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vNote42Veeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard

[Quicktip] Agent Backup Error

Just had to troubleshoot a not-working Agent backup job. Up to now, everything worked fine. Since last night, job fails. Error shown: [Task failed. Error: Failed to connect to servername:11731]Even in logs this error is shown: The problem seems to be communication with port 11731. This port is used for agent-deployment. No changes were made to the firewalls in this particular environment. So this could not be the cause of the problem.After a short phone call it turned out that the account used to communicate with the agent had been added to the Protected Users Security Group. But this group is not intended for adding service accounts. After removing the user, backup worked fine again.I hope this post saves some time in troubleshooting

9 months ago

regnorVeeam Legend

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VMCA2022 training review

This week I was able to attend to a Veeam VMCA training (Veeam Backup & Replication V11: Architecture and Design) held by @poulpreben.VMCA IntroductionSome words on the VMCA: The VMCA is the Veeam Certificied Architect, the second and highest Veeam certification after the VMCE. While the VMCE is more focused on technical topics, the VMCA is all about designing the backup solution and learning the "Veeam Architecture Methodology".We already have great posts about the VMCA, both the course and the exam, here in the community, so I'll won't go too deep and link to the corresponding posts:VMCA2022 anouncment from @MicoolPaul:VMCA2022 review from @Chris.Childerhose:VMCA2022 EXAM review from @Michael Melter : VMCA CourseDirectly from the beginning of the course, we could notice how different this training is going to be compared to others.Preben explained to us, that there's no lab part and that we won't work with a Veeam console. Instead there were team exercises, where we work together

9 months ago

wesmrtComes here often

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Restoring Backups to AWS

Hey guys! Recently I write a blog post about restoring backups to AWS. I normally write in brazilian portuguese but I thought will be a good content to translate and send here too. Like a say, I will detail all the pre-requisites and scenarios to restore backups to AWS using Veeam.This can be useful in three scenarios:Restore your on-premises environment directly to EC2 machines on Amazon. Migrate your on-premises environment to AWS. Create a test environment of your on-premises infrastructure on AWS to validate patching, for example. Pre-requisites As always it is important that we understand the prerequisites of the solution. And in this case we are still involving a solution external to Veeam, which is AWS. Supported backup types First, we have the supported Veeam backup types for restoring to AWS. Are they: Backups of vSphere or vCoud Director VMs created by Veeam Backup & Replication. Hyper-V VM backups created by Veeam Backup & Replication. Backup VMs and physical machin

9 months ago

JMeixnerVeeam Legend

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USB Disk as Veeam Repository in a private Environment

I had some – in review stupid – error with an backup of a single private computer with the free version of the Veeam Agent for Windows.I had told the owner of this machine to use the Veeam Agent for backup, because it is free and reliable. That I am using the products of this company professionally and didn’t have much problems with them and that they are very easy to use.So this poor little owner downloaded the agent, installed it and configured a backup job according to the procedure and recommendations I have given to him.The he tried to run the backup and after a short time – BANG Error.He called me and told me that there is a problem. I asked him to send the error message to me and I will have a look at it.19.02.2022 14:29:59 :: Error: Shared memory connection was closed. Failed to upload disk. Agent failed to process method {DataTransfer.SyncDisk}. Exception from server: There is not enough storage space available on the data medium. Failed to write data to the file [S:\VeeamBack

9 months ago

vNote42Veeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard

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[Quicktip] No Application backup (no) cry

This post is about a not working application backup that does not show any errors. I share this because it could easily happen without notice. It is about a backup of a MS Exchange VM. Backup worked fine but Exchange wasn’t backed up as application and therefore logs wasn't truncated too. Exchange was a single system, configured without cluster feature. After the job run, there was no option to restore Exchange Application Item, like you see here with SQL Server. Essential with application backup in Windows VMs is a triggered VSS snapshot. This can be done by Veeam Guest Processing or VMware tools quiescence. But when there is no VSS writer registered for a specific application, no application backup will be performed. Don't get me wrong: whole VM - all files within - will be backed up, but application itself will not. Therefore it is not possible to restore application by right-click appropriate restore point. Which can be overcome by starting the appropriate Veeam Explorer: and ope

9 months ago

Iams3leVeeam Legend

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How to synchronise your Active Directory (On-Premise) with Azure Active Directory via the Azure AD Connect

