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 In my last post I covered the requirements and necessary steps to configure immutability for HPE StoreOnce with Veeam V12. In this post I want to focus on how immutability behaves in different scenarios.Enable immutability for existing Catalyst storesIf you have existing Catalyst stores, the good news is that it’s possible to enable immutability for them. Let’s take a look at the Veeam helpcenter:Note that if you enable immutability and Veeam Backup & Replication does not start a new backup chain and still continues the chain, the whole backup chain is marked as immutable.https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backup/vsphere/storeonce_supported_features.html?ver=120#immutabilitySo, after you configure immutability, the current or new backup chain will be made immutable. All other existing backup chains won’t be touched and therefore stay mutable.This is also exactly what I could reproduce in my lab environment. After enabling immutability, the current chain is made immutable, while all

Hi allI already read and know different articles and posts of different people like @MicoolPaul, @olivier.rossi, @Chris.Arceneaux and others regarding object storage and the used block size.In this article a bit more about that in combination with Veeam Cloud Connect. Goal : My goal is to setup a new Veeam Cloud Connect infrastructure for multiple hundreds of customers. Setup : The setup of the Veeam Cloud Connect is a infrastructure that consists of several SOBR’s that consists of multiple extents (performant block-storage physical servers with REFS - 64K) in a performance tier in 1 datacenter and a capacity tier with object storage (performant physical object storage devices) in another datacenter with using the copy-mode and immutability.Of course there is a performant interconnection between the 2 datacenters. Advantages of this setup : There are a lot of advantages in my opinion in using that setup : we use 2 datacenters and all data is being copied from 1 datacenter to another da

Alt Text: Graphic with blog post titleDon’t you just hate it when something is working and then it breaks?I was working with a customer recently that had their Azure Storage configured as a backup repository within Veeam (Direct to Object Storage) and all was working great. However, after a few months Veeam was attempting to perform lifecycle operations such as creating synthetic full backups and purging old restore chains, and then suddenly a backup job started to fail.After diving into the logs I could see the following error was happening with every backup attempt:Details: HTTP code: 403, Content Length: 246, Code: AuthorizationFailure,<DATE TIME> :: Error: This request is not authorized to perform this operation.Failed to copy azure blob. Source path: [{ContainerName}//Veeam/Backup/{Folder Name}/Clients/{GUID}/{GUID}/Metadata/Checkpoint/1. Version: [{File Version Date}].], Target path: [{ContainerName}//Veeam/Backup/{Folder Name}/Clients/{GUID}/{GUID}/Metadata/Metadata/Checkp

Hi everyone!I had a case during this week, and I wanted to share my experience / workaround with y’all.I wanted to export a backup to an external drive, the VBR was a virtual machine, and no access to the Hypervisor to plug the USB and push it to the vm.Now you may think, mount it somewhere and share it over the network as a shared folder…I did, and was not working, some windows stuff that we were not allowed to share any unit, and was driving us crazy!We did some research, and remembered that there was a way to share / mount remote USB Devices over the Network! now, time to give it a shot!The idea is very straight forward, a Server machine, where the USB Devices is located at, and a client, to mount the remote resource as “local”.The tool name is VIRTUALHEREUSB SERVER(Local USB Drive)→NETWORK→USB CLIENT“Remotely mounted USB Drive”You simply download the Server and client, and execute them in the decided machines, couple of easy configs, and you are good to go, let me show you some scr

A bunch of new vulnerabilities was discovered on Veeam One against the SQL Server connection: You can see all of these on the new Veeam KB4508. Don't hesitate and update your Veeam One environment right now.

