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Virtualization Mode is a dedicated management experience built for virtualization infrastructure. Unlike the standard “administration mode” of WAC which is oriented to individual servers. vMode gives a fabric‑level view, letting you centrally manage Hyper‑V hosts, clusters, storage, VMs, and networks at scale.  The official WAC vMode overview mentions that one of its capabilities is “integrated disaster recovery with Hyper‑V Replica. You can learn more from here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/manage/windows-admin-center/virtualization-mode-overviewThe underlying DR technology is native Hyper‑V Replica. According to Microsoft: Hyper‑V Replica supports three

Hi All, check my first  V100 Summit expirience ! https://pulia.com.br/my-veeam-100-summit-experience/ 

Hi everyone,I would like to share my lates experience at the V100 Summit in Prague.For those you don’t know what the V100 Group is an exclusive community of Veeam experts and enthusiasts that includes the Legends, Vanguards and VMP.Once a year, we are gifted with the opportunity to meet in person, attend to many conferences and be hand to hand with the Community team, as well as the Marketing and Product strategy team, getting access to all cool content, new ideas, etc. Many of the other V100 members had share already their experience, from tech perspective mostly, Im going to turn that into more sentimental or “romantic”. Have you ever feel that you don’t belong to anywhere? Or simply you don’t fit with the “standard” like around you?In the Veeam community, I have found a place where I can be myself, and be surrounded by people who likes and live the same things like I do, technology, knowledge sharing, and friendship, no matt

Tape Library (Tape Library) What is it? A Tape Library is an automated storage system used for backing up and archiving data onto magnetic tapes (cartridges). It fundamentally consists of the following components: Tape Drives: Hardware components where data is written to or read from the tape. Slots: Physical locations where the tape cartridges are stored. Robotic Mechanism (Picker/Robotic Arm): An automated arm that retrieves cartridges from their slots and places them into the tape drives, or vice-versa, according to software commands. This system is ideal for storing large volumes of data at a low cost, in an energy-efficient manner, and for long periods. Cartridges typically use LTO (Linear Tape-Open) technology. How to Use Tape Library with Veeam? Veeam Backup & Replication supports tape units,

The Veeam 100 Summit 2025 was more than just an event, but a journey of innovation, intense human moments and shared visions. Once again, the Veeam community demonstrated why it is considered one of the strongest and most technical in the IT landscape.In this article, I want to share my personal experience and explain what inspired me, what struck me, and why this Summit gave me insight into the next stage of my professional growth. I wrote about my first impressions of what happened in my previous article. Innovation at the core: Veeam V13 and Veeam Data CloudThe event was a succession of information aimed at conveying a clear message:Veeam V13 and Veeam Data Cloud are reshaping the future of data protection.The new V13 version is not just an upgrade but a reworkin

Hi Everyone,In the ever changing landscape of data protection… Shut Up AI!!!!!! Sorry I just felt like saying that today 😁 Turn off the Playstation turn on Veeam 13 in the Lab! Like most of you I have sidelined my PC gaming activity (somewhat) in order to dive into the latest Veeam 13.0.1 release.Veeam Security Officer Reminder, always follow Veeam’s best practices and create a Veeam Security Officer or as we all know them as veeamso! The veeamadmin then is forced to ask for approval to enable certain services, like ssh and shell. Veeam Green? After following diligently the new process (caveat, this is my home lab where I wear many hats, in fact like all my jobs ever in IT :(, I am the security officer), asking the security officer for approval, I received access to the shell. Immediately I noticed the green. In fact I am lying I did not but a colleague at work m

From my experience, most organizations leverage tags to organize their backup jobs.But here’s the tricky question: How are these tags managed?Do you tag during deployment? When the business requests it? Based on applications or SLAs? Or do you sometimes forget to tag workloads? There might be a better way:Let Veeam ONE handle the heavy lifting for you. What are we going to do?Reduce operational overhead by dynamically adding or removing VMs from jobs Use Veeam ONE to automate vSphere tags Target workloads with db or sql in their names Exclude replicas of those VMs Create a backup job targeting the newly created tagRequirementsVeeam ONE needs permission to create tags.For this, the Business View must not rely on external sources—Veeam ONE will act as the managing component.Navigate to Server Settings → Business View and disab

Are your Veeam Backups failing because your VMs live in DMZs or tightly firewalled networks? You're not alone! In large-scale, secure environments, traditional network-based Guest Processing often hits a wall (literally!). But there's a simple, yet powerful, fix you might not know about: Changing the order of Veeam's Guest Processing Methods.We're diving deep into the Why and How of prioritizing networkless processing for both VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V. This quick configuration change ensures Veeam always tries the most suitable, hypervisor-channel-based communication first, bypassing those tricky network barriers and keeping your backups successful.https://integriservices.blogspot.com/2025/11/regkey-of-month-november.html

