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Madi.Cristil
Madi.CristilCommunity Manager
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Veeam Community Recap #123
Veeam Community Recap #123News

This week@Rick Vanover is getting some time off, but@Madi.Cristil  has two special guests ,@mrmccoy007 and@vmJoe , Veeamers and MVPs, to discuss some great content available at the Community Hub.@safiya is bringing us the special department news and ‘’Who’s New’’ 88+ ! And stay tuned until the end- Brandon is having a rap moment about VeeamON!  P.S : It should read "Happy Friday '' not ''...Friday'' but sound issue   The Linksvia @MicoolPaul  Veeam Backup & Replication – Linux Agent Deployment & Management with Active Directoryvia @barellag How Using AWS Tags Can Help You Managing Your Resourcesvia @Chris.Childerhose Anyone have issues with Object Storage with Billions of Gets/Puts/Lists of small byte files from v12? Special Department News via @VUG Belgium & LuxembourgSecure your backups and what’s new in V12via @Federica Free VMCE for womenvia @mkevenaar 1st Annual Veeam Community Hackathonvia @Madi.Cristil VeeamON 2023 On-Demand Sessions Who’s NewThis week we welcome +88

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dikaComes here often
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one veeam license with multiple console

I would like to ask about the term of veeam license, if i consider having 2 console, one in site A and one insite B with vm around 10 in each site, so it means that i have to buy 2 bundles of veeam licenses.Then the question is, if i were buying 2 bundle, will i get only 1 license file  or 2 license files ? 

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Shaokat
ShaokatInfluencer
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Veeam LAN Free Backup

Hi i need to configure lan free backup using Veeam v12. can you one help me on this?

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Geoff Burke
Geoff BurkeVeeam Vanguard
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Testing Veeam Tape Stuff, anyone tried Opensource mhVTL?

Hi Folks, I am being jettisoned back into the tape world, “tape is dead, long live tape”. I was wondering if anyone had tried in their lab mhVTL? https://www.mhvtl.com/ I normally use Quadstor but wanted to know if you anyone had experience with the one above. Thanks  

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MicoolPaul
MicoolPaul
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Veeam on a Playstation 4? Why Not!

I’m going to preface this by saying, please please please, never try this in a production environment!!! But yes, it is technically possible to run Veeam Backup & Replication, Veeam Agent for Windows, Veeam Agent for Linux, and Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 on a PlayStation 4 (PS4). ‘How?’ and ‘why?’ are the logical questions to ask at this point, so let’s take a quick look. The PS4 has been ‘jailbroken’ for some time, to the point that you can run Linux distributions on it, just like you used to be able to officially within the Playstation 3 era, for a while anyway before Sony removed the feature. A developer called Noob404 has released a PS4 port of Proxmox, the well known hypervisor platform, and has managed to successfully get Windows 10 to run on their PS4.As Windows 10 is a supported OS for many Veeam products, this does unintentionally enable their ability to run on a PS4! Based on AMD’s infamous FX series of CPUs & APUs, the PS4 has dual quad-core modules, allowing for

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Mohamed RaeesComes here often
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error on adding physical machine

Not able to deploy ,install agent remotely to laptops and individual computers on my environment from veeam backup and replication server .If i am installing windows agent directly on the system it will work

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dikaComes here often
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calculation of backup proxy need

hello everyone,i’m a beginner for using veeam software, so I would like to know about the calculation of backup proxy needs. according to this article https://bp.veeam.com/vbr/2_Design_Structures/D_Veeam_Components/D_backup_proxies/vmware_proxies.html if I have 236 VMs with used data around 192 TB and for physical server is 17 with used data 50 TB,VMs proxy calculationD = 192 TB*1024*1024 = 201326592W = 8H*3600 seconds = 28,800 seconds (backup Windows in seconds)T = 52428800/28800 =6991MB/sCore Full = 1821/100 = 70, Core Incremental = (T*CR)/25 = 14 core, proxy requirement : 70core & 140 GB RAMwell, if I want to achieve backup windows in 8 hour the proxy that I need is9 virtual proxy8vCpu and 18 RAM for each virtual proxy server Physical ServerD = 50TB *1024*1024 = 52428800 W = 8H*3600 seconds = 28,800 seconds (backup Windows in seconds)T = 52428800/28800 =1,821 MB/sCore Full = 1821/100 = 19 core, Core Incremental = (T*CR)/25 = 4 core, proxy requirement : 19 core & 38 GB RAM2 p

