilities of up to 96 drives hybrid HDD or SSD. The E4060 has a 60-drive disk shelf with external storage capabilities of up to 300 HDDs or 120 SSDs. Customers have been buying this SAN array for backup targets, HPC, Video Surveillance and a JBOD. The link to the NetApp E-Series tech specs are below.Veeam NetApp E-Series Security Blueprint

I’ve been running Veeam v13 in the Home Lab for a few months now. It’s working flawlessly, backup my servers locally and Wasabi immutable storage in the cloud, running replications, and using Sure Backup to verify my backups are actually working.With Version 13 Veeam improved Universal Continuous Data Protection(U-CDP). If you are wondering what even is this, let me quote Veeam here, as it is a pretty good explainer.“Universal continuous data protection (CDP) is a technology that helps you protect mission-critical workloads when data loss for seconds or minutes is unacceptable. Workloads of various types, such as virtual, physical or cloud machines can be replicated to VMware vSphere cluster or host. CDP provides minimum recovery time objective (RTO) in case a disaster strikes because CDP replicas are in a ready-to-start state.”In this post I’m going to walk through setting this up and running CDP. There were some gotchas I ran into my home lab, but at the end i

Last Fall Veeam released Veeam Data Platform (VDP) version 13. I have yet to upgrade myself, but have reviewed their What's New document and skimmed through the User Guide a bit. After doing so, I thought I would share with the Community some hidden features in this newest release I think you should be aware of. I have done similar posts for previous Veeam VDP versions, but this will no doubt have more content because 1. this is such a drastically new & feature-rich release, and 2. there is just so much more I think I should mention!I think we are all aware the new VDP v13 release now comes not only as an optional Linux Veeam Software Appliance based on Rocky Linux (Community Edition not supported) and has High Availability capability (Premium Edition only), but there's also a nifty

Over the last decade, ransomware attacks have changed dramatically. What once was a simple malware encrypting user files has evolved into a business-driven cybercrime model. Today, attackers think strategically, move laterally, and aim directly at what truly hurts an organization: its ability to recover. To understand how to defend modern environments, we must first understand hacker thinking. This means looking at attacks from the attacker’s perspective — how they enter, how they move, and how they decide when an attack is successful. More importantly, it means understanding why backup infrastructure has become a primary target, not an afterthought. How Hacker Thinking Has Evolved Over Time In the early days, ransomware attacks were opportunistic. Attackers relied on phishing emails, weak

Hi all,I would like to share with you that it is possible to reset the IPMI password using a bootable USB drive and physical access. This works perfectly on an OOTBI. I haven't tested it on an Exagrid, but I believe it should work as well.In the event of a lost IPMI password or a bad copy/paste during installation (note that the password must not exceed 20 characters), it is possible to reset it to its default value.IPMI password can be reset to default by restoring the factory settings IPMI module using the tools available IPMICFG, IPMITOOL. Be careful it may happen that the network configuration is restored to the factory settings, so before performing this operation, note the current network configuration. IPMICFG is available for DOS, Linux and Windows.PREPARATION:Preparing a USB key with your favorite OS (eg. Use tool Rufus to create the livecd)Download the latest version IPMICFG:

Happy Wednesday, Community!Some good news came from the Veeam KB Support team yesterday. There will now be the ability to change log location for all of the Veeam Software Appliances → VSA, VIA, VHR. I know there have been some posts on here for those early in testing out VDP v13 where space has become an issue on the VSA. This change allows VDP users to modify the log location to a more robust storage location on the the Appliances to hopefully mitigate encountered space issues.But keep in mind...if you do indeed modify the log location on your Appliances, there is a caveat as noted at the top of the KB -“Automated log collection tools built into both the Veeam Backup & Replication Web UI of the Veeam Software Appliance and the "Create support bundle" function within the Host Management Console collect logs only from the default log location, /var/log/VeeamBackup/ . As such, Diagnostic logging stored in a differen

I’m wrapping up the first phase of my Veeam for AWS journey.I actually started this lab from some ideas I shared in the post below: In this video, I go through the full workflow:• Protecting AWS workloads like EC2, RDS, DynamoDB, VPC, EFS, and FSx• Creating Replicas, Snapshost, Backups and performing restores• Testing cross-region recovery (Virginia, Ohio, and California) Link bellow:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j76Xt0R55Pg&t=63s(It’s only in Portuguese, but the YouTube subtitles work really well.)

Last Friday was officially rolled out Veeam One training in Veeam University Pro.If you are interested in VMCE+ certification, this is the right way how to achieve it. Are still not decided? I am starting it right now and let you know about the training!  

Sizing Veeam environments has always been a mix of experience, assumptions, and spreadsheets. But that just changed. With the new Scenario Builder, Veeam takes a big leap forward, making multi-site sizing clearer, smarter, and far more predictable—turning complex design decisions into a structured, repeatable process.    

