Blogs and Podcasts

In this blog post on deployingNATS.iofor VB365 with Podman discusses the implementation ofNATS.io to support Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 version 8 at scale. It highlights the shift towards a more distributed and cloud-native approach, utilizing proxy pools for better load balancing and scalability. The post provides a detailed guide on setting upNATS.io using Podman, emphasizing the benefits of process isolation and container management. It also covers the configuration of environmental variables and sizing recommendations to optimize performance.For more information on how to deal with this check out my post on koolaid.info!https://koolaid.info/deploying-nats-io-for-vb365-with-podman/

t’s been a few weeks since I returned from the most excellent Veeam 100 summit, this time in Berlin! I’m lucky enough to have been a Veeam Vanguard since 2021, and this was the first time the summit happened in Berlin. The last time I was in Berlin was at least 15 years ago.In this post I am not going to sum up the summit directly; There are some blog post from fellow Veeam Vanguards and Legends I link at the end of the post. Instead, I want to focus on the new version of Veeam Hardened Repository (VHR), that was introduced during the summit.have set up VHR in my home lab before, and decided to load the ISO directly into the home lab from Berlin, because….why not;-)One big change is that VHR is becoming official…like production official. VHR will be supported by Veeam, so you can open a support case if you run into issues. Here is the statement from Anton Gostev, Chief Product Officer at Veeam.“Support This build is now a subject to Veeam Experimental Support. This means this build is

  It has been few weeks traveling for me, but I couldn't skip the invitation from community managers to share our experience at the Veeam 100 SummitThose who know me are familiar with my physical limitation and how my hearing starts to perceive distorted and incompressible sounds when discussions shift to technical topics, so my experience, I am sure, is quite different from the rest of participants.First. What is Veeam 100 Summit?Veeam 100 summit  get together our most active community members (Vanguard, Legends MVP). This year the most active this VUG Leaders were invited for the very first time. What happens in Veeam 100 Summit?During the summit, Veeam has the chance to engage face-to-face with community members, sharing exciting products, news, that are not publicly available while receiving immediate and spontaneous feedback. You might wonder “Oh ok? So what were you doing there doing there if you are not a Veeam Legend or MVP, and not a product expert?”. Well I am in charge of th

 Being my second Summit, I was more prepared traveling half way around the world this time, and excited to see everyone I previously met in Prague and Miami.   DAY 1On Day 1 I received my swag and checked in. The trophy was such a awesome surprise! My nephews wanted to play with it but I had to explain it’s on my desk because it isn’t a toy. The jacket fits perfect and I’ve already put the screwdriver to use. Due to passport issues I had to book my travel last minute and couldn’t get a spot in the VRO workshop. I didn’t bring a laptop but would in the future as spots do open up. As I’m looking at a quote for VRO right now it would have been a great workshop.   DAY 2To say I’m excited for V12.3 and V13  is an understatement. Some of the new Veeam ONE features are going to be game changers for me. I won’t dive too deep as there was some Yellow and Red content but I’m sure Veeam will be releasing some teasers shortly. If not VeeamON is going to be exciting next year.   Finding out we can

This year marked the 5th year being priviledged enough to attend the Veeam100 Summit. Since my 1st attendance in 2018, the venue has normally been held in Prague, CZ. The Product Strategy Team decided to change things up a bit and hold this year’s event in Berlin, DE; that would be Deutschland , or Germany, for those who use Duolingo 🙂 . With the event being held in a new city, and getting a preview of some of the content decided upon to be shared, I was really looking forward to the event this year!The Summit was held the last week of October. And personally, I love going this time of year to central Europe as the Fall colors are at or slightly past peak color.Fall in BerlinI got to Berlin a day and a half early so I can peruse around the city to take in some sites I’ve longed to see since my youth – Berlin Wall Memorial, Brandenburg Gate, Holocaust Memorial, etc. It was so surreal viewing the Berlin Wall Memorial. In the middle walking area there were pictures of Germans who lost th