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Chris.Childerhose
Geoff Burke
Geoff BurkeVeeam Vanguard
posted in Discussion Boards
Get Tape Content on the R&D forums

Hi Everyone, I know this came up again recently but could not find the post. I am starting to wander more back to the forums due to work and saw this thread again which has moved on. Looks like someone has a solution to get tape content: https://forums.veeam.com/powershell-f26/get-tape-content-via-powershell-t22142-60.html 

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AlexeyGoncharovComes here often
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How to control type of DB for install (Postres/MSSQL) during unattended setup?

Team,Can’t find how to specify the type of DB to be installed during the v12 unattended setup. I want Postgres =)Anyone can help?Alexey.

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Iams3le
Iams3leVeeam Legend
posted in Discussion Boards
Questions on Homelab setup

I wish to build a new HOMELAB. Here is a guide and many others I found on Reddit.- How is your lab setup? What would you recommend? Main virtualisation solution would be VMware (would need multiple hosts here). I would also have HyperV and Proxmox VE within this environment. Yes, this is possible!https://www.altaro.com/vmware/perfect-homelab-vmware/?vgo_ee=%2BWombPttbhpwDFBk3C2zvW7%2BX%2FpMfSStElYb34Re%2FNg%3D (I love the first approach in this guide).I have got my ideas, but would like to learn from you. Keep in mind, I need a cost effective solution ranging from hardware to Power etc. Here is a talking point but just talking about the installation. I do NOT need help with the setup (deployment) tips as this is a walkthrough for me. Just ideas on how to setup low a cost effective lab, but yet a Lab to be reckoned with.  

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Mohamed RaeesComes here often
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Restore to new physical machine

our old server which is hosted on storage as vms need to be migrated using Veeam restore tool on VBR .But I have a concern on restore as i am trying to restore to new machine which ìs seperate physical machine for host and storage.so while restoring the data to new location on new device is there any option to seperate host and storage datas while restoring 

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pomidorokhova
pomidorokhovaNot a newbie anymore
posted in Blogs and Podcasts
Back to Veeam University!

 Hello, Veeam Community!For the most experienced users of Veeam products this post won’t be a big news, but this will surely be a big help for those taking their first steps with Veeam.Often times we are asked “where do I start with my new Veeam product?” or “does Veeam offer free certification?”, and our answer is go “back to Veeam University!”Veeam University is a FREE online training portal for all users of Veeam products and it offers a wide range of on-demand educational resources. No matter how well you know Veeam products, you will find something for yourself:Guided product onboarding pathways from A to Z for your first-time deployment  for Veeam Data Platform (all editions) for Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 These FREE online onboarding pathways were compiled together based on customer feedback and coupled with best practices from Veeam Technical Onboarding Managers and Solutions Architects.They feature everything you need to know from day one of using the product, all in bite

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JacekHNew Here
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Urgent - Restoring problem (OS volume)

Very small environment - ten users and two quite old servers Fujitsu Primergy TX1310 M1 with Windows Server 2012 R2 Foundation. They have the same hardware, the only difference is in disks models and capacity. The first one is a domain controller (+DNS, DHCP, home folders, other shares). The second one is joined to domain with installed Veeam B&R 12 Community + MS SQL Server. Both servers are built on internal LSI Software RAID (four disks, 2x RAID 1). AD server has two partitions on LUN 0, the first one is OS volume. Recently we had serious power problems and AD server stopped to work properly - no licenses, no services, no RDP etc. I was able to log in locally but there was a problem with networking - the interfaces worked very slow and sometimes stopped. I was not able to start services nor change their settings - the service property window was frozen during saving. I wasn’t able to install any update because of the network problems. After next and next etc. restart it started

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vNote42
vNote42On the path to Greatness
posted in Blogs and Podcasts
Poor SAN transport mode performance

