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Attempts to back up a Wallix Access Manager virtual machine recently deployed at a customer's site on HyperV result in the following error:Processing Acces Manager V5 Error: VHDx:CVhdxDisk.InitialValidation: Incorrect bitmap entry type (PAYLOAD_BLOCK_ZERO): See [MS-VHDX-v1.00-20160128] specification section 3.4.1.2. Agent failed to process method {VHDX.GetDiskInformation}.I edit the virtual disk to made a conversion from vhdx to vhdx from Hyper-v panel, but it doesn’t work.Do you have any ideas on how to fix this problem?Many thanks,Morgan

We've got a new blog post! This month, we're diving into the art of fine-tuning Veeam VBR for on-prem object storage. In this post we show how to optimize performance for Scale-Out Backup Repositories (SOBR) with a Capacity Tier, specifically addressing the challenges of using on-premises S3-compatible appliances. This with the registry key “S3ConcurrentTaskLimit”Click here to read the full blog post and learn more about Veeam registry keys! 

Hey everyone, I'm in the market for a new laptop and I've got my eyes set on an Intel Core i7-powered machine. However, I want to make sure it's compatible with all my needs before making the plunge. What compatibility considerations should I keep in mind when selecting an Intel Core i7 laptop? Are there specific features or specifications I should pay attention to based on my usage requirements? I'd love to hear your thoughts and experiences to ensure I make the right choice. Looking forward to your insights! 

Could anyone help for the following scenario . [Veeam.Backup.Core.CBackupSession]::GetAll() For the above command do we have any commands as the above one not fetching all backup session ids done for particular location.

 It's been a bit quiet around me the last few weeks. I am currently active in several projects, including two different customer infrastructures that start in the greenfield with V13 based on the Veeam Software Appliance and are in the fortunate starting position of having premium licenses in use. Thus, nothing stands in the way of the use of the High Availability / HA function.Important to know: Only the Linux Veeam Software Appliance can provide the HA feature and only in conjunction with the Veeam Data Platform Premium license!See Considerations and Limitations - Veeam Backup & Replication User Guide for general considerations and limitations when using HA. I strongly recommend that you read this page carefully and follow the guidelines.Marvin "Marveeam" ​@MarvinMichalski recently reported on his blog about providing the HA feature, you can find the article at How To: Veeam High Availability (HA) Cluster, take a look.So, the basics are clarified and the initial setup is done...

I’m trying to delete some user to data to free up licences and it seems to be taking forever to complete. I’m testing with a user who only has a few 100 emails but the command seems to have hung up. Here is the relevant part of the script:$RepositoryName = 'My_M365Repository'$UsersToRemove = @( 'Joe.Bloggs@MyDomain.com')$Repository = Get-VBORepository -Name $RepositoryNameforeach($UserToRemove in $UsersToRemove){ $UserToRemove $UserData = Get-VBOEntityData -Type 'User' -Repository $Repository -Name $UserToRemove if(-not($UserData)) { 'No user data found' } Else { # Use $UserData to see which backup types exist, and then only remove those. if($UserData.IsMailboxBackedUp) { Write-Host 'Removing Mailbox data' Remove-VBOEntityData -Repository $Repository -User $UserData -Mailbox -Confirm:$false } }}Any idea if I’m doing something wrong, or that cmdlet really does just take ages? Thanks.

Hi Folks, I took some time off of Kubernetes to upgrade my VMCE to version 2020. It was a fair exam but no easy walk through the park. Even if you work with Veeam every day and hold both VMCE and VMCA don’t take the upgrade as a shoe in!!. Thanks to @haslund Rasmus for the great practice tests, they got me worried so I put in a real effort and it paid off.Just a side note with the proctored exams, make sure you register with the exact name on your documents. I am Geoff but my full name is Geoffrey! My email has only Geoff hence it raised some concerns (45 minutes late starting :). All water under the bridge now :).. Back to Kubernetes!!! :) 

