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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.

I currently need to migrate my system from VMWare to OLVM, but I can't find an option for instant recovery of a virtual machine from VMWare to OLVM. I also can't find anywhere I can use this feature to recover a virtual machine from one OLVM to another.

TL;DR With Veeam Backup & Replication v13, every PowerShell cmdlet now goes through the same service layer used by the REST API and Web UI. That layer enforces request throttling. The tape cmdlets are extremely chatty, so when scripts call them in quick succession (as most reporting scripts do), you’ll hit TooManyRequests.Fix summary: Wrap tape calls with a retry/backoff helper, prefetch once (no calls inside loops), and serialize tape inventory access (don’t overlap reports, rescans, and tape jobs).  What Changed in v13? Veeam v13 moved PowerShell off the old .NET Framework RPC and onto .NET + a service backend shared with REST and the Web UI. The upside: one consistent platform. The downside: you now inherit API-style throttling that didn’t exist in v12.Symptom: Import-Module works, RBAC is fine, the first few tape calls may succeed, but bulk/sequential tape calls fail with TooManyRequests. Important: This is rate limiting, not permissions. Being Local Admin + Veeam Admin doesn’t

Upgrades - at least with Veeam - usually go smoothly. But every now and then, one catches you off guard. After upgrading Veeam Backup & Replication (VBR) to version 13, we ran into an issue that completely blocked access to the VBR console.I’m sharing this here in case it helps others who might hit the same problem.The Problem: No Console Access After UpgradeImmediately after the upgrade to VBR v13, the Veeam Backup & Replication console refused to connect to the VBR server.Instead of the expected login screen, we were greeted with a certificate error. What made troubleshooting especially confusing was that the error occurred regardless of how we tried to connect: localhost server IP address fully qualified domain name (FQDN)All resulted in the same error. From a Veeam perspective, everything on the server side looked healthy, services were running, and nothing in the upgrade logs indicated a failure. Before the upgrade with V12, we did not have any issues here.Root Cause: S

Hi ALL,I would like to ask for assistance with the following scenario. I am planning to purchase two StoreOnce systems and use Veeam as the backup software. I plan to use Catalyst and Backup Copy jobs to transfer backup data from StoreOnce #1 to StoreOnce #2.My question is: in this case, assuming that there is already existing backup data on StoreOnce #2, if a new Active Full backup is approximately 100 GB in size, will the data synchronized be the full 100 GB, or will only the changed blocks from StoreOnce #1 be transferred to StoreOnce #2?In other words, will this behave similarly to the replication of two NAS shares on StoreOnce, where only changed blocks are synchronized?”Thank you so much.RgdsHieuht 

The various discussion in the below article gave rise to the creation of this article. In previous discussions on the community and my blog, we have extensively covered the steps for performing a clean installation of Windows Server, reinstalling Veeam Backup & Replication (VBR), and migrating the configuration database.If you wish to have your VBR running on the latest Windows Server 2025. I have crafted a very detailed article discussing the steps here “how to perform an in-place upgrade from Windows Server 2022 to Windows Server 2025”. Windows Server 2025 comes in the following editions tailored to different organisational needs. They are the Essential Edition, the Standard Edition for lightly or non-virtualized environments, the Datacenter Edition for highly virtualised datacenter and cloud environments, as it is in my case, and the Datacenter: Azure Edition for seamless integration with Microsoft Azure in hybrid cloud scenarios.In this article, I touched on “Microsoft Windows

XCP-ng stands for Xen Cloud Platform, next generation and it is an open-source virtualisation platform that allows you to manage virtual machines and networks efficiently.XCP-ng delivers high-performance enterprise-level virtualization with a rich ecosystem. You can integrate it into your full stack for management and backups. It serves as the modern successor to XCP, which developers originally created as an open-source version of Citrix XenServer back in 2010. XCP-ng ArchitectureXCP-ng is a secure platform by default and enables you to run any kind of virtualisation workload . It contains multiple components, built around the Xen Hypervisor. It’s meant to run on top of bare-metal machines.XCP-ng runs Xen hypervisor on bare metal hardware (CPU, RAM, disk, GPU) to host VMs and PVs (paravirtualized guests). Dom0 (control domain) manages everything via tools and APIs, while backend drivers handle storage/network/QEMU emulation for guest domains.You can download the latest installer for X

     I have been talking with several service providers over the past 2 years around Broadcom. These conversations have shifted over the past few months. The initial conversations were around the price increase and change of functionality, but more recently around partners being kicked out of the program and no longer able to transact with Broadcom. This shift has forced service providers to reconsider how they would provide services to their customers and what options are out there.    I compare this to trying to get into fishing. You could just show up at the lake without any information and just start casting lures or live bait, but you have no plan on what fish species are in the lake, what depth you are at, is there any cover on the bottom. Although you could catch fish this way, your chances are more based on luck. The other option is to use technology to help you be more successful, things like a fish finder, live scope, lake maps with topographical detail, information on what f

