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pomidorokhovaNot a newbie anymore

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Back to Veeam University!

Hello, Veeam Community!For the most experienced users of Veeam products this post won’t be a big news, but this will surely be a big help for those taking their first steps with Veeam.Often times we are asked “where do I start with my new Veeam product?” or “does Veeam offer free certification?”, and our answer is go “back to Veeam University!”Veeam University is a FREE online training portal for all users of Veeam products and it offers a wide range of on-demand educational resources. No matter how well you know Veeam products, you will find something for yourself:Guided product onboarding pathways from A to Z for your first-time deployment for Veeam Backup & Replication™ (including Veeam ONE™ → suitable for owners of Veeam Backup Essentials™ or Veeam Availability Suite™) for Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 These FREE online onboarding pathways were compiled together based on customer feedback and coupled with best practices from Veeam Technical Onboarding Managers and Solution

vNote42Veeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard

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Veeam Legends - Veeam Backup & Replication Pocketbook v1

We are proud to announce the release of our first joint Legends project: Veeam Backup & Replication Pocketbook v1.It is a collection of best practices from the field.The following topics are covered:Backup Basics Security Hardened Repository and Immutability Performance SOBR Capacity Tier Offload SureBackupWe are discussing each recommendation with benefits, disadvantages and links to more information. Currently the Pocketbook can be downloaded here as a pdf-file. We are looking forward to your feedback!Enjoy reading! Contributors (in alphabetic order): @falkob, @Geoff Burke, @JMeixner, @Link State, @MicoolPaul, @regnor, @vNote42, @wolff.mateus

Rick VanoverRICKATRON

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V12 News HubV12 News Hub

It’s time to build the hype and readiness for V12! And as I announced on the special episode #100 of the Veeam Community Recap, I’m going to make a news hub here where everything you need for V12 can be viewed in one place leading up to the launch. Upon GA; I’ll also put a link to the V12 Upgrade Center (like I did for V11). I will target updating this weekly, and if you have a blog/external resource about V12 - be sure to put it in the comments below. Last updated: 30-January 2023 IMPORTANT: V12 Release UpdateThe RTM release of V12 has been made available to partners on 30-January. RTM is the release for partners or for customers needing/seeking early availability of the product. If you use a Veeam Cloud Service Provider or VCSP (such as those here: http://vee.am/splookup ) for Veeam-Powered Services; you will need to ensure that the VCSP has upgraded first. End users using VCSPs should not upgrade ahead of the service provider. Check with your service provider if you are using on

MicoolPaulVeeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard

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Thinking of becoming a Veeam Legend 2022?

The Veeam Legend programme is due to have its second intake in the coming weeks/months, and I wanted to put together a small collection of resources for people to find out more about this amazing sub-community. What is the Veeam Legends Programme? The Veeam Legends programme is at its heart, a Veeam community, its a sub-group of the wider Veeam Community Hub & R&D forums’ users. It was created as part of the ongoing recognition that Veeam wanted to give to its most active Veeam experts within these spaces.The Veeam Legends programme is one of three sub-communities within the ‘Veeam 100’ collective, with the other two being Veeam Vanguard and VeeaMVP. But whilst Veeam Vanguard focuses on external evangelism & activity, and VeeaMVP celebrates Veeam staff that contribute externally to the Veeam community, Veeam Legends is focused on Veeam platform-based activity. Are there perks to becoming a Veeam Legend? Of course there are! To date I’ve witnessed the following perks from th

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The Veeam Community Guide

Since we launched Veeam Community Hub one year ago, 11,199 members joined and we are very happy to see new members engaging, sharing the knowledge and helping each other.Community is rapidly growing, and I thought it would make sense to create a guide with the best practices on how to use community: what category to choose, what type of content to go with, what to do and what not to do.Let’s look into that!Veeam Community Hub is owned by Veeam Legends and Veeam Community. It’s community driven property. If you would like to talk to Veeam PM or submit a support ticket, please reach out to Veeam Support or Veeam R&D Forums All content in all categories apart from User Groups is in English. If you feel more comfortable with your local language, you are welcome to create posts in local user groups Do not publish empty posts with external links only. Just do not, please. This type of content will be hidden. It is absolutely OK to use external link as a reference to something though. E

