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haslund
haslundMr. VMCE
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#DailyQuiz - #VMCE 2020 Scenario question 37 walkthrough

Today’s #VMCE2020 #DailyQuiz walkthrough is ready. Have you used the Veeam Extract utility? GUI? Command line? Windows or linux? Can it extract from VBK? VRB? VIB? How did you get the files back to your hypervisor environment?Try this question and more at https://rasmushaslund.com/vmce-practice-exam/

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gulzarshaikhveeam
1 year ago
haslund
haslundMr. VMCE
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#DailyQuiz - #VMCE 2020 Scenario question 39 walkthrough

Today’s #VMCE2020 #DailyQuiz walkthrough is ready. What is your use case for staged restore? Which applications are you using it with? Which format of scripts are you using?Try this question and more at https://rasmushaslund.com/vmce-practice-exam/

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gulzarshaikhveeam
1 year ago
haslund
haslundMr. VMCE
posted in Blogs and podcasts

Presentation: How to pass your (VMCE) exam

Hi everyone!I recently had the honor of presenting at the Veeam User Group for CZ/SK and think the topic will be of interest to the general Veeam community.The presentation does cover some VMCE related topics, but will provide great advice for anyone studying for any IT certification exam.Hope you enjoy the presentation and any feedback would be very welcome 

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gulzarshaikhveeam
1 year ago
haslund
haslundMr. VMCE
posted in Blogs and podcasts

#HomelabWednesday - How to deploy VMware vSphere ESXi nested in a virtual machine

In this week's episode of #HomelabWednesdays, I show you how to deploy two nested ESXi hosts and add them to a cluster in your VMware vCenter.Don’t forget to subscribe to get automatic notifications whenever a new video is released. 

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gulzarshaikhveeam
1 year ago
eprieto
eprietoVeeam Vanguard
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VBR v11 🔥Instant Recovery Of ANY Backup To Hyper-V 🤓in a Chart

I took the time to put together this table in Draw.io and was impressed when I finished it, in v11 it will come with this great improvement in Hyper-V.    

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gulzarshaikhveeam
1 year ago
haslund
haslundMr. VMCE
posted in Blogs and podcasts

#DailyQuiz - #VMCE 2020 Scenario question 42 walkthrough

Today’s #VMCE2020 #DailyQuiz walkthrough is ready. Are you using replicas? What about failover plans? How often do you test them? How many failover plans do you have? and… how many VMs could be in a single failover plan? :-)Try this question and more at https://rasmushaslund.com/vmce-practice-exam/

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gulzarshaikhveeam
1 year ago
vNote42
vNote42Veeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard
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Get news about B&R v11

Check out current news about the upcoming Version v11 at the new landing page here:https://go.veeam.com/v11 Sign up for news by mail here:https://go.veeam.com/v11#toForm Watch the video Veeam v11: Top 11 hottest NEW features at:https://veeamlive.com/

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gulzarshaikhveeam
1 year ago
haslund
haslundMr. VMCE
posted in Blogs and podcasts

#DailyQuiz - #VMCE 2020 Scenario question 43 walkthrough

Today’s #VMCE2020 #DailyQuiz walkthrough is ready. What happens to your source/original VM when you trigger a failover to a replica? What happens if it is suddenly powered on at the same time as your replica that you just failed over to?Try this question and more at https://rasmushaslund.com/vmce-practice-exam/

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gulzarshaikhveeam
1 year ago
jorge.delacruz
jorge.delacruzInfluencer
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[Veeam 1-minute] Backup and Restore of Amazon RDS with Veeam Backup for AWS v3

Learn with us on this one-minute video if your Veeam Backup for AWS v3 RDS Policy is working, and How-To Restore an Amazon RDS back to production, all in one minute.For more information, and a fully functional (Free Forever 10 AWS instances) visit here - https://www.veeam.com/aws-backup.htmlI hope you like it! Have not seen much videos, or information around the RDS, and VPC, integration with VBR, so you will see much more one minute videos soon.

