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Rick Vanover
Rick VanoverRICKATRON
published in Blogs and podcasts

Day 2 Operations: Easier than ever with V12

One of the age-old IT dilemmas is how to handle changes after things have been implemented. Everything works on the day everything is implemented, and then the business gets underway changing everything. While I tell this story in a broad-stroke fashion, it’s the reality of the dynamic aspect of IT services today.What happened? It was working when I set it up…When it comes to the backup infrastructure configuration, there is an important requirement to make sure that as the business changes the data protection strategy adapts. Over the years here at Veeam I’ve advocated heavily for using organizational constructs such as VMware vSphere Tags, Hyper-V System Center Virtual Machine manager tags, Active Directory Organizational Units and more. These help to accommodate net new systems to be incorporated into backup jobs and policies that are already implemented with Veeam.But what about changes in application criticality or tier of service? Take for example something that I think happens q

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dloseke
6 months ago
MicoolPaul
MicoolPaulVeeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard
posted in Blogs and podcasts

Veeam Backup & Replication + Oracle – RMAN Plugin Unexpected Throttling

Alt Text: Veeam Backup & Replication + Oracle - RMAN Plugin Unexpected ThrottlingI’ve just resolved a case with Veeam Support that I wanted to share.I was working on a project that was protecting Oracle RMAN databases on an IBM AIX platform, and the performance unexpectedly dropped.During testing, all had been fine, but when we came to the migration, the backups were taking a painfully long time. We backed out of the change and began to review.This blog post is a write-up of the troubleshooting steps we took, and what the root cause was.Firstly, we looked at Veeam’s statistics screen to review where Veeam perceived the bottleneck to be. Veeam reported an extremely high value for both the source and the network as the bottlenecks, with the target being idly waiting. We tested RMAN backing up to a local disk for comparison as the database team were saying that RMAN was awaiting further transmissions and found that it was backing up extremely fast to disk. A job that would take 30 min

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BertrandFR
3 months ago
wolff.mateus
wolff.mateusVeeam Legend
posted in Blogs and podcasts

Veeam Customer History - Marfrig

This is the Veeam case of Marfrig from Brazil.Marfrig is a big company of a food sector that is attended by BS4IT, the partner that I work for.You can see all case on link below:https://www.veeam.com/success-stories/marfrig.html 

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Iams3le
5 months ago
regnor
regnorVeeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard
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Dell PowerStore Plug-In for OS 3.X has been released

As this was a hot topic on many plattforms, I thought it was worth sharing here.Today Dell and Veeam have released the new storage plugin for PowerStore OS 3.x.In general the plugin will only work with Veeam Backup & Replication build P20220302 or later. But what’s important to note, if you’re on P20220302 you need to install a private hotfix before installing the plugin itself; the details can be found in KB4243. The plugin is available for download in the Storage Plugin Section or directly here.If you want to join the discussion in the R&D forums or give feedback, here’s the corresponding topic. 

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regnor
3 months ago
Federica
FedericaComes here often
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Free VMCE for women

Wonderful initiative for Community and Friends.You have probably heard Danny Allan announcing at Veeam ON: Veeam Software people believe in empowering and enhancing female talent and support a more diverse environment across our ENTIRE ecosystem that is why 150 women will participate to a FREE VMCE Training.If you are interested or if you know the perfect candidate this is the registration link! 💚https://go.veeam.com/women-in-it-empowerment

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Federica
3 months ago
vmJoe
vmJoeVeeam MVP
posted in Blogs and podcasts

The awesomeness of Veeam Recovery Orchestrator (VRO) Clean DR!

Veeam Recovery Orchestrator (VRO) V6 can provide orchestration of recoveries to different locations (original location, a secondary site, or Azure) from backups or secondary backups. VRO   The feature that I love the most about VRO (well, really one of the many features) is the ability to easily have VRO scan multiple backup restore points of a server (virtual or physical) for malware infections that may have been missed before a backup so bad backups don’t get put back in production!  VRO will use a the update AV software installed on the mount server to perform iterative scans of multiple restores to find a “clean” restore point to recover from. This can be performed in a few easy steps. First, launch the orchestration plan for the server(s) you want to restore, right-click on it and select run.  Step through the wizard until you reach the “Ransomware scan” page. If you want to limit the number of restore points scanned, you can set it here by checking the checkbox and entering a val

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Moustafa_Hindawi
5 months ago
kirststoner12
kirststoner12Product Strategy
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Compliance, Observability and Security: 3 Hot Topics for Every IT Professional

