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Hello, I would like to try the immutable backup functionality of V11. A first trial was successful but I would like to continue. The repository machine is an older desktop PC where I have installed 4 x 1TB SATA HDD. How do I have to  configure the initial configuration script of Ubuntu in order to realize a 100GB RAID10 for the OS and the remaining space as RAID10 for the backup files? BRFrank

Hey Guys,I have query. Suppose I have my veeam backup server on-premise and if I wanna store my backups on a repository(let’s say windows or linux) on cloud. Is it possible to integrate on-premise backup server with repository on cloud?

Has anyone tried registering for the VMCE 2021 using a surface pro? Mine was temporarily goosed after the Pearson Vue test, and the mouse performance was terrible.

Microsoft has issued an advisory for another zero-day Windows print spooler vulnerability tracked as CVE-2021-36958 that allows local attackers to gain SYSTEM privileges on a computer. As stated by Microsoft, an attacker who successfully exploits this vulnerability could run arbitrary code with SYSTEM privileges.I you wish to have more detailed information on the development of this vulnerability, when it was first discovered, its workaround and patches released so far, please visit the following links.Unlike the previous exploits, this vulnerabi

Require some clarification on Veeam Rental licensing.  Do rental licenses follow the same offering as the Veeam Universal License (VUL) offering listed in the Veeam Licensing Policy? Meaning, for every 1 license of Veeam Backup & Replication, they are offered in packs of 10 instances? We report per workload type (VM, Workstation) on a monthly basis to our aggregator.  With that said, does that mean it’s a 1:1 ratio for rental licenses? for every protected workload you have to license per unit (VM, Server, Workstation).Generally a little confused with the different offerings between commercial and rental, and whether rental licenses follow the VUL offering.

Hello Veeam Community, If customer have 500gb left in their datastore, how can I know or compute If how many days/months the 500gb will be? Assuming the daily trend average backup size is 900gb definitely it will reduce since there is dedup and compress in Veeam and have forever incremental sched. Thanks

Big News compliance Junkies have taken over NKGG’s and JuniorJoe’s company!!NKGG’s and JuniorJoe’s company was grabbed in a hostile takeover. A group of venture compliance junkies are now at the helm. The firm is now call Drdisasters.com. They specialize in taking DR testing to the limit so that it conforms completely with a compliance junkie’s dream, that is, Drdisasters.com will test your DR Plan by creating real life DR situations for your company. The next time an auditor asks, “how sure are you that the DR plan will work?” you can answer well we burned down our server room and implemented our DR plan and it worked wonderfully!!Now more than ever NKGG had to finalize his Kasten authorization setup. Come audit time the compliance gang would surely drill him on every aspect and he needed full control. Time to ditch the external authentication service and create his own.After some research he decided on using keycloak and the bitnami helm chart:

Hi,Can anyone confirm if .NET 4.8 can safely be used with Veeam B&R 11?I need to install an agent on the host server and .NET 4.8 is a requirement. I cannot get a definitive answer from our 3rd party vendor who just refer me back to the System Requirements. Thank you

Good day everyone !In November 2020 I created a PowerCLI script which creates a vSphere role with cumulative permissions for Veeam Backup & Replication version 10.In the meantime VBR v11 was released and I needed to update that script and wanted to create “new awareness” of it. The fact that I see A LOT of Administrator@vsphere.local users being used with adding the vCenter to Veeam makes me nervous, that’s why I wanted to fight against this with a simple script so no one needs to manually go through the privileges. Now there is no excuse to use highly privileged user accounts !This PowerShell / PowerCLI script lets you create a new vCenter server role with all the cumulative privileges and permissions to use them wi

This is a short story I recently experienced with a customer of mine…Some months ago we got a request from Veeam 😉 with an opportunity for a new customer. This customer was using a lot of standalone Hyper-V hosts in combination with Oracle databases and was using a competitor software as their backup solution.They were not happy about the stability of the product and neither about the delivered support of the backup-vendor. Therefore they were searching for other backup-vendors and of course they ended up at Veeam.They contacted Veeam because they wanted more information about the product and if Veeam could deliver a design that perfectly matches the requirements of the customer. Veeam transferred this opportunity to my company (being a gold MSP).The accountmanager of my company and myself had a meeting with this customer to know what their requirements were. Afterwards I created a d

Veeam has introduced yet another plugin for storage so anyone that uses HPE XP8 can find the KB here - KB4194: Release Notes for HPE XP Plug-In for Veeam Backup & Replication 1.0.66As per Gostev’s digest it uses the Hitachi SVP engine so it was easy for them to add support -Last week we've shipped yet another Universal Storage API plug-in, this time it is for HPE XP8 storage. This storage model uses the Hitachi VSP engine underneath, so it was easy for us to quickly add support after we integrated with the latter. For the release notes, please refer to

Hello everyone,I Have been learning about veeam products and recently for practice, I  setup a windows server VM  & installed veeam backup & replication in that. I was trying to backup a physical machine and the backup job failed. I feel the reason is  veeam is not able to identify details such as hostname and credentials. I looked various documents related to this but still I am missing out something. I even installed veeam agent on physical machine during initial setup. Can anyone help me out with this?

