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 Home Lab upgrade!Hi Folks, recently I wanted to «upgrade» my home lab, and I was thinking the best way to have an affordable, low consumption usable home lab for a ESXi Cluster, nothing fancy, just to be able to deploy a couple of little VMS, play with HA, DRS, shared storage and so on.I started checking out the Intel NUCs, but then I realized that it comes «empty», so it becomes costly at the end.Then, what about HPE Gen 8-9 Servers, «the wife would kill me»They are noisy, expensive and consumes tons of electricity!So, looking over the hardware I have, I looked into my Workstation, a Lenovo P320 which it has 64GB of ram, more than sufficient to run a Nested lab, but I wanted something more realistic, with wires and lights, you know, Im a hardware and wires lover!I kept the Workstation as base Server, Planning tu run there the base or foundational vms I normally run like: vCenter, DNS, AD, a Storage Appliance and a Veeam Server.

Hey! The first version of Magic Quadrant for Container Management is around! If we compare the companies named leaders by Gartner with those that contributed most to the Kubernetes project last year, we will realize that they are practically the same. Coincidence? I don't think so.These solutions deliver many Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) projects alongside Kubernetes distributions, like service mesh, security, observability, etc. Container management is a foundation for cloud-native infrastructure and helps enterprises automate container image provisioning, operation, and life cycle management at scale.Remember to protect these platforms with Kasten! :-) 

Greetings everyone...I am working out the resources for physical backup server with local disks. Might I know if my workout is correct?Data size: 30TB (Exchange + File Share)Policy: 30 daily, 4 weekly, 12 monthly, 3 yearlySource: Sangfor HCI (requires to install agent), single siteAs refer to VSE https://calculator.veeam.com/vse/Backup Server + DB + Repository = 8 CPU, 20GB RAM for Veeam to work(No Proxy and Enterprise Manager required)And will add some resources for Windows OS Regarding storage, 249.43TB from VSE  So I add some buffer and for Windows OS with ~300TB disks space Assumptions:ReFSNo backup copy jobGeneric Pessimistic: daily change 10%, compress ratio 50%, annual growth 10% Is my thinking correctly?

Recently I had to troubleshoot a Veeam Backup & Replication (B&R) problem. There the question popped up which are the running Veeam jobs at point or period of time. The GUI is not a big help to answer this question. Therefore I wrote a small script that show these jobs.The following PowerShell script snippet is quite simple. First, start- (tStart) and end-date/time (tEnd) are asked for input. The following query selects all running Veeam jobs at point or period of time that matches input dates.# Ask for start- and end-date and timeWrite-Host "Enter date in format " ($(get-date).ToString("dd.MM.yyyy HH:mm"))$tStart = Read-Host "Enter start-time (Enter for now)"$tEnd = Read-Host "Enter end-time (Enter for equal to start-time)"if ($tStart -eq '') {$tStart = get-date -Format "dd.MM.yyyy HH:mm"}if ($tEnd -eq '') {$tEnd = $tStart}# Check input datatry {$tStart = [D

If it happened Error 1327.Invalid Drive when you try to upgrade the Veeam server, don’t panic. This is likely caused by a stale registry entry for the Veeam server. In my case, the Veeam server had an F drive but removed it a long time ago. My error message is Error 1327.Invalid Drive F: and the upgrade failed.1.login to the Veeam management server.2.Run regedit.3.check the following registry path on the Veeam server. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Veeam\Veeam Backup Catalog\ and HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Wor6432Node\Veeam, do either of these paths show the F drive? Likely it will be the VBR catalog folder in my case.4.Right-click CatalogPath, select Modify.5.Change the Value data f

I have a customer on Veeam v12 which backs up to Data domain. Veeam performs a copy job to another mtree, then the DD performs a DD replication to a central immutable DD.Customer has space issues but we are seeing old veeam backup files still on the DD. We did a delete from disk for an old backup, but the file is still on the DD.Any recommendations or seen this sort of behaviour?I’m questioning whether Veeam is cleaning up old data. Backup copy retention is only 5 days.

Hello All,Sharing update on a case where Jobs stuck in VBR, however does not reflect any Veeam.exe process under VBR, proxy or agent Machine From the task logs could find the PID of the job as below however no process shows up under task Manager on VBR, proxy or agent machine in this case oracle plugin VM.  Process: [64 bit], PID: [19652], SessionId: [0], UID: [fc911f7e-ed08-4bb7-be1f-4a3461f23dda] for the SRV03248Process: [64 bit], PID: [61356], SessionId: [0], UID: [3b69526c-e334-4305-bd33-bcced8fc2944] for the SRV03576Process: [64 bit], PID: [19724], SessionId: [0], UID: [a941f009-e8b7-475a-8fd2-1388653256b6] for the SRV03709Process: [64 bit], PID: [61356], SessionId: [0], UID: [3b69526c-e334-4305-bd33-bcced8fc2944] for the SRV

Hi Everyone,VUG Canada will be holding our next event on November 29th, and we need help to finalize the topic which we have narrowed down to two.Please go here and vote - VUG Canada - November 29th Meeting TopicsThanks,VUG Canada Leadership

Hello, Last night our backup job took much longer then normal Looking through the job history I saw one user with 51GB of data processed. This is very much out of the norm for him. I asked the user if they had done anything or added any folders and they are not aware of anything.My questions is, where or how can i see a log of the files processed, or even a compare feature from last nights backup to 2 days ago. I am just not able to find an easy way to see what was the 51GB that was processed.

