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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 BlueprintNetApp E-Series Technical Specifications

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 WebUI available you can use to manage your backup environment. Though keep in mind, as was with the VMware vCenter Software Appliance when it was first released, there are quite a few missing features i

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:https://www.supermicro.com/wftp/utility/IPMICFG/Unpack and copy the DOS directory on the stickRESTART

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 different folder, as documented in this KB, will not be collected automatica

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!  

 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 RAID cards have their own battery-backed read/write cache. Multipathing/link aggregation used: No (but supported in StoreOnce systems). Array deduplication used in testing: Yes Array compression used in testing: Yes  HPE StoreOnce 7700The all-flash HPE StoreOnce 7700 is engineered to deliver high-performance backup and recovery

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.After I deployed the policy the first time I was very excited, only to see error messages coming in that after the initial sync the io driver on the hosts failed. Lesson learned, you must reboot the host after deploying the driver!The next run was successful!  Looks great. What is the amazing part, let’s say that server died, and we have to recover from Veeam, or restore files from it. We can go to replica and failover to a point in time.You can scroll through the timeline or use the latest point of time.This is pretty sweet in my book!This concludes this post. We now have CDP running and can restore any w

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 supported platforms. Based on the Fleet Manager I think the use case for Scale is t

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.Dashboard – SummaryJob Historical Information – The very first graph. The most important one in my opinion. Grouped by 24 hours, get to know the status of your policies per day, on a range in time. Job Historical Information Table – Very similar to the previous panel, but this time with more details about job name, status, date, etc. Job Historical Information Duration – Very simil

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. For customers leveraging NSX Container Network Interface (CNI) integ

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

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 accounti didnt add any ip, just hit enter, and continue, and give it a namevpn user created, now, lets see the QR code for setupexecute the command pippin -qr, and select the the user config you want to configureopen you wireguard client app and follow the screenshotsDone!now, you have your VPN fully configure.anua time you want to connect, simply open the app and switch the VPN to on (green)all traffic will be back and forth the VPN.cheers.

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 how to deploy a Veeam Infrastructure Hardened Repository (VIHR) using the new Veeam JeOS (Just Enough OS). It is aimed at improving ransomware resilience for backup infrastructure. It highlights that modern threats increasingly target both production workloads and backup storage, making immutability essential.This blog post covers practical steps for building a lab environment in Proxmox VE or XCP-ng as well and installing the JeOS-based Veeam Hardened Repository ISO, and configuring the repository server with hostname, static networking, and accounts. After installation, the guide shows how to access the Host Management UI, create user roles and enable MFA, and then proceed to add the VIHR to Veeam Backup & Replication. Going forward

Nutanix announced Acropolis in June 2015 that is based on Linux KVM. Along with that, they added Prism to simplify management of their hyperconverged infrastructure and VMs. For a long time Nutanix was only built as hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI). This makes it hard to justify replacing VMware if you just made a capital expense purchase in servers or storage. However, as of December 2025, Dell PowerFlex and Pure Storage have been added as supported storage integration, this was a great move to open those that have made a recent storage investment to be able to consider Nutanix for workloads. They also have some server alliance partnerships to run their hypervisor on other supported compute platforms. Nutanix is a publicly traded company with over 7,000 employees globally.From a use case perspective, I feel it fits for small remote offices and large enterprise or IaaS hosting environments. Nutanix also has multi-tenant isolation capabilities built in including self-service VM, App,

 In this guide, we will discuss the steps “Upgrade legacy VHR to Veeam Infrastructure Hardened Repository”. According to Rick’s naming convention of VHR generation one (1). This blog post aims to demonstrate the “steps to upgrade legacy VHR to Veeam Infrastructure Hardened Repository“.Upgrade Veeam Hardened Repository v2 to VIHRTo do this, please download the VIA ISO from here. Below is the remote console of my VHR.Upon landing on the page, please scroll down. For a detailed blogpost, see “how to Upgrade legacy VHR to Veeam Infrastructure Hardened Repository”.Under the Additional Downloads, click on the download button as shown below.Boot Veeam Hardened RepositoryWhen the ISO boots up, as shown on the splash screen above. Select the “Veeam Hardened Repository.Click on “Upgrade – upgrade Hardened repository to latest version”.Accept the EULA as shown belowEnter the HostnameSet the exact time zone for your VIHRSet the Host Administrator passwordSelect Show QR-codeEnter the Code displayed

Yes, this task was no longer straightforward, as the usual workflow for deleting or removing backup jobs tied to the repository, and for deleting the repositoy itself when it is no longer needed before removing the managed server. For some of the steps not discussed n this guide, please see, “Unable to Remove Orphaned VHR Repository v2 from VBR v13”.What happens when you no longer have the VHR v2 Server due to the reinstallation of VIHR? Note: The root issue here is that the transport service continues to run under the context of the veeamsvc. This means that the account must remain present on the Linux server. Please, see how to deploy and integrate VHR with VBR. Veeam only requires the credentials during the initial deployment of the transport service. This is why single-use credentials are used. But as we see, due to updates and upgrades. We have to regenerate the single-use credential as discussed here “Veeam Host Components: Unable to reinstall Deploy Service SSH“. This method was

