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CAT NAME WANTED! 🐱

As you know, we need a name for this cat There were a lot of suggestions from you across all social media channels, so we put together a shortlist, a poll for community members to choose the best name.

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T-shirt: Please, read FAQ, before submitting question

is there a link tojoin to get the t-shirt

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VBR v11 🔥 New Linux Backup Proxy Modes ✅

I took the time to create in Draw.io a client scenario., with the 3 cores components Backup Server - Proxies - Repositories would look as follows Only one with Windows ….

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PowerShell Script to show running Veeam jobs at point or period of time

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 PowerShe...

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Download - Veeam Stencils for Microsoft Visio ✏️

In other topics I have talked about how to make a Veeam On line design, but ... For those who continue to use visio, I leave here the Stencils where you can download them for free …https://www.veeam.com/es-lat/vmware-esx-stencils.html?ad=in-text-link

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What was your favourite announcement from Veeam Live 2020?

There’s been some awesome content announced today. From Microsoft Teams support to the love for Linux in Veeam B&R v11. What stole the show for you? I’ll start, this little hint on the v11 page: Looks like we’re finally going to see CDP hit production!

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"Still" use tape for backup? Interesting reading about tape usage in 2020 and in future.

The Tape Storage Council has released summary of 2020’s usage of tapes and a future outlook:https://blocksandfiles.com/2020/12/07/tape-storage-council-2020-outlook/Summary:Capacity shipments rose to record amounts in 2019 >225 million LTO cartridges >4.4 million drives [IBM and Oracle enterp...

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[What (else) is new in v11 - VII] Persistent guest agent

Default behavior in VBR (incl. v11!): When a VM gets application-aware backed up, runtime components gets installed at start of job and are removed at the end. With v11 we have the option to install them persistent! This increases security! No Admin-Share and VIX-access is necessary any more. But i...

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Veeam Backup & Replication 10a Patch 20201202 released

I’ve just read about the release of Cumulative Patch 20201202 for VBR 10a in the forums and wanted to share it here: https://www.veeam.com/kb4050I think the support for vSphere 7.0 U1 and Windows 20H2 is what many people were waiting for.

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VMware Certified Professional DCV 2021 Study Guide

For my first Veeam Community post, I thought I would share with you all something I’ve been doing for over a decade - an exam prep Study Guide; this one being for VMware VCP-DCV 2021. For those who haven’t followed me over the years, I started creating these “outlines”, i.e. Study Guides, for my own...

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vSnow App to integrate Veeam Backup Enterpriser Manager with ServiceNow

Following the line of some of my topics, in Veeambp.com we can find a very useful unofficial tool This tool is not Veeam supportedIt was developed externally and is not linked with Veeam Software or ServiceNow in anyway, No support is offerred or in...

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New free Veeam T-Shirt 🤣

For all of our members that are so keen of free T-Shirts - there is a new one… Register aand- much more important - get an exclusive sneak peek on what you will see at AWS Summit EMEA 2021.Additional get a free T- Shirt and get the chance to win a 500€ Amazon gift card. https://www.veeam.com/aws-sum...

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Experience with HPE Apollo or other High Density server as backup repository?

Hi,I’d be interested in getting feedback from people that are already using HPE Apollo’s or other high density servers with local storage as repository server. It seems that a lot of people are currently planning to use them.what is you setup? Number of servers? Number of disks? Which type and size...

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Block Repositories - Block Sizes 🤓

Block Sizes As can be seen from the field, optimal value for the stripe size is often between 128 KB and 256 KB. However, it is highly recommended to test this prior to deployment whenever possible.During the backup process data blocks are processed in chunks and stored inside backup files in the ba...

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[What (else) is new in v11 - VI] Performance

For this post I planed to share some time and bandwidth comparison for backups in my lab. But it is some kind of difficult to get representative data in a fully virtualized demo environment.So I am very happy @Gostev pointed out this topic in his last Words from Gostev (Veeam R&D Forums Digest)...

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[Quicktip] Rest root password in VMware vCenter VCSA - since 6.7 U1(!)

It is not uncommon to reset root password in VMware VCSA (vCenter Service Appliance). This can be necessary when account is locked or password is expired. Normally, you have to shut it down, enter GRUB and edit start parameter to boot into bash. There you can reset root password. Afterwards you boot...

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Veeam Utilities 🤓 Veeam Backup Validator

Did you know that there is a very useful Veeam tool to validate the integrity of your backups? In some cases, a backup can get corrupted due to accidental changes in the backup file data. For example, the file can be damaged after transfer over the network or from hardware failures on the backup st...

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NAS Backup Copy to Tape via Instant File Share Recovery

Since the introduction of NAS backup capability with v10 of Veeam Backup & Replication there have been many requests for tape support. But as we all know, Veeam’s NAS backup doesn’t support tape (yet?), neither as a primary nor as secondary (backup copy or archive) target.With v11 we got the new...

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Enhanced Visibility across Veeam Portfolio using RESTful API and Grafana

Hello Community!For years, I have been Looking for the Perfect Dashboard, using different technologies and approaches, which includes Veeam ONE, Elastic, Splunk, and Grafana. All the mentioned technologies are great for deep visibility, log inspection, capacity planning, etc.But as Veeam has been mo...

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Digital Certification Badges

Hello,would you like to receive digital badges for your VMSP, VMTSP, VMCE or VMCA certification - e.g via Acclaim?I think this would be great, you can show your achievement, clients and employers can verify your certifcation online on the Badge Website.An example of an digital badge can be found her...

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VMCE 2021 Released!

Hi, I don’t know if anyone else was aware but @haslund highlighted to me today that the new VMCE 2021 exam is now available for everyone looking to take/upgrade! Information on the training course is available hereInformation on the certification is available here FAQs:Do I need to attend the traini...

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Deduplication appliance as primary backup repository Yes or No?🤔 What you think?

Here in South America is very common to find deduplication appliance without / with integration as primary backup repository...I would like to know what you think …

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10 tips in hardening your Veeam backup server

More en more companies are being a victim of malware, ransomware or even hackers.It is always important to implement the golden 3-2-1-1-0 rule (in detail explained in a former post of me - 3-2-1-1-0 Golden Backup Rule | Veeam Community Resource Hub).Next to this rule, one of the first things to keep...

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Unofficial VMCE 2020 Practice Exam

My good friend Rasmus Haslund has posted his unofficial practice exam https://rasmushaslund.com/vmce-practice-exam for the VMCE 2020, check it out and let me know what you think. Do you know of any other good VMCE practice exams that you can recommend?

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Slow VM snapshot deletion on NFS volumes on ESXi hosts

Because VMware snapshots is always a topic for backups, I want to share my latest experiences with VM-snapshots on NFS. I had to troubleshoot a problem with system time within a VMware vSphere VM. During backup VM freezes for more than 30 seconds. When this happens, system time in VM also stops and...

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