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haslund
haslundMr. VMCE
posted in Blogs and Podcasts
#HomelabWednesday - How to install VMware vCenter Server updates from the GUI

In this week's episode of #HomelabWednesdays, I show how to see if any updates are available for your VMware vCenter Server and how to install the updates using the vSphere Appliance Management Interface (VAMI).Don’t forget to subscribe to get automatic notifications whenever a new video is released. 

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JMeixner
JMeixnerOn the path to Greatness
posted in Blogs and Podcasts
RMAN Plugin Backup - ORA-01012 Error

Yesterday I got an error for two oracle databases which are backed up via the VEEAM RMAN plugin.Strange - there are several database instances on this system, all but the two are working fine. And these two had worked up to then, too…And… I did not change anything in the VEEAM and plugn configuraton  After some discussion and research with our Oracle admin - bingo.He had moved these two databases to another Home directory and did not change the corresponding entries in the /etc/oratab. So - as shown in the picture - the backup of the database and the recovery logs worked, but the creation of the AUTOBACKUP failed and the ORA-01012 error was given.After the entries were corrected all worked fine again.Perhaps some of you will face similar issues, too. I did not find anything for this problemin the forums with a quick search.

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mhmdadl
mhmdadlVeeam Vanguard
posted in Discussion Boards
Features I need

    I used to use Veeam since late 2014, I always try to find some ways to enhance my usage. Here are some features I thought might be interested if added in the future releases:1- SureBackup: SureBackup is one of the features made me choose Veeam in the first place. But while configuring it, I found that I need to choose specific VM to work on specific host. I thought that it will be good if SureBackup went cluster-aware to choose VM and host randomly every time it runs.2- Proxies:Once I started to backup VMs located on vSAN storage, I was told to use proxy server to work as a virtual appliance in order to complete a successful backup job without "doubling" the size. However, I needed to create a proxy on each and every host on my cluster. Now Veeam supports linux proxies but the problem with me that the number of proxies on my cluster as my environment expands.Is there any way in the future to use a single or couple of proxies to work with all cluster? 

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falkob
falkobVeeam Vanguard
posted in Blogs and Podcasts
Veeam Backup for Office 365 – Backing up single OneDrive folders

This is going to be a quick post on how to backup a single OneDrive folder with Veeam Backup for Office 365.One of my customers developed an internal policy regarding the usage of OneDrive for Business.The policy is, that each user has a specific “Work” folder (root folder) which gets backed up with Veeam Backup for Office 365. All other folders are not backed up and the users do know that. So in this scenario we needed a OneDrive backup job, which backs up the whole organization with the OneDrive object and only includes that work folder.By the way, you are also able to exclude specific OneDrive folders by using the “-ExcludedOneDriveFolders” variable.However, in my case here it makes more sense to only include that specific folder.The scenarioI recreated that scenario with my own Office 365 Tenant, whereby I selected to only backup my webhosting folder. If you didn’t know it already, the ability to exclude or include specific folders for OneDrive backups is only available by using Po

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haslund
haslundMr. VMCE
posted in Blogs and Podcasts
#DailyQuiz - #VMCE 2020 Scenario question 20 walkthrough

Today’s #VMCE2020 #DailyQuiz walkthrough is ready. Have you been in a legal situation that demanded an export of a specific point in time of your backups to ensure data is not compromised or lost? How did you handle it? 

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Kseniya
Kseniya✨
posted in Discussion Boards
Veeam University topics: We want to hear from you!

Hi Veeam Community, Please let us know what topics you want covered in Veeam University training? 

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vmiss33
vmiss33
vmiss33Comes here often
posted in Blogs and Podcasts
#DRTestTuesday - Easily Schedule DR Tests with Veeam Availability Orchestrator

Did you know you can easily schedule your disaster recovery tests to run with Veeam Availability Orchestrator?Orchestrator’s Lab Calendar makes it simple to run a DR test on a scheduled basis whenever you want - like on #DRTestTuesday.The best part of course, is being able to provide a copy of a production environment to your application owners when after the test has run.Just think of what you can do with a copy of your data - test patches and application upgrades, train new staff members, and do all of the testing you would never want to do in a live environment.Be sure to check out how easy it is to do right in the Orchestrator documentation.If you’re looking for the ultimate deep dive on everything testing (including running a DR test on demand and scheduling one in the Lab Calendar) in Orchestrator, don’t miss this great webinar which is nearly 100% demo (no boring PowerPoints from me!) and tackles Orchestrator’s amazing dynamic documentation as well.  As part of every DR test you

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MicoolPaul
mhmdadl
mhmdadlVeeam Vanguard
asked in Discussion Boards
About VeeamOne future

Is there any future vision to automate the remediation workflow right from VeeamOne?