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Blogs and podcasts: Housekeeping rules

Hi Veeam Community!Here are a few housekeeping rules to keep this space friendly, interactive and useful:All content is in English only Personal information, which is not suitable for public viewing, cannot be published – e.g. address or phone number Podcasts and YouTube streams should be embedded through the ‘Embed media’ functionality. Here’s an example. Don’t just post a sentence with a hyperlink. Such posts will be hidden. We ask that you don’t just post a link to a blog or article, since most community members prefer to stay here and have discussions. Users may not post any offensive materials, share illegal or copyrighted content, attempt to distribute illegal substances, or distribute viruses or other material. Users may not use this place for (commercial) activities such as the advertising or sale of products or services, the offering of (interactive) games or the advertising of other communities or websites. The Veeam Community Team reserves the right to remove content or rest

JMeixnerVeeam Legend

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Veeam Proxy for Linux has Problems with LVM

We had some problems with restoring VMs in the last time.After some research we found that the Proxy on Linux has a problem with the assignments of physical volumes. It seems that there are PVs of target machines are preserved in the LVM archive files of the proxy… This is causing problems at restore time – leaving the restored VMs unbootable.I have double checked the Veeam documentation about prerequisites (https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backup/vsphere/backup_proxy_requirements.html?ver=110) and found no hint that LVM is a problem with Linux proxy.The problem occurred with Suse Linux only, we are in the process to check if there is the same problem with RedHat Linux. To visualize the problem, I will show it from the Veeam Proxy perspective and from the target VMs perspective. Veeam ProxyList the physical volumes with pvs. One device is not found…Grep for the UUID of the missing volume in the directory /etc/lvm/archiveIn this case the UUID is found in three files. At these three occ

wolff.mateusVeeam Legend

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Vulnerability CVE-2023-27532 - Applying Patch

Recently we had a vulnerability on Veeam Backup & Replication called CVE-2023-27532.So today, I’m going to show how easy is update VBR and install the patch to correct this threat. According with KB4424, we need to download the patch correctly to v11 or v12. In my case I going to update a v12 environment. So, the first thing is download patch: After that we only to unzip the downloaded file: The installation is really simple. We only need next, next, finish: I prefer to do not check box to update components automatically. We can do that as a final step after installation: Just click finish: Now we can open our VBR console and update the last component: At the end we can check that Veeam Backup & Replication is on 12.0.0.1420 P20230223:

regnorVeeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard

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HPE StoreOnce: Immutability with v12 - Part 2

In my last post I covered the requirements and necessary steps to configure immutability for HPE StoreOnce with Veeam V12. In this post I want to focus on how immutability behaves in different scenarios.Enable immutability for existing Catalyst storesIf you have existing Catalyst stores, the good news is that it’s possible to enable immutability for them. Let’s take a look at the Veeam helpcenter:Note that if you enable immutability and Veeam Backup & Replication does not start a new backup chain and still continues the chain, the whole backup chain is marked as immutable.https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backup/vsphere/storeonce_supported_features.html?ver=120#immutabilitySo, after you configure immutability, the current or new backup chain will be made immutable. All other existing backup chains won’t be touched and therefore stay mutable.This is also exactly what I could reproduce in my lab environment. After enabling immutability, the current chain is made immutable, while all

RinProduct Strategy

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Self-Service Restore Portal Enhancements

Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365’s self-service restore portal was introduced in version 6 of this product and opened up the ability to grant end users access to their backup data and elevated users to restore orchestration over delegated data scopes. With the release of Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 v7, the self-service portal received some enhancements as well. These major advancements include a refined navigation interface, the addition of Microsoft Teams restore and point-in-time restore options. Along with the more major additions to this release, there were advancements to folder restoration in SharePoint and OneDrive and integrated access from the Veeam Service Provider Console as well. For more information about the complete release, please check out the "What's New" document linked at the bottom of this post.Self-Service Microsoft Teams RestoreMicrosoft Teams has become a critical communication and collaboration tool for businesses worldwide. However, data loss can still occur

coolsport00Veeam Legend

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Veeam Backup & Replication v12 – My Top v12 Features