As part of Cyber Security Month I was afforded the opportunity to test out a 1TB C2 Object Storage account from Synology.  I have partnered with them having 2 NAS devices that I have blogged about (DS920+ and DS923+).  You can check out my blog at the link as well as below.Synology C2 Object Storage  Synology C2 – Object Storage Setup It is CyberSecurity month, so I am writing a few blogs on Synology and using C2 Object Storage for backups.I have been fortunate enough to have a good relationship with both Synology and Nick Kozup, which has allowed me to get a 1TB subscription to the Synology C2 – Object Storage for doing some testing with backups, NAS backup/replication and many other things that utilize object storage. I have already blogged about the two NAS devices I have been sent (DS920+ and DS923+), which I use daily for my home lab, backups, and many other things.My account was activated today, and when I logged in to the interface, I was greeted with an empty slate to create bu

I connected a new SAN and 2 servers that will be used for Veeam. These are just some “Hero numbers” of reads and intend to do a writeup of design with proper benchmarks in the future.  When you have an environment with a large quantity of data, you still need to be able to restore it quickly or run instant restores while you migrate to production.   For a preliminary test I connected 2 servers to a single SAN and created a few volumes to run IOMeter.  23.9k MBPS = 23.9GBps =191.2 Gbps.  with sub millisecond latency @ 240k IOPS I am very happy. There is always a bottle neck to account for in design. Usually it’s budget 🤣.  Currently my limitation is the amount of of servers/ports at this point. Specifically 32Gb fiber ports as they are all running at 100%. If I had another server or more ports available on the repositories, I have no doubt this thing would be hitting close to 36GB/s.  Storage snapshots from production along with fast networking from proxies to repositories is critical

I want to share with you all my initial setup of a small Lab for the Veeam Data Platformwhich is installing VBR + VONE + Recovery Orchestrator.In my case, I don't have too many resources, so, for lab proposes, all three roles will be deployed in the same machineThe wizard takes care of installing the tools, just asking you the necessary things to get it done.As you will see, installing the Orchestrator, includes the VBR and VONE.If you haven't downloaded the Veeam data platform, please do...This is the virtual specs for the VM where VDP is installed on my lab: Let's follow up on the screenshots and the comments on the installation.    !-->         Here ends the installation. Now, let's take a look into the consoles, with very high level / initial configuration: VBR - We already know how it looks, Showing you adding a Job from a Hyper-V VM.Initial setup with Backup config, etc...     Veeam One       Recovery Orchestrator Web  Lets add our VBR server, so Veeam One can start collecting

Hello Veeam NetApp fans. I just updated the NetApp and Veeam BP guide to v12. I added FlexGroups to the document. More updates will come after VBR 12.3 is released. Veeam and NetApp will be doing more in the future around integrations stay tuned. Please use link below to download😀. https://www.veeam.com/resources/wp-netapp-configuration-and-best-practices-guide-for-veeam-backup.htmlUpdated for Veeam Backup and Replication 12.2.Thanks,Pete

Testing backups? Almost no one does it.Why?Too many constraints: not enough time, no available storage, fear of disrupting production.What if none of that was an excuse anymore?Veeam's SureBackup removes these barriers, making testing automatic, fast, and non-disruptive for your critical applications.Watch this video to see how this technology turns a time-consuming task into a seamless routine—and why testing your backups will never feel like a chore again.👇🏾 

I have been neglecting my home lab the last few months! So much so it was running a rather dated version of Kubernetes - 1.27.7  I wrote a post here on the trials and tribulations of the upgrade path to 1.30.6 which is the stable version and latest and greatest version that Veeam Kasten supports https://vzilla.co.uk/vzilla-blog/upgrading-my-talos-kubernetes-cluster 

Last week I finally had the time to write my review of the recent Veeam 100 Summit that took place in Berlin for 2024.  It was a fantastic event and experience as always meeting new V100 members and talking with the veterans.  It even had a surprise announcement from ​@Cragdoo moving from the V100 over to being a Veeam employee - congrats again Craig!Feel free to check my blog here as it is quite lengthy with many screenshots and pictures -Veeam 100 Summit Recap - Berlin 2024