 The new HPE StoreOnce 7700 and 5720 Gen5 are now officially a Veeam Ready Repository certified as Primary Target Repository, passing all compatibility/functional tests, as well as extensive performance tests for both backup and restore operations with Veeam Backup & Replication 13.Part of the qualification test is random IOPS on a backup target to simulate Secure Restore (a virus-scanning process) executed within the Veeam Instant VM Recovery context.Certification Test Settings:Caching used: Yes Read/write caching: StoreOnce uses explicit application prefetch/caching/buffering in RAM. Also leverages Linux page cache (filesystem read/write caching), and the RAI

Now we can create the actual backup job. Let’s go back to Home–>Jobs and add a CDP PolicyAdd the computer we created in the protection group.Next we choose our Datastore, Host, and Resource Pool. Under Policy settings we can choose our replica suffix. Note this has to be unique, I had the job fail during testing because it already existed.Finally, we can set our RPOs and retention.

I was surprised when I started looking at Scale to discover that they have been around since 2012, announcing their HC3 appliance powered by HyperCore. Then in 2019 8.2 released with major updates and security mitigations, and the key piece for what I think their use case fits was announced in 2022 Scale Fleet Manager. More on that in a bit. The Scale HyperCore has self-healing capabilities and is very simple. The simple interface is easy to use and manage and would be a small learning curve for any VMware administrator. Their Fleet Manager web-based portal allows customers and MSPs to manage, deploy, and monitor distributed infrastructure. This makes it easy to manage edge computing or small ROBO locations.Veeam support for Scale was just released in 2025 with version 12.3.2 to include backup and restore of Scale VMs into Scale, or from other platforms into Scale, and recovery of Scale into other Veeam supporte

Greetings, friends! I want to share with you the new Grafana Dashboard for Veeam Backup & Replication, no Enterprise Manager is needed, and it uses 100% VBR API.Small note: For those familiar with the data protection scene, you might recall that we’ve already got a Grafana Dashboard dedicated to the Veeam Enterprise Manager API since 2020. Grafana Dashboard for Veeam Backup & Replication API When you finish this article, if you follow all the steps, you should have something similar to this. It might be different according to your environment, number of days you select, protected workloads, jobs, etc.

The general availability (GA) of Red Hat OpenShift 4.18, 4.19, and 4.20 on VMware Cloud Foundation 9 and VMware vSphere Foundation 9 represents more than just expanded platform support. It marks a natural evolution for organizations modernizing their VMware-based infrastructure while continuing to run Kubernetes at enterprise scale. 🔄With the introduction of VCF9, Broadcom delivers a more integrated and standardized VMware platform. Red Hat aligns with this architecture by offering certified OpenShift deployments that preserve the operational model customers already trust. Organizations running OpenShift on vSphere 8 or VCF 5 can therefore move to VCF9 without rethinking how clusters are deployed or operated. ✅From a networking standpoint, OpenShift on VCF9 follows a clear and validated design. VMware NSX provides the infrastructure networking layer, while OVN-Kubernetes delivers the OpenShift-native overlay network.

The long-awaited gift for the Blog has arrived!Thank you again to everyone for the votes! Below is a thank-you video to the entire dedicated organization.https://youtube.com/shorts/cKjloP8kPTU?si=xX9XWII_Ib_xngFp  

Hi Everyone,​@JonahMay  and I sat down (remotely 😀) and I asked him all those burning questions about AI that we are all asking. Jonah has been doing a lot with AI so has some create stories to tell. He also offers his predictions on what we as data protection experts need to be thinking about.So Jonah will I be digging ditches in a few years? Find out here:https://www.buzzsprout.com/2545760/episodes/18630608

Veeam Data Platform Advanced and Premium Editions give organizations powerful tools to document and report on their environment. This includes gathering data around capacity planning, protection policies, and performance insights. By utilizing this functionality, teams gain visibility into their data protection environment to help maintain security, achieve consistent compliance, and improve operational efficiency.The latest release of the Veeam Data Platform brought major updates to Veeam ONE’s reporting capabilities. By delivering a faster, more interactive experience, reporting within the platform has become more modern, moving away from traditional SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) to HTML5-based reporting. You will see this experience with Veeam Data Platform and Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 reports.This modernization is accompanied by a new PostgreSQL-powered Veeam ONE Reporting Database designed to accelerate large report generation. Reports that used to ta

After Part q, 2 and 3, lets finish with creating the VPN account and setup the client.Now, let's create a VPN user, to be able to set it up into our phone / laptop, and start using our WireGuard VPN.Connect to your new deployed server via sshNow, lets execute the command: pivpn addlets create the account

Since this step is similar to the below, I will not be dropping the entire content here. Kindly take a look at the following guide for more information “Building VIHR: Ransomware-Proof Repository with Veeam JeOS”.The article walks through the steps on ho