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So turns out using Deployment Kit is the easiest way to be able to perform FLR to Windows from a Vsphere backup.Deployment kit by default contains a certificate of validity 1 month. Does the agent (transport service etc.) stop working after that? How do we manage those certs as we generally do not do many agent-based backups but want to be able to do FLR to original destination nevertheless.Thanks!

Hi! As HPE and Veeam deepen their strategic partnership, I´m back in the Veeam Community and wrote about the integration of Veeam with the HPE Alletra MP B10000 using HPE GreenLake.HPE Alletra MP is a cloud-native, modular, disaggregated storage platform that delivers multi-protocol support and enables high-performance NVMe hardware with software-defined capabilities.On the other hand, GreenLake is HPE's cloud platform with advanced AIOps capabilities in monitoring, automating, and managing IT infrastructure, cloud resources, workloads, and applications across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.The post is long, and it was not possible to upload all the content to a single topic. Therefore, I am sharing the link:

Version: 12.3.2.Problem: a copy job to a rotation drive (HDD) is running since 3 days. I stopped job and confirmed with yes, but since hours status in dashboard running jobs is “stopping”. I can disable job but not delete. What I did: restart B&R services, reopen console. Restarted whole backup server. no success. Thanks for any advices. 

Turns out that VCSP licensing for Entra for a tenant which is a multi tenant organization can become very expensive very fast… Here’s the situation, a holding with 70 employees. (nice Microsoft E5 licenses) there is a central IT and HR department that shares information to their subisidaries which are connected in multi tenant organization structure to see availability, better collaboration in Teams,…. Now we ran our initial Entra ID backup and it consumes 1200 points, where I assumed that only the real physical users with the E5 were going to eat a license. All those users fron the external tenants are of the type ‘membe’ in Entra, so this is used to calculate the number of licenses. It becomes even more expensive I think since we need for compiancy reasons also an Entra ID backup from all the subsidary tenants… Anybody any toughts on this ? I don’t see any option to soley backup the member users for which their tenant is their primary main tenant. 

So I’ve spent plenty of time living in vCenter, managing VMware clusters like most of us have. But as I started digging into KVM-based hypervisors, it honestly felt a little backwards at first…different tools, different terms. Once you step through it though, a lot of the same core concepts are there. I put this together to help connect the dots if you’re used to VMware and starting to take a look at KVM.While KVM itself is a standardized kernel module, not all KVM-based hypervisors are created equal. Vendors and open-source communities may customize their KVM implementations with unique management layers, storage integrations, and performance tuning. For VMware administrators exploring alternatives, this blog focuses on the foundational KVM components that most directly compare to the vSphere stack. The goal is to simplify that comparison and help you build a clear mental map between platforms.As virtualization strategies evolve and organizations explore alternatives

I’m playing with the VHR ISO and wonder how we can add a second LVM volume to the VHR.We do this for RHEL and Ubuntu builds so I’m interested if we can do this with VHR.The sort of scenario would be where you add another bunch of disks or disk shelf into a physical server (and possibly controller) so we can have a physically separate second set of storage rather than buy a new server.Some use cases:You also might want to separate remote site backups onto separate Repo’s for specific regulatory or governance requirements Getting the most value from the physical hardware

Veeam Backup and Replication v12.3.2 (Free)VMWare ESXi 8.0 (Free) Hello Community! I’m hoping someone here can help me.I have successfully  backed up a physical Windows server using Veeam agent. Created a recovery media to use for restore into a VM. I have created the VM with similar CPU/RAM/Disk as the physical server. Powered on VM and booted it using the recovery media. During the restoration, the process fails with these error messages (see below). I tried looking for the logs in C:\ProgramData\Veeam\Backup but there were so many in there so I couldn’t which one to look for. If anyone has an idea on how I can resolve this issue, please let me know. If you need logs, please tell me which one to look for.Thank you very much! Error Message 1 

Anyone can help me to resolve this issue.   

B&R 12.3.1.1139 VOne 12.3.0.4670 Agent for MS 6.3.1.1074Job managed by agentA few months ago, I replaced a physical workstation that uses Windows Agent. I reinstalled the old SSD into the new computer. I renamed the PC. Everything works, including Veeam Agent backups but I noticed that email alerts and Malware scan related errors still reference the old computer name even though the new pc name is displayed in the B&R control panel.Since updating to B&R 12.3 and enabling Veeam Threat Hunter, I get the following email alerts:[Error] Malware analysis session has failed unexpectedly: Action completed with error [Failed] Daily malware detection report (0 malware events for 0 workloads)On the B&R server, I see the following in: C:\ProgramData\Veeam\Backup\Svc.VeeamDataAnalyzer.log

Hi All, In early December, I set myself the challenge of writing a blog post every day and putting together an Advent-style calendar covering topics ranging from security and automation to a few features I genuinely enjoy.It was an ambitious goal, but I’m happy to say I completed it. I’ve been sharing each post on LinkedIn daily, but I wanted to post the full collection here as well for anyone who isn’t connected with me there.If you’d like to read along, please feel free to share. I hope you enjoy it. Advent Calendar Day 24: Thank You and Looking Ahead | Homelabpro Blog

hi,i try to install veeam  agent (i try with multiple version) on windows server 2025 but when i get to the point of installation it fails.on the log i see “ another installation is in progress” but i don’t have nothing in pending.