Step 1: Check Current Kernel Version Before upgrading, confirm the current kernel version:uname -r Step 2: Update the SystemUpdate the system's package repository to ensure you have access to the latest kernel packages:sudo yum update -y Step 3: Install the Development Kernel Install the development kernel package to provide the necessary headers and libraries for building modules or applications:sudo yum install -y kernel-devel Alternatively, if you need a specific version:sudo yum install -y kernel-devel-<version>Replace <version> with the specific kernel version you want.Step 4: Verify the Installed Kernel and Development Package Check Installed Kernels:rpm -qa | grep kernelEnsure kernel-devel Matches the Installed Kernel: ls /usr/src/kernels/Step 5: Reboot to Use the New Kernel sudo reboot uname -rHappy Kernel Upgrade!!  

In my previous Topic I showed how to use the Veeam Architects Site ,but how does it give us the amount of Cores and memory that the proxy will use? I'll show you … Getting the right amount of processing power is essential to achieving the RTO/RPO defined by the business. In this section, we will outline the recommendations to follow for appropriate sizingWe defineD = Source data in MBW = Backup window in secondsT = Throughput in MB/s = D/WCR = Change rateCF = Cores required for full backup = T/100CI = Cores required for incremental backup = (T * CR)/25Example:Our sample infrastructure has the following characteristics:1,000 VMs 100 TB of consumed storage 8 hours backup window 10% change rateBy inserting these numbers into the equations above, we get the following results.We need to change TB to MB / We need to change Hours to SecsD = 100 TB * 1024 * 1024 = 104,857,600 MB (Source data in MB)W = 8 hours * 3600 seconds = 28,800 seconds (Backup window in seconds)T = 104857600/28800 = 3,6

  Hi! I would like to share an additional aspect that I was able to experience during the Veeam 100 Summit in Berlin. In addition to Summit's fantastic agenda, already brilliantly described in posts by colleagues in the community (congrats, ​@alrasheed) and by ​@NikolaPejkova ​, this contact with history was a very constructive and rewarding experience for me!I had the rare opportunity to visit symbols that marked my youth and have always fascinated me.One of the things that impacted me the most during my adolescence was the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, which I watched on TV. This event celebrated its 35th anniversary six days ago (!). 👏🏻👏🏻The fall represented a symbolic victory for freedom and determination for the entire world, still caught in the Cold War. It is worth visiting the Berlin Wall Memorial, the Wall Museum near Checkpoint Charlie, and the DDR Museum.As an engineer, I have always admired the incredible engineering behind the Boeing 747, a masterpiece developed in

A sneak peak at Veeam 13 on Linux!!  

This KB came out years ago and was updated in January.  Just a reminder to check all of your Veeam infrastructure, SQL hosts, and guest OS’s that have application aware and indexing enabled.  I found a few servers that have been created in the last few years missing a few. I don’t know if I’ll see much a performance increase, but it can’t hurt 😀  Antivirus Exclusions for Veeam Backup & Replication KB ID: 1999 Product: Veeam Backup & Replication | 11 | 12 | 12.1 Veeam Cloud Connect | 11 | 12 Published: 2015-02-03 Last Modified: 2024-01-02 Purpose This article documents antivirus exclusions that may be created to reduce the impact that antivirus software has on the functionality of Veeam Backup & Replication. These antivirus exclusions may be applied to the Windows built-in antivirus or third-party antivirus software. Note: Antiviru