Azure AD is a cloud-based multi-tenant directory and identity service that provides identity and access management capabilities in the cloud.Since choosing the correct authentication method is the first concern for organisations wanting to move their apps to the cloud. The following section helps you decide which authentication method is right for you by using a decision tree. It helps you determine whether to deploy cloud or federated authentication for your Azure AD hybrid identity solution.Scr: MicrosoftTo choose an authentication method, you need to consider the time, existing infrastructure, complexity, and cost of implementing your choice. These factors are different are different from Organisation to organisation. Because of this, I will be highlighting on the different authentication methods. They are as follow;Azure AD password hash synchronization: This is basically the simplest way to enable authentication for on-premises directory objects in Azure AD. Users can use the same

9 months ago

haslundMr. VMCE

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Free access to the VMware Connect Premium learning package?

In case you missed it, VMware is currently offering a FREE 12-month access to the VMware Customer Connect Learning Premium Package. The catch? You must sign up before October 31st, 2020 so don’t delay!While you will get access to all the content from the basic subscription which includes free access to for example:1.357 videos 67 eLearning courses Fundamental courses VMware Certified Associate trainingThe premium package will also get you:All their official exam prep courses (650+ videos) Access to the just launched VMware Certified Technical Associate (VCTA) trainingIf you are not yet VMware certified, going for the VCTA certification is a great way to learn and also get started on their certification program - this will without a doubt help progress your career. BONUS!Just in case you didn’t know, VMware also offers free hands-on lab access. This is a great way to try out and learn about all their new technologies or simply learn more about the vSphere basics and get more out of what

9 months ago

regnorVeeam Legend

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VeeamON 2022 - Pre-Registration is open!

Great news! The pre-registration for VeeamON 2022 is open!https://www.veeamon.comThis year VeeamON will be a hybrid event, which means you can either attend virtually (for free!) or in-person. If you go for the later you’ll have to hurry as the seats are limited (1500). Also there’s a bonus option to add VMCE/VMCA training for a very good price. If you need to justify the costs for attending the in-persion event and the training, there’s even a template you can download and fill in our details. This will sure make it easier to get the budget for the trip to Vegas So regardless if your planing for the virtual or in-person event, go to www.veeamon.com and register yourself!Also don’t overlook @MicoolPaul’s post with more details below

9 months ago

vNote42Veeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard

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New in v11: combine vSphere tags

@PValsecchi already showed how to use vSphere tags for VM selection in VBR. New in v11 is the possibility to combine vSphere tags. I want to show how this work. For that, I created two tag categories. One for Location and one for Backup. I defined datacenter A and B locations; and Gold, Silver and Bronze backup priority. These tags are assigned to my 4 test VMs:So: VM01 and VM03 (odd numbers) are located in DC A. VM02 and VM04 (even numbers) are in DC B. VM01 and VM02 are defined for Gold-Backup, VM03 for Silver, VM04 for Bronze. First, I select one Tag for VM selection: DC A. This can be done either with single tag selection or with new combination of tags but just select one.As expected, when backup runs, VM01 and VM03 are selected:Next, I want to backup all Gold-Backup VMs in DC B and select these tags: Objects shown in Job definition:Just VM02 has all tags assigned: Fine, works as expected! And now, backup all VMs in DC A and B:Eventually here is a pitfall. Because now nothing will

9 months ago

falkobVeeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard

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Automatically create vSphere roles to use with Veeam ONE

Based on my original script from 2020 where I created a vCenter role for Veeam Backup & Replication with PowerCLI, I decided to do the same for Veeam ONE. You can find the other script for VBR here:As a result the blog post here with the new script was born !This PowerShell / PowerCLI script lets you create a new vCenter server role with all the cumulative privileges and permissions to use them with Veeam ONE V11.The privileges used are based on the recommendations out of the Veeam Help Center which you can find here: Connection to Virtualization ServersSimply execute the script and follow the steps to fill in the relevant data. Most importantly your vCenter server name, the username and your password. The script will then ask you to choose a name for your new role and automatically creates it. The script in action :DAfter you have created the role you need to assign a user to it. As a result, continue within Veeam ONE where you add your vCenter Server. Veeam ONE vCenter “add”The p

9 months ago

vNote42Veeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard

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[Quicktip] Errors in Enterprise Manager during Catalog Replication - Restore Point not found

Error message is about a missing restore point for a certain VM. Because of this catalog replication job fails. Cause and solutionOne possible cause is the deactivation of VMs guest indexing in backup job during a period of time when Enterprise Manager did not have access to the VBR server. In a specific case the password of the user that was used by Enterprise Manager to communicate with VBR server was changed.Fortunately, the solution here is also quite simple. At least I found a quite simple way to solve the problem. You need enable guest indexing and run the backup job. After this run make sure catalog replication runs without an issue. Now you can disable indexing again. From now on catalog should be replicated without problems.

