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The following error can occur in Veeam Enterprise Manger during catalog replication. Catalog replication is needed to transfer guest indexing information from the VBR server to the Enterprise Manager server.By default, replication task runs automatically after each backup job. You can trigger it manually within Enterprise Manager GUI. Just enter the Configuration section, select Settings and press Update Now.Log files can be seen beneath Sessions.Meta-file errorThis error is about the meta-file that does not contain a certain attribute.Cause and solutionThere is a meta-file for catalog replication on Enterprise Manager server. In some situations it may happen that this file is empty. I do not know exactly under what circumstances this can happen but the solution is simple. Just delete, or rename the empty file. File is located on the Enterprise Manager server in directory C:\VBRCatalog\Replication\InConnectors and is named VbrServerName.uuid.con.The next replication task should not sto

For anyone that is an MSP and happens to use the Veeam Service Provider v6 console for managing your tenants and VCC environments there was a patch released today for this.  I will take the build from 6.0.0.7739 to 6.0.0.8787.It contains some nice fixes including a new downloadable EXE file for the Windows agent installation.  Check here for further information - KB4277: Release Notes for Veeam Service Provider Console v6 Patch 1We will be patching and testing our server sometime this week or early next.

Veeam has just released the Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure v3a. Check release notes here - KB4279: Release Information for Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure v3a

The Dell Technologies Proven Professional Knowledge Sharing competition is an industry award-winning platform which provides an opportunity to share your expertise, unique deployments, best practices, or any other relevant technical topic of interest. I have been participated in this competition for 4 years, fortunately my articles were selected for publication by Dell Technologies. I enjoyed this competition. My articles are list as below: 2021 – Get Ready for Edge Computinghttps://education.dellemc.com/content/dam/dell-emc/documents/en-us/2021KS_Wu-Get_Ready_for_Edge_Computing.pdf2020 – Multiple Active DataCenters Solutionhttps://education.dellemc.com/content/dam/dell-emc/documents/en-us/2020KS_Wu-Multiple_Active_DataCenters_Solution.pdf2019 – Unmatched Availability Solution for VxRailhttps://education.dellemc.com/content/dam/dell-emc/documents/en-us/2019KS_Wu-Unmatched_Availability_Solution_for_VxRail.pdf2018 – Storage Migration – Hybrid Array to All-Flash Arrayhttps://education.emc

VMware vSphere 7.0 u3c was released last week, the Log4j security issue can be resolved by this version. Dell VxRail appliance is a black box solution (Dell hardware + VMware solution). Dell just released VxRail 7.0.320 package that includes the resolution of VMware Log4j. Please refer to below for details. 

I have an issue on Veeam Storage Integration with IBM SVC. It hold the storage discovery for a long time. Anyone can help me?Veeam B&R: v11aIBM SVC OS: firmware 8.3.1.6Troubleshooting: Already restarted the VBR 

Pluralsight is a good platform to learn the skills of the different products, e.g. VMware, Kubernetes and Veeam, etc. If you’re Microsoft MVP's, Microsoft RD's, or VMware vExperts, etc, you can apply the complimentary subscriptions (1 year) to access all courses. Refer to below for details Please don't miss out. VMware experts, the 2022 vExpert application deadline is Friday, Jan 28th. https://vexpert.vmware.com/https://www.pluralsight.com/teach/resource/vips

Hi Folks, After a hiatus of wild IT academia activity and other events I want to get back to doing some posts. I am thinking of setting up a separate blog and then linking on to here like I noticed some people do. Looking for any recommendations on where to host my blog from the experts here? Thanks Geoff

Another check script for OneDrive for Business data, protected by VBO. The script downloads a specific file and compares the hash value with the value specified by the user. Feedback welcome!Download Linkhttps://github.com/yetanothermightytool/powershell/tree/master/vbo/vbo-odrestore-checker Outlook upcoming scriptsI have a script ready that uploads the detected file hashes/the files to a cloud-based detection and prevention solution and returns the result of the scan. 

Hi there, I didn’t know where to  question, so here I post it for any help or explanation.it’s weird for me not not find a SPAIN OR SPANISH VUG, so how can I request to create it? Or any other information?is there any VUG responsible, leather or so?also anyone interested to participate in a Spain / Spanish VUG? thanks,

Hey! Just like in March when @regnor posted about the Microsoft Ignite Cloud Skills Challenge, Microsoft are back again with their November 2021 edition! Didn’t see regnor’s post? Check it out here:The exam list is different this time and the options are:MS-700: Managing Microsoft Teams MS-720: Microsoft Teams Voice Engineer MD-100: Windows 10 MD-101: Managing Modern Desktops MB-210: Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales PL-400: Microsoft Power Platform Developer AZ-104: Microsoft Azure Administrator AZ-204: Developing Solutions for Microsoft Azure DP-300: Administering Relational Databases on Microsoft Azure AZ-800: Administering Windows Server Hybrid Core Infrastructure AZ-801: Configuring Windows Server Hybrid Advanced Services MB-330: Microsoft Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management SC-200: Microsoft Security Operations Analyst SC-300: Microsoft Identity and Access Administrator SC-400: Microsoft Information Protection AdministratorThe challenge starts on the 2nd November and runs until the 3

This Friday I’ll be delivering a talk alongside @Rick Vanover  on a key data protection best practice that I don’t believe gets enough attention: Data Encryption.Join myself and Rick as we talk about the escalating stakes in the battle against malicious actors and some of their latest tactics to extort a ransom out of you, some of the steps you can take to better protect yourself, and some of the gotchas that you’ll be glad to know when you remediate this in your environments.You’ll be able to see this on LinkedIn here or if you prefer, on YouTube here.Hope to see you there!