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gulzarshaikhveeam
1 year ago
haslund
haslundMr. VMCE
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#DailyQuiz - #VMCE 2020 Scenario question 44 walkthrough

Today’s #VMCE2020 #DailyQuiz walkthrough is ready. Have you tried the planned failover feature? What actually happens when you perform it? and could it maybe combined with the failover plan feature?Try this question and more at https://rasmushaslund.com/vmce-practice-exam/

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gulzarshaikhveeam
1 year ago
eprieto
eprietoVeeam Vanguard
posted in Blogs and podcasts

Advanced VMware vSphere Features 🤓 Encrypted VMs

Many times we wonder what happens with encrypted VMs , here is this great explanation of Veeam   Backup of Encrypted VMs Veeam Backup & Replication lets you back up encrypted VMs. The backup infrastructure must meet the following requirements:VM encryption instances must be preconfigured in the virtual infrastructure: you must set up the key management server, create the VM encryption policy and assign it to VMs in advance. The backup proxy used for backup must be working in the Virtual appliance transport mode or Network transport mode with SSL encryption enabled. The backup proxy working in the Virtual appliance transport mode must be deployed on an encrypted VM. Ensure either that you use a common Key Management Server (KMS) or that the Key Management Server clusters at both sites use common encryption keys.  Replication of Encrypted VMsVeeam Backup & Replication lets you replicate encrypted VMs. The backup infrastructure must meet the following requirements:VM encryption in

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gulzarshaikhveeam
1 year ago
eprieto
eprietoVeeam Vanguard
posted in Blogs and podcasts

Veeam Agent For Mac 🍎 !!! Part 1

  What Can Be Backed Up?User profiles with all content Custom selection File based backup with native APFS snapshots  Restore On Client Side     Veeam Agent For Mac Supports…back up files and folders save coloured tags restore specific files or the whole ‘Users’ folder schedule backups send backups to VBR / VCC / Local drive (including encryption) provide basic local UI for FLR    Snapshot SupportNative APFS snapshot supportAutomatic snapshot mode selection in single jobUsers on APFS backed up with snapshot Users located NAS share backed up without snapshot USB drives backed up without snapshot   MAC OS versions will be supported10.13 (High Sierra), 10.14 (Mojave), 10.15 (Catalina)  Can I restore files from the VBR console?”Copy to” (Linux & Windows) is possible. No direct restore  Deduplication appliances are supported !    

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gulzarshaikhveeam
1 year ago
eprieto
eprietoVeeam Vanguard
posted in Blogs and podcasts

Tape 📼 Improvements in VBR v11 🔥

When I thought the tape was forgotten ...  Veeam brings us these improvements that I think are excellents!                                                     Tape 📼 Improvements TAPE CLONING !!!  Allows us to Migrate from old LTO to newer tapes generations Additional copy for security reasons  You can Copy from one drive to other drive via tape server You can Modify database and link old backups with new tapes You can Preserve link for old tapes File parts are detected and prompt for additional tape  Note:Veeam can clone all Veeam tapes (B2T, F2T, NDMP), Veeam Can't do it for 3rd party tapes.   What you need to know Requires at least two drives Restore selects automatically the needed tape if several copies exist No scheduler (use PowerShell) One media pool still does only allow one LTO generation What do you think of this improvement?   

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vNote42
1 year ago
Kseniya
Kseniya✨
posted in Blogs and podcasts

[FREE Kubernetes Backup] 2 Ways to Try Kasten K10

Hey everyone,There were a few discussions at Community Hub around Kasten, Kubernetes and the way to try K10 product (if there are NFR keys available)Well, the good news is that there are two ways to test it!Hands-on Lab: Take a Kasten K10 TestdriveYou can take a live testdrive of K10, Kasten's data management platform for all your Kubernetes-native backup, DR, and application mobility needs.What you have to do to get access: To learn how Kubernetes-native application backup and recovery works, complete the form here and receive an email containing a link to the Kasten K10 testdrive.Install from the Cloud - 50 Nodes for 1 Month, 10 Free ForeverK10 Editions (Starter, Enterprise Trial, and Enterprise)The default Starter edition, provided at no charge, is functionally the same as the Enterprise Trial and Enterprise editions but limited from a support and scale perspective. Customers choosing to upgrade to the Enterprise edition can obtain a license key from Kasten or install from cloud mar

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vNote42
1 year ago
MicoolPaul
MicoolPaulVeeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard
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Veeam Agent for Linux – Failed to create Volume Snapshot / Failed to Load Module [veeamsnap]