Hi there,I would like to share with you that applications for the following 2024 program are open. Existing vExperts and those aspiring to be part of this esteemed community are encouraged to submit their applications for consideration. Similarly, the Cisco Champion program welcomes both current members to reapply and prospective participants to submit their applications for review.For more information on the vExpert program, please take a look at this piece from @victorwu   

1 week ago I had to work during the whole weekend 😉Yes, occasionally some work for customers needs to be done during a maintenance window, often during the weekend, not possible during weekdays.If it doesn’t happen every week and it is possible to schedule it when it suits for yourselves, no problem 😁.Well, last weekend I had to work with a colleague of mine for a customer in a datacenter.Because of the very bad implementation before of the infrastructure (not done by us 🤗), we needed to verify and document the whole setup and every network-connection.Why?We had to turn off the whole Hyper-V cluster, storage, servers, virtual machines, …Afterwards we needed to remove all cabling, reorganize all devices, change the configuration, recabling everything and turn on the infrastructure again.You wouldn’t believe how bad the setup was!!!All went spotless 🤣, it was not our first time we did some project like that : my colleague, a network and firewall specialist and myself a backup, hyperv

Alt Text: Banner graphic displaying the post titleHi,Another quick hint from the field. I’ve seen on multiple occasions that Veeam can get stuck when moving metadata between cache repositories. I needed to move a batch of NAS Cache metadata to a new location, due to a change in Veeam Backup & Replication v12, whereby now it is recommended that you provision no less than 1GB of cache space per 1 million file versions, per backup job. A bit different to some of the previous ‘best practice’ guidelines of ~4GB total!As a quick side note, the Veeam Best Practice documentation now suggests 5% of the source data size as your cache size when using object, but I’m sticking to the Veeam Helpcenter documentation’s 1GB per 1 million file versions guidance, as it’s a good minimum for sizing. The Veeam Best Practice documentation doesn’t always scale well once you’ve got TBs of data. For example: At 50TB of data across 25 million files, your sizing with the best practice starts at 2.5TB of cache

I know I’m late, but spending an extra 4 days in Prague was a blast and the jetlag kicked in hard after being awake over 26 hours coming home! First off, Thanks to @Rick Vanover @Madi.Cristil @safiya @NikolaPejkova  Nikki Adkins, and everyone else for their hard work. As this was my first summit (and first time out of NA) I had no clue what to expect and a bit nervous about the trip. Everything exceeded my expectations from the hotel, the sessions, events, the venues and swag 😄! I already want to go back to EU and explore more.  The flight there was a bit rough. Having someone take their shoes and socks off and bump you with their foot for a few hours is not my idea of a good time, but I was able to keep my cool and power through. I met @Chris.Childerhose and @Matt Crape at the airport which made my trip to the hotel stress free. We were all a bit more tired than expected so the Uber instead of transit was the right call. I was pretty happy with the weather in Prague when I checked my

Hi All, In this article I am going to show how to configure custom AWS tags on Veeam Backup for AWS (VBAWS) workers. This is really helpful if you need to use tags for billing purposes for example.This procedure is only possible, at least until the moment I am writing this post, through restAPI. In Veeam for AWS we use by default the port 11005 for the restAPI, so you need to make sure you open this port on the security group that is associated with the VBAWS instance. Since you have the port open, the first step is to access Swagger, the restAPI tool built-in the VBAWS appliance.Open your browser and type:https://<hostname or IP of your appliance>:11005/swagger/index.html Expand the Method TOKEN Expand POST /api/v1/token and click on Try it Out.From the Grant_type drop-down menu, select Password, type the same credentials used to log into the appliance in the fields Username and Password. All other fields can remain blank and click Execute. Wait for the response from the server.

A Deeper Look at the Smart-EntityIn my Veeam Amazing Object Storage Tips & Techniques Part 4 I provided a high level introduction of the Smart-Entity feature of the Smart Object Storage API (SOSAPI).  In this article, I will explain how our Technical Alliance Partner (TAP) Object First has implemented the Smart-Entity as part of their object storage solution.Let’s start off with a reminder of how the Smart-Entity feature works:Veeam Backup & Replication will tell the object storage platform how much data VBR is about to send it as well as for what object (virtual machines, cloud vms, NAS file share, and Physical machines).  The object storage platform can then use this information to determine what node/endpoint will receive the backup data The object storage platform then provides VBR the node name/endpoint address to send the data toBefore I dive into the details of how Smart-Entity works, let me define what an entity is.  Veeam Backup & Replication uses backup jobs to pr