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eprieto
eprietoVeeam Legend
posted in Discussion Boards
Surebackup & Surereplica ​​🙃

 Throughout these years, I have been to many talks and events of Veeam, I have given many VMCE courses, and a lot has happened to me on this side in South America, the customers did not use Surebackup or Surereplica, they have told me that they did not know that they could use it, among other answers. And I think it is one of the most important features that Veeam has . Has it happened to you? I would like to read them  … 

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mhmdadl
vNote42
vNote42On the path to Greatness
posted in Discussion Boards
LTO Roadmap

I just read @Gostev ‘s R&D Forums Digest. He talks about LTO9 support in Veeam and new tape-features in v11 like tape cloning.So I thought it could be interesting to read about the changed/adjusted LTO roadmap:https://blocksandfiles.com/2020/09/10/lto-changes-tape-roadmap-strategy-cuts-capacity-to-build-air-gapped-ransomware-defence-storage/For short: LTO does not provide double-sizing its capacity from generation to generation any more. Also speed does not scale that much from now on.

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MicoolPaul
MicoolPaul
MicoolPaul
asked in Discussion Boards
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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haslund
haslundMr. VMCE
posted in Blogs and Podcasts
#DailyQuiz - #VMCE 2020 Scenario question 18 walkthrough

Today’s #VMCE2020 #DailyQuiz walkthrough is ready. Are you protecting transaction logs? Do you push out the runtime from your backup server or a guest interaction proxy? Do you make copies of your transaction logs to a secondary location? 

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jorge.delacruz
jorge.delacruzCommunity Manager
posted in Discussion Boards
[Chalkboard] RansomWar - Prepare yourself for the war against ransomware

Join me on November 20th at 12pm GMT | 1pm CET to learn everything you need to protect your backups against ransomware, just 15 minutes, tapas size. Hope to see you all there! https://go.veeam.com/chalkboard-war-against-ransomwareLooking forward to see you all there :)

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Kseniya
Kseniya✨
published in News
Veeam Community Recap #2
Veeam Community Recap #2

Hi Veeam Community!This is our second Veeam Community Recap Check it out now to learn highlights of the week!  

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Kseniya
MicoolPaul
MicoolPaul
asked in YARA and Script Library
Improvement Idea: SureBackup & Pre/Post Repositories

Hey, Don’t know about you guys but I feel Veeam are missing what could be a very successful trick here with their SureBackup and Pre/Post Processing script functionalities. I know we have VeeamHub for some PowerShell scripts but I think to really push the value of Veeam integrating into our customers’ enterprise application stacks it would be great to have a more direct interface of getting scripts into Veeam. I’ve seen plenty of systems integrating “stores” or other web fronts to enable simple access. It’d be great to see ways of integrating with systems that have been seen as “traditionally” unfriendly to snapshoting and also to validate more complex workloads.I’m sure there are plenty of great scripts out there that just aren’t being shared due to lack of visibility of the existing platforms but driving it into the client would really improve feature take up. That’s my opinion anyway, how do you all feel about this? Wouldn’t you like vendors to be able to offer a one click “it just

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haslund
haslundMr. VMCE
posted in Blogs and Podcasts
#DailyQuiz - #VMCE 2020 Scenario question 17 walkthrough

Today’s #VMCE2020 #DailyQuiz walkthrough is ready. Are you making backup copies? How did you determine what your operational restore window is/should be? What is the oldest backup you had to restore from? 

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haslund
haslund
haslundMr. VMCE
posted in Blogs and Podcasts
VeeamLive 2020 (EMEA) is coming on November 12th!

Register here: https://go.veeam.com/veeamlive-enThe agenda looks amazing, but you definitely do not want to miss out on these sessions:Customer panel — Your Journey to the Cloud & Data Strategy (I personally love hearing real stories from real customers) Veeam v11: Top 11 hottest NEW features Can recommend signing up for v11 news here Some hints of what may be presented in this thread by @MicoolPaul  Cybersecurity Strategies for the Modern Era (presented by the always amazing @Rick Vanover and Europes #1 ethical hacker: Jamie WoodruffDo note, at the top there are different languages available which contain some variances in which sessions are available. The languages available are : English, French, German, Italian, Spanish and Russian. One of the classic presentations by Jamie Woodruff: 

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Kseniya
Kseniya
Kseniya✨
published in News
NEW Veeam User Groups are LIVE: France, Denmark, UAE
NEW Veeam User Groups are LIVE: France, Denmark, UAE