Regardless of industry type, meeting compliance standards is an important part of every business. Compliance consists of people, processes and technology as well as the need to train people and having the correct processes and technology in place to enforce that. Meeting compliance requirements helps avoid security violations, penalty cost and data loss. Compliance can serve as a baseline that needs to be followed to protect your business while identifying where gaps lie, especially when you consider security. Having a strong security strategy, monitoring how your IT systems perform and how your data is protected can contribute to meeting and maintaining compliance. Depending on what industry the business resides in, compliance requirements can consist of laws and regulations that are strictly enforced (consider GDPR or HIPAA) or one or more corporate rules or guidance. Whatever it may be in your situation, this blog will further discuss compliance, monitoring and security, and how Vee

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Iams3le
6 months ago
Geoff Burke
Geoff BurkeVeeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard
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AI generated tutorial, complete and utter fail! Veeam keep your trainers!! :)

Hi Folks, I was just forced to watch for the first time an AI generated tutorial/presentation. This was not Veeam training but I decided to send out this feedback just in case anyone at Veeam is thinking about jumping on this bandwagon.All of this hype about Chat/AI etc crashed miserably in my eyes after watching this content. The AI generated lady doing the tutorial had less personality and sincerity than RD2 in Star wars (reminder RD2 could only beep and not speak). The phoney AI generated smile would have been better placed in the film Aliens on the monsters that emerged from people’s stomachs.Then there were the pronunciation errors. Living in Toronto I hear all sorts of different pronunciations in English but they normally add some spice to the discussion. Italian, French, Chinese etc native speakers all have different pronunciations and if anything they add flavour to the conversation. Machine AI however is horrendous. It will go along for a bit perfectly but then blurt out somet

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TylerJurgens
1 month ago
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frahimzadeNot a newbie anymore
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Rename Veeam server

Hello Everyone, After renaming the server, Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager did not change the target patch, so when I click on the shortcut, it tries to open a web address through my old hostname, can I change my host without deleting anything? It should be like this  https://hostname:9443 I changed the IIS site bindings, but this did not change the shortcut, when I type the correct link, I can open it on the web

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C
6 months ago
jorge.delacruz
jorge.delacruzCommunity Manager
posted in Blogs and podcasts

[Veeam ONE v12] Enhanced Security, and Audit visibility using Grafana

Veeam ONE v12 has been launched, and it is massive! Among so many other great features, I would like to extend today and focus on this particular new security feature, Auditing, as per the What’s New:When I saw that functionality, I was already so excited to see what level of audit we would have.How to enable Veeam ONE v12 Auditing?It is really easy under the Server Settings, you will find the section called Auditing, then mark what is most relevant for you. I would mark all of them:After we enable them, we can quickly go to our traditional Microsoft Windows Events Log, and we will find a new section called Veeam ONE. Inside this category, we can find different events, with event category, etc.:If you explore a bit more, you could filter by Event ID, so as a quick example:Event ID: 10006 - These are authentication anomalies, meaning wrong user/password. Event ID: 2 - These are usually Veeam ONE Settings changes, like a new password added, a new report saved/created, etc. Event ID: 3 -

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Moustafa_Hindawi
7 months ago
regnor
regnorVeeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard
posted in Blogs and podcasts

Sysadmin story: Test your backups!

My Sysadmin story is rather old, from my own beginnings in IT. It’s not directly Veeam related but the message is valuable for every backup administrator.The outageThere’s been a certain Linux VM which was running a very critical software for that company. Software updates were done by the vendor itself so there wasn’t much to take care of. Of course, besides including it in the backup process.At some point there was an outage in the datacenter which shutdown all virtual machines. After the power had been restored, all virtual machines were started again without any issues; at least almost without any issues.The Linux VM didn’t come up and stayed at the boot screen without any progress. After a bit of debugging without a solution, we decided to restore the VM as it was in the morning and no changes occurred since the nightly backup.Unfortunately, the restored VM had just the same problem and refused from booting up. And also the 2 day old restore point behaved the same.At that point we

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Nico Losschaert
2 months ago
Link State
Link StateVeeam Legend
posted in Blogs and podcasts

[GUIDE] How to migrate VBR 12 Enterprise Manager

Hello, everyone.I am posting the guide for those who need to migrate their Enterprise Manager for various reasons.I had the need to migrate EM to consolidate VMs.The MSSQL database is a dedicated VM.KB1889: How to migrate Veeam Backup & Replication or Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager      Export all Keysets from the old Backup Enterprise Manager web console. Take note of which keyset was Active.  Uninstall Backup Enterprise Manager from the old server. Install Backup Enterprise Manager on the new server. During the installation of Backup Enterprise Manager, do the following:If presented with the Default Configuration step of the installer, check the box labeled "Let me specify different settings"For the Service Account Credentials step, provide an account with the appropriate permissions to the SQL Instance where the VeeamBackupReporting database is located.On the SQL Server Instance step, choose the option to "Use existing instance of SQL Server" and specify the SQL Server and Inst