As announced in VeeamON 2023, Veeam is working to improve the ransomware detection capabilities in two ways:Comparing guest file system indexes and looking for typical traces of malware. AI/ML to perform an in-line entropy analysis of the data stream on backup proxies to detect previously unencrypted data becoming encrypted.Some Ransomware detection techniques exist, but many have a poor detection rate. They also suffer from having high false positive rates, where they flag benign programs as malicious, and false-negative rates, and thus fail to identify malicious programs.The same applies to files where obfuscation techniques has been used by ransomware in an attempt to avoid signature detection. One of the most common techniques used is a CRC, which involves analysis of the value and position of a data group.On the other hand, detection techniques like Behavioral and Dynamic analysis must collect significant amounts

Veeam has recently been upgraded from 11a to v12. Post upgrade we cant get into the web interface for Veeam ONE. Client app works….I’ve checked IIS, local logs etc, cant see anything….anyone seen this?  

hello, can I use socket based licenses (currently in use on a VBR v10 server) for a new VBR v12 server? Or is there some kind of conversion/upgrade process involved?kind regards,Wim

Hi Everyone, I generally wake up in a good mood on Friday. Full of energy and ready to end the week and transfer myself in to relaxation mode. During these “feel good” moments I often find myself wondering about the “bigger” questions of life.This morning first thing I watched the weekly Veeam recap with @Madi.Cristil @MicoolPaul and @coolsport00 (notice both of the latter have “cool” in their usernames.. coincidence? I think not 😀). That got me thinking about the Veeam community and IT communities in general. I remembered what life was like before joining all of these great groups and came to the realisation that my IT communities, and especially the Veeam community, have become a very important part of my life. This has gone beyond the simple need for a technical source of information. IT community has added an enormous positive ing

Heyhey!I don't think I've seen a post in the community about the HANDS-ON LABs created by Veeam.What do these HOLs offer you?Hands-On Experience: More than just a tutorial, the HOL allows you to put your skills into practice. You can experiment, test, and develop your expertise interactively.Unique Scenarios: the HOL provides a selection of exciting and relevant scenarios, ranging from the latest advances in cyber resilience to cutting-edge multi-cloud management technologies.Expert Guides: Expert guides are there to assist you every step of the way. You'll never feel lost, whether you're a beginner or an expert. You can access to them anytime, from anywhere. There are no time limits or geographical constraints. Hands-On Labs Public With an account on the veeam.com website, you'll have access to

I have a physical server with VBR 12 installed, the customer now also wants VBM and as repository the same as VBR, Say what against installing VBM on the same server as VBR?

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 t

Hi! In this post, I describe some aspects of the analysis of entropy analysis associated with Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence techniques aimed at detecting Ransomware.This is an exciting topic. As announced in VeeamON 2023, Veeam is working to improve the VDP´s ransomware detection capabilities with AI/ML to perform an in-line entropy analysis of the data stream on backup proxies to detect previously unencrypted data becoming encrypted.It can undoubtedly be another powerful tool in the battle against ransomware.

Hello Veeam Community! I'm excited to introduce a Python script that I've developed for anonymizing Veeam Backup & Replication logs. Protecting sensitive information in log files is crucial, and this script simplifies the process while maintaining the integrity of your logs. Veeam Log Anonymizer logo Acknowledgments:Before diving into the details, I'd like to express my gratitude:Bertrand: Thank you for the original idea that inspired this script and for your valuable improvement suggestions. Your input was instrumental in making this script more robust and feature-rich.

Hi, I created new jobs to organize Exchange groups and Teams groups since my company was previosly configured to backup the whole organization, Now that the backup is set up and backing up for about a month is time to disable the original job, if I disable and delete the job, would that release the previously used licenses for any aditional user that is not on the new jobs ? Thanks in advance.

after the update to v12 there are legacy copy jobs, can i leave them as they are or should i update them and how?

Agent OS is CentOS Linux release 7.9.2009 (Core).Using a 3rd party cluster.Backup fails with the following error.What should I do? =====================ERR : Resource deadlock avoided.  

VBR v12 guest file restore---happen error message is as below:Secondary GPT header LBA 209715199 exceeds the size of the disk (86401630720)Agent failed to process method {Mount.GenericMount)I tried to change the mount server of the repository, but I still had no luck.Any idea? 

Is it possible to have Veeam 12.0 back up SQL Server system databases? If so where would I find it or please point me in the right direction to a document.Not being able to backup system dBs isn’t good. Thanks

 Backup Eagle logoIn my first blog post, I reviewed what Backup Eagle was and how it can monitor your environment. I also went through the installation process as well. Part 1 can be found here –Monitoring with Backup Eagle – Part 1The company graciously granted me an NFR license to test within my homelab – Backup Eagle by Schmitz RZ Consult GmbH.In this post, I am going to cover the Administration Console, including things like –Installing a license file Adding servers for monitoring Dashboards R