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Madi.Cristil
Madi.CristilCommunity Manager
published in Blogs and Podcasts
Veeam 100 Show- A Case Study: The Evolution of Hybrid Cloud Data FreedomVeeam 100 Show Episode 12

In this show, @JSeeger , @michaelcade  and @Madi.Cristil  are discussing how a real life customer backup (and production) environment evolved over the years and how Veeam supported the changes and the customer to fit both their on-premises and cloud needs. A journey to simplify, enhance and provide efficient data resiliency across the hybrid cloud environments. 

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Madi.Cristil
8 days ago
safiya
safiyaCommunity Analyst
published in Blogs and Podcasts
Veeam 100 Show - Honey, I shrunk the RPOs

 Honey, I shrunk the RPOs! 🐜  Happy Friday, community! In yesterday’s episode of the Veeam100 Show, @Michael Melter was joined by @anthonyspiteri79 to show how you can build the smallest RPO possible. Michael digs into his past as a scientist with a PhD in chemistry (wow!) and shows a Veeam relic from 2007! Catch the latest episode below 💫  

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Scott
6 months ago
Kseniya
Kseniya✨
published in Blogs and Podcasts
The Veeam Community Guide

 Since we launched Veeam Community Hub one year ago, 11,199 members joined and we are very happy to see new members engaging, sharing the knowledge and helping each other.Community is rapidly growing, and I thought it would make sense to create a guide with the best practices on how to use community: what category to choose, what type of content to go with, what to do and what not to do.Let’s look into that!Veeam Community Hub is owned by Veeam Legends and Veeam Community. It’s community driven property. If you would like to talk to Veeam PM or submit a support ticket, please reach out to Veeam Support or Veeam R&D Forums All content in all categories apart from User Groups is in English. If you feel more comfortable with your local language, you are welcome to create posts in local user groups  Do not publish empty posts with external links only. Just do not, please. This type of content will be hidden. It is absolutely OK to use external link as a reference to something though. E

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Chris.Childerhose
2 years ago
Kseniya
Kseniya✨
published in Blogs and Podcasts
Blogs and podcasts: Housekeeping rules

Hi Veeam Community!Here are a few housekeeping rules to keep this space friendly, interactive and useful:All content is in English only Personal information, which is not suitable for public viewing, cannot be published – e.g. address or phone number Podcasts and YouTube streams should be embedded through the ‘Embed media’ functionality. Here’s an example. Don’t just post a sentence with a hyperlink. Such posts will be hidden. We ask that you don’t just post a link to a blog or article, since most community members prefer to stay here and have discussions. Users may not post any offensive materials, share illegal or copyrighted content, attempt to distribute illegal substances, or distribute viruses or other material. Users may not use this place for (commercial) activities such as the advertising or sale of products or services, the offering of (interactive) games or the advertising of other communities or websites. The Veeam Community Team reserves the right to remove content or rest

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Kseniya
4 years ago
leduardoserrano
leduardoserranoVeeam Vanguard
posted in Blogs and Podcasts
Veeam 100 Berlin experience: revisiting history

  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

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leduardoserrano
3 hours ago
Geoff Burke
Geoff BurkeVeeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard
posted in Blogs and Podcasts
Kube-Vanguard: The Veeam Dream! Veeam 13 on Linux Tech Preview!

A sneak peak at Veeam 13 on Linux!!  

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Geoff Burke
19 hours ago
Chris.Childerhose
Chris.ChilderhoseVeeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard
posted in Blogs and Podcasts
Veeam 100 Summit Recap - Berlin 2024

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

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Chris.Childerhose
23 hours ago
Scott
ScottVeeam Legend
posted in Blogs and Podcasts
Updated AV Exclusions for Veeam backup and Replication

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

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leduardoserrano
leduardoserranoVeeam Vanguard
posted in Blogs and Podcasts
Highlights from the Veeam 100 Summit 2024

 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

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SteveHeart
SteveHeartVeeam MVP
posted in Blogs and Podcasts
Visualize and Analyze Veeam Syslog Data in Graylog

I want to introduce you to another community project I worked on: The Veeam Data Platform Content Pack for Graylog. Graylog is a Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) solution that enables the efficient collection, search, analysis, and alerting of various types of machine-generated data. More details about their products can be found on the official website.Content Pack DescriptionThe first version of the Content Pack enables the visualization of security-relevant events transmitted by Veeam Backup & Replication via Syslog. In addition to a pre-configured Dashboard, further information is extracted from the Syslog data, which allows the ingested data to be analyzed further. For more details about the Content Pack, see README.md on GitHub.Download & Install the Content Pack The following steps describe how to download and install the Content Pack.DownloadDownload the Content Pack from GitHub. Graylog Upload & InstallationAfter downloading, log in to the Graylog w

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SteveHeart
1 day ago
SSimpson
SSimpsonComes here often
posted in Blogs and Podcasts
Leveraging Veeam Data Vault for Service Providers: A Powerful Solution for Data Protection and Recovery