Hi Community, I’m happy to let you know that we are introducing NEW Veeam User Groups at Community Hub:VUG France VUG Denmark VUG United Arab Emirates VUG SAARCAll conversations and content shared in VUG groups are in local language: share experiences, learn from your peers and expand your network!If you would like to run a VUG in your region or organize a VUG meeting near you - please reach out to me. Haven’t heard about VUG yet? A few useful resources for you to start with:VUG overview: what is this and how to become a memberVUG Groups to join  

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Rick Vanover
Rick VanoverRICKATRON
posted in Blogs and Podcasts
Veeam ONE Interval Logic

Give some thoughts to the interval of a report. Current week vs. Past week, here’s a view of how the interval can make a difference for the results.   I have the Veeam ONE Catch of the Day (#VeeamONECOTD) on Twitter, a nice way to get small nuggets of Veeam ONE stuff: https://twitter.com/search?q=%23VeeamONECOTD&src=typeahead_click  The Veeam reports are incredible visibility and it is a great way to get all the details you may need in another way!

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Erwan RIGOLLOTNot a newbie anymore
asked in Discussion Boards
SCVMM

Hi,I will change my vm’s hosting to use SCVMM.I don’t find page which explain the advantages to have SCVMM with veeam.I understand we have tags and, but I’m not sure, a live migration of a VM don’t affect backup chain.Is not it ?What is the bests practices to configure relationship between Veeam and SCVMM ? Sorry for my english.Have a good day !

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haslund
haslund
haslundMr. VMCE
posted in Blogs and Podcasts
#DailyQuiz - #VMCE 2020 Scenario question 15 walkthrough

Today’s #VMCE2020 #DailyQuiz walkthrough is ready. Do you use SureBackup today? If no, why not? Too complicated? Did you try the backup validator tool to check for silent corruption of your backup files? 

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SimonYarwood
JMeixner
JMeixnerOn the path to Greatness
posted in Discussion Boards
VEEAM Explorer for Exchange - Result Window Status column

Hello,when I do a restore of a whole mailbox via the VEEAM Explorer for Exchange I get a resut window with some statistics at the top of the windows - x items created successfully, y items skipped and so on.Below of this there is table where all handled items are listed. But for all of them the status is “Success”, so you cannot see which item was skipped and which one was created and so on.I think it would be useful when the status were a little bit informative. For example like in the picture below...Do I miss a place were I can get this kind of information? I see in the log of the job is some of this, but I think it would be much easier to access the information directly in the result window. What do you think? Is this a useful topic to address it to VEEAM development? 

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Rick Vanover
SimonYarwood
SimonYarwoodComes here often
asked in Discussion Boards
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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eprieto
eprietoVeeam Legend
posted in Blogs and Podcasts
Best Practices 📖Between Integrated and Non-Integrated Deduplication Appliances

Best Practices  In my opinion it is very important to keep this best practice in mind  If the integration API is unavailable due to licensing restrictions, or if any other deduplication appliance is used, the appliance should be considered non-integrated.In order to optimize throughput for deduplication appliances, please use the following configuration guidelines: Job configurationThe following settings are configured in the backup job “Edit” wizard under Storage > Advanced. Options not defined in this table are optional and not related to backup repositories using deduplication storage.Setting Value Tab: Backup   Backup mode Incremental Create synthetic full backups periodically Enabled - if integrated Transform previous backup chains into rollbacks Disabled Create active full backups periodically Enabled - if non-integrated Tab: Maintenance   Perform backup file health check Disabled Defragment and compact full backup file Disabled Tab: Storage   Ena

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falkob
falkobVeeam Vanguard
posted in Blogs and Podcasts
How to recover a failed Veeam Backup for Office 365 repository

What can I do, if the storage volume on which my Office 365 backups reside is corrupted, deleted or somehow lost ? That was the question I faced myself with. So I went into the lab to try out a few things ! In this blog post I’m going to show you how to recover a failed Veeam Backup for Office 356 repository. In addition to recover a failed repository, I’m also going to show you how to properly back up VBO repositories. Within this blog post, I will abbreviate Veeam Backup for Office 365 with VBO. Veeam Backup & Replication is abbreviated with VBR. However, lets jump into the lab and the scenario.The lab setupDue to the fact, that I still don’t have a “proper” homelab, I’m using VMware Workstation for this scenario.My lab environment for testing this case, consists of 2 virtual machines. One virtual machine is hosting VBR and the other one is hosting VBO.The VBO server itself, has an additional partition on which all backup repositories reside. All my backup jobs go into separate f

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