So I had a unique support case recently, a customer using Veeam Agent for Linux with mixed success, they had one particular server that worked fine during implementation and then after a week the backups had started to immediately fail. The server was unable to load the veeamsnap module.Veeam themselves have a great article dealing with this in general and it helps resolve the majority of the cases, link here.One point I believe this article doesn’t properly discuss though is why this can happen, especially when it previously worked properly. To understand this we need to know a bit about how Veeam works with its Linux Agent.To fully understand how the Veeam Agent for Linux works, the first question we need to answer is, what is “veeamsnap”? veeamsnap is a Linux kernel module used by Veeam to create volume snapshots. Due to the huge variety of Linux systems and updates supported by Veeam, there are some pre-requisites that must be met for veeamsnap to function, these are documented her

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BertrandFR
1 year ago
vNote42
vNote42Veeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard
posted in Blogs and podcasts

Kubernetes data protection - GigaOm Radar shows Kasten among top 3 leaders

I am not the container/Kubernetes guy - working on it - but it looks like, Veeam made the right decision to acquire Kasten for Kubernetes Data Protection! It is named as one of the 3 leaders in this area. Looking forward to put hands on.https://blocksandfiles.com/2020/11/14/gigaom-kubernetes-data-protection/

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vNote42
1 year ago
eprieto
eprietoVeeam Vanguard
posted in Blogs and podcasts

VBR v11🔥 vCloud Director To vCloud Director Replication 🔁

NEW!!! VBR v11vCloud Director To vCloud Director Replication   Replication At vApp Level •VM snapshots used in background •because only one vApp snapshot possible•Target Org vDCmust exist before creating job•Veeam created vApp   What’s Replicated •VM configuration•VM start and stop order•Description•Networking (org vDClevel)•Metadata   

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eprieto
1 year ago
eprieto
eprietoVeeam Vanguard
posted in Blogs and podcasts

Veeam Agent For Linux 🐧 Improvements 🔥

I came Back !! Jen had Stolen my Internet     Recovery ISO Improvements for Linux Agents •LUKS and LUKS2 support•AddvancedLVM configurations•Network manager TUI added (nmtui)•SSH server auto-start•Better hardware support -> based on latest Debian LiveISO 

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R
1 year ago
eprieto
eprietoVeeam Vanguard
posted in Blogs and podcasts

VBR v11 💪🔥 RESTful API for VBR

 RESTful API for VBR •New “Veeam Backup Server RESTful API Service”•Does not require Enterprise Manager •Allows code generation through Swagger (based on OpenAPI3)•OAuth2 for authentication•Default port 9419  Capabilities•Create / modify / delete backup jobs•Manage backup infrastructure•Deploy at scale  Mass Deployments 1.Export from oldVBR 2.Save output to jsonfile 3.Import to a new VBR * resource == jobs, repositories, proxies etc. Limitations •VMware backup jobs•Repositories: DAS and NAS•VMware Proxies •Managed Servers –Everything except Hyper-V and vCloud Director•Inventory –VMware vSphere 

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gulzarshaikhveeam
1 year ago
MicoolPaul
MicoolPaulVeeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard
posted in Blogs and podcasts

Reminder: Veeam Support Stance when new Product Versions are released (e.g. v11)

I just wanted to remind people of Veeam’s stance towards supporting multiple editions of products with the impending release of v11 and the all-star collection of upgrades we’re about to receive.Veeam have three stages to the end of the lifecycle of a product version:Stage One: End of FixVeeam focus their development on bug fixing on the latest available version only, so if you encounter a bug with v10 once v11 is released, one of two things will happen:If the issue is resolved on v11, you will be advised to upgrade to v11. If the issue isn’t resolved on v11, Veeam’s default stance is not to fix on v10, but instead focus efforts on fixing in v11, they do have a caveat this will be reviewed on a case by case basis but you shouldn’t expect to get a fix on v10.You will still receive technical support on products in this stage provided you have a valid support contract.Stage Two: End of SupportOnce a product has reached end of support even with a valid support contract you will no longer r

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MicoolPaul
1 year ago
jorge.delacruz
jorge.delacruzInfluencer
posted in Blogs and podcasts