In te Part I We saw How→ Two Node Red Hat OpenShift 🤓 (TNA & TNF) Part1In Part II, we will walk through the officially documented failure scenarios for: Two Node OpenShift with Arbiter (TNA) Including scenarios such as: Arbiter node outage Single control plane node failure Double node outage Quorum loss       

IntroductionThe Veeam Software Appliance (VSA) v13 comes packed with a lot of new features and one of my favorite, is the ability to enable High Availability for the Veeam Backup and Replication server.The business outcomes for our customers are huge:Reduced Business Disruption Faster, More Predictable Recoveries Operational Confidence SLA ProtectionIn this article, we walk through how Veeam ONE acts as a Cluster Witness, how automated remediation enables hands‑off failover, and what operators should expect during failure, recovery, and cluster rebuild scenarios.HA Cluster Failover automation is one of these capabilities that made it late into the release and probably went unnoticed for most. I won’t go into the setup details as they can be found in the user guide and community members have covered that topic extensively (see Marvin’s or Leaha’s posts for instance).We will focus on the steps to automate VSA HA Cluster Failover by leveraging Veeam ONE’s remediation actions. Let’s dive i

Hi!I would like to share with y’all my initial “hands on” the VBR13 - Linux Based OVAPublishing the entry here, so you dont have to leave the Community Site:-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------I want to share my initial screenshots of the Linux-based Veeam Backup & Replication Server.Tech Preview: VBR on Linux (v13)Private technology preview for Veeam 100, for non-production use only. Let’s get started:As you may know, let’s deploy the OVA in our Vsphere Host:As always, follow the wizard…Select where the VM is going to be storedImportant, LAB, so, Thin Prov.Detailed resume, no worries for the error, is ok! It’s just lab and non-production, remember?Booting and great looking…Easy step, to see the assigned IP address to the VM, quick look into the VM propertiesNow, it is time to open your favorite browser, and call the URL from the VBR IP Address, for the web consoleBoom!Look at this console, beautiful

hi,i try to install veeam  agent (i try with multiple version) on windows server 2025 but when i get to the point of installation it fails.on the log i see “ another installation is in progress” but i don’t have nothing in pending.

First of all, a very happy New Year to everyone of the best community there is 😉It truly feels great to be writing here again.For those who already know me: I’ve been part of the Veeam Community Hub since the very beginning and had the honor of being a Veeam Legend for four consecutive years. The community has always been an important part of my professional journey, so stepping away wasn’t an easy decision.Some of you may have noticed that I was completely absent last year—and that I didn’t attend the  latest Veeam 100 Summit in Prague. Unfortunately, throughout 2025 my time was extremely limited, and I simply couldn’t engage in the way this community deserves. I made the conscious decision to take a sabbatical year from community activities. It was a hard call, but ultimately the right one.The good news?After a year, there’s once again room to focus on what I love:✔ sharing quality-driven content✔ participating in meaningful discussions✔ helping others within the communityAnd I’m fu

ChallengeAfter upgrading a customer environment from Veeam Backup & Replication v12 to v13.0.1.1071, everything initially worked as expected. Existing SAP HANA plug‑ins on several systems (still in v12) continued to run without issues.Problems started when we upgraded the managed HANA plug‑ins to v13 using the Protection Group. Although the upgrade completed and the plug‑in showed v13 in the GUI, backups began to fail immediately.Error MessageError: The issuer certificate does not have a Basic Constraints extension.(Parameter 'issuerCertificate')The error appeared:During the Protection Group rescan (post‑upgrade)   During every backup attemptRoot CauseWith v13, the SAP HANA plug‑in and assumedly all other enteprise plugins perform stricter certificate validation. An internal issuer certificate used for plug‑in communication was missing the required Basic Constraints (CA:TRUE) extension, which was previously tolerated in v12.SolutionThere is a KB that mentions this very error, but

Veeam continues to innovate, develop and release enhancements for Veeam plug-in Backup for Nutanix v9. Our customers keep asking for improvements and Veeam is delivering them. One major improvement was to eliminate the proxy appliance. This new version uses a worker architecture like some of our other cloud products. The worker VM is configured during the addition of the Nutanix plugin. This dramatically improves manageability and simplifies job management.  Everything is now configured in the Veeam Data Platform console. We also added the additional features below. For other improvements see the “What's New in VDP 13”. Key Architectural ImprovementWorker Architecture Security Enhancement: vTPM SupportVirtual trusted platform module for Virtual Machines. For customers looking for that added security enhancement in Windows 11 VM. This is a requirement from Microsoft. Please see link for more details Nutanix vTPM vTPM protected VM vTPM VM Configuration Email Notification ImprovementsThe

