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The Veeam Vanguard program has announced its members for the 2026 class. Congratulations once again to all the members who have renewed their membership, as well as to those who are joining the program for the first time or returning after a break. This year is no different from previous ones in terms of the presence of this group, which is full of top worldwide Veeam experts. It's been tougher than in previous years to make the final selection of new members because we stick to disciplined growth, which means that not all great candidates make it in. Why? The Veeam Vanguard program is the longest-running community program at Veeam. Since the beginning, it has had one rule: disciplined growth. We have never aimed to grow to hundreds of members simply because we value the intimate atmosphere that this distinctly large group of 50–60 memb

We all have beautifully designed DR plans.Redundant storage. Replication. Immutable backups. Offsite copies.And then the phone rings at 4:07 AM.Adrenaline kicks in. Your brain is half online. Someone is asking for ETAs. Something slightly unexpected is already happening.This post isn’t about the standard “3-2-1-1-0” advice. This is about the obscure, easy-to-ignore details that make or break a real-world recovery. 1. Label. Your. Cables.I know. It sounds basic.But in a real DR scenario: You’re stressed. You’re tired. Things are never exactly as documented. Someone is standing behind you asking, “Is it up yet?” That is not the time to guess which FC cable goes to which SAN port.Label both ends of: SAN connections Uplinks iSCSI paths Replication links

I recently deployed the Veeam Plug-in for HPE Morpheus VM Essentials version 13 (RTM) on my Veeam Backup lab server, 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 or protect VM Essentials servers or workers. Once installed, the plug‑in enables:Discovery of HPE VM Essentials hosts Ba

 Original post: Veeam Plug-in for HPE Morpheus VM Essentials Explained - CloudnRoll Veeam and HPE are further strengthening their partnership, with many new features and integrations expected in 2026.Veeam introduced a new native integration plug-in for HPE Morpheus VM Essentials (VME). It´s currently in beta version, with general availability anticipated shortly. This new plug-in provides hypervisor-based image-level backup for virtual machines (VMs) running on HPE Morpheus VM Essentials, ensuring secure and reliable protection for a wide range of workloads.Next, the ar

IntroThis is the second post of my series about the new VeeamONE Essentials training on Veeam University. The first one can be found here.Today I wrapped up Modules 1–4 of the 12 modules in total of the VeeamONE Essentials course on VeeamUniversity.com — which means one third of the course is now completed.As the name already suggests, VeeamONE Essentials is designed as an introductory course. It’s clearly aimed at users who are either new to VeeamONE or want to build a solid foundation before going deeper. And that’s exactly what it delivers so far. Getting Started: Installation, Monitoring & Initial ConfigurationThe course starts in a

Hello everyone,We have some old tape backups in the VBR software under “Backups”.We would like to delete them (or at least remove them from the view) but I can't find an option to do this.This backup was on old tapes and this tapes are no longer available.Can you help me further? Otherwise I ll open a support ticket.Thanks.

 Veeam Pulse allows administrators to create and manage licenses through a centralized and streamlined workflow. The process typically involves accessing the Pulse portal, generating a new license based on the required product and subscription parameters, and assigning it to the appropriate customer or environment. Once created, the license can be downloaded or automatically synchronized with Veeam products, ensuring proper activation and compliance. This approach simplifies license lifecycle management, reduces manual errors, and provides clear visibility over usage and entitlements. This is the error you receive when using a licence in legacy format.Veeam Software Appliance does not support legacy-format rental licenses.

We've been running the Framework in corporations throughout the year.In this post, I'll share with you the main results and how this initiative has encouraged teams to work together to achieve the highest possible compliance. In early January, we started using the Assessment provided by Veeam. In our client base and new logos. Today, at the end of October, we've already surpassed 50 clients, guided by scope of work, documentation, numerous meetings, and excellent commercial results. After the Framework round, we typically move on to a series of Scope of Work and Commercial MovementThis has been quickly moving customers, distributors, manufacturers, and partners, and it's being treated with priority, according to projects already underway within organizations. Yet another reminder that backup, often seen as a dull necessity, once again proves to be the unsung hero when it matters most. 