Recently on July 21st, there was a new storage plugin release by @Veeam for the Hitachi storage arrays.  It can be found here - Veeam - Hitachi Plugin.  This plugin allows you to connect Veeam to your Hitachi storage arrays to leverage the SAN-based snapshots for your backups.  Hitachi has also released documentation which can be found here - Hitachi - Veeam Plugin.Hitachi Plug-In for Veeam Backup & Replication supports integration with the following storage systems:VSP E590, E790, E990 (93-03-01-60/00 or later), VSP F350, F370, F700, F900 (88-

Hi all,from Gostev's Veeam R&D Forums Digest, report a new threat targeting ESXi hostsSecure your VMware ESXi hosts against ransomware in 3 simple steps! (truesec.com) Linux version of HelloKitty ransomware targets VMware ESXi servers (bleepingcomputer.com)

A few days ago @Link State posted how to migrate MS AD-controllers using Veeam Replication. Therefore I thought it would be interesting to get to know the new vSphere Advanced Cross vCenter Server vMotion (XVM).What is Cross vMotion about?First, there is a difference between Cross vCenter Server vMotion (xvMotion) and  Advanced xvMotion. xvMotion was already introduced (and supported) for migration of VMs between vCenters within the same Single-SignOn (SSO) Domain in vSphere 6.0. With Advanced xvMotion it is possible to migrate VMs between vCenters in different SSO Domains!Advanced xvMotion is not completely new. Actually it exists for about 5 years

Hey All, Our Synology no longer supports NTLMv1 which is causing the Veeam SMB Repo to disconnect. Anyone know of a way to set the SMB level in Veeam to 2 or higher minimum? Thanks. User [veeam] from [IP address] failed to log in via [SMB] due to [NTLMv1 not permitted].

If you are wondering about support for VMware v7 U2 well check out this link as it shows that Veeam v11 is now officially supported.VMware Compatibility Guide - vsanps

@wolff.mateus asked what Brazil community thinks about latest Gartner Report for Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Backup and Recovery Software Solutions. I think this is interesting globally as well!According to Gartner, Veeam is about 1 cm (or inch, if you prefer) behind the leader in Vision  Honestly I have no deep knowledge about other competitors. So I looked at Veeam’s Strengths and Cautions. Strengths:Instant recovery True! More and more workloads are adding to this feature. Like Database and NAS in v11.

As you know, July 30th, the official day for all IT professionals across the globe — System Administrator Appreciation Day aka SysAdmin Day!It is celebrated on the last Friday in July to show appreciation for the work of Sysadmins and other IT workers. I always say, that here at Veeam we take community seriously and we want to share this day with you, as we truly appreciate SysAdmins’ diligent work and dedication.Join us for a panel discussion, where I and @Rick Vanover will be interviewing @Geoff Burke and @coolsport00 about their SysAdmin journey, mistakes that changed their path, lessons learnt, and of course, SysAdmins’ pieces of advice for today and tomorrow. I look forward to this event and I bet there will be some funny stories shared too 

This quick and nerdy video is 10 mins long and shows you how to add a wasabi bucket to VBO365 and use powershell to migrate the backups from on-prem to the cloud.  

Hello, I would like to know what is the best design for Simple and Advanced.For Simple, I have 1 server with the veeam backup, proxy and storage. For Advanced, I have compute as veeam backup and a third party storage. if customer have 16tb source backup, (1) what will be the best design to position, have a Simple to lower the cost or position a Advanced Deploy since date is 16tb?(2) For Simple, what will be the basis to position the Simple Deployment? atleast 5tb and 10 jobs? or how many jobs or source data, so we can consider that as Simple?(3)For Advanced as well, how many jobs or source data? I am reading the article below. Thankshttps://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backup/vsphere/deployment_scenarios.html?ver=110

Hello,We have a VBR 10 with Enterprise Manager in a physical Windows Server 2012 R2. Also we have a secondary VBR 10 in a virtual machine 2012R2 in an external site.I have to migrate all the products to version 11 and I would like to know what is the best way to backup all the configuration necessary to restore the servers in case of problem.I read that I have to perform backup of the SQL Server configuration databases used by Veeam backup servers and Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager server, to easily go back to a previous version in case of issues with upgrade. So, In case of problem, I can go back to a previous version with the built-in configuration backup and the SQL Server configuration databases backup, right?it’s also another option to do a Veeam Windows Agent Backup of that physical server from the other VBR in the external site?Thanks in advance, Omar De Souza.

This is a recent research by security specialists of the Dolos Group to determine if an attacker can access the organisation network from a stolen device and also perform lateral network movement.They were handed a Levovo Laptop preconfigured with the standard security stack for this organization. No prior information about the laptop, test credentials, configuration details, etc were given. They stated it was a 100% blackbox test.Once the got hold of the device, they headed straight to work and performed some reconnaissance of the laptop (BIOS settings, normal boot operation, hardware details, etc) and noted a lot of best practices were being followed, negating many common attacks. For example:Pcileech/DMA attacks were blocked because Intel’s VT-d BIOS setting was enabled. All BIOS settings were locked with a password. The BIOS boot order was locked to prevent booting from USB or CD. Secureboot was fully enabled and prevented any

The Notorious Kube Genius Geoff had a problem.After saving the company's Kasten setup by doing a DR restore he was told that Junior Joe’s full access to the cluster would be removed but he still needed access to Kasten to perform his duties which involved only certain functions with policies.  NKGG referenced the Kasten documentation concerning Authentication and decided it was time to leverage Open ID connect to do this and in that manner limit Junior Joe’s access.https://docs.kasten.io/latest/access/authentication.html#openid-connect-authenticationThis was going to be no walk in the park. NKGG had never ventured into this area of IT before so he decided to read up on the protocol itself and found a great free resource: