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Opened The word from @Gostev this morning and he mentioned a new VMware vulnerability. With a score of 7.7 it is definitely up there. If you are on ESXi 7.X there is no patch yet but a workaround here: https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/87249 which is basically disconnect all virtual CD-ROM drives and they provide a PowerCLI command to do it easily.If you didn’t sign up for the newsletter, I strongly recommend it - always great content for a Monday morning. You can get it by registering af https://forums.veeam.com too.DescriptionThe CD-ROM device emulation in VMware Workstation, Fusion and ESXi has a heap-overflow vulnerability. VMware has evaluated the severity of this issue to be in the Important severity range with a maximum CVSSv3 base score of 7.7.Known Attack VectorsA malicious actor with access to a virtual machine with CD-ROM device emulation may be able to exploit this vulnerability in conjunction with other issues to execute code on the hypervisor from a virtual machine.

Last week I had to troubleshoot a tape (GFS) backup problem. I guess the solution could be interesting for others too.I this environment, synthetic full and tape backup are scheduled at the same day. Full prior to tape jobs. Normally we do see any problems with this configuration. But last week we saw this error in the tape job:12.01.2022 07:04:45 :: Error: Storage ('c97b8ddb-a9dc-4b49-b441-dc1031100a58', CreationTime '08.01.2022 23:15:25') not found As a result the whole job failed. After taking a look at the logs, I found out, the related storage object was a VIB-file of one of the backup jobs, tape job had to bring to tape.[08.01.2022 23:45:07] <01> Info         [CTapeVmTaskBuilder] Storage c97b8ddb-a9dc-4b49-b441-dc1031100a58, mediaset: Weekly, path: servername.vm-187205D2022-01-08T231525_8F3A.vib, creation time: 08.01.2022 23:15:25, is synthetic: True, is synthetic full: TrueAlthough the disk backup job was running at the time, the file was not there at all. Why? The reason

Hi Id like to find out what people think the best course of action would be in my circumstances. we have an agent backup job that was running on a WSFC failover cluster file server. this was backup up to a SOBR which was tiered to AWS We have just removed the WSFC cluster in favour of single servers, I have had to create new backup jobs within Veeam (cant use clustered type for non clustered) which was fairly easy my question is what do to with the old jobs, they have backup data attached to them in performance capacity tiers which I don’t want to accidentally remove but I am unsure whether it is best to just disable the job, or remove the protected volumes from the jobs, but I think that if I disable or remove the selections that Veeam wont be able to manage the retention policies thanks!    

It is #VeeAmazing to such great interest recently in becoming a Veeam Certified Architect. I’ve wanted to share the two primary sections of interest:VMCA Study Guide VMCA Practice examsMany of you have left very kind comments on the video walkthroughs of the official #VMCA 2022 practice exam and requested a full list split by sections on the exam as to more easily study one particular section. I always aim to please, so please find the list below.Some of you may have noticed the text says exams with an s at the end. I fully intend to write an unofficial practice exam for VMCA as well; however, it is a rather large project so it will take some time before it will be ready.I will continue to produce more study materials and include them in the study guide link above so that it is more easily located in a single location.Walkthrough of the official VMCA practice exam by section:Discovery Question 05 Question 09 Question 17 Question 21 Question 25 Question 29 Question 30 Question 31

I started to relax yesterday, after all made it through airports, covid testing and LAX jammed with people. Just when I was going to relax I saw this, Ah and now Tsunamis!!!!!  Always have a DR plan for any situation :) and down let your guard down! 

Have you ever wanted:A Veeam Backup & Replication demo environment to quickly try something out on? A clean environment you could install Veeam Backup & Replication and configure backup from storage snapshot? Two Cisco HyperFlex clusters to test backup and replication on? A comprehensive Veeam Backup & Replication guided tutorial?If you answered yes to any of the above, do you have a Cisco.com login?If not, register for an account, click here. If so, you may want to considered requesting your own private Veeam + dCloud environment.PLEASE NOTE - Cisco dCloud access requires your Cisco partner Access Level to be L2 or higher.On Cisco dCloud you will find two different Veeam Backup & Replication environments. The first is a “lab” environment that provides a two cluster HyperFlex environment with the Veeam Backup & Replication software.  This is an ideal environment if you want to get experience installing VBR from scratch, then configuring and running backup and replic

The walkthrough of the official #VMCA 2022 practice exam question 30 is ready.Did you have to check the scenario document? Which section did you locate the information inside? 