Zero Trust or Bust but Community Trust is a Must! The ransomware avalanche that we have experienced over the last few years has turned most IT people, including Data Protection professionals, into paranoid zero trust fanatics. Everything is viewed through the lens of “beware”. To some this can become overwhelming, after all we humans like to feel safe and comfortable and that requires a trustful environment. So where can we find that comforting trust zone? The community,  that is where!I had the great pleasure of participating in my 4th V100 Summit this November in Prague Czech republic. Veeam is a special company that does something remarkable for its community heroes each year. They bring them together from around the world to share product updates, and gather feedback. Perhaps most importantly they help the community members bond together.I could spend time going over the fantastic sessions and the great content that I was pre

Hello, dear community! I am here with another packed newsletter. 🤓 There has been a delay this month as we have been busy planning and executing the Veeam100 Summit at the beginning of the month. In the middle of the month, I was co-organising a local VUG event, so my newsletter have gone slightly out of the standard timing. This one is full of insightful content related to various Veeam products, patches and releases. Take a look for yourself and stay tuned for the November edition, which will be published at the beginning of next month as usual. Veeam Vanguard October Newsletter ​@AndreTheGiant - Veeam beta support for XCP-ng - https://vinfrastructure.

Enabling Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) or Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) is the best way to protect accounts from password theft or phishing. Therefore it’s recommended to enable such options, when they’re available. Since some time it’s possible to use MFA for Veeam Accounts, which are used to access the my.veeam.com portal or also the Veeam Community 😉Login to your Veeam account at my.veeam.com and click on edit profile in the top right corner.At the bottom of your profile details, you need to click on “Enable MFA”. As a side note, even after enabling MFA this link still states “Enable” instead of “Disable”.

I have a lot of jobs that are getting a new naming convention. The old way to do this was remove from the job from the configuration, modify the folder name on the repository, rename the job, rescan the Repo, then map the back files to the job.   I found there is an updated way to do this and is a welcome feature to save time. To go one step further, it is not recommended to use the remove/rescan method due to the fact the files get new identifiers that cause the restore points to be seen as new data by all tape and cloud storage offload jobs.  To test it, lets create a new job.In my case it’s called “___TEST_NAME_CHANGE” to keep it at the top of my screen.  Next, after running a job, we will click “Disk” on the left to make sure there is a backup on the Repository. It’s similar, but it’s not q

After a couple of busy weeks with work I was finally able to complete my blog on the V100 Summit in Prague.  Please see below and a link to my blog post where I highlight many of the V100 members.Veeam 100 Summit Recap - Prague 2025  Veeam 100 Summit Recap – Prague 2025 I’d like to first thank Rick Vanover, Madalina Cristil, Nikola Pejková, Safiya Mohamed

While browsing through Veeam 13 I came across something that truly stuck out: Send me a Daily AI-powered summary of all backup activities!AI-powered summaryNow that is a wish come true! I set the time and impatiently waited in my home lab to see! Sure enough voila!Daily Summary Sometimes it is the little things that make one even more appreciative! 

ChallengeWith Hyper-V as well as other hypervisors getting more resonance in the last months for unspoken reasons, we faced several infrastructures running the Azure Local implementation of it.These can easily be backed up by Veeam Backup and Replication. Just like regular Hyper-V clusters. Though, some peculiarities might arise.One of those for us was, that some auto-generated VMs might appear with names like:In one environment, we found >10 of those VMs in the stack. Roles of These VMsAPI Serve

 It's already 3 weeks after my first journey to this summit in Prague. I was on several summits, but this is completely different. Everybody knows each other very close after an year or who was first time, they knew few months virtually from community. like me. And now was the time, when we met together and everybody was happy to met me personally like we have been seen previously. It was was nice talk with everybody from community. Of course, was really great to meet Veeam management and to talk with them about my design and requirements and what could be improved and how. For me was like Christmas time, like a family meeting during Christmas.If we look on box, on swag pack, it was like Xmas gift :) Lot of nice merches. The meetings were very fruitful for me, what we can use for resilience data now and what is comi

Virtualization technology has become an integral part of modern IT infrastructures. It provides incredible flexibility, scalability, and cost-efficiency to businesses of all sizes.Since several hypervisor platforms have gained significant traction in recent years, including Proxmox VE, XCP-ng, and Nutanix AHV etc. As business needs continue to evolve, the choice of virtualization platform must remain equally adaptive. Thereby, aligning performance, scalability, and management capabilities with changing organizational and technological demandsMigrating from one hypervisor to another is a complex process that requires careful planning and evaluation. Organizations must consider factors such as application dependencies, migration timelines, workload criticality, and the potential business impact of application downtime. PrerequisiteIf you fail to install the VirtIO drivers as recommended, you may also encounter issues s