 Using Veeam we can have various types of files. But do you know all of those file extensions? Here is a list of the main files: .vbm - backup chain metadata file.vbk - full backup file.vib - incremental backup file.vrb - reverse incremental backup file.bco - configuration backup file.lde - veeam explorer exported file.ldf - Microsoft SQL Server Log file.mdf - Microsoft SQL Server master database file.vsm - Microsoft SQL Server transaction log backup.vom - Oracle database log file.lock - lock file.vblob - file that stores data from the file share (NAS) backup job.vindex - binary metadata file that describes backup files (names and versions) of file share backup job.vslice - binary metadata that describes allocation of data in VBLOB backup files Have you in mind any other kind of file extension that are associated with Veeam?Put here on the comments that I will add to this list.

VEEAM 100 SUMMIT IN PRAGUE Last week I had the great pleasure to attend the Veeam 100 Summit in Prague Czech Republic.This event is the highlight of the year for the Veeam Community and the atmosphere and energy it creates is enough to keep one fueled with IT enthusiasm until the next summit.So what is the Veeam 100? Well I have described it before but such a great Community needs to be mentioned again and again. What’s more there is no reason why you too can’t join the Veeam 100 as well, either as a Veeam Vanguard or a Veeam Legend.The Veeam Vanguards“The Veeam Vanguard Program is Veeam’s top-level influencer community”. You can get a full description here: https://www.veeam.com/vanguard.htmlThe Veeam Legends“Veeam Legends are Veeam users and data protection industry experts who are passionate about technology, innovation and eager to further develop their career, while sharing their experiences with the community” Again you can get more information from here: https://community.veeam.

I’d like to first thank Rick Vanover, Madalina Cristil, Nikola Pejková, and everyone at Veeam for their efforts and support leading into my second Veeam 100 Summit. It’s a HUGE undertaking that requires many levels of coordination. This was my second time attending the event in person. It was an honour to attend such a prestigious event for the second time and meet many fellow Vanguards, Legends and MVPs in person.  It is amazing how being at an event and being able to speak to others of the same mindset makes you feel great.  As for the host city of Prague, it never fails.Day 1 included a Welcome Reception hosted by Object First.A big thanks to Kevin Allan and Probax for sponsoring our Go Kart event earlier in the day! It’s safe to assume everyone thoroughly enjoyed this experience!  However, we did have one minor mishap during racing, as Thiago Dos Santos Nunes decided to crash into a wall and ended up like this.The Kasten workshop was once again held on Monday afternoon for those wh

Hi, Wanted to try and bring some of the magic of the Veeam 100 Summit to the Community Hub, as so much of Veeam’s success comes from the community! I’ll be blogging here each day bringing some highlights from the summit. Hope you enjoy it!  

Hi everyone, I bring this book, I hope you Enjoy ItThis book provides tips that help administrators maximize the performance of VMware vSphere 8.0 Update 2. Sections cover hardware selection, ESXi and virtual machines, guest operating systems, and virtual infrastructure managementDownload Here 

Hello,  I try to install Veeam Agent for Linux on my debian 11but i have two errors that involve failure of Veeam Agent for linux installation 20/09/2023 09:41:17 Failed [172.16.0.18] Failed to install veeam_6.0.0.1060_amd64.deb and blksnap_6.0.0.1060_all.deb packages: E: Impossible de trouver le paquet linux-headers-5.10.0-18-amd64 E: Impossible de trouver de paquet correspondant à l'expression rationnelle « linux-headers-5.10.0-18-amd64 » E: Impossible de trouver de paquet correspondant à l'expression rationnelle « linux-headers-5.10.0-18-amd64 » Failed to invoke rpc command  0:00:14 20/09/2023 09:41:32 Failed [172.16.0.18] Failed to install Veeam Agent for Linux: E: Impossible de trouver le paquet linux-headers-5.10.0-18-amd64 E: Impossible de trouver de paquet correspondant à l'expression rationnelle « linux-headers-5.10.0-18-amd64 » E: Impossible de trouver de paquet correspondant à l'expression rationnelle « linux-headers-5.10.0-18-amd64 » Failed to invoke rpc command   my config

Hello Team, Can anyone help, am trying to upgrade VeeamOne env from 12.0.0.2498 to VeeamONE_12.0.1.2591_20230314, am unable to upgrade as it shows license is invalid. Could you please help path to download trial license for VeeamONE_12.0.1.2591_20230314.  