Hey all,I'd like to share an experience I encountered with one of my clients who uses the Virtual Lab functionality to test their backups.Problem:Suddenly the SureBackup starts to fail. When the SureBackup job launches, it fails during VM registration with vCenter Investigation:My virtual labs are properly set up in Veeam and the association with the ESXi is OK. As a reminder, a Virtual Lab must be assigned to a unique ESX host. If you move the Virtual Lab Vm to another ESX, your jobs will failed. On the vCenter side, all virtual labs are presents in their

I have been looking forward to testing Veeam Data Cloud for quite some time. I first discussed it during the Veeam Summit in Berlin (2024) and again in Prague (2025). Today, I finally have the opportunity to experience it firsthand. Thank you very much @Karinne B. Veeam Data Cloud is a comprehensive Backup-as-a-Service (BaaS) platform that provides cloud-native data protection for modern workloads. Unlike the self-managed Veeam Data Platform, this SaaS offering includes the backup software, infrastructure, and storage in a single package. I have previously discussed Why you should back up Azure, Entra ID, and Microsoft 365, and s

Veeam Data Platform Advanced and Premium Editions give organizations powerful tools to document and report on their environment. This includes gathering data around capacity planning, protection policies, and performance insights. By utilizing this functionality, teams gain visibility into their data protection environment to help maintain security, achieve consistent compliance, and improve operational efficiency.The latest release of the Veeam Data Platform brought major updates to Veeam ONE’s reporting capabilities. By delivering a faster, more interactive experience, reporting within the platform has become more modern, moving away from traditional SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) to HTML5-based reporting. You will see this experience with Veeam Data Platform and Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 reports.This modernization is accompanied by a new PostgreSQL-powered Veeam ONE Reporting Database designed to accelerate large report generation. Reports that used to ta

Greetings friends! Today I want to share something that has been on my mind for a while, and I finally decided to tackle it head-on. If you're running Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 with object storage (Wasabi, AWS S3, Azure Blob, or any S3-compatible provider), you've probably asked yourself:"How much space is each user actually consuming in my VB365 backup repository?"And if you're like me, exploring the Object Storage, you've also asked:"Wait... who is that GUID? And why is there data from an organization I deleted months ago still sitting there?"Spoiler alert: I found several GB of orphaned backup data that I could safely delete. But more on that little adventure later. Let's go!The Challenge: Understanding What's Really in Your Object StorageHere's the thing. Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 stores backup data in object storage using

 Veeam 13 offers new option to add as backup component into Veeam infrastructure with service account. If you are missing windows component and you would like to use same method as connection between appliances. Then this method is the right one.Method is described in KB. Let’s go how to achieve that step by step: Deployment kit is downloaded from windows Veeam 13 console. Here looks downloaded package.Installation from PowerShell, locally on windows server.

Over the last decade, ransomware attacks have changed dramatically. What once was a simple malware encrypting user files has evolved into a business-driven cybercrime model. Today, attackers think strategically, move laterally, and aim directly at what truly hurts an organization: its ability to recover. To understand how to defend modern environments, we must first understand hacker thinking. This means looking at attacks from the attacker’s perspective — how they enter, how they move, and how they decide when an attack is successful. More importantly, it means understanding why backup infrastructure has become a primary target, not an afterthought. How Hacker Thinking Has Evolved Over Time In the early days, ransomware attacks were opportunistic. Attackers relied on phishing emails, weak

I’ve been running Veeam v13 in the Home Lab for a few months now. It’s working flawlessly, backup my servers locally and Wasabi immutable storage in the cloud, running replications, and using Sure Backup to verify my backups are actually working.With Version 13 Veeam improved Universal Continuous Data Protection(U-CDP). If you are wondering what even is this, let me quote Veeam here, as it is a pretty good explainer.“Universal continuous data protection (CDP) is a technology that helps you protect mission-critical workloads when data loss for seconds or minutes is unacceptable. Workloads of various types, such as virtual, physical or cloud machines can be replicated to VMware vSphere cluster or host. CDP provides minimum recovery time objective (RTO) in case a disaster strikes because CDP replicas are in a ready-to-start state.”In this post I’m going to walk through setting this up and running CDP. There were some gotchas I ran into my home lab, but at the end i

 Veeam Data Platform v13 is one of the most significant releases in Veeam’s history. It introduces major advancements in security, AI-driven threat detection, cloud recovery, performance, and operational simplicity. Rather than being just another upgrade, v13 positions Veeam as a true cyber-resilience platform, helping organizations detect threats, protect backup data, and recover cleanly and confidently.In this blog, we’ll cover two key areas:What’s new in Veeam v13 and the features worth getting excited about A complete Veeam v13 Adoption Playbook — phases, risks, and best practices for rolling out the new platform What’s New in Veeam Data Platform v13Veeam v13 brings major enhancements across security, cloud recovery, performance, observability, and platform flexibility. Below are the most impactful additions. 1. Security-First De