While attending the VeeamON conference in Las Vegas back in May, Veeam announced they will be releasing Veeam Backup & Replication (VBR) v12 later in the year, and gave several sessions presenting what some of those features will be in the new release. I thought I’d do a write-up of what v12 features I’m looking forward to most, as well as provide a few extra lines of other notable features coming.Security-Veeam is upping its security game by implementing Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) and Group Managed Service Accounts (gMSA). MFA is self-explanatory. From the VBR Menu > Users and Roles option, a Security window opens for you to select MFA for your Veeam user accounts (see figure below). But what about the gMSA? gMSA is a fantastic concept as it allows Veeam to use Active Directory service accounts while not storing the password locally on the Veeam server (i.e. when using for AAIP). Instead, VBR retrieves gMSA passwords on-demand from organization domain controllers. Platfo

vmaliVeeam MVP

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Oracle CBT, RMAN and Veeam Plugin

Oracle Change Block Tracking (CBT) is a feature in Oracle databases that helps improve the performance of incremental backups by tracking the changes made to database blocks.When CBT is enabled, the database keeps track of all the blocks that have been modified since the last backup. This information is stored in a bitmap file, which is used by backup software to determine which blocks to backup. By only backing up the changed blocks, incremental backups can be performed more quickly and efficiently.CBT is particularly useful in environments with large databases or where backups need to be performed frequently. It can also be used in conjunction with other backup technologies, such as snapshot-based backups or replication.CBT can be enabled at the database or tablespace level and is compatible with both physical and logical backups. To enable CBT, the database must be running in ARCHIVELOG mode and the appropriate initialization parameters must be set. Oracle change block tracking and

TKANot a newbie anymore

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veeam m365 v7 - error 429

Hi, we just upgraded to the latest VB365 v7 and configure new backup job for whole organization sharepoint sites ( around 550 users) at first full we had a lot error 429, but now its still same with incremental jobs.any experience with these error ? :) tomas

vNote42Veeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard

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Can we copy a backup copy job?

Yes, Veeam can! (sorry for this pun)Question arose today and I thought this is could be interesting to share: Is it possible to copy a backup copy job? So can a backup copy job use a backup copy job as source job? Yes and no. It is not possible to select the copy backup job directly. But it is possible to select the repository, the (second) copy job searches for backup data. How to create a copy copy job:Start the New Backup Copy Job wizard and enter a name. Here it is required to use Periodic copy (pruning) Copy mode! Note: Source copy backup job can also use Immediate copy (mirroring) mode. On next step, press Add… → From backups... and select the job you want to copy second time.It is important to do so, otherwise, selected source repository (next step) will be ignored!Press Source… and select the repository, the first copy job uses as target. This is the repository this copy job will read backups from. The rest of the wizard can be configured as desired. In joblog you see the sour

regnorVeeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard

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VBR: Immutable object storage with Wasabi

Inspired by @Geoff Burke‘s post about immutability for Kasten with Wasabi, I decided to post the same for Veeam Backup & Replication. If you want to check out Geoff’s post, then follow this link:What/who is Wasabi?Probably Wasabi doesn’t need to be introduced. But if you can only think about the paste you get with Sushi, then you should check out their cloud object storage. Besides AWS and Microsoft, Wasabi is one of the Vendors, who often gets recommended for usage with Veeam Backup. The reason for that is their really competitive pricing, combined with great functionality/quality and low complexity.How to create an immutable bucketAfter registering an account with Wasabi, the creation of an immutable bucket isn’t complicated at all.Just make sure that you select the right region for your location, and also enable bucket versioning and object locking.Afterwards you need to create an access key. For testing purposes you can use the root account key, but for production you should cr

regnorVeeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard

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Vulnerability in Veeam Backup & Replication - March 2023

