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Hi thereI’ve been working on a module to make connecting to Veeam APIs a bit easier when using Python (yes I am a big fan).https://github.com/shapedthought/veeam-easy-connectComments, issues and pull requests welcome.Cheers, Ed

Join us for a special Veeam User Group session, where you will hear a conversation with our special guest, Veeam Legend @Chris.Childerhose, and our Veeam Team, David Tosoff, Rick Byrne and Kseniya Zvereva.We will cover:How to get involved in the Veeam community What is a Veeam Legend? A fireside chat about Chris’ experience as a Veeam Legend Areas of the community you can leverage Questions surrounding the Architects’ Desk And more!When: February 16th, 12 PM EST / 6 PM CETHow to join: https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/6331906465565508880   

I am not sure how many of you use VMware or are part of the vExpert program but the applications went live this week and you can apply here -vExpert Application Portal (vmware.com)I have applied the past two years and been accepted as well as applying this year.  Really great program for those in the VMware space.  So check it out and apply.If you need help just Google vExpert Pro or check Twitter as they can help you with your application.  This is the Pro listing -vExpert Application Portal (vmware.com)

Dears, I have Veeam backup & replication connected to Veeam service provider console, and I would like to customize a user on VSPC to be allowed to run and stop specific jobs on VBR and not all the jobs created.Because my client wants to run some jobs manually and not periodically and I do not want him to have access to all the jobs created on VBR. Regards.

Morning all,Happy Friday!As per @victorwu’s post, vSphere 7.0 U3c is now rereleased!I’m not here to kick them when they’re down, but VMware didn’t have the best of times with vSphere 7.0, but after their divorce from Dell EMC and the subsequent pulling of vSphere 7.0U3c for quality concerns, will this release finally be worthy of the VMware name? So, my question to you all. vSphere 6.5/6.7 are end of life later this year, so if you’re still on 6.5/6.7, will this release make you look at upgrading? Or are you still unsure and want to hold out until nearer the EOL? Share your thoughts!

Can someone enlighten me on my queries? If I have to replicate the backup from Prod to DR, what will be the best approach?I believed you can install veeam in the VMware Prod only then Replicate the VM directly to the DR VMware environment, it means no Veeam Mgmt in the DR installed, but on the failback what will the approach for that? I handled other backup before, on Arcserve I must have arcserve on both sites to do the replication, is that approach is feasible to veeam? must have both veeam mgmt for prod and dr If customer have exisiting vsphere replication for critical apps. Do I need to maximize the CDP feature instead of veeam replication?Thanks :)

Afternoon everyone! Happy Friday, going for a valentines day theme today as it’s only a few days away now (REMINDER IF YOU NEED TO BUY A CARD OR PRESENT STILL!!!). So, you’re working in the technology world, you may hate it at times, but there’s a fine line between love and hate. (Except for you printers, I hate you). What was the first moment of pure joy/love you had working with tech? Or worded another way, what was your first memorable moment in tech that you found impressive/amazing? However you word it, tech has had a profound impact on our lives globally, what ignited the spark? I was writing in BASIC at a young age, and I remember the first time I started working with 3D objects/models. I think I was using DirectX 7 or 8, and I remember having some stock assets, making a terrain, creating a camera that would follow an object and programming in movement controls to the object. I hadn’t worked out how to effectively handle collision yet and stop the object from clipping through th

In case you missed it, VMware is currently offering a FREE 12-month access to the VMware Customer Connect Learning Premium Package. The catch? You must sign up before October 31st, 2020 so don’t delay!While you will get access to all the content from the basic subscription which includes free access to for example:1.357 videos 67 eLearning courses Fundamental courses VMware Certified Associate trainingThe premium package will also get you:All their official exam prep courses (650+ videos) Access to the just launched VMware Certified Technical Associate (VCTA) trainingIf you are not yet VMware certified, going for the VCTA certification is a great way to learn and also get started on their certification program - this will without a doubt help progress your career. BONUS!Just in case you didn’t know, VMware also offers free hands-on lab access. This is a great way to try out and learn about all their new technologies or simply learn more about the vSphere basics and get more out of what

Impacted Products: VMware NSX Edge A CLI shell injection vulnerability affecting VMware NSX Edge was privately reported to VMware.- Updates are available to address this vulnerability in affected VMware products.- VMware has evaluated the severity of this issue to be in the Important severity range with a maximum CVSSv3 base score of 8.8. Known Attack VectorsA malicious actor with SSH access to an NSX-Edge appliance can execute arbitrary commands on the operating system as root.ResolutionTo remediate CVE-2022-22945 apply the patches listed in the 'Fixed Version' column of the 'Response Matrix' below.Workarounds: NoneResponse MatrixProduct Version Running On CVE Identifier CVSSv3 Severity Fixed Version Workarounds Additional Documentation VMware NSX Edge Any Any CVE-2022-22945 8.8 Important 6.4.13 None None  Downloads and Documentation:- https://customerconnect.vmware.com/en/downloads/details?downloa

Some potential security vulnerabilities have been reported on the 8th of this month on the impact / vulnerabilities in the BIOS firmware for some Intel® Processors which may allow escalation of privilege, denial of service or information disclosure. Intel ID: INTEL-SA-00527 Advisory Category: Firmware Impact of vulnerability: Escalation of Privilege, Denial of Service, Information Disclosure Severity rating: HIGH Original release: 02/08/2022 Last revised: 02/08/2022  All affected products are listed on the intel website and the recommendations as well as I quote below.Intel recommends that users of listed Intel® Processors update to the latest versions provided by the system manufacturer that addresses these issues. You may want to read more about the Intel vulnerabilities in the following URL below- https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/security-center/advisory/intel-sa-00527.html

I set up a linux hardened repository for immutable backups. In the Backup Repository I have set the minimu 7 days as immutable.The Backup Job finished sucessfully on this linux repository. But i can still delete the backup. I have also checked in Linux directory, there should all backup files have an extension “i” to say that this file is immutable. But there is also no “i” in the directory. What am I doing wrong? Can someone help me?

