Blogs and Podcasts

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 infras

While it’s on my work blog site I’ve written up a primer on AWS S3 storage classes and how they can be used. Please forget the marketing speak but I think there is good, general purpose information here. https://1111systems.com/blog/introduction-to-object-storage-and-aws-s3-storage-classes/

Hi Everyone, The Linux Foundation is having a fast sale 40% until July 12. The LF certifications are some of the best in the business and some of the toughest so if you want to test your knowledge now is the time to get them. I don’t really recommend their training though, I personally did not find it very helpful towards the CKA exam. Remember these are not just Kubernetes exams but Linux and other systems as well. Take a look at the catalog.Speaking of which I have to renew my CKA so I took advantage of this deal myself!! 

Hi Community, If you have just deployed Veeam Backup for Google Cloud (VBGC), the next step is proper configuration to smooth backups and restores. Here’s a simple, step-by-step guide to help you get started quickly: 1️: Add GCP Projects:Go to Configuration → Projects → Add Project.Use Service Account credentials to connect.Make sure the Service Account has the required IAM roles:Compute Admin Storage Admin Cloud SQL Admin Spanner Admin 2️: Set Up Worker Profiles:Navigate to Configuration → Workers → Profiles.By default, you’ll have:Primary Profile (e2-highcpu-8) for regular backups Secondary Profile (e2-highcpu-2) if quotas are tight Archiving Profile (e2-standard-4) for archive jobs 3️: Configure Backup Repositories:Choose Google Cloud

Hi Everyone, Please join me on Sept 28th on Kodekloud’s celebration of free week. The show will be hosted by none other than Patrik Akil so I am very excited. Believe me as I talk about my experience in Data Protection from Physical, through virtual to Container workloads.. you can bet it won’t be boring :)   https://www.linkedin.com/events/7110978568662253568/about/?invite=false&message=false&sAtp=&sTrk=&sV=&showRequesters=false&showShareByPost=false 

Hi Folks,We have a real treat on our next Kubekorner show. We will talk to Yongkang He and will get a demonstration of Amazon EKS Cluster Automation & Protection. This is another “don’t miss it” show   

Now we can create the actual backup job. Let’s go back to Home–>Jobs and add a CDP PolicyAdd the computer we created in the protection group.Next we choose our Datastore, Host, and Resource Pool. Under Policy settings we can choose our replica suffix. Note this has to be unique, I had the job fail during testing because it already existed.Finally, we can set our RPOs and retention.

 It's already 3 weeks after my first journey to this summit in Prague. I was on several summits, but this is completely different. Everybody knows each other very close after an year or who was first time, they knew few months virtually from community. like me. And now was the time, when we met together and everybody was happy to met me personally like we have been seen previously. It was was nice talk with everybody from community. Of course, was really great to meet Veeam management and to talk with them about my design and requirements and what could be improved and how. For me was like Christmas time, like a family meeting during Christmas.If we look on box, on swag pack, it was like Xmas gift :) Lot of nice merches. The meetings were very fruitful for me, what we can use for resilience data now and what is comi

Hi Everyone,​@JonahMay  and I sat down (remotely 😀) and I asked him all those burning questions about AI that we are all asking. Jonah has been doing a lot with AI so has some create stories to tell. He also offers his predictions on what we as data protection experts need to be thinking about.So Jonah will I be digging ditches in a few years? Find out here:https://www.buzzsprout.com/2545760/episodes/18630608

I was surprised when I started looking at Scale to discover that they have been around since 2012, announcing their HC3 appliance powered by HyperCore. Then in 2019 8.2 released with major updates and security mitigations, and the key piece for what I think their use case fits was announced in 2022 Scale Fleet Manager. More on that in a bit. The Scale HyperCore has self-healing capabilities and is very simple. The simple interface is easy to use and manage and would be a small learning curve for any VMware administrator. Their Fleet Manager web-based portal allows customers and MSPs to manage, deploy, and monitor distributed infrastructure. This makes it easy to manage edge computing or small ROBO locations.Veeam support for Scale was just released in 2025 with version 12.3.2 to include backup and restore of Scale VMs into Scale, or from other platforms into Scale, and recovery of Scale into other Veeam supporte

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/

My recent blog post was about installing the plug-in on a Windows server; this blog will go through the installation on a Veeam v13 software appliance.I recently deployed the Veeam Plug-in for HPE Morpheus VM Essentials version 13 (RTM) on my lab Veeam software appliance, which is running v13.0.1. Once tested, I'll have it available to demonstrate to my customers.Veeam has introduced a dedicated plug‑in that enables image‑level backup and restore for virtual machines running on HPE VM Essentials. This integration brings VM Essentials into the same unified protection workflow as VMware, Hyper‑V, and other supported hypervisors. The plug‑in is not bundled with the main Veeam Backup & Replication installer, so it must be added separately. What the Veeam Plug‑in for HPE VM Essentials DoesThe plug‑in extends Veeam Backup & Replication to understand and interact with HPE VM Essentials resources. Without it, Veeam cannot discover

In this article I'm going to walk you through deploying a SOBR from scratch in my lab environment — not just the wizard clicks, but the design decisions, the gotchas, and the things I wish I'd known the first time I built one at scale.In recent years, before Veeam introduced direct-to-cloud capabilities, SOBR was used for tiering backups to the cloud. It can still be used today and play into the 3-2-1 backup strategy. Another use case for SOBR is when you have multiple nodes for Object First or Exagrid and want Veeam to view them as a single backup repository. For this article, we’ll focus on Object First.The SOBR is one of Veeam's most powerful (and frankly, most underutilized) architectural features. It lets you pool multiple repositories into a single logical target, adds tiered storage with automatic offload to object storage, and makes managing the lifecycle of your backup data dramatically simpler. What is a Scale-Out Backup Repository?

