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If you’ve been following this series of articles, you know by now that Veeam’s support for syslog allows you to leverage Microsoft Sentinel and many other solutions that support syslog to monitor your Veeam environment for operational and security events. Getting the data in is the easy part. The hard part is how to filter and query your Veeam event data for important information that you can quickly and effectively act on.The previous entry in this series walked through a simple example of the hard part, demonstrating how to set up an analytics rule in Microsoft Sentinel to scan Veeam events for a specific configuration change (four-eyes authorization disabled, event ID 42401) that could signal a compromised server. It’s easy enough, but that’s only o

 I am sharing the procedure for performing an in-place upgrade of the VBR 12 infrastructure to version 13, including an analysis of the potential warnings identified during the configuration check.Here you will find links to the official documentation for further information.Check this Veeam docUpgrading to Veeam Backup & Replication 13 on Windows - Veeam Backup & Replication User GuideCheck PrerequisiteUpgrade Checklist - Veeam Backup & Replication User Guide Download last ISO

As described in the title, I would like to explain in this blog post why a Veeam Hardened Repo and Object First is a great combination.A Veeam Hardened Repository and an Object First appliance each offer specific advantages for backups and restores, security, etc., but they also have their weaknesses. From a technical and cyber security perspective, combining both approaches offers a significantly stronger, more resilient backup architecture than either concept alone.I work on a lot of Veeam projects for SMEs, SMBs, and enterprise customers. I see the combination of the two products as being more suitable for the SMEs and SMBs sectors. In the enterprise sector, due to the larger amounts of data and faster restores, other products are used, but I don’t want to go into those here, as this post is about Hardened Repositories and Object First.

 PREAMBLE: In this period I'm trying to write my articles using the STAR model (Situation, Task, Action, Result) to make sure they're technically accurate and clear.I'll never get tired to say this: protecting company data is the most important thing for any business, and we need to go beyond traditional virtual machines or transactional databases to include unstructured data on NAS infrastructures.1. SituationOur customer wants a strong and permanent backup system for a lot of unstructured data:Data Source: NetApp ONTAP (version 9.14.1P5). Data involved: There's about 11 TB spread across 25 NFS shares. Critical info: We've got Oracle database dumps (done with RMAN) and PostgreSQL (via script). Final destination: The backup had to be efficient, and the backup copy had to be replicated to

Hi! As HPE and Veeam deepen their strategic partnership, I´m back in the Veeam Community and wrote about the integration of Veeam with the HPE Alletra MP B10000 using HPE GreenLake.HPE Alletra MP is a cloud-native, modular, disaggregated storage platform that delivers multi-protocol support and enables high-performance NVMe hardware with software-defined capabilities.On the other hand, GreenLake is HPE's cloud platform with advanced AIOps capabilities in monitoring, automating, and managing IT infrastructure, cloud resources, workloads, and applications across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.The post is long, and it was not possible to upload all the content to a single topic. Therefore, I am sharing the link:

So I’ve spent plenty of time living in vCenter, managing VMware clusters like most of us have. But as I started digging into KVM-based hypervisors, it honestly felt a little backwards at first…different tools, different terms. Once you step through it though, a lot of the same core concepts are there. I put this together to help connect the dots if you’re used to VMware and starting to take a look at KVM.While KVM itself is a standardized kernel module, not all KVM-based hypervisors are created equal. Vendors and open-source communities may customize their KVM implementations with unique management layers, storage integrations, and performance tuning. For VMware administrators exploring alternatives, this blog focuses on the foundational KVM components that most directly compare to the vSphere stack. The goal is to simplify that comparison and help you build a clear mental map between platforms.As virtualization strategies evolve and organizations explore alternatives

Hi All, In early December, I set myself the challenge of writing a blog post every day and putting together an Advent-style calendar covering topics ranging from security and automation to a few features I genuinely enjoy.It was an ambitious goal, but I’m happy to say I completed it. I’ve been sharing each post on LinkedIn daily, but I wanted to post the full collection here as well for anyone who isn’t connected with me there.If you’d like to read along, please feel free to share. I hope you enjoy it. Advent Calendar Day 24: Thank You and Looking Ahead | Homelabpro Blog

I'm creating some labs on AWS and today I'll share the Veeam part with you. Lab Details:VBR:Instance size: c5.2xlarge  Availability Zone: us-east-1f  Architecture: AMD64  Total memory: 16384 MB  Network: Up to 10 GigabitJobs created:EC2 EFS FSx VPC First, why not use Marketplace?As many already know, taxes in Brazil are massive.Because of this, I usually don't use Marketplace, since the taxes are even higher through Marketplaces. (Until 40%)So I prefer to deploy Veeam traditionally on EC2.Here are some steps:Upload the Veeam .ISO on an S3 Create an EC2 (will be our EC2) Use TNTdrive to mount the S3 for EC2 Install V13  Using CLI AWS to upload de .ISO: "C

Hey guys,I hope you are fine and ready for the end‑of‑year holidays.I wanted to share an issue I encountered this morning while integrating VDC Vault on a VBR server running on 2012R2. Yes, I know, the OS is no longer supported — a redesign project is planned soon. To quickly improve backup security, we set up a Vault. Unfortunately, during the integration I received the following message: I didn’t see any specific prerequisites in the Veeam documentation regarding the operating system for integrating VDC Vault.After going through several pages, I found this in the Help Center: Make sure you have WebView2 Runtime installed on your backup server.Once it was installed, we were able to complete the configuration and create our backup copy job.Cheers !

Hi Community,If you are going to take the Veeam Backup & Replication v13.0.1 ILT course, then it's important that you take the recommended free courses.Check my blog for ways to access the recommended free courses.https://pulia.com.br/veeam-backup-replication-v13-0-1-course-experience-recommendations/Hope that help your learning!