The Veeam Software Appliance v13 brings a new level of simplicity, security, and efficiency to modern data-protection workflows. Built on a hardened Linux foundation and designed for fast, consistent deployments, the VSA is an excellent option for organizations seeking a streamlined, appliance-based approach to Veeam Backup & Replication.In this guide, I provide a practical overview of how to configure the Veeam Software Appliance v13 and highlight the main features that make this version stand out. Why VSA v13 Is a Major Step ForwardSecurity by DesignVSA v13 was built with a strong security focus from the very first boot. It includes: A minimal Linux operating system, drastically reducing the attack surface SELinux in strict mode, providing advanced policy enforcement SSH disabled by default, preventing unnecessary access paths With these

My journey with Veeam began in 2020, right in the middle of the pandemic, a time filled with uncertainty, challenges, and a lot of learning. Troubleshooting and analysis weren’t easy at first, but something quickly stood out to me: the Veeam Community.A space where experienced professionals shared knowledge generously and newcomers like me could grow by learning from real-world experiences. I started quietly, absorbing everything I could, and eventually felt the desire to give back. Helping others who faced the same difficulties I once did became a natural part of my routine.One moment that really moved my story forward was when Christian invited me to write posts for his blog. That opportunity boosted my confidence, helped me grow faster, and brought me closer to community members I deeply admired, including the Veeam 100, which slowly became a personal dream.Coming from the

Object First OOTBI (Out-of-the-Box Immutability) is a purpose-built, secure, and immutable backup storage solution engineered specifically for Veeam Backup & Replication. By combining storage performance, immutability, and simplicity, OOTBI helps IT teams achieve reliable data protection while reducing operational overhead.Also, OOTBI eliminates the complexity associated with traditional backup storage by offering an appliance that you can deploy, configure, and integrate with Veeam in minutes. Below are some article relating to Object First OOTBI.Steps to configure Object First OOTBI Appliance | Veeam Community Resource Hub Enable Honeypot on Object Fir

Good evening, wonderful community!I'm not very active anymore, but you’ve always stayed close to my heart. To my fellow Windows users: I revisited some code, updated a topic from last year and completely rebuilt it for the 2025 version.I'm talking about: https://community.veeam.com/blogs-and-podcasts-57/direct-to-windows-object-storage-on-premise-with-minio-6055Are you still looking to test direct-to-Object Storage in an on-prem Windows Server environment? Well…This time, I used a simple internal setup, used purely for testing and educational purposes, yet fully on-prem and Windows compatible:Proxmox VE 8.4 Veeam Backup & Replicati

Hi folks, as of today, V13.0.1 for Veeam Backup & Replication is generally available! This release also supports Windows Server versions of VBR.In addition, Veeam Recovery Orchestrator (VRO) v13.0.0 and some other products like Veeam ONE v13.0.1 and Veeam Service Provider Console v9.1 have also been released today. So I went into my lab and just started the upgrade procedure from my Veeam Recovery Orchestrator Environment / VRO 7.2.1 → 13.0.0.See the steps below and hopefully no issues… Download the binaries from: Discover the Latest Version of Veeam Solutions. And make sure you have a backup of your current installation 😀 Step-by-step in Screenshots:

Hey everyone,Let’s kick this off by highlighting that as of this moment, Microsoft SQL Server 2025 has not yet been validated for the Veeam Data Platform, as it was only made GA yesterday 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.Microsoft have now released Microsoft SQL Server 2025 and in reviewing the changes, I stumbled upon some insights that I thought would be worth highlighting to those still using Microsoft SQL Server to power their Veeam Data Platform installations.Starting with Microsoft SQL Server 2025 Standard Edition, Microsoft are making two key changes that will impact scalability; an increased CPU core count, and increased maximum RAM limits. Now they are:CPU Socket Count: This is unchanged and still a maximum of 4x CPU Sockets. If you’re finding idle cores a lot with your SQL Server instance, make sure this isn’t your

Boosting Resilience in Bare-Metal Active Active Clusters: 4 and 5 Node Control Plane Architecture (4.17 ⬆ Version)  Organizations running active-active deployments across two locations—especially those hosting stateful workloads like OpenShift Virtualization VMs that run only a single instance—depend heavily on the underlying infrastructure to guarantee availability.While traditional virtualization platforms handle this natively, running these workloads on OpenShift bare metal introduces new architectural considerations. The Challenge: What Happens When the Primary Site Fails? ⚠️In typical stretched OpenShift clusters, the control plane is often deployed in a 2+1

I am currently working on my first larger V13 deployment outside of my lab. There are a few stumbling blocks here, because the procedure is slightly different from V12 and the Help Center is unfortunately not yet complete at this point in time (Veeam is working hard to change this quickly and have it complete soon).One of these stumbling blocks was connecting the Veeam VBR V13 server to the Veeam ONE V13 server, which I would like to describe to you in this post. First off, my problem was a user/login issue.Firewall PoliciesIf the servers are located in separate networks, the appropriate firewall policies must always be configured.https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/one/userguide/ports.html?ver=13Access to host managementAccess to host management via port “10443” on the VBR server must be available, and the login details for “veeamso” and “veeamadmin” or an other Host Admin and Security Officer must be provided.