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Geoff BurkeVeeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard

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Who is who in the Cloud, see if you can spot anyone, hint Godzilla!

FolksOnalytica just came out with their who is who in the cloud: I seem to see a familiar beard :) https://onalytica.com/blog/posts/whos-who-in-cloud-top-50-influencers-to-follow/

1 month ago

MicoolPaulVeeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard

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Veeam Backup & Replication: NAS ‘Backup Proxies are Offline or Outdated’ incorrect error message

Hi,I had a really strange error that was causing myself some issues recently, so I thought I would share the results.I was protecting a few NetApp ONTAP systems, integrated with Veeam as NAS Filers. And when I was trying to protect one of the NAS Filers, all the SMB shares were working successfully, but the NFS shares were not.What was worse though, I would always get an error that made no sense. If I reviewed the error message for my NFS logs I’d get the error that ‘All backup proxies are offline or outdated’, and then if I browsed into the Veeam logs, there were no tasks logs even being created for the failing shares. If I dug into the logs for the parent job, I could see this error I mentioned above, plus that no scale-out repository extents were available. This struck me as very confusing, as the SVMs contained both NFS shares, and SMB shares, all SMB shares were protected fine.I checked firstly that I had configured the NAS element of the NetApp integration to support NFS and tha

2 months ago

Chris.ChilderhoseVeeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard

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Intel Optane + vExpert = Awesome!

I know this is not Veeam related but I am also part of the vExpert program with VMware and had the chance to get some Intel Optane drives through the program, so I wrote a blog on how I got them set up and some initial testing done. You can find it here- https://justvirtualization.blog/2023/03/31/intel-optane-vexpert-awesome/ Intel Optane + vExpert = Awesome! Thank you to @Intel and @vExpert for the opportunity to test some unique technology in the Intel Optane drives.I have been part of the VMware vExpert program for four years now, and in 2023, there was a webinar done by Intel on their Optane drives. After the webinar, there was the chance to be chosen to receive a gift from Intel of some Optane drives for HomeLab testing. I decided to submit for the chance to receive the Optane drives and was lucky enough to be selected. At the time of selection, you had to choose your drive choice, which was PCIe or U2 format. My HomeLab consists of four Intel Skull Canyon NUCs, so using PCIe w

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2 months ago

haslundMr. VMCE

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#DailyQuiz - #VMCE 2020 Scenario question 28 walkthrough

Today’s #VMCE2020 #DailyQuiz walkthrough is ready. Do you have experience deploying the advanced multi-host virtual lab? How do you handle VLANs for the port grops?Try this question and more at https://rasmushaslund.com/vmce-practice-exam/

2 years ago

haslundMr. VMCE

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#DailyQuiz - #VMCE 2020 Scenario question 31 walkthrough

Today’s #VMCE2020 #DailyQuiz walkthrough is ready. Do you utilize the on-demand sandbox feature? If yes, how do you offer access into the isolated lab?Try this question and more at https://rasmushaslund.com/vmce-practice-exam/

2 years ago

haslundMr. VMCE

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#DailyQuiz - #VMCE 2020 Scenario question 32 walkthrough

Today’s #VMCE2020 #DailyQuiz walkthrough is ready. How are you testing your applications during SureBackup jobs? Are you familiar with the expected return code from your script?Try this question and more at https://rasmushaslund.com/vmce-practice-exam/

2 years ago

haslundMr. VMCE

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#DailyQuiz - #VMCE 2020 Scenario question 40 walkthrough

Today’s #VMCE2020 #DailyQuiz walkthrough is ready. Are you using the SElinux kernel module? Which Linux file systems are you using?Try this question and more at https://rasmushaslund.com/vmce-practice-exam/

2 years ago

michaelcadeProduct Strategy

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#2MinTuesday - YouTube Video Demos

I have started a new series on my personal YouTube channel. The #2MinTues series is aimed at showing something short and sharp in a video format to help the wider community. This will range across all Veeam products.