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

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SSimpson
3 days ago
Michael Melter
Michael MelterVeeam Legend
posted in Blogs and Podcasts
VBR v13 Tech Preview insights and what else we already know

Two weeks have passed since the Veeam 100 Summit in Berlin. This time the grateful members of this select community were given facts about the upcoming version 13 of VBR and also the opportunity to test the Linux version via an OVA ready to install in a VMware environment. ​@HunterLAFR already showed us some initial screenshots here:LAB- Deploying VBR13 – on Linux – OVA! | Veeam Community Resource HubI’d like to add a summary of what I found most interesting.Before you ask: No, we don’t have a release date yet. There is still some 12.x version(s) to go before. 😎But, what we see with v13 seems already quite complete when looking at the interface.As ​@HunterLAFR has already shown in his screenshots, we have to options to access the GUI. There will be a new WebUI. This directly greets us with a nice and colorful dashboard. Obviously, this is all static demo date right now. But looks very promising still and will finally deliver the single pane-of-glass view onto your backup infrastructur

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Michael Melter
4 days ago
PeteSteven
PeteStevenExperienced User
posted in Blogs and Podcasts
Community Preview of Managed Hardened Repository ISO by Veeam

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

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vAdmin
4 days ago
regnor
regnorVeeam MVP
posted in Blogs and Podcasts
Veeam Backup for Proxmox – Architecture and Setup (Part 1)

Support for Proxmox from Veeam has been one of the top requests in the last months. Therefore the announcement in May to extend the Hypervisor support to Proxmox Virtual Environment (VE) has been long awaited! This will be the 7th virtualization platform supported by Veeam, in addition to the 3 cloud hyperscalers and the Veeam agents.The Proxmox integration is currently planned for Q3 of 2024 and v1 will already include some nice features/benefits:flexible storage options immutable backups granular recovery cross-platform recovery (for example Proxmox <> VMware) Veeam ‘standard’ performance with CBT, hot add backup and BitlookerIn part 1 of this blog series I want to give a quick overview of the architecture of Veeam Backup for Proxmox and it’s initial setup. Disclaimer: All information and screenshots in this blog post are based on an early access release. Until the final release changes can and will occur! ArchitectureThe Proxmox integration itself will be enabled with an addit

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HunterLAFR
HunterLAFRVeeam Legend
posted in Blogs and Podcasts
LAB- Deploying VBR13 – on Linux – OVA!

Hi!I would like to share with y’all my initial “hands on” the VBR13 - Linux Based OVAPublishing the entry here, so you dont have to leave the Community Site:-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------I want to share my initial screenshots of the Linux-based Veeam Backup & Replication Server.Tech Preview: VBR on Linux (v13)Private technology preview for Veeam 100, for non-production use only. Let’s get started:As you may know, let’s deploy the OVA in our Vsphere Host:As always, follow the wizard…Select where the VM is going to be storedImportant, LAB, so, Thin Prov.Detailed resume, no worries for the error, is ok! It’s just lab and non-production, remember?Booting and great looking…Easy step, to see the assigned IP address to the VM, quick look into the VM propertiesNow, it is time to open your favorite browser, and call the URL from the VBR IP Address, for the web consoleBoom!Look at this console, beautiful

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Marco.EscobarNot a newbie anymore
posted in Blogs and Podcasts
Veeam Decoys Project

I’m really happy to share with the Veeam Community this Open Source Project Called Veeam Decoys.  It is public knowledge that multiple threat actors use various tactics and techniques to identify services when they are already inside the internal networks of the organization they are attacking. In fact, the Mitre ATT&CK Enterprise matrix has two complete tactics, "Discovery" TA0007 and "Lateral Movement" TA0008, which list and explain multiple techniques and tools used by attackers. For example, the most sought-after services within the internal network are Remote Desktop Protocol and SSH. If we review Coveware's reports from this year, in the Q1-2024 report, we can observe that the "Lateral Movement" tactic ranks third among the most used tactics by threat actors according to the percentage of cases: https://www.coveware.com/blog/2024/4/17/raas-devs-hurt-their-credibility-by-cheating-affiliates-in-q1-2024If we review the same report, but for Q2-2024, we can see a significant rise

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SteveHeart
4 days ago
Rick Vanover
Rick VanoverRICKATRON
published in Blogs and Podcasts
VMware Cost Alternatives: Strategic and Community Insights

VMware is a leader in virtualization, but knowing about alternative costs can help organizations optimize their IT strategies while maintaining essential capabilities. This post takes a deep dive into the financial aspects of VMware and its competitors, offering insights that can help you make informed decisions about your virtualization investments. Whether you're assessing VMware's pricing or looking for more budget-friendly options, understanding the total cost of ownership (TCO) and potential return on investment (ROI) will be key in shaping your strategy. This is a bit of a different tone here in the Veeam Community, but I’m collecting a bunch of resources that have been shared, as well as some of the latest information from VMware. Overview of Virtualization Costs Virtualization technologies bring versatility and efficiency but also come with various associated costs that include:Licensing Fees: These are the upfront costs for acquiring the virtualization software, potentially in

