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Greetings everyone, as you know I have been working on Grafana Dashboards across all Veeam RESTful APIs (the only one pending is VBA GCP), but as the time has passed, the releases and core products I was using have evolved as well…I am talking about the time-series I am using to store all the recollected data from the APIs. I was using InfluxDB v1.x (latest stable release is v1.8), but InfluxData is about to deprecate it and consider it end-of-life at the end of 2021. That left all the Community using it with the only option to go to InfluxDB v2.x, and start leveraging Flux, the new query language, which is extremely versatile btw.Introducing the new Grafana Dashboard for Veeam Enterprise Manager for InfluxDB v2 using Flux, and Grafana 8.xBefore go any further, I just wanted to thank tigattack who contributed to the Script that pushes the data to InfluxDB v2.0.Now, there it has been ton of work, as I needed to craft all the queries again from scratch converting legacy InfluxQL things l

Veeam continues to add feature improvements to make Veeam plugin for Nutanix AHV a strong option for hypervisor migration. The features listed below are highlighted in our “What New VBR 13.1” document. Please see details below. One Web UI for Every HypervisorYou can now add Nutanix AHV from the Veeam Web GUI. This allows for quicker deployment and simplified operations. Additional enhancements will continue to be added to the Web GUI in future. Add Nutanix AHV in Web GUIRole-Based Access Control, Scoped Your WayDefining custom roles with scoped access to specific VMs, jobs, categories, or infrastructure objects. Role-based access control (RBAC) this granular option means people see exactly what their responsibilities require, and nothing else. That's a tighter security posture, fewer accidental changes, and audits that don't turn into archaeology. This has been a highly requested feature for large customers. Also, this is what Veeam Cloud Server Providers need to provide better managem

Managing user access through Microsoft Entra ID has become a standard requirement in many environments. With Veeam ONE 13.1, it is now possible to integrate SAML-based authentication and use Entra ID or any other SAML IDP as an external Identity Provider. This step-by-step guide shows the process on how to add Entra ID as an IDP in VeeamOne 13.1. First, we need to create an enterprise application in Entra IDNavigate to https://entra.microsoft.com/ --> Enterprise applications and add a new application  Select "create your own application" and specify a name, I chose "VeeamOne SAML"  Specify SAML as the single-sign on method  Now switch to VeeamOne and go to configuration --> access management and add an identity provider  In the Identity Provider Settings: Display name: specify some name for your IDPIDP URL: copy the "App Federation Metadata Url"Entity ID: copy the "Microsoft Entra Identifier"  In the Veeam ONE Settings, you need to specify a Client ID, for example "VeeamOne"The S

I have upgrade myLab with last v13.1 of Veeam ONE and I share the procedure to add VSA 13.1 and some issues or problems that may occur.  If you try to add the VSA to Veeam ONE you can receive this error message:  This happens because you need to enable ‘Data Collection’ in the VSA’s ‘Host Management Console’ (HMC is on port 10443) by clicking on ‘Submit Request’:Ref.: https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/vbr/userguide/hmc_configure_infrastructure.html?ver=13#enabling-remote-data-collection    At this point, by logging into the HMC using the Security Officer’s credentials, we can approve the request:  Returning to Veeam ONE, I can continue with the process of adding the Veeam Backup & Replication Server; we have 60 minutes from the time of the request to complete the task:  Need use user with admin right credential on “Veeam Analytics Service”, not “Security Officier”:  VSA added:  Enjoy Veeam ONE monitoring !

 What is this about?Recently I ran into a subtle but classic Windows networking trap while wiring up an Ootbi appliance with two nodes and a common IP behind a corporate proxy. The symptom was familiar: everything looked correct in the Windows proxy dialog, yet the backup traffic originating from the Windows based gateway server still tried to crawl partly through the proxy instead of talking to the appliance directly. If you have ever set a proxy bypass in the GUI and wondered why a service ignores it completely, this one is for you.One note up front: I hit this with an Ootbi, but nothing here is Ootbi specific. This will bite you the same way with any S3 based / object storage target that you reach through an HTTP(S) endpoint behind a proxy, whether that is another on prem object appliance, a MinIO cluster, or a public S3 compatible service. The mechanism is Windows proxy handling, not the storage brand. The misleading symptom: it "connected", then the backup diedHere is the part tha

I was given a challenge, to make explain a technical process more interesting. So I came up with the gamification of an instant recovery.    Concept: "Veeam Recovery Quest"Instead of presenting recovery as a technical process, turn it into a game.  The Published Recovery Workflow (simplified)1. Incident declared2. Recovery target identified3. Backup validation4. Recovery method selected    • Instant VM Recovery    • Full VM Restore    • Application Restore    • File Restore5. Restore execution6. Validation testing7. Business sign-off8. Recovery completeBased on published Veeam recovery processes. https://victorious-beach-03fc63910.7.azurestaticapps.net/veeam-recovery-lab-clarity.html

How we can make exclusion for virus warning when backup m365 using VBO? 