Veeam has just informed it’s customers about an existing vulnerability in Veeam Backup & Replication. Unauthorized users may be able to request encrypted credentials from the VBR service, and therefore get access to the backup infrastructure. The KB articles haven’t received updates so far, but the vulnerability did get a CVSSv3 score of 7.5.EDIT: The KB article has just been published: KB4424It’s recommended to patch VBR as soon as possible!SolutionPatches have been released for VBR V11 and V12. Please keep in mind that older releases are also affected, but no longer get fixes. So you need to upgrade your installation to a supported release.Patch for Veeam V11a KB article for V11 Patch for Veeam V12 KB article for V12WorkaroundAs a temporary workaround you can block access to TCP port 9401 on your Veeam Backup & Replication server. This will affect the connection of mount servers to the VBR server, so only use this if you don’t have a distributed Veeam environment. And still a

Michael MelterVeeam Legend

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SureBackup with physical workloads - and some more gems

@vNote42 already teased earlier, that we will probably see something alike in V12:https://community.veeam.com/blogs-and-podcasts-57/what-else-is-new-in-v12-vii-universal-surebackup-job-3073With V11 already having brought us cross convertibility between agent backups and VM backups for Instant-Recovery, it was quite logical to have this next.V12 ist in production now, so I couldn’t wait to test this functionality! 😎 How to set up?It’s very easy and straightforward to setup. The only difference here is, that you have to pick your VM from an agent job into the application group for your SureBackup job: I used a small physical Veeam server of my demo environment as en example here.Pay special attention to the reduction of your memory here. For VM->VM SureBackups this is often overlooked. But physical machines tend to have a lot more RAM that you might not want to allow them to be chopped off from your hypervisor during the testing.While creating the application group, I noticed two mor

Chris.ChilderhoseVeeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard

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Veeam Vanguard 2023 - Year Six

WOW! Accepted for the sixth year in a row. #VeeamVanguard Veeam Vanguard 2023 I was a part of the Veeam Vanguard program for the past five years in 2018-2022, with the hopes of another renewal for the 2023 year. Applications opened up for the 2023 year, and this time, it was all based on your application, whereas in previous years, you could have others nominate you. I have remained active with the Veeam space promoting the product, blogging, Twitter, Paper.li E-Newspaper, and even wrote a third edition of my book for Packt Publishing - Mastering Veeam Backup & Replication v12So I filled out the application with examples of all my activities throughout the year in the hopes I would be accepted. After applying, waiting is hard for that email to indicate whether you are in or out.So based on my post as you can imagine, I was accepted for a sixth year into one of the best evangelist programs out there - Veeam Vanguard. Many thanks to @RickVanover @NikolaPejkova and the amazing people

jorge.delacruzCommunity Manager

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Veeam ONE - Extensibility, and Enterprise Observability. How to forward VONE alarms to any Syslog

I would like to share with you my experience in achieving Enterprise Observability, and how I utilized Veeam ONE to enhance the visibility of my environment.Quick introAs you may know, achieving Enterprise Observability is not an easy task, especially with the abundance of monitoring tools out there, each with their own unique functionalities that may overlap with one another.However, Veeam ONE stood out to me as one of the most efficient tools, offering over 340 native alarms to keep me on top of anything happening to my Virtual Infrastructure, Veeam Data Platform, and the status of its components.What's more, Veeam ONE also offers great reporting capabilities, with over 150 reports that can be scheduled and sent in PDF format for better audit.To take it up a notch, I combined the real-time alarms from Veeam ONE across the entire stack and sent it to my favorite Syslog tool, Grafana Loki. The best part is, you don't need to configure anything on vCenter, ESXi, VBRs, VB365, or VB Serve

Chris.ChilderhoseVeeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard

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Veeam Legend Renewal for 2023

I was lucky enough to be renewed in the first intake of 2023 Legends this year and completed a blog post about it. Link to my blog as well - https://just-virtualization.tech/veeam-legends-program-renewed-for-2023 Veeam Legend 2023 It is official; I have been awarded Veeam Legends 2023 for the 2nd year. I received a great surprise in my email from Madalina Cristil (@MadiCristil), the manager of the Veeam Community Legends program, Rick Vanover (@rickvanover), Safiya Mohamed (@safiya), and Nikola Pejkova (@NikolaPejkova) I was renewed into the 2023 first intake. You can find out about the Veeam Legends program on the Community Hub here - Veeam Community Hub. It has been a great first year in the Legends program, and I was happy to contribute to helping the community. I look forward to another year and meeting many of the Legends in person at the #Veeam100 event in October. There are some great benefits to being a Legend - As a part of Veeam Legends, you’ll be eligible for unique content