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Scott
4 days ago
SteveHeart
SteveHeartVeeam MVP
posted in Blogs and Podcasts
Why filtered logs might be better than filtered coffee

Managing and filtering Syslog messages can reduce noise and highlight critical events. This blog post explains how the PRI value helps categorize messages by severity, describes syslog filtering, and shows how to use rsyslog in a Docker container to forward selected messages based on a filter.What is the PRI value for, and why does it matter?The Priority (PRI) value combines the facility and severity into a single numeric value. This value helps categorize Syslog messages. Each log message is assigned a Facility Code indicating its source, such as system processes, mail server, etc, and its severity. I could tell you from my memories and more about the origins of the Facility Codes 😉, but plenty of websites on the Internet describe this in detail. Veeam Backup & Replication leverages the user-level facility (Facility Code 1).Next is the severity. The table below shows how different severities map within the user-level facility (not all severities are covered in this table):PRI Val

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coolsport00
5 days ago
sajjad ali
sajjad aliNot a newbie anymore
asked in Blogs and Podcasts
How can I configure backup job retries in Veeam Backup & Replication?

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?

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6 days ago
HunterLAFR
HunterLAFRVeeam Legend
posted in Blogs and Podcasts
Deploying a Object First OOTBI VSA (Lab)

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

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Chris.Childerhose
7 days ago
dloseke
dlosekeVeeam Legend
posted in Blogs and Podcasts
Deploying Data Immutability with the Veeam Hardened Repository ISO

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

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Chris.Childerhose
8 days ago
MarkPolin
MarkPolinComes here often
posted in Blogs and Podcasts
Pure & Rubrik vs. Pure & Veeam Solution Comparison

On September 26, 2024, Pure Storage and Rubrik announced a partnership “to arm global customers with a proven reference architecture to ensure uptime and a path forward in the face of growing cyber threats”.  And while the press releases, blogs, data sheets and even the white paper (see Resources) have all the right Cyber Resilience key buzz words, there is nothing new, or that interesting, from a product integration and solution perspective.What was announced?“a three-layered defense strategy” which includes:Layer 1 - Rapid Recovery – recovery from Pure Storage FlashArray storage snapshots, using Pure’s recovery tools Layer 2 - Data Security – separately, from Rubrik with their Secure Vault appliance and from Pure with FlashArray SafeMode-enabled immutable storage snapshots Layer 3 - Archival Location – long-term retention on Pure Storage FlashBlade object storage How does that compare?Pure Storage and Veeam have more valuable and deeper storage snapshot integration and solutions that

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leduardoserrano
9 days ago
Geoff Burke
Geoff BurkeVeeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard
posted in Blogs and Podcasts
The Backup That Went Out In The Cold, or better put The Backup that embraced Zero Trust

Survive and Thrive Data Protection is facing increasing pressures. Going forward I predict an unprecedented amount of attacks and breakdowns of the security perimeters around us. There will be no safe cozy home for your infrastructure and backed up data. Survivability will depend on an organization’s and people’s ability to adapt. In such an incredible hostile climate and environment one might ask, how can I function? How can I protect my backups and infrastructure when surrounded by adversaries on all sides?Being in Berlin last week for the Veeam 100 Summit reminded me of a different era. While this was a different time and the challenges perhaps were simpler and easier to define, nevertheless there were during that time, environments similar to what we are facing and will be facing in the near future.  THE RANSOMWARE IRON CURTAINEveryone having to work or operate on the other side of the Iron Curtain knew what Zero Trust meant without ever having heard the term spoken. In fact Veeam’

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10 days ago
eprieto
eprietoOn the path to Greatness
posted in Blogs and Podcasts
Two thing that you need to consider 👉"Backup Methods Pros & Cons 🤓Impact On Destination Storage"

  I hope that this two consideration will usefull to you I await your likes and comments 

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vmJoe
vmJoeVeeam MVP
posted in Blogs and Podcasts
Introducing Veeam Security Blueprints!

An advantage of software-defined Veeam products is that they can be installed in many different ways and on any hardware your company owns and uses.  They can be installed on-premises, or in any hyper-scale public cloud, you choose.  To help customers architect, size, and secure the various Veeam products and features, the Veeam Solutions Architect team has created Veeam Security Blueprints (SBP) and they are publicly accessible. Veeam Security Blueprints can be found at https://www.veeam.com/security-blueprints.html Veeam Security Blueprints (SBP) are short (3 – 4 pages) scenario-based reference architectures covering common scenarios seen in the field. Types of scenarios include:On-premises environment using multiple different vendor storage targets (HPE, Cisco, Pure, Exagrid, Cloudian, Lenovo, Zadara, Hitachi Vantara). Veeam cloud backup products (Veeam Backup for Azure, GCP, AWS) VMC on AWS and hybrid environments Veeam Plugins for Enterprise Applications (Oracle and Microsoft SQL)

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