Hyper-V has been around over 16 years initially released with Server 2008. It can run on most hardware and either on hyperconverged or distributed infrastructure. Since it is based on Windows Server, it can be managed easier with a graphical UI which is familiar with most technical staff. However, that also comes with the stigma that it is Windows 😀, plus Microsoft had announced the end of Hyper-V as they transition to Azure Local until the Broadcom announcement and then they reversed that decision.From a use case perspective, it can be used in small distributed (ROBO) deployments or large-scale hosting and Veeam has current customers that reflect this. Microsoft used to have a self-service portal via System Center Service Provider Foundation but that has been discontinued and now there are third party solutions like Hosting Controller or Cloud Assert. It is highly recommended to utilize System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) for centralized orchestration and fabric management

Greetings everyone, as you know I have been working on Grafana Dashboards across all Veeam RESTful APIs (the only one pending is VBA GCP), but as the time has passed, the releases and core products I was using have evolved as well…I am talking about the time-series I am using to store all the recollected data from the APIs. I was using InfluxDB v1.x (latest stable release is v1.8), but InfluxData is about to deprecate it and consider it end-of-life at the end of 2021. That left all the Community using it with the only option to go to InfluxDB v2.x, and start leveraging Flux, the new query language, which is extremely versatile btw.Introducing the new Grafana Dashboard for Veeam Enterprise Manager for InfluxDB v2 using Flux, and Grafana 8.xBefore go any further, I just wanted to thank tigattack who contributed to the Script that pushes the data to InfluxDB v2.0.Now, there it has been ton of work, as I needed to craft all the queries again from scratch converting legacy InfluxQL things l

What more could you ask for as an IT systems administrator? Devolutions is a big deal. I once created a blog post on how to Install and License Devolutions Remote Desktop Manager on Mac“.On top of the above, ​@Rick Vanover has shared this tool with us multiple times to empower us and significantly boost our productivity..Today, I present to you, the steps on “how to set up Devolusion Remote Desktop Manager on Windows”.  below are some of thesession types that can be managed via the RDM.Do you need to worry about the 30-day trial period as a Veeam Legend or Vanguard? The simple answer is no! Holders of these awards as well as Microsoft MVPs, vExperts, and similar recognitions can request an NFR license, as discussed here: https://devolutions.net/blog/2025/07/big-news-the-devolutions-nfr-program-now-includes-a-starter-pack-license/

Veeam Enable Credential GuardVmware  & Windows prerequisite:Enable or Disable UEFI Secure Boot for a Virtual MachineVerision VMware vSphere ESXi 6.x7or superior EFI firmware Virtual hardware version 13 or later. vTPM module ( optional) Operating system that supports UEFI secure boot. Windows 2016 or superiorYou can install a new device on the Trusted Platform Module VM.Adding the vTPM module (optional but recommended)For complete security, it is best to add a virtual TPM chip:1) Again, go to Edit Settings > Add New Device.2) Select Trusted Platform Module.Note: This requires your VMware cluster to have a ‘Key Provider’ configured (Native Key Provider is the easiest to activate).Windows Secure Boot is supported on Windows 11, Windows 10, Windows 8.1/8, and Windows Server 2016 and later, generally requiring UEFI firmware, a GPT partition style, and a TPM 2.0 chip FIX Security & Compliance ---- > Credential GuardPreparing the VM (VMware side)Before enabling EFI BIOS, you mus

Hello Veeam community !I’ve just released version 3.3 of the M365 Generator tool.One of the new features is an MCP server that exposes M365 Generator actions as tools, making it possible for Claude Desktop (via its MCP connector) to take agentic control of generated M365 assets.It’s pretty fun to ask your LLM to generate data in your M365 tenant with no clicks needed! 😁Claude Desktop and the free subscription do have some limitations, but I’ve shared how to work around those and connect to my MCP server in this blog post: https://home.point4.fr/lets-make-it-even-easier-an-mcp-server-for-the-m365-generator-tool/You’ll also find some example prompts to try out.I hope you’ll enjoy it my dear community! 😊 

As discussed in the item below:Migrating VM from VMWare to Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager | Veeam Community Resource Hub The Veeam Mobility Matrix follows:  

Working with tape libraries often requires up‑to‑date firmware, BIOS packages, and driver references to ensure stable operation and compatibility across vendors and backup platforms. For those who need a consolidated and easy‑to‑navigate source, here is an excellent technical repository that centralizes multiple Tape Library and Tape Drive resources: 🔗 Firmware, BIOS & Driver Index📂 /FIRMWARE_BIOS/ – StoneSet ⚠️ DisclaimerThe Veeam Community does not guarantee the functionality, integrity, or safety of the drivers, firmware, or installers referenced in this repository.All materials are shared for informational and community‑support purposes only.Always validate, test, and verify any files in a controlled or non‑production environment before applying them to your infrastructure.You are fully responsible for assessing compatibility and impact within your systems.