As announced in VeeamON 2023, the release 12a (or 12.1) of the Veeam Data Platform is coming soon. In addition to bringing new cybersecurity features, one of the focuses is improving the ability to protect data stored in Object Storage.It is a critical demand for organizations to store data related to modern applications or any unstructured data related to the business.It will be possible to take data from object storage and store it in backup repositories of any type: block, file, object storage, or even tape.There will be flexible recoveries in restoring the entire buckets, including permissions, attributes, and tags.You will perform granular recoveries on individual objects and restore specific object versions. Of course, the immutability, the ability to define object version, object archive, and Backup Copy will be supported.This is all based on the NAS backup technology of Veeam Backup & Replication. Let’s wait for this new version!  

Hi all.reference Upgrading Veeam Service Provider Console - Veeam Service Provider Console Deployment GuideI share the procedure step by step for upgrading VSPC v6 to v7.Backup database before proceeding. Backup of the VM dedicated to the VSPC service before proceeding. Cold snapshot of the VM VSCP if there is database Download ISOCheck your versiontip:Mount ISO and start WizardCheck VSPC website consoleCheck version post updateOption 1) Manually download Management Agent for tenant serversManually Install Management Agent on all yours manged server TenantsOtion 2) Update Managment Agent VCC server from consoleFrom the console verify that all agents are updated without errors.enjoy :D

 And the Veeam 100 Summit 2023 has now come to a close. I myself made it home yesterday, and I know others have stayed on a bit longer but the numbers are starting to dwindle as this becomes just a fond memory.For my final piece of Veeam 100 content here, I want to share with you the heart of what makes this event such a success. The people! And I welcome the other Veeam 100 attendees to share any green content photos and stories!For me, whether it’s been getting lost in the beautiful architecture of Prague, or having a cheeky pint after hours, the friends I’ve shared it with have made it unforgettable!Photobooth FunThe Vanny Passover CeremonyGreat Friends Great FoodGreat PartyThe Best People Here’s to the number one tech community in the world 🍻

 Hey! Microsoft SQL Server backends some of the organizations' most critical applications. Any loss of data or even the inability to fully recover this environment can cause catastrophic damage to the business.Veeam offers several options to simultaneously protect the most business-critical applications and Microsoft SQL Server environments.Starting with version 12 of Veeam Backup & Replication, the Veeam Plug-in for Microsoft SQL Server was made available.This plug-in natively integrates with Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio, the Microsoft SQL Server management tool used by organizations' DBAs (database administrators).With this plug-in, DBAs have complete control over the database backup and recovery processes, with zero friction with daily activities and an integrated manner with the organization's data protection policy.Therefore, the same Veeam platform protects virtual servers, Kubernetes clusters, physical servers, notebooks, desktops, and public cloud services.Some di

We start the day with @kirststoner12, Roman Kuksov, and @jorge.delacruz   First up is Jorge talking us through the Veeam ONE Threat centre.Jorge talks us through the data platform scorecard, made up of the following four contributing components:Platform Security Compliance - This is driven by the VBR Security & Compliance Analyser (Formerly known as the best practice analyser) Data Recovery Health - This score looks at backups marked as suspicious/infected, you should hopefully see a 100% health when you first deploy this Data Protection Status - This score is based on the percentage of protected workloads vs unprotected Backup Immutability Status - This score is based on the number of workloads that are not compliant with the immutability target.Within each of these widget sections are call to actions for a related report to provide drilldown information on the appropriate topicsEach of these widgets have options to include/exclude settings for example:Data Recovery Health can cho