9 months ago

MicoolPaulVeeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard

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Looking to get started in the Cloud? Free ACloudGuru Resources For February 2022!

Hey everyone, ACG are offering some free training courses again this month, some of them are looking really good!Disclaimer, haven’t watched all of the courses yet, but wanted to share early enough in the month that everyone gets a chance to review! AWS: AWS EssentialsIntroduction to AWSIntroduction to the AWS MarketplaceHow to Properly Secure an S3 BucketEKS Basics (Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service) Azure: Azure ConceptsIntroduction to Azure SecurityIntroduction to Networking on Azure GCP: Google Cloud ConceptsGoogle Cloud Security EssentialsIntro to GCP for AWS AdminsGKE Basics (Google Kubernetes Engine) Kubernetes: Hands-on Kubernetes Troubleshooting Linux: Linux Operating System Fundamentals Want to see the whole list available? Click here!

9 months ago

MicoolPaulVeeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard

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Key Changes in the New Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure v3a Release

As the headline suggests, Veeam recently released a “version 3a“ of Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure.Whilst there are your usual mixture of security fixes and bugs resolved, it actually brings a new (and welcome) change to the licensing structure around protecting Azure SQL workloads (not to be confused with Azure virtual machines running SQL Server). Licensing Per Server, not Per Database It’s not unusual to see Veeam adapt their pricing models over time to provide better value for customers. We’ve seen this historically when, for example, Veeam adjusted their NAS licensing to increase the amount of storage protected per instance license. However I was certainly surprised when Veeam released the latest version of Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure and included a change to the way they process Azure SQL Workloads.First of all, this isn’t to be confused with the “traditional” approach to running SQL Server workloads in Azure, aka, running a virtual machine with SQL Server installed. That

9 months ago

vNote42Veeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard

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[Quicktip] Error in Enterprise Manager during Catalog Replication - Meta-file error

The following error can occur in Veeam Enterprise Manger during catalog replication. Catalog replication is needed to transfer guest indexing information from the VBR server to the Enterprise Manager server.By default, replication task runs automatically after each backup job. You can trigger it manually within Enterprise Manager GUI. Just enter the Configuration section, select Settings and press Update Now.Log files can be seen beneath Sessions.Meta-file errorThis error is about the meta-file that does not contain a certain attribute.Cause and solutionThere is a meta-file for catalog replication on Enterprise Manager server. In some situations it may happen that this file is empty. I do not know exactly under what circumstances this can happen but the solution is simple. Just delete, or rename the empty file. File is located on the Enterprise Manager server in directory C:\VBRCatalog\Replication\InConnectors and is named VbrServerName.uuid.con.The next replication task should not sto

9 months ago

haslundMr. VMCE

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#VMCA 2022 Official practice exam question 39 walkthrough

The walkthrough of the official #VMCA 2022 practice exam question 39 is ready.Are you starting to see a flow in how to answer the questions?The final video in this series will be available tomorrow :-)

10 months ago

MicoolPaulVeeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard

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Veeam Certified Engineer 2021 Exam Released & Reviewed

I was recently made aware that Veeam have released the 2021 edition of the Veeam Certified Engineer (VMCE) exam. If you’ve already got a VMCE 2020 certification, or have taken the VMCE 2020 training course within the past year, (or even been lucky enough to already take a seat on the VMCE 2021 training course) you’re eligible to take the exam.To take the exam simply head to the VMCE certification page, sign in with your company email address that was used for either your training course or previous exam and you should see the below.Description: An image showing the VMCE certification page with a button labelled “Manage VMCE 2021 Exam”Simply click on “Manage VMCE 2021 Exam” and you’ll be taken to the PearsonVUE website to organise either a remote exam or in-person exam. The Exam Online Proctor Experience Over the course of the pandemic, PeasonVUE have got repeatedly better at delivering the remote training sessions, they’ve slowly adapted their security measures too, when the pandemic h