Now this is just for my own curiosity. When Backup Jobs complete, Veeam runs Health Checks on the backup files to check for any corruption on the vbks. What happens if the VBR server goes offline whilst a Health Check job was in progress? Does it carry on from where it left off, or does it start the whole process again?Additionally, would it affect the vbk files in any way? 

What is the best scenario in terms of recoverability than your resources? 

Hi all, I’ve recently been doing a series of posts about using object storage in general but even more with the various method of doing so with Veeam. I’m not going to spam the channel with a bunch of posts but here are what I’ve posted this week.https://www.koolaid.info/getting-started-with-s3-compatible-object-storage/https://www.koolaid.info/configuring-veeam-backup-for-microsoft365-with-encrypted-object-storage/https://www.koolaid.info/configuring-veeam-backup-replication-sobr-for-non-immutable-object-storage/https://www.koolaid.info/configure-veeam-backup-replication-for-immutable-object-storage/

Does anyone use RHV?  I have started to play with it a bit in my home lab including using Veeam 11a for with the RHV plugin to back things up.  It is quite interesting to say the least and nice to get exposure to another virtualization system.Today I see that patch 1a has been released for RHV so it is time to update the lab and continue testing.  Information found here - KB4280: Release Information for Veeam Backup for Red Hat Virtualization 1a 

I got to thinking the other day and wondered if adding something similar to Kubernetes Korner for VMware or even just Virtualization to cover off Hyper-V, KVM, etc.Would this be something of interest first off and @Kseniya is this something we could do after consensus?

I was waiting and waiting for the shoes I won. All it took was for @Kseniya to pickup the phone during the Legends call last week and boom! they are here :) Minus 20 outside with snow, plus lockdown so no strutting in the clubs but at home!!! All I will wear now :) Thanks  

We use Veeam Backup and Replication as well as Veeam for Office 365.Whilst we have restricted access to our Veeam for O365 server to specific backup admins, our information security team have asked if it’s possible for the auditing logs to be fed to a log server outside of our team’s reach so that we can confidently say all of these actions are logged and an admin is unlikely to have tampered with the logs.Basically, this isn’t about monitoring the backup jobs themselves, but we’re interested in recording that Admin1 opened Veeam Explorer for Microsoft Exchange, browsed to User23’s mailbox and opened X email in their Inbox. This can be reviewed by generating the logs, but we’re interested to find out if anyone has done this/it is possible to do this on a continual basis.

I'm wondering if I'm alone with this, or if it's a widespread problem.Through the day I often get logged out of the Community or R&D forums, although I select keep logged in or remember me. Sometimes it doesn't happen at all and sometimes it only takes minutes or happens during writing a post. It's not related to a specific browser or device, nor do I delete cookies.Does anyone here experience the same?

We have a project study backup SAP and SAP HANA, High Availability from 2 Suse Hosts HA. As knew, the 2 Hosts each has local disk for store Database and log, and it work as Active and Standby Hosts. So my question is that when we installed Veeam Plug-in for SAP HANA for both hosts. Can Veeam support backup SAP HANA,HA from both hosts?  If the SAP HANA, HA use VIP (Virtual IP) for access both hosts, can Veeam support backup from SAP HANA, HA using the VIP? What will the database and log backup from HA Hosts? Will it keep only 1x copy (Database and log) from Active Host or keep duplicate from Active and Standby from both Hosts?

Hello All,I have a case i’m working on it customer has DC in cloud provider site and needs to move it to new DC he can’t make backup throw WAN because of traffic costs so we offers to get storage and put it in the cloud provider site and create second copy to it then move the storage to the new place and create replica seeding and make planned failover and commit the failover  any suggestion recommendation? 

Hello, I need to create a SQL DB backup for VeeamBackup DB (VBR 10). I’m using MS SQL Server Management Studio with Windows Authentication however the DB is not accessible with this user, do I need to use SQL Server Authentication with th “sa” user? if yes, I don’t have the password, is there a default password? if no, can I try to reset this password without problems? Thanks for your help, Omar De Souza.

Hello,Everything is in the title, it’s the first time i’m using Veeam.So, i have a VM on ESXi A, i want to setup an incremental backup of this VM to ESXI B that has a LUN assigned to it (the datastore is created).But i have no idea how to do it. When i create a backup job, when i get to “storage”, i can only chose the default backup repository, which is on the local hard drive where Veeam is installed...I don’t know how to create a new repository that will point to my “backup-LUN” datastore on ESXI B …Can you help me ?Thank you in advance,Regards

Great news! The pre-registration for VeeamON 2022 is open!https://www.veeamon.comThis year VeeamON will be a hybrid event, which means you can either attend virtually (for free!) or in-person. If you go for the later you’ll have to hurry as the seats are limited (1500). Also there’s a bonus option to add VMCE/VMCA training for a very good price. If you need to justify the costs for attending the in-persion event and the training, there’s even a template you can download and fill in our details. This will sure make it easier to get the budget for the trip to Vegas  So regardless if your planing for the virtual or in-person event, go to www.veeamon.com and register yourself!Also don’t overlook @MicoolPaul’s post with more details below