 I would like to share the content presented during the Veeam 100 Summit in Berlin, which was brilliantly organized by the Veeam team in a highly professional manner. I would also like to thank the following individuals for inviting me to the Summit:​​@Rick Vanover, Office of the CTO – Vice President Product Strategy; ​@NikolaPejkova, Veeam Vanguard Community Manager & Technical Analyst; ​​@Madi.Cristil, Principal Community Manager at Product Strategy-Office of the CTO-Veeam Software; ​@safiya, Community Analyst.All the hard work and enormous effort involved in planning, implementing, and hosting the Veeam 100 Summit can be better understood and appreciated in this excellent article by Nikola Pejková:Veeam100 Summit: The power of Veeam100 Community Arrival at the event – Sunday, October 27thWhen I arrived at the hotel on Sunday afternoon, I saw that all the Veeam team’s preparations for the next day had been completed! Once again, congratulations to the organization team! Day 1 – M

In today's digital world, data is the backbone of business operations. Companies of all sizes are increasingly recognizing the need for strong data protection strategies to maintain business continuity amid growing threats such as ransomware, natural disasters, and system failures. For service providers handling data protection for their clients, delivering secure, reliable, and scalable backup solutions has never been more crucial.One new solution that has garnered attention is Veeam Data Vault. Veeam Data Vault is a powerful tool that enhances these capabilities, particularly for service providers looking to offer advanced, secure, and flexible backup storage solutions.What is Veeam Data Vault?Veeam Data Vault is a feature within Veeam Backup & Replication that provides a secure and isolated repository for storing backup data. It is designed to offer an additional layer of protection by safeguarding backups from cyber threats, operational mistakes, and ensuring that backup copies

Yesterday, Veeam released the Community Preview of the Hardened Repository ISO (Build 0.1.15).The ISO respectively the project was presented at the Veeam ON in Fort Lauderdale this year. I have been eagerly awaiting this installation ISO since the information was published. What is this Managed Hardened Repository ISO by Veeam?The Managed Hardened Repository ISO is an installation ISO to correctly install a Veeam Hardened Repository with Veeam’s best practices and a full hardening.Inside the installer you have to specify some settings, but everything else is predefined, so that after the guide guided installation you have a DISA STIG hardened repository. The whole thing without any further necessary adjustments. Benefits of the ISOThe biggest benefit of the ISO is that you don’t have to make any further customizations or run any scripts (the system is already hardened through the customized installer). There is no root user. Due to the use of Rocky Linux as the base, you have 10 years

I'm trying to set up backup job retries in Veeam Backup & Replication to automatically retry failed jobs a specific number of times. Could anyone guide me on how to configure this and suggest best practices for retry intervals?

Luckily I have the opportunity to have access to a VSA OOTBI for my Lab,THIS IS NOT FOR PRODUCTION - JUST LAB / TESTSo I would like to share the deployment and initial steps to get it up and running in my Vsphere lab with y'all.Let`s get started, by login into our Vsphere console, and starting the new VM process, deploying a VM from OVA:     After finishing the deployment, it is time to open the remote console to continue the wizard from it, As you can read from my previous entry, in Spanish:https://lfconsulting.org/object-first-ootbi-primer-arranque-y-configuracion  As you already may read from previous entries, in Spanish Im afraid, let's create the clusteryes, single node cluster:  Network config node Hostame Checking for updates... OK, IMPORTANT! apply the updates, and no worries, after so, we will need to start the wizard again, but the info is kept, ;) updating.... After updating, lets call the wizard again, I will continue in the next new screen, the previous info is saved, so j

Hey all, I just finished posting the third of a three-part series on deploying the Veeam Hardened Repository ISO.  I’ve been waiting a long time for the ISO to be released and have been occasionally bugged Rick about it, but this thing has been solid for me for over a week.  I’ve had a server waiting for it for over a year and it was worth the wait as it was super easy to deploy aside from working around the slightly buggy GUI for Rocky Linux.  I will note that Hannes specified 64GB of RAM for the VHR ISO, but my PowerEdge R550 that we ordered for the task previously has 32GB and seems to be keeping up just fine, though time will tell. Since it’s broken up into multiple parts, I’ll just share links to my blog rather than copying it into this post, though I will share a few screenshots as a teaser.Part 1Part 2Part 3Also thank you to everyone that had previously posted or had input on network bonding in Linux.  It was helpful as I setup my first 802.3ad bond on a server.  Let me know you