Hi Community!!!During my time as a technical trainer and consultant, I constantly tried to draw analogies between the features we have in IT and the things we experience in our daily lives.Today I will draw an analogy between the wardrobe and SOBR.The idea behind using an analogy is to make technical topics easier to understand. Often, when explaining storage tiering, the listener gets confused, so I made a simple analogy with a wardrobe. This makes storage tiering easier to understand.In this analogy, you will have the opportunity to understand performance, capacity, and archive tiering in a very simple way.Check my blog to see the analogy, hope you enjoy it https://pulia.com.br/what-does-a-sobr-have-in-common-with-a-wardrobe/  

Last week I had to troubleshoot a backup job that was using a brand new proxy and repository server. No other job was using these components. Nonetheless just 4 VMs were processed at the same time. All other VMs showed status “Pending”. As additional information, “Resource not ready: Active snapshots limit reached for datastore” was shown too in active job log.After a short investigation we found out, all VMs were located on just one VMFS datastore. Fortunately there is a rather simple solution for this limitation. You can create a registry key on VBR server to increase the limit of active snapshots per datastore:HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Veeam\Veeam Backup and Replication\MaxSnapshotsPerDatastore For more details see this forum pos

Dear community,  Applications are now open for the 2026 Veeam Vanguard class. Any Veeam enthusiast publishing Veeam-related content (e.g. articles, video guides, speaking at Veeam events, podcasts) can apply to become a Veeam Vanguard. There's an article I published on the Veeam Executive Blog (https://www.veeam.com/blog/veeam-vanguard-2026-applications.html) containing a link to the application form at the top of the page, labelled "APPLY NOW", so you can't miss it! After clicking, you will be redirected to the form that every candidate needs to fill out. If you have someone in mind to nominate, it's not enough to just nominate them; even nominees need to answer the questions that are crucial for us when evaluating all applications during Q1. The application process remains open until 9 January 2026, a

With Veeam Backup & Replication v13 and its implementation of SAML for authentication, we can use a lot of different IDPs. I already did a guide for entra id which you can find here: https://community.veeam.com/blogs-and-podcasts-57/vbr-v13-saml-implementation-guide-with-entra-id-11560 In my region, entra id is the IDP that is used at most companies. However, it is not recommended to add Veeam to your production active directory domain, so I would also say it is also not really recommended to add your Veeam to your production m365/entra id tenant or generally your main IDP. This guide provides some guidance to set up Veeam with Authentik as an SAML IDP. For those who never heard about Authentik: Authentik is a lightweight, open-source, self-hosted identity provider that offers

 Ever had your backups fail? I sure have! But it’s all part of the fun & games of learning exactly how these systems work.Recently I spun up another instance of Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure, and as part of my security mindset, I configured some elements of hardening to my infrastructure. Well, I missed a setting that I’m going to share with you today. Worker Job Completed with Error So, I had Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure working, my daily snapshot job was also running fine, but it was the daily backup that wasn’t working. Some of the key terms I could pick out from the logs were ‘Worker: <Resource Name> (IP Address:Port): job completed with error’, ‘Error: This request is not authorised to perform this operation’, ‘Status 403’, and ‘ErrorCode AuthorizationFailur

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:

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 th

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 produc

 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

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 Issu

Synergy ensures one keyboard, one mouse, multiple computers, no cables, no switches, just seamless control over your network. Cleaner desks, smarter workflows, and true cross-platform productivityFor more information, please take a look at this detailed blogpost “ Why Software KVMs such as Synergy is replacing Hardware KVMs”

Recently, the below Post was created on “Microsoft SQL Server 2025 + Veeam Data Platform = Improved Scalability”​​​.As stated and I quote, ... Microsoft SQL Server 2025 has not yet been validated for the Veeam Data Platform, as it was only made GA on the 18th November 2025, so the information I’m providing here is in preparation for the inevitable support when it’s passed through Veeam’s QA To reiterate, at this time, SQL Server 2025 is not supported yet. This support is inevitabl

Every year, more companies migrate their backup architecture to object storage. The promise is well-known: scalability, predictable cost, and an extra layer of resilience against ransomware. But with so many providers available, one of them has been gaining significant traction — Wasabi Hot Cloud Storage. Wasabi's value proposition is refreshingly simple: S3-compatible storage, high performance, no cold tiers, predictable pricing, and full support for Object Lock, enabling true immutable backups. In this article, I share the full experience of building a protection scenario using Veeam Agent Standalone + Wasabi, walking through:creating a bucket configuring permissions integrating Veeam with Wasabi running the first backup validating immutability restoring a full machine into a hypervisor performing granular file-level recovery

My colleague ​@rfsantos  and I were experiencing some disk space issues using Windows Agents with Protection Groups on two Always On nodes.Due to the heavy load on the disks, even after creating exclusions on low-criticality disks, the full backup was exceeding 20 TB, and the incr about 3 TB. Veeam Agents will always need to back up the images to initiate the child backup (Transaction Log).We deployed the SQL Plugin on both hosts to optimize disk space provisioned by our Pure Storage repository. We separated the jobs between standalone databases and Always On databases.This way, we monitored backup growth separately. Use cases (Not all possible):- When databases are large in our example. The cluster exceeds 15 TB;- You have more DBAs than backup administrators. DBAs have full

If you are using the Veeam plugin for Nutanix AHV. Please do not upgrade to Nutanix AOS 7.5 release. We have encountered some serious compatibility issues in our testing. Once it is validated we will update the forums post below. https://forums.veeam.com/nutanix-ahv-f51/aos-7-5-t101416.html This has been fixed with a patch for PC 7.5.0.1. Please see release notes below. It identifies the fix on page 12😀. Thanks,Pete