After my previous articles on backup security and object storage on-prem, today, we'll examine the best practices for using them with Veeam.Here Why go with on-premises object storage and here The choice of storage explained my ideas about a new generation storage as a backup repository.So we'll check out the best configuration for creating a backup job and explain why we chose it.Object Storage as the main repository in Veeam v12.3.As we all know, since version 12, it's been possible to use an object storage repository as a primary destination for backups. This makes the architecture simpler and offers greater flexibility.When you're gett

Veeam Backup Configuration Restore – MS SQL Error & WorkaroundContextDuring a Veeam Backup & Replication configuration restore on a new server, I encountered an error. “XML Parsing: document parsing required too much memory”Source server: MS SQL Standard Edition Destination server: MS SQL Standard Edition (same version)What I triedSame MS SQL Standard Edition → Same error Migrated to MS SQL Express Edition → Same error Switched to PostgreSQL → It worked!This confirmed that the issue was related to MS SQL.Veeam Support RecommendationsVeeam Support provided two options:Option 1: Restore with

Hey folks,A little share that could be helpful. As a reminder, in Veeam v13 we have a 100% Linux Veeam Infrastructure!New Linux Roles• Mount Server• Guest Interaction Proxy• Log Shipping Server• Gateway Server:SMB / NFS StoreOnce DataDomain Object Storage NDMP • WAN Accelerator • vPowerNFS • SMB and NFS components (network share backup) • Agent Distribution ServerWhat a big list! But what happens when you upgrade from Veeam 12?Here’s my situation: many Veeam Linux proxies were already present. After the upgrade, all the components were updated. So let's go ahead and add some of them as a Gateway Server… and what a surprise: no proxy present! 

When Veeam Recovery Orchestrator (VRO for short) is used, it is usually an infrastructure with a VDP Premium license. Alternatively, the use of VDP Advanced and additional 10 instance packs for the Orchestrator would also be possible.In the Orchestrator itself, there are various ways to map recovery plans.In this article, I would like to show a way to first shut down the productive workloads when using replication jobs, transfer the delta data to the DR-site and then boot it up there. This corresponds to a native planned failover within Veeam Backup & Replication (with more options and reporting functionalities).  Replication Jobs in VBR In my lab, I work with various VMware vSphere tags, which map SLAs here (Gold, Silver, Bronze). My replication jobs wi

  Recently, some of us had the privilege of receiving an invitation to participate in the Veeam ONE or Veeam Recovery Orchestrator Essentials training course. I don’t take this opportunity lightly and am genuinely grateful to ​@Federica, ​@NikolaPejkova and to the entire Veeam Team for the chance to learn and grow. I would also like to sincerely thank Tim Myers for the excellent course structure and outstanding delivery. The content was clearly organized, easy to follow, and reinforced with practical on-screen demonstrations. Absolutely amazing! Veeam Recovery Orchestrator (VRO) extends the funct

Today I’m officially onboarding to the Veeam ONE v13 training, which was released just about two weeks ago:Getting to this point took a bit longer for me than expected, mostly due to a small but important realization: veeamuniversity.com is not the same platform as veeamuniversity-pro.com.After some confusion and a few failed login attempts, it finally realized that I had to setup a new account on the non-PRO platform, because in my company we already had one for the PRO platform that did not show the course for me.Once that was sorted out, login worked instantly and the path was clear to start the training today.The timing couldn’t be better, as the relevance of Veeam ONE training has increased significantly.With Veeam deprecating the classic VMCE certification

Why Updates Matter & Why Order Matters Even MoreEvery software product loves a good update – fresh features, performance boosts, and a healthy dose of bug fixes. But in the world of a Software, updates aren’t just a routine chore; they’re a carefully orchestrated symphony. Many customers forget that the sequence of these updates isn’t random. If you ignore dependencies, you risk breaking the finely tuned harmony of your backup and monitoring infrastructure.So, before you hit „update all,“ remember: the right order keeps your environment running smoothly and avoids compatibility headaches. Here’s the recommended update order for Veeam products:Service Provider Tools (if u