Sphere Diagnostic Tool is a python script that runs diagnostic commands on the vCenter Server Photon Appliance to return useful troubleshooting data while running within the confines of the local environment with out upstream dependencies.The tool itself is currently a set of self contained python and bash scripts that can perform the following tests for vCenter Server Appliance 6.5 or newer:vCenter Basic Info Lookup Service Check AD Check vCenter Certificate Check Core File Check Disk Check vCenter DNS Check vCenter NTP Check vCenter Port Check Root Account Check vCenter Services Check VCHA CheckInstructions Download the Sphere Diagnostic Tool in the following link, then upload it into vCenter Server Appliance with WinSCP.Report You can get the report for reference after the script is executed successfully.For detailshttps://flings.vmware.com/vsphere-diagnostic-tool

When designing a Hyper‑V backup architecture, one of the most important decisions you’ll make is how will backups be moved from a hypervisor and how are they processed. In Veeam Backup & Replication, Hyper‑V backups rely on backup proxies, and unlike vSphere, Hyper‑V proxy behavior comes with some unique considerations that require upfront planning.Hyper‑V supports two types of backup proxies:On‑host proxies Off‑host proxiesAt a high level, these operate similarly to VMware proxies—but the implementation details, limitations, and operational overhead are significantly different. Let’s break them down and discuss when (and when not) to use each. On‑Host Proxy: The Default and Recommended ChoiceFor most environments, the on‑host proxy is the simplest, most reliable, and recommended backup transport mode.When a Hyper‑V host is added as a managed server in Veeam Backup & Replication, the on‑host proxy is automatically deployed to it. Each Hyper‑V host runs its own proxy, leveraging

Hi Team,The question is based on the article Veeam Service Provider Console 8.0 Deployment Guide’ ( Veeam Service Provider Console 8.0 (https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/vac/deployment/ports.html?ver=80). Communications from Veeam Service Provider Console Server to Veeam Cloud Connect server the on TCP  port range 49152 to 65535. As per a Veeam support team person, they mentioned that, it is better to open around 50-100 ports to facilitate potential requests between the servers.Just wondering the best method to assign the ports through the firewall. Tried using the ‘netstat -aon’ to identify any listening state ports. To facilitate the connection from VSPC server to VCC server, simply can create an outbound rule on the VSPC server firewall for the specified port range (49152 - 65535) and an inbound firewall rule on the VCC server for the same port range.However, not sure whether this is the best method to achieve the task in a production environment since, opening ports on a server unn

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 :)

Hello,I want to recover one computer account password from Veeam B&R credentials, I followed the KB4349 article, but I was unable to locate the DATA key under HKLM\SOFTWARE\Veeam\Veeam Backup and Replication to view the EncyptionSalt value. I didn’t found any article or guide for such case, can anyone guide me how to find the EncryptionSalt value if it is not available in registry?

We have Veeam Backup and Rep.  We are currently backing up vSphere VMs and AWS EC2 instances (using Veeam agents).We want to start backing up the AWS EC2 instances without the Veeam agents.  In the deployment guides, it looks like you have to deploy an EC2 instance called “Veeam backup appliance.”We have a site-to-site VPN between our on-prem and AWS tenant.Is there any reason the appliance couldn’t be in vSphere?  Does its existence in AWS allow it some additional access that it can’t get while in vSphere?

I’ve looked for an answer and can’t seem to find one … Can a hardened Linux repository be used by more than on VEEAM server? I’ve tried it an it is working I wondered if there are any limitations or concerns to be worried about? For example both servers running backups at the same time? I can see based on directory naming I will need to be careful with job names that they are unique. Thanks for your time … 

Dear,I have a bare-metal Linux Server Oracle 9 with Oracle 19g database,I'm tryng peform a entire backup using Veeam Backup and Replication Community on a Windows Server 2019, and I give Errors and i need some help to troubleshoot it.I've installed Veeam Agent on a Linux Server following stephttps://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/agentforlinux/userguide/installation_repo.html?ver=60https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/agentforlinux/userguide/installation_val.html?ver=60I've had add the linux computer on Veeam ServerAways that i try perform a backup, return the error: Session has failed unexpectedly; Someone can help?Att,