Prepping VBR/VEMMuch like Veeam ONE, we need to allow data collection in the host management pageFor a VBR HA cluster, repeat this on both individual nodes, starting with the primaryLog into the host management portal onhttps://fqdn:10443And click Backup Infrastructure, then under Data Collection, click Submit RequestAnd the same on VEM  Initial ConfigurationWe can now access the VRO WebUI fromhttps://fqdn:9898And login with the Windows administrator accountFill in the server details on the initial configuration wizard, you can add what you like here, then cl

Dear,Have a good day!!I would like to report an issue with Veeam Backup & Replication version 12.2.0.I upgraded Veeam Backup & Replication from version 12.1.1 to 12.2.0. After the upgrade, I attempted to update the server components in Veeam, but the process failed, as shown in the attached picture.Could you please assist me in resolving this issue? Thank you! 

This is my second story with backup, I will talk about my first project, it was with Veritas, however, the challenges was pretty good to gain experience.I had a project to backup Oracle DBs at oil and gas customer. The challenge that DBs wasn’t be able to be backed up. Support could not solve the problem, and I needed to sigh out the project.After troubleshooting and following KBs, I found that each DB has its own issues. One needs to setup the time and date, another needs to configure ORATAP file, and another has issues in archival logs.After fixing issue one by one, the project has been completed and signed off

VBR HA ClusterTo start with, we will need a second VBR server, setup like the first, but dont add any of the other components, like the repository or managed servers, on a different FQDN and IPOn our first VBR server, log in with the veeamadmin account on the management interface onhttps://fqdn:10443Click Backup Infrastructure then under High Availability, click Submit RequestWe will need to repeat this for the other, secondary, blank VBR serverThis must be approved by the security officer, if you didnt configure one, like me, its auto approved, it should show up like thisWe then need to connect to this VBR server with the remote console we setup earlierEnter the server FQDN and click Connect

Port conflicts in your Veeam environment? There’s a registry key for that.In this month’s Regkey of the Month, we look at how you can customize the network ports used by Veeam Backup & Replication through registry settings.Why would you do this?✔ Avoid port conflicts with other applications✔ Align with strict firewall or security policies✔ Gain more control over agent deployments and infrastructure communicationUnderstanding these lesser-known registry options can save hours of troubleshooting in complex environments.If you manage or architect Veeam environments, this one is worth a read.https://integriservices.blogspot.com/2026/03/regkey-of-month-march.html

The general availability (GA) of Red Hat OpenShift 4.18, 4.19, and 4.20 on VMware Cloud Foundation 9 and VMware vSphere Foundation 9 represents more than just expanded platform support. It marks a natural evolution for organizations modernizing their VMware-based infrastructure while continuing to run Kubernetes at enterprise scale. 🔄With the introduction of VCF9, Broadcom delivers a more integrated and standardized VMware platform. Red Hat aligns with this architecture by offering certified OpenShift deployments that preserve the operational model customers already trust. Organizations running OpenShift on vSphere 8 or VCF 5 can therefore move to VCF9 without rethinking how clusters are deployed or operated. ✅From a networking standpoint, OpenShift on VCF9 follows a clear and validated design. VMware NSX provides the infrastructure networking layer, while OVN-Kubernetes delivers the OpenShift-native overlay network.

When you designing  your primary and DR kasten setup:both setup need to be installed at same namespace. Backup location settings need to be samecheck backup policy from catalog :kubectl -n kasten-io exec -it deploy/catalog-svc -c catalog-svc -- curl "http://catalog-svc:8000/v0/artifacts/search?key=manifest-policy&value=kasten-io-k10-disaster-recovery-policy"

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/

If I survive the Tsunami, Sea Monsters, or hordes of American fishermen I will return later to talk about RedHat’s Kubernetes distribution for testing: Local Openshift!  

By default, the version of SQL Express thats installed is the RTM version of 2017, so this needs updating to the latest versionAs of December 2025 the latest is CU31 build 14.0.3515.1, which we can get hereFor a list of all updates, Microsofts own KB is out of date listing the March 2025 release as the latest, however this site has a much more up to date list of all patches which is hereIf we scroll down, we can see it in Method 3 for obtaining the release, and click Download The Package Now

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      

Hi All, check my first  V100 Summit expirience ! https://pulia.com.br/my-veeam-100-summit-experience/