Hi all,Just a quick blog post to summarise the findings from a question that was recently posed to me.Background on VB365 Retention Modes:When using Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365, there are two retention modes possible. These are called ‘snapshot-based’ retention and ‘item-level’ retention. I won’t repeat Veeam’s documentation and you can have a full deep dive into the topic here if you’d like, but to provide a brief summary:Item-level retention leverages the creation date and last modified date to determine if an item is older than the retention period. If it is not, then it will backup the item. Snapshot-based retention protects everything that currently exists within the container (mailbox/OneDrive/SharePoint/Teams) regardless of creation date or last modified date. Once the item no longer exists within the Microsoft 365 container, Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 determines if how long ago it was last protected is older than the retention period, and if so, purges the item from the

The other night, I had a weird dream. It wasn't one of those confusing dreams, but a clear vision of what our lives as backup administrators would be like in a few months. In the dream, Veeam's recent acquisitions — Securiti AI, Coveware and Object First — were no longer just logos on a slide, but a single living organism. The previews at the Veeam 100 Summit in Prague last November got me fired up to work even more. In the midst of all this confusion, I tried to bring some order, and this is what I 'saw' in my dream.(generated with Nano Banana)The evolution of the species: beyond simple recoveryRecently, us backup administrators have been talked a lot about recovery. "How secure are my backups?" How quickly can I get back online?" So, over the next few months, we'll be asking ourselves: "What am I recovering and where's the rest of it?"The deal with Securiti AI is going to change the game for Veeam. They're already top-notch when it comes to keeping data safe (backups and all), but th

Dear community, Let me take this opportunity to wish you a happy new year and all the best for 2026. 🎉 I hope that your year has got off to a great start, and I have a fantastic selection of Veeamazing content for you from the Veeam Vanguards. Scroll down to see the content that our Veeam experts published in December. 🤓 ​@AndrePulia  - What would prevent migrating from Veeam v12.3 to Veeam v13 - https://pulia.com.br/what-would-prevent-migrating-from-veeam-v12-3-to-veeam-v13/ Block Repository – DAS Using Internal Disks – Part II - https://pulia.com.br/block-repository-das-using-internal-disks-part-ii/ What does a SOBR have in common with a wardrobe? - https://pulia.com.br/what-does-a-sobr-have-in-common-with-a-wardrobe-2/  Veeam Backup & Replication v13.0.1 – Course experience recommendations - https://pulia.com.br/veeam-backup-replication-v13-0-1-course-experience-recommendations/​@AndreTheGiant  - Veeam beta support for HPE VM Essentials - https://vinfrastructure.it/2025/12/vee

VSPC from version 9.0 offers new option how to connect directly VBR and EM (not only via cloud gateways), which is via port 9999/tcp from VBR/VEM → VSPC I have added my Windows VBR, where is installed VEM as well Management Agent could run under local System account or under service account Server is after installation of management agent appeared twice as VBR and VEM is installed on this VM. In License section is option to enable “”License Auto Update”Is not working, because VEM is managing license for VBR So for VEM is needed to skip pushing of license and let to handover this action to VSPC.Is it done over registry key - reboot is required. SkipLicensePush Type: REG_DWORD   Default value: 0   Description: prevents Enterprise manager from pushing the license to B&R server ([HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\VeeaM\Veeam Backup Reporting])  After reboot of that server could be enabled License Auto Update 

The ProblemLast week we were troubleshooting a Veeam Backup & Replication environment, where jobs were slowing down since some time.Looking at the jobs, the backup performance itself was quite good, but the processing of some VMs took longer then expected.The task log of those VMs showed that "Collecting disk files location data" was the cause; for some VMs it lasted 20 minutes, others were waiting for several hours.I first suspected a vCenter problem, as the debug logs showed timeouts and an unsupported API, but after patching and some restarts the problems persisted.The ResolutionDoing some research I’ve stumbled over an R&D forums digest from @Gostev from the year 2018 (Veeam Community Forums digest at that time ). And this one brought us in the right direction as Anton mentioned disk fragmentation as a pausible cause for this issue.I’ve opened up a Veeam support case just to be sure, before approaching the storage team, but later on our customer discovered some left-over s

I wanted to let you know that the Hitachi Vantara Universal Storage API (USAPI) plugin that supports Veeam Backup & Replication V13 servers running on both Linux and Windows is generally available and posted on the Veeam downloads page (Veeam KB4191). This new plugin also supports immutable snapshots and works with Hitachi Vantara’s VSP One High End enterprise storage system.Here is the link to last year’s white paper on Hitachi Vantara and Veeam integration as a reminder of the plugin’s capabilities before this release.And here is a link to the hitachivantara.community.com blog I posted: https://community.hitachivantara.com/discussion/accelerating-cyber-resilience-whats-new-in-hitachi-vantara-veeam-usapi-plug-in-v22