Greetings everyone, for years I have been building scripts, tools, and dashboards regarding Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 restore operations, just to quickly recap all the work over the years: Don’t get me wrong, the experience was amazing, and seeing how many of you, and even beyond the Community, utilised these resources was really overwhelming and satisfactory.But since then, we have been working tirelessly to bring this functionality, and much more regarding the topic, natively to the product.Introducing Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 - Restore Audit (powered by Veeam ONE)Starting with Veeam Backup for Microsoft v8, and Veeam ONE v12.2, this functionality comes natively, and so far at no additional cost as Veeam ONE is free for those with MS365 licensing (just for M365 objects).While building this set of features, the thought process was pretty much having Customers, Enterprises and Service Providers in mind. Use-cases like being able to filter by Organization was the paramo

Need to release space from disk and copy all Veeam jobs to tape. We can then delete all jobs from disk and extend the space. What process can we use in Veeam so that all jobs are in tape and jobs can be deleted from disk.

Hello,I’m learning for the VMCE Exam. There’s a question with this correct answer: Question: An infrastructure with 50 VMs has a power outage. After the VMware cluster hast booted up again, three large VMs seem to be stuck in a boot loop.Assuming only the OS is installed on the VM OS disk, which method would require the least amount of backup data transferred to allow the VMs to boot? Correct answer: Perform a Virtual Disk Restore with the quick rollback feature disabled. Why it’s not with the quick rollback feature enabled? 

Hello,I would like to get our backups to be efficient as much as they can be.Current situation in production is that we are sending our backups to Synology SMB share on main site, and over WAN Accelerator to our secondary site also to Synology SMB share using Backup Copy Job (immediate copying).Currently I’m testing iSCSI on main site. I created Synology LUN and connected it to the VBR server via iSCSI with ReFS and configured Synthetical Full because of the FastClone option. Need more time to see how it will perform.Now the question is where to implement Backup Proxies and how to use it in our case.I know that best option would be to have physical server’s both on primary and secondary location.How it will benefit our sitaution?And another question is do we need to configure iSCSI also for Backup Copy Jobs or it is okay to have it via SMB and WAN Accelerator from the Main site to Secondary Site.Best Regards 

Ransomware isn't just a buzzword; it's a relentless threat that demands an unshakeable backup strategy. Your ultimate defense? Immutable backups – copies of your data that simply cannot be changed or deleted, no matter what cyber chaos unfolds in your production environment.Veeam's Hardened Repository and S3 Object Lock features are absolute powerhouses for achieving this. But you might have hit a small snag: the Veeam UI, by default, caps your immutability setting at 99 days. While that's great for short-term resilience, what if your compliance regulations demand you hold onto backups for years, even decades?Here's the exciting news: there's a "hidden" (but fully supported!) setting that lets you blast past that 99-day barrier, extending your immutability period significantly – all the way up to 9,999 days! (Yes, that's over 27 years of tamper-proof protection!). This little secret is often shared through Veeam support channels or deeper documentation, but we're bringing it to you rig

Hello,we want to change the naming of the media sets in our tape media pools and encountered a situation with the available variables.Our goal is to include date and time in the media set name in format ”yyyymmdd_hh:mm”The variable %date% gives date and time in the format “dd.mm.yyyy hh:mm” (ok, the date format is based on the system locale). But we cannot change the system locale for this…. 🙁With the variables %year%, %month%, %day% and %time% it should be possible to build a date_time string in the desired format. But unfortunately, the value of the %month% variable is the name of the month, not the numberDoes someone have an idea or a trick how to get the number of the month? Are the variables configurable? Just asking all the experts here before opening a support ticket. 😎 Documentation mentions nothing about this…https://helpcenter.veeam.com/archive/backup/90/vsphere/add_media_pool_set.html Please forget my question 😂😂😂You should look at the documentation for the correct vers

After upgrading to 12.1.2 this morning, all of our backup copy jobs went into a failed state with the error“5/22/2024 8:08:10 AM :: Error: One or more Veeam components on host This server are not up to date. You must upgrade them first. The job has been automatically disabled due to too many failures. Please fix all issues preventing the job from running before re-enabling it.”The “on host This server” is the exact wording in all cases.  They were indeed all disabled.  Re-enabling manually seems like it’s working, but none of the copy jobs actually have any work to do until later in the week, so I can’t say for sure. Anyone else seeing this?

Miss any Sessions today at VeeamON? Go here and click on the ‘Watch Recording’ button within any Session you missed and/or wanna see. Happy Viewing!Cheers.