2 years ago

haslundMr. VMCE

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#DailyQuiz - #VMCE 2020 Scenario question 45 walkthrough

Today’s #VMCE2020 #DailyQuiz walkthrough is ready. Most people seem to agree having multiple restore points is good both for backups and replicas, but how do you really failover to an older restore point than the latest one?Try this question and more at https://rasmushaslund.com/vmce-practice-exam/

2 years ago

Kseniya✨

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Blogs and podcasts: Housekeeping rules

Hi Veeam Community!Here are a few housekeeping rules to keep this space friendly, interactive and useful:All content is in English only Personal information, which is not suitable for public viewing, cannot be published – e.g. address or phone number Podcasts and YouTube streams should be embedded through the ‘Embed media’ functionality. Here’s an example. Don’t just post a sentence with a hyperlink. Such posts will be hidden. We ask that you don’t just post a link to a blog or article, since most community members prefer to stay here and have discussions. Users may not post any offensive materials, share illegal or copyrighted content, attempt to distribute illegal substances, or distribute viruses or other material. Users may not use this place for (commercial) activities such as the advertising or sale of products or services, the offering of (interactive) games or the advertising of other communities or websites. The Veeam Community Team reserves the right to remove content or rest

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2 years ago

vmiss33Comes here often

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Did you know you’re 30 minutes away from Orchestrated Disaster Recovery?

Did you know you’re 30 minutes away from Orchestrated DR at any given moment?Veeam Availability Orchestrator takes just 20 minutes to configure, and it takes less than 10 minutes to create an Orchestration Plan, what we call your your fully documented and automated DR plan.Don’t believe me? I have proof! Those videos cover everything you need to get started after you have installed VAO, and run through the initial configuration wizard, which couldn’t be simpler.Here’s a few more tips I’ve discovered along the way and am sharing:Install the VAO agent on all of your Veeam Backup & Replication servers. Once you install the agent, VAO understands the jobs you already have configured, and can orchestrate their recovery. Simple! If you use NetApp storage, be sure to have your SnapMirrors configured ahead of time if they aren’t already. Once you add your storage systems, you guessed it, VAO understands the relationships you have and can orchestrate their recovery! vSphere Tags make t

2 years ago

eprietoInfluencer

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Veeam Backup Repository Design 🔥

In another Topic, I wrote about designing a Proxy In This Topic will see about the repository design.We need to consider The key recommendation is to follow the 3-2-1 rule. Calculate 1 core and 4GB RAM per repository task slot. The recommended minimum for a repository is 2 cores and 8GB RAM.Sizing The recommended amount of CPU for a repository is 1 core per concurrent configured task slot on a repository server. Configure at minimum a 2 core and 8GB RAM repository server to allow the operating system to be more responsive. When sizing task slots on a repository you have to understand when and how many task slots are consumed. Any write process will consume a task slot. So backing up 10 VMs in one job using per-job backup chains will only write one file (VBK/VIB) in the end - so it consumes one task slot. Running the same backup job with per-VM backup files will create one file per VM and thus can leverage up to 10 tasks slots (when available). Backup Copy Jobs, Agent Backups and

2 years ago

eprietoInfluencer

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Veeam Ready Database ✅

The Veeam Ready database provides a list of all partner solutions that have successfully passed Veeam’s testing criteria. Solutions are grouped by company name, Veeam Ready classification, and more. So, you can select by Alliance Partner - Model Family - Category Example: I chose by category I think it is something very useful when it comes to having any questions about compatibility and Veeam Product Release Support . https://www.veeam.com/ready.html?x-clickref=1011lbSfagY2

2 years ago

vNote42Veeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard

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HPE and Veeam Customer Reference Book

HPE and Veeam are connected by a long history. HPE VSA and 3PAR were the first storages support integrated hardware snapshots. Nimble and Primera are supported as well.See this Veeam Customer Reference Book to read about 7 customer stories. Involved Industries are: Fintech, Retail, Non-Profit, Manufacturing and Healthcare. Quite impressive stories with real-world values!

2 years ago

falkobVeeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard

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How to recover a failed Veeam Backup for Office 365 repository

What can I do, if the storage volume on which my Office 365 backups reside is corrupted, deleted or somehow lost ? That was the question I faced myself with. So I went into the lab to try out a few things ! In this blog post I’m going to show you how to recover a failed Veeam Backup for Office 356 repository. In addition to recover a failed repository, I’m also going to show you how to properly back up VBO repositories. Within this blog post, I will abbreviate Veeam Backup for Office 365 with VBO. Veeam Backup & Replication is abbreviated with VBR. However, lets jump into the lab and the scenario.The lab setupDue to the fact, that I still don’t have a “proper” homelab, I’m using VMware Workstation for this scenario.My lab environment for testing this case, consists of 2 virtual machines. One virtual machine is hosting VBR and the other one is hosting VBO.The VBO server itself, has an additional partition on which all backup repositories reside. All my backup jobs go into separate f