[RESTful API] What's New, Deprecated, and Changed in VBA AWS v3 + VBO v5

Greetings everyone, Veeam keeps releasing, and improving the RESTful API of the different products and solutions. The last two that have been received and incredible amount of new API calls, improvements, and changes are the one for Veeam Backup for AWS v3, and the new Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 v5.Veeam tends to release a small what’s new for API where it highlights, briefly, the new stuff. If you are a heavy user of the RESTful APIs, maybe you are using them for automation, maybe as a Service Provider, you will probably like to see a full detail of all the changes, so here we are! Thanks to my colleague @Chris.Arceneaux who helped me understand Matrix, I am delighted to share with you the changes between the new API versions vs the old ones. Veeam Backup for AWS v3It was so subtle that I almost missed it, in fact I did for the first hours working with the API, as it is not a new version itself, just a new revision of the API v1.0. The changes are massive, as you can imagin

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gulzarshaikhveeam
1 year ago
vNote42
vNote42Veeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard
posted in Blogs and podcasts

[PowerShell] analyze used repository space

Here I want to show how to query space in VBR Repositories with a few PowerShell snippets. These can be taken to check used space and compare this with restore points in VBR database. It can be used for larger environments to analyze repository space. I used these codes to analyze differences in size on the repositories at a customer.First check: Restore points in database and compare them to allocated space on repository.$VbrVMs = ((Get-VBRBackup  | Get-VBRRestorePoint)  |select vmname, @{N="Job"; E={$_.getsourcejob().name }}, @{N="Repo"; E={$_.getrepository().name }} , @{N="size"; E={$_.getstorage().stats.BackupSize }})  The output of this one-liner should be the same as properties of disk backups. When total over all this corresponds to used space on repository volumes, everything is OK. If not, a problem can exist.Second Check: You can check each physical file with Veeam known files in DB. I used this script (http://sebastiaan.tempels.eu/2017/05/05/veeam-orphaned-files/) to start w

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vNote42
1 year ago
haslund
haslundMr. VMCE
posted in Blogs and podcasts

#DailyQuiz - #VMCE 2020 Scenario question 01 walkthrough

Today’s #VMCE2020 #DailyQuiz walkthrough is ready. How familiar are you with the terms RPO and RTO? What about combining that information into questions about backup job run frequency and amount of restore points?Try this question and more at https://rasmushaslund.com/vmce-practice-exam/

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gulzarshaikhveeam
1 year ago
eprieto
eprietoVeeam Vanguard
posted in Blogs and podcasts

Hyper-V 👀 Backup Modes

Veeam Backup and Replication provides two different backup modes to process Hyper-V backups, both relying on the Microsoft VSS framework.On-Host backup mode, for which backup data processing is on the Hyper-V node hosting the VM, leveraging non transportable shadow copies by using software VSS provider. Off-Host backup mode, for which backup data processing is offloaded to another non-clustered participating Hyper-V node, leveraging transportable shadow copies using hardware VSS provider provided by the SAN storage vendor or SMB3 functionality Performance wise, since both backup modes are using the exact same Veeam transport services, the only differentiating factors will be the additional time requested to manage transportable snapshots (in favor of On-Host mode) and the balance between compute and backup resources consumption during backup windows (in favor of Off-Host mode).When using Windows Server 2016 or later, On-Host proxy mode is very fast and requires less components, thus re

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gulzarshaikhveeam
1 year ago
arnaud.quenum
arnaud.quenumComes here often
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Simply orchestrate your DR with Veeam and NetApp !

Since the years when I was NetApp SE at Avnet/Techdata, I have always carried NetApp in my heart.And since I've been at Veeam, if there's one product I really like, it's Veeam Availability Orchestrator (VAO).So you can imagine that when Veeam announced VAO v3 with the major new feature of integration with NetApp technologies, it was a total excitement for me.In a NetApp environment, one of the promise of VAO is to drive the entire ONTAP storage failover during a DR to a  recovery site and then orchestrate the restart of applications at that recovery site.Is the promise really being delivered? YES, it is… Enough blah blah blah, I suggest you watch all this in this little 5 minutes demo.The voice over is in french, but I think the demo is easy to understand for non french native speakers. If it's not the case, let me know in the comments and I'll find a solution.Give me your feedbacks and tell me what you think about this prolific technology partnership between Veeam and  NetApp that has

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arnaud.quenum
1 year ago

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