These days I had to troubleshoot poor VMware vSphere SAN transport mode performance during backup with Veeam. Before SAN mode, NDB transport mode was used. NBD outperformed SAN mode totally!Here are some facts about the environment.EnvironmentVMFS volume are hosted by two HPE 3PAR arrays in a synchronous replication configuration (Remote Copy) with Peer Persistence. ESXi hosts are running on different versions. Backup (here: Veeam Backup and Replication) is installed on a dedicated physical host. This host is connected with 10G LAN and a single FC uplink to one out of two fabrics.Backup performanceThe used backup mode in this environment was NDB transport mode. This was because the physical host wasn’t equipped with a FC HBA. To improve backup performance a HBA was installed. To run direct SAN backup, a few configuration steps are necessary:Add MPIO feature to backup server, Configure MPIO for 3PAR by running: mpclaim -r -I -d "3PARdataVV" FC switch zoning, Exporting all LUNs to backu

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Chris.Childerhose
Chris.ChilderhoseVeeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard
asked in Discussion Boards
Anyone have issues with Object Storage with Billions of Gets/Puts/Lists of small byte files from v12?

I am soliciting feedback from the community and Vanguards in Slack about an issue we are seeing so wanted to get feedback here also.Scenario - we have a customer using v12 with latest patches sending data to one of our DCs with Hitachi HCP Cloud Scale cluster which is very large.  They are sending over 20PB of data to us.Object Lock is turned on for some of the buckets and we are seeing billions of gets/puts/list commands which is causing havoc on the cluster worker nodes for HCPCS.The client has configured their jobs with the default block size of 1MB and we were thinking to change that to 4MB, but it would not make sense for 106-byte files.  That is the sizing of the files we are seeing the issue on for three buckets of which 2 of them are Windows servers and one is Linux.Any thoughts or has anyone run in to this before?  I am working with Veeam and Hitachi together as well but if this rings a bell for anyone your input would be great.Thanks.

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dloseke
dlosekeVeeam Vanguard
posted in Blogs and Podcasts
VBR: Immutable object storage with Wasabi - for Service Providers/MSPs

After watching last week’s Community Recap, I realized that I missed a great blog posting from @regnor about setting up Wasabi Immutable Storage for VBR.  After reading this information, I realized that I, as a smaller service provider and MSP, require a more complex configuration to host multiple tenants in Wasabi and was inspired to share my configuration for setting up Wasabi when you have multiple tenants under one account that you don’t have to have accessing each others buckets.The magic lies in some S3 IAM policy work in place to prevent buckets from being visible and accessible to the wrong tenants.  When I was setting this up, there wasn’t much information for doing exactly and S3 policies were completely new to me.  Using Wasabi’s and Veeam’s instructions in the links and the end of this post didn’t work for me out of the box, so after asking around in the Veeam Community, R&D Forums and Veeam Subreddit and some experimentation, I was lead to the answers I needed.  I hope

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KWCorkComes here often
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VBO365 - Checking the backed up size of a mailbox?

I’ve added a shared mailbox to an existing backup job this morning - the mailbox is 7GB in Office 365. The job completed a little while later but in the summary I see “Transferred: 419.6 MB (25466 items)”. Those figures don’t add up, so I’d like to investigate more but I can’t see a way to show the backed up data size for any mailbox. How do I do that? 

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Geoff Burke
Geoff BurkeVeeam Vanguard
posted in Discussion Boards
Morning Rant Linkedin "Hi Goff we noticed you are a Veeam Professional.... blah blah blah.."

Hi Folks,(I don’t want to be mean but… sales people can quite seriously perturb me. I don’t know if it is because I assume immediately that they think I am some kind of spaced out idiot, or perhaps that as Don Corleone said “nothing personal just business” i.e. they are mass sending messages using AS (Artificial Stupidity) to change the name etc. I am getting more and more of the following on Linkedin like this today  “Hi Goff (so much for AI.. at least it won’t be taking my job in the near future), we noticed that you are a Veeam Professional (what in the name of the Salisbury soccer team is a Veeam Professional?, is that some kind of new certification? have I overdosed on Veeam swag and now been permanently branded a VP (alas not Vice President). Then follows the ingenious sales pitch. “you might be interested in…...” The minute I see “you might be” there is macro in my amygdala that furiously injects the word NOT into the sentence. I have long since gotten used to everyone in North

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HubertChowComes here often
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Can I add Recovery ISO to boot menu?

Hi,I’d like to add Recovery ISO to boot menu so that I don’t have to use USB. Is there a way to do it?