Last year Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 v5 added purpose-built backup and recovery for Microsoft Teams. Since then many customer and partners asked me "How can we protect all of our teams and exclude specific teams objects based on names automatically?".As there is no filter logic within the UI for the Backup Job object exclusion list, I solved this "problem" using the script down below. First we store the credentials (encrypted) in a txt file:$credential = Get-Credential$credential.Password | ConvertFrom-SecureString | Set-Content <path to secure.txt>And here's the script. Just change the values for the following variables: $organizationname Name of the tenant - Only needed if more than one is configured$backupjob            Name of existing the Backup Job$filter                    Name of the team that needs to be excluded. Regular expressions can be used$userName            Username for retrieving the existing Teams in M365$passwordText       Path to the secure.txt fil

Anyone using Linux in Veeam might want to check this KB for specific permissions.KB2676: Veeam Agent Management Linux user account requirements

The walkthrough of the official #VMCA 2022 practice exam question 29 is ready.Did you have to check the scenario document? Which section did you locate the information inside? 

Hi, We are utilizing the RestAPI in VBR11 to manage most of our jobs (reporting, start, stop, etc).It seems that SureBackup jobs are not included in the API, when communication with /api/v1/jobs Is there an roadmap for the API, where we can follow the progress? Or is this already included? :)    

Hey guys, can anyone tell the difference in features between the veeam v11 and v11a?can we initiate replication and cdp in site that has veeam v11a to another site that has veeam v11 with patch P20210525 ?

As the Veeam Legend 2022 intake is only a couple of months away, I wanted to share my experience and views on the Veeam Legend program, and help those considering it, whether it’s right for them.Today I’ll give a brief overview of the Veeam Legend program in case you’re not familiar and then I’ll tell you how my first year in the program has been. What is the Veeam Legend program?If you don’t know what the Veeam Legend program is, that’s fine, it has only been going for a year now and has had two intakes of Legends. But if you’re working in data protection or want to specialise within this field, it’s a vendor endorsement program of increasing industry recognition.The Veeam Legend program is an acknowledgement from Veeam of individuals that are active in the Veeam Community, whether on the Veeam Community Hub or the Veeam R&D forums. But what counts as “active”? Veeam are deliberately vague on criteria as there are so many ways to contribute. Some of the more common ways are:Helpin

When VMs on Citrix Hypervisor (formerly known as XenServer), orchestrated by Cloudstack Apache or Azure Stack Hub, using Veeam Agent (for Microsoft Windows or for Linux) are managed by Veeam Service Provider Console (VSPC), reporting, licensing, and management functionality may have unpredictable results.See this KB for solution:https://www.veeam.com/kb4269

Hello everyone! I’m looking for the first time how to backup a physical windows machine and I notice that is missing something here:  I didn't find where I can choose what proxy will be process this job. I’m still reading help center session, but if anyone have some tip or advice for this kind of workload, please, just let me know.   

The walkthrough of the official #VMCA 2022 practice exam question 27 is ready.Did you have to check the scenario document? Which section did you locate the information inside? 

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Hi everyone, ACG (A Cloud Guru) are providing a free training course this month on securing AWS S3 storage. Anton Gostev provided insights recently into public cloud utilisation and with AWS being used by such a big portion of the Veeam customer base, it makes sense to share information on how to secure the S3 storage. Link to course:https://acloudguru.com/course/how-to-properly-secure-an-s3-bucket Hope this helps someone!

I am not sure how many of you are familiar with the Veeam Talks series; however, I came across this session that I am super excited about myself: Technical Support Advanced Log Diving!You can register right here: https://pages.beamery.eu/veeamsoftware/page/tcs_advancedlogPrevious video on VMware Integration Troubleshooting can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNBWoJYpU38

Hey Veeam Community,I am having a problem backing up my personal workstation to an external hard drive.I am using the free version of Veeam Agent for Windows.When I backup, my main (C:) Internal SSD shows:Local SSD (C:) (476.1 GB) 262.5 GB read at 142 MB/sHowever, my other Internal SSD ‘terabyte’ (X:)Terabyte (X:) (953.9 GB) 3.8 GB read at 4 MB/s.I benchmarked both of my drives with CrystalDiskMark and they both got good similar results being Sata SSD’s, so the X: drive should not be this slow.I’ve tried swapping sata ports, changing cables, disable throttling when system is in use, etc. Nothing seems to help.Can anyone help me diagnose what is causing one drive to backup so much faster? Thanks, Mike 

Let’s face it, we live in a world where security vulnerabilities and threats are top of mind.  There’s some new exploits in the news daily...and often software patches are required to protect our assets.I’ve talked to many out there and the consensus is similar: patches are a must but, the need to be tested first, and testing is terrible.So I ask you all - what makes patch testing so terrible?  

Anyone that uses Azure backups check this KB to apply a fix for the Updater.KB4261: Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure - Updater Component Vulnerability

The walkthrough of the official #VMCA 2022 practice exam question 24 is ready.Did you have to check the scenario document? Which section did you locate the information inside? 

If anyone uses Oracle RMAN plugin there is a patch from Veeam - KB4263: Veeam Plug-In for Oracle RMAN Cumulative Patch P20211211