SteveFComes here often

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Veeam Amazing Object Storage Tips & Techniques Part 4

Introducing Veeam’s Smart Object Storage API Veeam Backup & Replication (VBR) v12 which was launched a month ago, has many great features and new capabilities. One of my favorite features is the Smart Object Storage API (SOSAPI). The purpose of this blog is to introduce you to this new and powerful feature.Let’s that off with explaining what the Smart Object Storage API (SOSAPI) is. It is a new tool which allows Veeam and our on-prem object storage partners to develop tighter integrations between our products. So, the great part about the SOSAPI is that a customer doesn’t need to do any additional work to get the benefits of this great addition to the Veeam portfolio. However, you do need to select an object storage platform that has the SOSAPI implemented within their product. When VBR v12 was launched last month, Scality and Object First were the inaugural launch partners for SOSAPI. Cloudian also released a version of their object storage which was integrated with the Smar

wesmrtVeeam MVP

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Configuring SSO for Veeam Backup for AWS

Hello everyone, In this post, I will cover the steps to configure Single Sign-On in Veeam Backup for AWS and thereby use a user managed by an identity provider instead of using local users in Veeam Backup for AWS, ensuring greater security when accessing the tool.Veeam Backup for AWS supports SSO based on the SAML 2.0 protocol, so any identity provider that uses SAML 2.0 can be used. In this article, I will use Azure AD itself as an identity provider to make it clearer how to perform each step. To start, log in to the Azure portal and go to Enterprise applications: Click on "New application": Then choose the option "Create your own application": Choose a name for the app and choose the third option "Integrate any other application...": With the app created, go to the "Single sign-on" section and then choose the "SAML" option: Go back to the Veeam Backup for AWS console and go to the "Identity Provider" section under "Settings": Download the metadata that we will use in our app i

regnorVeeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard

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HPE StoreOnce: Immutability with v12

With the newest release V12, Veeam Backup & Replication is now capable of implementing immutability with HPE StoreOnce Catalyst stores. HPE calls this ‘Independent Software Vendor (ISV) Controlled Data Immutability (ISV-DI)’. With this post I want to quickly describe the requirements and configuration steps.RequirementsThere are some requirements, that need to be met in order to use immutability with StoreOnce systems.you need to have a Gen4 StoreOnce system with at least firmware 4.3.2 you need to configure Dual Authorization Maximum ISV Controlled Data Retention needs to be set to 365000 in the StoreOnce Catalyst Store you need to use forward incremental backup jobs and/or enable GFS for Backup Copy Jobs → For more information check the helpcenter Enable Dual AuthorizationWith Dual Authorization certain tasks on a StoreOnce require a second factor before they’re executed. This second factor isn’t a OTP token or something similar but rather a second user/password which you need to

frahimzadeNot a newbie anymore

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Rename Veeam server

Hello Everyone, After renaming the server, Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager did not change the target patch, so when I click on the shortcut, it tries to open a web address through my old hostname, can I change my host without deleting anything? It should be like this https://hostname:9443 I changed the IIS site bindings, but this did not change the shortcut, when I type the correct link, I can open it on the web

wolff.mateusVeeam Legend

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Changing vCenter Name on Veeam

How can we see here, vCenter IP/FQDN is not possible to change inside of Veeam B&R. In my case I put the IP of vCenter server on Veeam Backup & Replication and now I’d like to change it to a hostname accordingly the DNS server name. So, first of all we need to open the Console / PowerShell on burger menu of Veeam B&R. So, at this moment we need type the command:$Servers = Get-VBRServer -name "old-name-or-ip"On my case the IP of my vCenter server is 192.168.10.100. After that we just need type the following command:$Servers.SetName("new-name-or-ip")On my scenario it is ROM2SRVVLVC01. And now, with this two only commands we can see that the vCenter name was changed on Veeam Backup & Replication: To finish I just rescan the vCenter server again to see all the set up is ok.

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