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Iams3le
1 month ago
barellag
barellagComes here often
posted in Blogs and podcasts

Changing VB for Azure Worker Disk Size

Hello! In this topic I would like to cover the steps to change the default Veeam Backup for Azure worker disk size.There are some scenarios where you need to increase the volume size of the worker depending on the size of your protected VM. This change must be done via restAPI, so one of the options we have is using Swagger, which is the restAPI tool built-in the VB for Azure appliance.You can refer to this page on user guide to find detailed steps to authenticate Swagger. As soon as you are properly authenticated in Swagger you need to find and expand the Workers method: Locate the endpoint: api/v4/workers/profiles/{regionId} and click on Try it OutIn the request body, these are some of the parameters you can use:In this case we will not configure worker profiles per VM size, so we will use only the Simple type and Archive type since they are mandatory if not using different profiles.You can find more information about worker profiles here. Fill out the body request as follows:{ "min

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S
4 months ago
vSyntaxError
vSyntaxErrorVUG Leader
posted in Blogs and podcasts

Migrating VBR to PostgreSQL [Part 2]

In the second part of the series “Migrating VBR to PostgreSQL [Part 2]” we will have a look at the migration itself. First of all:Update Veeam via the recommended way:https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backup/vsphere/upgrade_vbr.html?ver=120You will not be able to migrate the database with the upgrade itself.After the upgrade, you can use the following guide to migrate the configuration database to PostgreSQL: https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backup/vsphere/vbr_config_migrate_to_postgresql.html?ver=120This howto describes the 5 easy steps to do the migration based on the guide above. If you want to know how to install the PostgreSQL on a external Debian-based server check the howto in part 1 of this small series: https://community.veeam.com/blogs-and-podcasts-57/migrating-vbr-to-postgresql-part-1-4277 Step 1 Stop and disable all your jobs to make sure nothing change while you are doing the migrate. Step 2 Create a configuration database backupGo to Main Menu → Configuration Backup: Ena

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dloseke
6 months ago
HunterLAFR
HunterLAFRVeeam Legend
posted in Blogs and podcasts

Tailscale on my HomeLab

Hi everyone,some days ago I posted about TailscaleBetter than Just VPN for the Home LabNow, I will show a couple cases Im using it for:RDP to my lab Now, from my laptop and anywhere with internet access, I can connect to my “JumpStation” to get into my HomeLab, exactly! and it has a great feature called “Magic DNS” that it does call the remote machine from the Tailscale name, so no IP address needed. Remote access to my Lab Network Yes, you read it right it has a feature that enables the bypass / routing of the networks you have in the Tailscale host, so you can access that network from the remote connected device, in case you need to access a device that has not capability to install Tailscale in it, I use it to access my router, my center and my storage appliance. Proxy form outside routing my internet traffic. Exactly, now I can activate the “Exit node” feature that allows me to route all the client traffic to the “Tailscale” selected host to get to the internet, very useful when we

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Scott
3 months ago
T
Tiko RockNew Here
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Unable to process server: backup agent is missing

i am facing issue with adding linux server to backup, bakcup fail after 3 minutes with error Unable to process server: backup agent is missing. veeam v12do we miss anything else, i have added the server through job backup with the wizard and added the root user.but it failed any suggestions please. 

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Chris.Childerhose
1 month ago
Geoff Burke
Geoff BurkeVeeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard
posted in Blogs and podcasts

Go to VeeamON!

Go to VeeamONMake your Backup policy StrongAnd remember Miami Beach is real LongDon't go wrongJoin the ThrongSinging the defeat ransomware songDuring the famous last night party at VeeamONLeave your boss with no doubtBecause you will gain the expert's cloutAnd your company's profits will mountLet the cyber criminals poutWhen you punch ransomware in the snoutDon't be a loutGet the heck outTurn up the volume and shoutBecause at VeeamON your knowledge will sproutAnd then there's the swagToo much to fit in a single bagCompetitor's merch left behind in the lagSo make the right choiceAnd prepare to rejoiceVeeamON is where its atCome dressed in a hatStep up to bat Be cool like Alfred the Veeam Legend catOr take in the Vanguard viewsWhile getting all the latest technology newsLeft with no regretGet those travel plans setAnd your backup targets will be metVeeamON is coming up fastIt is going to be a blastSo get on board and climb up to the top of the mastBecause when it comes Data protectionYou

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Nico Losschaert
5 months ago
vNote42
vNote42Veeam Vanguard
posted in Blogs and podcasts