Hi everyone! This is my first post on Veeam Community Hub, and I’m really excited to share with you all a little bit about my summer. Since starting with Veeam this past June for my Product Strategy internship, I’ve been working through all Securiti AI’s public certifications including AI Security & Governance and Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) while also digging into Veeam’s products. One surprising part is how much those two things line up. But once I started looking at Veeam Intelligence through the perspective of what those certifications teach, I kept noticing a pattern showing up again and again.What My Certifications Actually Taught Me The AI Security and Governance certification covers how organizations manage the risk that follows when placing AI into real workflows, including data visibility, access control, and being able to build trust in your data that you can rely on what an AI system does with it. The core lesson is that an AI system is only as trustworthy a

  As part of recently announced initiatives to strengthen the partnership between HPE and Veeam for the year 2026, the Veeam Data Platform is integrating with the latest versions of HPE StoreOnce Catalyst to achieve amazing data storage reduction, remove incremental backup limits, boost restore speeds to new market levels, and reduce total cost of ownership (TCO).One of the big news items in the Enterprise Backup Storage market is undoubtedly the launch of the HPE Alletra MP X10000 for Data Protection, which delivers Backup at AI speed.It is currently the world's fastest backup storage solution, numbers backed up by HPE's rigorous testing and real-world comparisons against publicly available performance metrics from other major enterprise backup storage vendors, as described in the official blog:HPE sets new data protection standard with world's fastest enterprise backup storageThe architecture's strength lies in the combination of HPE Alletra Storage MP X10000, HPE´s cutting-edge obje

Hello, Veeam Community! I am pretty late to the party with the June newsletter, but I´ve been on a long PTO and didn´t want this content being forgotten as there are so many great articles I wanted to share them with you rather later than never! 🤓 The June Vanguard Newsletter brings together a broad set of community-created content focused on Veeam v13 readiness, cyber resilience, immutable storage, AI-driven operations, service provider enablement, and practical recovery workflows. Across blogs and videos, Vanguards emphasize hands-on guidance: how to deploy and validate new capabilities, harden environments, troubleshoot upgrade issues, and modernize data protection strategies across virtual, cloud, Kubernetes, Microsoft 365, and service provider scenarios.A major theme of June´s edition was secure, immutable backup storage, especially around Object First / Ootbi integrations with Veeam. Several posts walk through deploying Object First appliances, creating S3 keys and buckets, enab

One of the things I enjoy most about every Veeam release is seeing how it continues to simplify day-to-day administration. While the headline features often get the most attention, it's usually the enhancements that streamline deployments, improve integrations, and reduce operational complexity that deliver the greatest value to customers.As someone who spends much of my time in the SHI Customer Innovation Center (CIC) building proof-of-concepts, validating solutions, and demonstrating real-world recovery scenarios, I wanted to take a closer look at two areas of the newly released Veeam Backup & Replication 13.1:The Veeam Software Appliance Storage integrations with enterprise backup repositoriesThese capabilities help organizations deploy Veeam more quickly, simplify ongoing management, and provide the flexibility to leverage the storage platform that best aligns with their performance, security, and business requirements. Throughout this article, I'll share what I found while tes

Hello everyone,I am backing up MS SQL in my test environment with Application-Aware processing enabled, and I want to exclude some transaction logs. I followed the steps outlined in Veeam KB2104, but the transaction logs are still not being excluded. Is there something I might have missed or done incorrectly?Thanks.

Honk Honk everyone! V13.1 is here, and with it the time-honoured sysadmin tradition: a lifecycle page in one tab, release notes in the next, then security advisories, upgrade documentation, and an ever-growing pile of KB articles. All fueled by copious amounts of coffee.I've spent more time on that routine than I care to admit, so I did the only reasonable thing and built a website.Upgrade Brief is an easy place to start researching a Veeam upgrade: https://upgradebrief.comI'm posting this one of a kind idea because I hope it makes upgrade research easier for everyone here. It exists to answer one question: "What do I need to know to upgrade?". It pulls from publicly available Veeam sources to help you find:Support and lifecycle information Documented upgrade routes, with links to the official instructions Relevant security advisories What changed in the version you're consideringIt can also generate a short PDF summary if you need something easier to share with a manager or change-app

Well, back this week with Blog #7 in the v13 series, and this one talks about Direct to Object Storage.Blog - Direct-to-Object Storage in v13: One Practical Lab Test Direct-to-Object Storage in v13: One Practical Lab Test Introduction Object storage has become a serious part of modern backup design because it changes how teams think about retention, off-site protection, and ransomware resilience. In Veeam v13, any direct-to-object workflow deserves a practical test that goes beyond whether the job can write data successfully.The production question is broader: can the environment store data efficiently, preserve it immutably where required, and still restore it inside acceptable recovery windows? A short lab test should answer all three before the design is promoted into daily use. Validate Ingest and Policy Behavior The first step is to confirm that the backup job writes to object storage consistently and that retention behaves the way the design expects. Production teams should pay a

