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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? 

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: 

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!

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 !

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? 

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? 

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? 

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

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

HPE and Veeam are connected by a long history. HPE VSA and 3PAR were the first storages support integrated hardware snapshots. Nimble and Primera are supported as well.See this Veeam Customer Reference Book to read about 7 customer stories. Involved Industries are: Fintech, Retail, Non-Profit, Manufacturing and Healthcare. Quite impressive stories with real-world values!

How many times has DNS been the problem? Well, Veeam Explorer for Active Directory’s Compare with Production capability may be a way to help you see if there have been changes in DNS. This is so easy to use, check out this video explaining how this works:You can also watch my Veeam Live session on Application recovery as well (have to register there however)​​​​

If you are not sure how much space you might need, then an excellent “unofficial” tool tool created by @Timothy Dewin is available at http://rps.dewin.me/ - The Restore Point Simulator.The tool can help you size for:Backup jobs Backup copy jobs Replication jobsWhile the tool appears straight forward, I have noticed on several occasions people misunderstood which data to input: Common mistakes include sizing a backup copy job and then inputting the size of the source VBK file as the used size GB. This would mean you are doubling up data reductions which will of course not happen. A very cool feature is the easy Export check box that will give you a URL to come back and review the estimate and how did you reach it: 

In this week's episode of #HomelabWednesdays, I show you how to easily configure the automatic startup of virtual machines in your home lab. This is very convenient if you don’t want to keep your physical host powered on 24/7 :-)Don’t forget to subscribe to get automatic notifications whenever a new video is released.

The #2MinTues series is aimed at showing something short and sharp in a video format to help the wider community.This will range across all Veeam products. If you would like to see something specific please leave a comment down below.This video will demonstrate how you can make sure that your backup tasks never affect your production workloads! 

 The Veeam Ready database provides a list of all partner solutions that have successfully passed Veeam’s testing criteria. Solutions are grouped by company name, Veeam Ready classification, and more.  So, you can select by Alliance Partner - Model Family - Category Example:  I chose by category  I think it is something very useful when it comes to having any questions about compatibility and Veeam Product Release Support . https://www.veeam.com/ready.html?x-clickref=1011lbSfagY2  

In another Topic, I wrote  about designing a Proxy In This Topic will see about the repository design.We need to consider The key recommendation is to follow the 3-2-1 rule. Calculate 1 core and 4GB RAM per repository task slot. The recommended minimum for a repository is 2 cores and 8GB RAM.Sizing  The recommended amount of CPU for a repository is 1 core per concurrent configured task slot on a repository server. Configure at minimum a 2 core and 8GB RAM repository server to allow the operating system to be more responsive. When sizing task slots on a repository you have to understand when and how many task slots are consumed. Any write process will consume a task slot. So backing up 10 VMs in one job using per-job backup chains will only write one file (VBK/VIB) in the end - so it consumes one task slot. Running the same backup job with per-VM backup files will create one file per VM and thus can leverage up to 10 tasks slots (when available). Backup Copy Jobs, Agent Backups and

Did you know you’re 30 minutes away from Orchestrated DR at any given moment?Veeam Availability Orchestrator takes just 20 minutes to configure, and it takes less than 10 minutes to create an Orchestration Plan, what we call your your fully documented and automated DR plan.Don’t believe me?  I have proof!  Those videos cover everything you need to get started after you have installed VAO, and run through the initial configuration wizard, which couldn’t be simpler.Here’s a few more tips I’ve discovered along the way and am sharing:Install the VAO agent on all of your Veeam Backup & Replication servers.  Once you install the agent, VAO understands the jobs you already have configured, and can orchestrate their recovery.  Simple! If you use NetApp storage, be sure to have your SnapMirrors configured ahead of time if they aren’t already.  Once you add your storage systems, you guessed it, VAO understands the relationships you have and can orchestrate their recovery! vSphere Tags make t

You may be aware of the Veeam ONE Restore Operator Activity Report, this one is my favorite. I recommend everyone set up this report for regular automatic generation, which is explained here: https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/one/reporter/schedule_reports.html?ver=100 See the video below on how to do it! 

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I recently started a YouTube video series on how to build your own home lab. New videos are posted each Wednesday so don’t forget to subscribe to get notifications when a new video goes live.

#region: Add Veeam PSSnapin and ConnectAdd-PSSnapin VeeamPSSnapin$VeeamCred = Get-Credential -Message "Veeam Credential"Connect-VBRServer -Server "192.168.3.100" -Credential $VeeamCredFind-VBRViEntity#endregion#region: VMware Module and vCenter ConnectionGet-Module -ListAvailable -Name VMware* | Import-ModuleSet-PowerCLIConfiguration -DefaultVIServerMode Single -InvalidCertificateAction Ignore -Scope Session -Confirm:$false$vCenterCred = Get-Credential -Message "vCenter Credential"Connect-VIServer -Server "192.168.3.101" -Credential $vCenterCred#endregion#region: List Objects in Backup Jobs$VBRJobs = (Get-VBRJob).where({$_.JobType -eq "Backup" -and $_.Name -like "*Location*"})## List Backup Jobs that match the filter$VBRJobs | Select Name, JobType, SourceType | ft$VBRJobToLocationA = Get-VBRJob -Name "Backup to LocationA"## list Objects in Job$VBRJobToLocationA.GetObjectsInJob().GetObject() | Select ViType, Name, ObjectId | ft#endregion#region: Get Veeam Tag Details## Veeam Inventory(F

#Requires -Version 7#Requires -Modules PSSendGrid<#.Synopsis Generates report of relevant data on all customers known to a given Veeam Service Provider Console Server. Uses the new v3 API so your milage may vary..Notes Version: 0.6 Author: Jim Jones Modified Date: 8/21/2020 If running for the first time a new computer You will need to run to store the credentials $credpath='c:\creds\myadmincred.xml' GET-CREDENTIAL –Credential (Get-Credential) | EXPORT-CLIXML $credpath.EXAMPLE .\vspcCompanyReport.ps1 -vacServer 'vac.mydomain.com' -authPath 'c:\creds\myadmincred.xml'#>[CmdletBinding()]Param ( [string]$vacServer = "vac.mydomain.com", [string]$authPath = 'c:\creds\myadmincred.xml')#Email Variables$date = Get-Date$sgToken = "SendGridToken"$fromAddress = "myvac@mydomain.com"$fromName = "US VAC"$toName = "NetOps"$toAddress = "me@me.com"$emailBody = "See attached Company Backup Resource Report for $date"$Credentials = IMPORT-CLIXML

When creating or changing SureBackup settings using the Veeam PowerShell Snapin, not all options were provided by the Snapin. For example startup timeout could not be set by PowerShell. Fortunately this is now possible with v10-Snapin. See the picture for details: New Option in v10 Snapin        

Veeam ONE is a complete monitoring system for VMware, Hyper-V, Veeam and even at the application level being able to monitor VM services and processes running Microsoft Windows, without the need to install any agent, and all through API.As @Rick Vanover usually says, Veeam ONE will surely tell us more than one thing about our environment that we don't know, and Rick is right, with several hundred metrics that Veeam ONE collects, added to the several dozen reports that are included by default, Veeam ONE is that co-worker that we all would like to have in our IT team.Veeam ONE allows you to create notifications for each predetermined alarm or alarms that we create ourselves. While it is true that email notifications are the most basic and the ones we probably configure by default, sadly, it is true that email has become a tool overloaded with daily content, and most likely if a critical alarm falls in a folder or inbox along with 150 other emails, it will not pay the attention it require