I created a SOBR in order to tier off data to AWS.  That process works perfectly.My capacity tier setting is setup to Copy and Move.  The Move is setup for 14 days (operational restore window)My backup job has a retention of 30 days with the Backup Repo being the SOBRAnd I am doing Forward Incremental with weekly Active Full on Sunday My issue is that in the Performance Tier, I only have 1 backup chain (currently there are 3 restore points Sun-Tues), not 2 as I would have anticipated with my Move policy.  My Object Storage is showing the correct number of restore points / backup chains based upon the 30 day Retention I have setup on my job.What do you think I am doing work with this configuration?  I am looking to have 1 complete backup chain plus current week, so 7 + 7 in my performance tier.What am I doing wrong that I am not getting my 14 days on Performance tier? Thank you everyone for your support 

Veeam has release a plugin for Datacore if anyone uses it.  Check out the release notes - KB4128: Release Notes for DataCore Plug-In for Veeam Backup & Replication

Issue Date:2022-01-04Updated On:2022-01-27VMSA-2022-0001 - VMware Workstation, Fusion and ESXi updates address a heap-overflow vulnerability (CVE-2021-22045)- Please see the updated advisory here: https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2022-0001.html Below is a related post.https://community.veeam.com/topic/show?tid=1966&fid=81  

Veeam has just released the Nutanix AHV 3a.  Check release notes here - KB4272: Veeam Backup for Nutanix AHV 3a Release Notes

VMSA-2021-0028 - VMware Response to Apache Log4j Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (CVE-2021-44228) - Please see the updated advisory here: https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2021-0028.html

Morning all, This slipped under my radar on Friday, VMware have fixed some huge bugs such as inability to enable HA on ESXi U3 hosts in this release. But they’ve also pulled the original U3 update due to issues with failing rollup upgrades! But you first need to patch vCenter before upgrading to ESXi U3b vCenter Patch Notes:https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/7.0/rn/vsphere-vcenter-server-70u3b-release-notes.htmlESXi Patch Notes:https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/7.0/rn/vsphere-esxi-70u3b-release-notes.html

For those of use that have won the “Nike Air Force 1 shoes”. Kindly endeavour to share on your Twitter and Facebook, and Reddit (sub-reddit) platforms.  https://www.reddit.com/r/TDArchive/comments/sdb0id/my_nike_air_force_1_shoes/ (Unfortunately, Reddit yanked my old community off.. Here is a new one and I have no time yet to grow it). https://www.facebook.com/TechDarchive/photos/a.135315758105436/487508049552870/ https://www.instagram.com/p/CZM4fhaI_mN/There is a flyer in the pack to this effect! You can find some of the other winners in the link below.  

Hi all!I’m engaged in a project where we have to backup several physical servers with agents via WAN with very small bandwidth.I prepared a portable server with local disks to collect the first full backups within the ROBO locations’ LAN.Back in the central datacenter I would like to use that as a seed for future incremental backups. I’m aware of the basic procedure for that (copy VBKs, rescan repo, map job).But in the end I would like to have only one agent backup job for all servers; though the mapping option lets me only choose one job to map to thus loosing the previous chains.Any options I am missing or not possible?Thanks for any input!Tim

The walkthrough of the official #VMCA 2022 practice exam question 39 is ready.Are you starting to see a flow in how to answer the questions?The final video in this series will be available tomorrow :-)

I was recently made aware that Veeam have released the 2021 edition of the Veeam Certified Engineer (VMCE) exam. If you’ve already got a VMCE 2020 certification, or have taken the VMCE 2020 training course within the past year, (or even been lucky enough to already take a seat on the VMCE 2021 training course) you’re eligible to take the exam.To take the exam simply head to the VMCE certification page, sign in with your company email address that was used for either your training course or previous exam and you should see the below.Description: An image showing the VMCE certification page with a button labelled “Manage VMCE 2021 Exam”Simply click on “Manage VMCE 2021 Exam” and you’ll be taken to the PearsonVUE website to organise either a remote exam or in-person exam. The Exam Online Proctor Experience Over the course of the pandemic, PeasonVUE have got repeatedly better at delivering the remote training sessions, they’ve slowly adapted their security measures too, when the pandemic h

Hi Folks, I think I remember hearing that Veeam was coming out with their own Self Service Portal for O365. I can’t remember where I heard this (VeeamONUpdate?). Does anyone remember? And would this be based on the previous unofficial Portal that was on the VeeamGitHub site? cheers Geoff

The walkthrough of the official #VMCA 2022 practice exam question 38 is ready.Are you starting to see a flow in how to answer the questions?