2 years ago

eprietoInfluencer

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Best Practices 📖Between Integrated and Non-Integrated Deduplication Appliances

Best Practices In my opinion it is very important to keep this best practice in mind If the integration API is unavailable due to licensing restrictions, or if any other deduplication appliance is used, the appliance should be considered non-integrated.In order to optimize throughput for deduplication appliances, please use the following configuration guidelines: Job configurationThe following settings are configured in the backup job “Edit” wizard under Storage > Advanced. Options not defined in this table are optional and not related to backup repositories using deduplication storage.Setting Value Tab: Backup Backup mode Incremental Create synthetic full backups periodically Enabled - if integrated Transform previous backup chains into rollbacks Disabled Create active full backups periodically Enabled - if non-integrated Tab: Maintenance Perform backup file health check Disabled Defragment and compact full backup file Disabled Tab: Storage Ena

2 years ago

haslundMr. VMCE

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#DailyQuiz - #VMCE 2020 Scenario question 17 walkthrough

Today’s #VMCE2020 #DailyQuiz walkthrough is ready. Are you making backup copies? How did you determine what your operational restore window is/should be? What is the oldest backup you had to restore from?

2 years ago

haslundMr. VMCE

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#DailyQuiz - #VMCE 2020 Scenario question 18 walkthrough

Today’s #VMCE2020 #DailyQuiz walkthrough is ready. Are you protecting transaction logs? Do you push out the runtime from your backup server or a guest interaction proxy? Do you make copies of your transaction logs to a secondary location?

2 years ago

haslundMr. VMCE

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#DailyQuiz - #VMCE 2020 Scenario question 19 walkthrough

Today’s #VMCE2020 #DailyQuiz walkthrough is ready. Do you have network-attached storage file shares in your environment? Have you ever used NDMP?

2 years ago

haslundMr. VMCE

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#DailyQuiz - #VMCE 2020 Scenario question 20 walkthrough

Today’s #VMCE2020 #DailyQuiz walkthrough is ready. Have you been in a legal situation that demanded an export of a specific point in time of your backups to ensure data is not compromised or lost? How did you handle it?

2 years ago

haslundMr. VMCE

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#DailyQuiz - #VMCE 2020 Scenario question 23 walkthrough

Today’s #VMCE2020 #DailyQuiz walkthrough is ready. How are you monitoring if RPO is being acheived today? What about RTO? Regular restore tests?Try this question and more at https://rasmushaslund.com/vmce-practice-exam/

2 years ago

haslundMr. VMCE

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#DailyQuiz - #VMCE 2020 Scenario question 24 walkthrough

Today’s #VMCE2020 #DailyQuiz walkthrough is ready. Do you have different subnets/networks on your disaster recovery site(s) than your production site(s)? How do you handle re-ip for restores from backups or replicas today? What about non-Windows?Try this question and more at https://rasmushaslund.com/vmce-practice-exam/

2 years ago

haslundMr. VMCE

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#DailyQuiz - #VMCE 2020 Scenario question 25 walkthrough

Today’s #VMCE2020 #DailyQuiz walkthrough is ready. How do you handle consistency during backups? Do you enable application-aware processing for all VMs? What about pre-freeze/post-thaw scripts? Do you have VMs where crash-consistent backups are sufficient?Try this question and more at https://rasmushaslund.com/vmce-practice-exam/

2 years ago

haslundMr. VMCE

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#HomelabWednesday - How to migrate Domain Controller and VMware vCenter to the new networks

In this week's episode of #HomelabWednesdays, I show you how to migrate your domain controller and VMware vCenter Server to a new network without issues.Don’t forget to subscribe to get automatic notifications whenever a new video is released.

2 years ago

haslundMr. VMCE

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#DailyQuiz - #VMCE 2020 Scenario question 26 walkthrough

Today’s #VMCE2020 #DailyQuiz walkthrough is ready. Is your company 3-2-1 compliant? What do you consider as two different media types? One could argue at lot of options is “disk” in the end, but is HDD one media type and SSD a different media type? What if it is two different physical servers running Windows, is that two different media types?Try this question and more at https://rasmushaslund.com/vmce-practice-exam/

2 years ago

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