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HunterLAFR
wolff.mateus
wolff.mateusVeeam Vanguard
asked in Discussion Boards
Configuration Button Missing - Veeam Enterprise Manager

Hello everyone! Recently I installed a new VEM, however I notice that configuration button is missing on the right corner: Am I forgetting something?I presume it is a permission problem, but I cannot remember that.

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Chris.Childerhose
Chris.ChilderhoseVeeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard
posted in Blogs and Podcasts
Mastering Veeam Backup & Replication Third Edition - Packt Author Interview

As I posted some time back my third book came out and thank you to all that are buying it.  Packt conducted an Author interview with me regarding the book which was very interesting.  If you want to read the interview you can find it in the link below and if anyone is interested in writing a book or have thoughts on it just reach out.  I am debating a fourth book but might see about a co-author(s) for it this time around, but we will see.Packt Interview - Chris Childerhose - Mastering Veeam Backup & Replication (Third Edition)

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Mathias-SchultzNew Here
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Feature Request - Subfolders Physical Infrastructure

Hey Community, we have Customers, which have quite a big Physical Infrastructure. It would be really Helpful, if the Protection Groups can not only be having Top Level Folders, but 1 or 2 Subfolders for Organization. Something like:Steel Production Hot (Protection Group) Cold (Protection Group) North Wing 1st-Floor Management (Protection Group) Sales (Protection Group) 2nd-Floor Technic (Protection Group) Engineers (Protection Group)  If you are thinking different or have a better solution for my Problem, i would be happy to hear/read what you have to say. GreetingsMathias

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SteveHeart
SteveHeartInfluencer
posted in YARA and Script Library
vbr-staged-restore.ps1 - Powershell script for Staged VM Restore

SummaryAnother powerful PowerShell script that leverages Veeam Backup & Replication to simplify the process of restoring virtual machines. With this script, you can perform staged VM restores. The script automates the entire process, from connecting to the Veeam server and listing available restore points to selecting a restore point and initiating the restore process. The script Download hereThe script is highly customizable and utilizes several parameters to tailor the restore process to your specific needs. Let's take a closer look at these parameters:ESXiServer: Specify the name of the target ESXi server where the VM will be restored. This allows you to choose the appropriate destination for the restore operation.VMName: Provide the name of the VM that you want to restore. This ensures that the script locates the correct VM during the restore process.Jobname: Enter the name of the Veeam backup job that contains the VM you wish to restore. This parameter helps the script identif

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safiya
safiyaCommunity Analyst
posted in Discussion Boards
VeeamON 2023: A Community Recap

VeeamON 2023 has officially concluded! 🎉The biggest event for data recovery experts brought together community members online and in Miami. Veeam Legends and Vanguards were given the opportunity to travel and join Veeam in-person this year for VeeamON. Over 60 Legends/Vanguards from across the world traveled to Miami this year, as well as 6 VeeaMVPs who were also present in Miami. Let’s recap the community involvement at VeeamON this year.   Presenters  – VeeamON 2023 had the greatest presence of Veeam community members out of all VeeamONs yet. Over 20 Vanguards/Legends/MVPs presented their ideas and expertise to the public this year. Breakout Sessions:Architecting Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 at Scale (Falko Banaszak @falkob and Jim Jones @k00laidIT) Photo from Craig Dalrymple   10 Years Working with Veeam: How it Helped Shape Our Careers (Matt Crape, Ian Sanderson @Ian Sanderson, and Dean Lewis @saintdle)  Photo from Falko Banaszak  What I Wish You Knew About SureBackup (Michae

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mohammed Kamy KommunikasjonComes here often
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Error: Data error (cyclic redundancy check). Failed to read data from the

Hello everyoneI have this backup job fail for several days now , I cannot create backup the error is as follows:6/12/2023 1:12:07 AM :: Error: Data error (cyclic redundancy check).Failed to read data from the file [B:\…..rds17\…...\Terminal Server 17_1.vhdx].Failed to upload disk. Skipped arguments: [shadowSpec>];Agent failed to process method {DataTransfer.SyncDisk}.Exception from server: Data error (cyclic redundancy check).Failed to read data from the file [B:\…..rds17\…...\Terminal Server 17_1.vhdx].Unable to retrieve next block transmission command. Number of already processed blocks: [119].Failed to     

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