I understand from our network team, that the SQL agent running on Microsoft SQL 2019 causes the SQL server to lockup or the backups to lockup. Is there a method to configure the backups (data & logs) to prevent that?

Hi all,I had a customer who needed a way to obtain Veeam Software Appliance (VAS) updates within a closed OT/dark site/closed environment.However, the challenge was that they lacked Linux experience and would prefer to do everything in native Windows, without using WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux). If you have no idea what I am talking about, read this section of the Veeam help center: https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/vbr/userguide/update_appliance_configure_updates.html?ver=13#setting-up-custom-update-configurationSo my idea was to build/configure two components:1) A PowerShell script that can be run in Windows to download the necessary files from repository.veeam.com to a computer with internet access and

Hi thereI have a question around hardened repository. A customer has purchased new hardware to implement a hardened repo and add it to the existing VEEAM setup (latest 12.x).I am trying to determine whether I should suggest to use the VEEAM Hardened ISO. I have downloaded version 2.0.0.8. Or should we stick with using Red Hat and harden that accordingly. My colleagues have done that before and we have the scripts to automate.I am new to the hardened repo game but I would think that using VEEAM iso would be simpler.What are the pro and cons?Also, maybe a silly question but it seems to me that the hardened repo is also built into the V13 virtual appliance ISO. Would it be possible to use v13 hardened repo and connect the repo to a VBR12 setup?Much appreciated.

Hello all, we are looking into SQL Server backup options, we have done a full server and a volume backup also. We see there is a Backup>Application>SQL option, however we cannot see the SQL option in our console….any ideas as we can see Oracle and Mongo available. Thanks in adavance, Tony.

Hi everyone, I’d like to get some feedback before deploying Veeam v13 in our environment. I’ve been tied up with other projects over the last six months, so I haven’t tested or worked with v13 yet. Our infrastructure is fully virtualized. We currently run two VMs: One VM running Veeam, performing daily jobs to an external Ubuntu hardened repository One physical server running Veeam, backing up everything to its own ReFS-based storage  My questions are: What is the best approach for deploying v13 — on a physical server or a virtual machine? Is it possible to use hardened storage with Veeam on the physical server?  Thanks in advance for the input!

 ...and why you still use the Windows Console! We are now used to having the standard console already present on the VBR server or installing it on a bastion host. Change can be scary, but we want to face it and take a leap into the future.If you're reading this article, probably you're thinking: "Oh, finally I can use Veeam with a web console and I can say goodbye to old Windows components!".Well... not quite. If you remember, in my previous article I wrote about this too.Let me tell you what we are doing: in last weeks we started a new implementation project for our client with Veeam v13 version.After installatio

I'm creating some labs on AWS and today I'll share the Veeam part with you. Lab Details:VBR:Instance size: c5.2xlarge  Availability Zone: us-east-1f  Architecture: AMD64  Total memory: 16384 MB  Network: Up to 10 GigabitJobs created:EC2 EFS FSx VPC First, why not use Marketplace?As many already know, taxes in Brazil are massive.Because of this, I usually don't use Marketplace, since the taxes are even higher through Marketplaces. (Until 40%)So I prefer to deploy Veeam traditionally on EC2.Here are some steps:Upload the Veeam .ISO on an S3 Create an EC2 (will be our EC2) Use TNTdrive to mount the S3 for EC2 Install V13  Using CLI AWS to upload de .ISO: "C

Hey guys,I hope you are fine and ready for the end‑of‑year holidays.I wanted to share an issue I encountered this morning while integrating VDC Vault on a VBR server running on 2012R2. Yes, I know, the OS is no longer supported — a redesign project is planned soon. To quickly improve backup security, we set up a Vault. Unfortunately, during the integration I received the following message: I didn’t see any specific prerequisites in the Veeam documentation regarding the operating system for integrating VDC Vault.After going through several pages, I found this in the Help Center: Make sure you have WebView2 Runtime installed on your backup server.Once it was installed, we were able to complete the configuration and create our backup copy job.Cheers !

Hi everyone,I’m studying the v13.0.1 training course in order to delivery its next year, during reading the course material, I found the information that not all functionalities are available on VBR Windows still available on VSA, I’m trying to find a list of those unavailable functionalities, but so far, I couldn’t get a list of them, does anyone know what functionalities are not available on VSA v13?

What’s the root password on the VSA?

When we enable MFA, then all users is forced to use MFA. In case we need do execute script by powershell, how we can exclude so the powershell script still can operate normally?

Hi Community,If you are going to take the Veeam Backup & Replication v13.0.1 ILT course, then it's important that you take the recommended free courses.Check my blog for ways to access the recommended free courses.https://pulia.com.br/veeam-backup-replication-v13-0-1-course-experience-recommendations/Hope that help your learning!

Good afternoon everyone,I'm using the latest version, 13, but after restarting my server, I can no longer connect to the console. It shows an SSL error, "see inner exception," but I haven't been able to find them to get more information. Could you please help me?  

We’re setting up the Veeam Software Appliance (VSA). We got an error when we tried to connect to our storage device, "Failed to get certificate from: https://xxx.xxxxxx.xxx:5392." technical support has advised us to “ensure that the cipher suite 'TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA256' is enabled on the Veeam appliance.”The command “openssl version -d” returns “OPENSSLDIR: "/etc/pki/tls".” When I try to edit openssl.conf in that folder, I get an error, “E45: 'readonly' option is set”. How can I enable the cipher?Thanks for reading.