Slow VM snapshot deletion on NFS volumes on ESXi hosts

Because VMware snapshots is always a topic for backups, I want to share my latest experiences with VM-snapshots on NFS. I had to troubleshoot a problem with system time within a VMware vSphere VM. During backup VM freezes for more than 30 seconds. When this happens, system time in VM also stops and resets to current time after the freeze. And this behavior causes massive problems in the application-layer. During troubleshooting we found a very slow VM snapshot deletion on NFS volumes on ESXi hosts.EnvironmentIn this setup, we were running:HPE SimpliVity Hyper-converged infrastructure running in current Version. Notice: SimpliVity uses NFS v3 to present volumes to their hosts. VMware vSphere 6.7 in quite current version. Current Version of Veeam Backup and Replication.SymptomsSlow VM snapshot deletion on NFS volumes on ESXi hosts. Snapshot removal of comparable VMs, running on block storage last about 1-2 seconds. Deletion of a snapshot, hosted on a SimpliVity volumes (NFS v3) lasts at

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haslund
2 years ago
vNote42
vNote42Veeam Vanguard
posted in Blogs and podcasts

What else is new in Veeam B&R v10 (PowerShell snapin)

When creating or changing SureBackup settings using the Veeam PowerShell Snapin, not all options were provided by the Snapin. For example startup timeout could not be set by PowerShell. Fortunately this is now possible with v10-Snapin. See the picture for details: New Option in v10 Snapin        

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vNote42
2 years ago
vNote42
vNote42Veeam Vanguard
posted in Blogs and podcasts

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
2 years ago
Rick Vanover
Rick VanoverRICKATRON
posted in Blogs and podcasts

Check changes in Active Directory DNS with Veeam

How many times has DNS been the problem? Well, Veeam Explorer for Active Directory’s Compare with Production capability may be a way to help you see if there have been changes in DNS. This is so easy to use, check out this video explaining how this works:You can also watch my Veeam Live session on Application recovery as well (have to register there however)​​​​

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haslund
2 years ago
haslund
haslundMr. VMCE
posted in Blogs and podcasts

#HomelabWednesday - How to deploy pfSense and setup additional networks for lab usage

In this week's episode of #HomelabWednesdays, I show you how to deploy pfSense in your lab and segment the lab into multiple networks so that it is ready for deployment of nested ESXi in a “Production site” and a “Disaster Recovery” site.Don’t forget to subscribe to get automatic notifications whenever a new video is released. 

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gulzarshaikhveeam
2 years ago
Rick Vanover
Rick VanoverRICKATRON
posted in Blogs and podcasts

Veeam ONE Interval Logic

Give some thoughts to the interval of a report. Current week vs. Past week, here’s a view of how the interval can make a difference for the results.   I have the Veeam ONE Catch of the Day (#VeeamONECOTD) on Twitter, a nice way to get small nuggets of Veeam ONE stuff: https://twitter.com/search?q=%23VeeamONECOTD&src=typeahead_click  The Veeam reports are incredible visibility and it is a great way to get all the details you may need in another way!

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Rick Vanover
2 years ago
eprieto
eprietoInfluencer
posted in Blogs and podcasts

Configuration Maximums 🛠️ - Best Practice Guide for Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 😎

In this Link https://bp.veeam.com/vbo/ you can find everything related to:Best Practice Guide for Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365This guide is intended to provide best practices for Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365. It is not meant as a full documentation or detailed explanation of features. Please refer to the Veeam Help Center for this kind of documents.The best practice guide is inteded for professionals who search for a best practice answer to different topics. To allow deeper understanding of why we recommend specific best practices we add deeper information on the topics where applicable.Be aware that a best practice is not the only answer available. It will fit in the majority of cases but can also be totally wrong under different circumstances. Make sure you understand the implications of the advised best practices or ask someone who does. This time we will seeConfiguration Maximums This section covers the supported VBO configuration maximums. Numbers might vary depe

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K
11 months ago
jorge.delacruz
jorge.delacruzCommunity Manager
posted in Blogs and podcasts

[Blog Series] How to Design and Implement a Backup System Based on SLA Policies

Hello Community,Pretty much every week I have the same question, or comment, regarding how to create a Data Protection system that scales, it is flexible in terms of adding workloads, and dynamic so every business owner can add workloads without any difficulty.If we look at the diagram of what I just described, it could look like this, where a few Proxies are protecting an specific SLA, another three are protecting another a bit more aggressive SLA, and finally a physical Proxy is protecting the tier1 workloads using storage snapshots and SAN Backup Mode.We will make use of the flexibility and integration with VMware vSphere Tags, so we will need to create all of them under VMware, under one, or more categories, like this:On Veeam Backup & Replication they will look like this, so create a job with a name, then we add the desired tag:Selecting the Proxies we want, with the retention we want as well:And the schedule of course:Until you have something similar to this:Now, back to VMwa

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eprieto
2 years ago

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