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10 months ago

Geoff BurkeVeeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard

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O365 Self Service Portal

Hi Folks, I think I remember hearing that Veeam was coming out with their own Self Service Portal for O365. I can’t remember where I heard this (VeeamONUpdate?). Does anyone remember? And would this be based on the previous unofficial Portal that was on the VeeamGitHub site? cheers Geoff

10 months ago

haslundMr. VMCE

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#VMCA 2022 Official practice exam question 38 walkthrough

The walkthrough of the official #VMCA 2022 practice exam question 38 is ready.Are you starting to see a flow in how to answer the questions?

10 months ago

haslundMr. VMCE

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#VMCA 2022 Official practice exam question 26 walkthrough

The walkthrough of the official #VMCA 2022 practice exam question 26 is ready.Did you have to check the scenario document? Which section did you locate the information inside?

10 months ago

haslundMr. VMCE

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#VMCA 2022 Official practice exam question 37 walkthrough

The walkthrough of the official #VMCA 2022 practice exam question 37 is ready.Are you starting to see a flow in how to answer the questions?

10 months ago

haslundMr. VMCE

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#VMCA 2022 Official practice exam question 36 walkthrough

The walkthrough of the official #VMCA 2022 practice exam question 36 is ready.Did you have to check the scenario document? Which section did you locate the information inside?

10 months ago

haslundMr. VMCE

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#HomelabWednesday - How to set up and perform a VMware vMotion

In this week's episode of #HomelabWednesdays, I show you how to set up and perform a VMware vMotion.Don’t forget to subscribe to get automatic notifications whenever a new video is released.

10 months ago

MicoolPaulVeeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard

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Veeam Backup Service Fails to Start – AKA How I broke my lab this time…

It feels like everyone is always trying so hard to be perfect, I’m certainly not! But I’m happy to learn from and share my mistakes. I was messing about recently with Veeam Disaster Recovery Orchestrator and made some changes to my lab, and all was fine when I shut down. A few days later I fired up the lab again, but my Veeam Backup & Replication server wouldn’t start its core “Veeam Backup Service” service. I over-engineered my response expecting it to be something far more complex than it actually was, and here’s my story. Hour 1: The Service Won’t StartI fired up my Veeam Backup & Replication server, ready to write my next blog post, uh-oh, the service won’t start! I jumped into the logs and couldn’t see anything of any note, really!This was my log, if you don’t load/can’t read images, the final three lines contained the following:[db] Minimal supported database server version is 10.0.1600.22[db] Connecting to SQL Server (CurrentUser=[NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM], ServerInstance=[W

10 months ago

regnorVeeam Legend

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VBR: "Collecting disk files location data" takes too much time

The ProblemLast week we were troubleshooting a Veeam Backup & Replication environment, where jobs were slowing down since some time.Looking at the jobs, the backup performance itself was quite good, but the processing of some VMs took longer then expected.The task log of those VMs showed that "Collecting disk files location data" was the cause; for some VMs it lasted 20 minutes, others were waiting for several hours.I first suspected a vCenter problem, as the debug logs showed timeouts and an unsupported API, but after patching and some restarts the problems persisted.The ResolutionDoing some research I’ve stumbled over an R&D forums digest from @Gostev from the year 2018 (Veeam Community Forums digest at that time ). And this one brought us in the right direction as Anton mentioned disk fragmentation as a pausible cause for this issue.I’ve opened up a Veeam support case just to be sure, before approaching the storage team, but later on our customer discovered some left-over s

10 months ago

vNote42Veeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard

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HPE brings LTO-9 to market

New LTO-9 for HPE products are available:LTO-9 is available as of January 10, 2022, for the following entry and mid-range HPE StoreEver solutions:HPE StoreEver LTO-9 45000 internal and external standalone tape drives HPE StoreEver MSL 1/8 autoloader HPE StoreEver MSL 2024 tape library HPE StoreEver MSL3040 tape library HPE StoreEver MSL6480 tape library https://community.hpe.com/t5/Around-the-Storage-Block/Great-news-for-the-new-year-LTO-9-comes-to-HPE-StoreEver-tape/ba-p/7157794

10 months ago

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