VMs Living Inside Kubernetes: What Veeam v13.1's New KubeVirt Proxy Is and Why You Should CareIf you come from the traditional virtualization world, the first time you heard about "running virtual machines inside Kubernetes" it probably sounded like an architect's joke. Wasn't Kubernetes supposed to replace VMs? And now VMs run on top of Kubernetes?Well, yes. And not only does it work: it's becoming one of the most popular landing spots for organizations rethinking their virtualization platform. With the announcement of the KubeVirt Proxy in Veeam Backup & Replication v13.1, Veeam just made an important move on that board. In this post I'll walk you through what KubeVirt is, what exactly Veeam announced, and why it matters even if you don't have a single Kubernetes cluster in your data center today.First things first: what is KubeVirt?KubeVirt is an open source project (originally created by Red Hat and donated to the CNCF) that lets you run traditional virtual machines as first-cl

I believe database restoration is one of the worst types of restores to perform.Not because it is a difficult or complicated restore to carry on.But normally, there's a lot other things tagle with the business when this type of server are involved with. So, there's a lot of pressure to restore those servers. The SLA with this kind of appliation are agressive and its really common the necessitty to restore it as soon as possible. The ProblemVery often, databases servers are connected to different networks/VLANs than the backup server. Database restoration involves a specific set of ports used during the process. All of these are listed in the Help Center, but if you haven't yet mapped and opened these ports between the networks, you will likely hit connectivity error similar to this one: The SituationNow you need to hurry to open those TCP/UDP ports with the network team to finish and complete the backup restore. In the meantime, the bussiness needs to wait until everything is cleared s

Hi guys, Yesterday we attempted to upgrade our VBR server from V12.3.2.4465 to V13.0.2.29 but were met with the below error during the installation process -  The upgrade failed and did not allow us to retry at all. Certain options were greyed out - Checking Apps and Features, Veeam reported that it was upgraded but the app was inaccessible. -   In the end, we were forced to back out of out upgrade.Has anyone seen this before? ShaunB.

As a Managed service provider BCDR offering mean you can provide via Cloud Connect offsite storage into your MSP Datacentre.  The lab design I build for reference.    The use caseBack up customer(s) workloads from VMware or other hypervisors and restore them to the MSP's Hyper-V environment.The Testing use case validity under Veeam Data Platform (VDP) Version 13.01.In V13.01  it was my understanding was that Instant Recovery is supported to a Hyper-V host.However, after doing some due diligence, it appears this is only supported with standard backup scenarios and not when leveraging Cloud Connect service as an MSP.After reviewing the Considerations and Limitations section of the documentation, I found that the following capabilities are not supported on the tenant side:Instant VM Recovery to Hyper-V Multi-OS file-level restore Restore to Proxmox VE / oVirt KVM Restore to Microsoft Azure and Amazon EC2 from cloud repository backupsTo validate this in practice, I set up a small POC in my

Short Look at what’s new in Veeam v13.1 for MorpheusPlugin is Already part of the installation so no separate add-ons needs to be installed. Moprheus backup got supported with v13.0 but lacked the guest processing for SQL, AD and so on. it’s back    as well as Guest indexing.  Automatic Driver injection of the Virtio driver during restore.So this is the mostly missing features from v13.0 that we missed, but as you can now see Veeam do have fully support for Morpheus and the Automatic driver injection will be a great add-on to assist us with migration from other Hypervisor-platforms.  

Why True Cyber Resilience Requires More Than One Immutable Repository  "You wouldn't protect your house with just one lock. So why protect your last line of defense with just one immutable technology?"For years, the 3-2-1-1-0 rule has been the benchmark for designing resilient backup environments. It has helped thousands of organizations improve their backup strategy and defend themselves against ransomware.But cyber threats continue to evolve.Attackers are no longer just encrypting production workloads—they are actively targeting backup infrastructures because they know that if they can destroy your backups, they control your recovery.That made me think...Is one immutable repository really enough?Or should we apply the same security principles that we use everywhere else? Protecting Your HomeImagine you're leaving your house for a two-week vacation.Before you leave, what do you do?Certainly not just this:✔ Close the front door.Instead, you probably do something like this: 🔐 Lock the

With the release of Veeam 13.1, I couldn't wait to upgrade my lab environment and see how the new update process worked firsthand. When a new Veeam release becomes available, one of the first things I do is upgrade my lab before recommending it to customers. Working in the SHI Customer Innovation Center (CIC), our lab is where we validate upgrades, test compatibility, and make sure everything performs as expected before customer demonstrations and proof-of-concepts.One of the biggest advantages of the Veeam Software Appliance is how simple it makes deployment and lifecycle management. Instead of manually mounting ISOs, upgrading Windows components, or worrying about operating system patching, much of the update process is integrated directly into the appliance.When Veeam Backup & Replication 13.1.0.411 became available, I wanted to see just how seamless the upgrade experience would be. Since I use the Software Appliance in my lab for customer demonstrations and testing, this was a

once i try to install VeeamBackup&Replication the setup refuse to complete it just once started it gives  that The error "unknown exception occurred vmaGetpropertiesFromRegistry"and close the setup and refuse to continue i am sure that happes related to uncorrect uninstalled veeam application is that mean i look for another application ?

 In this article, we will discuss how to Leverage Azure Blob Storage as an Object Storage Repo in Veeam. Azure Storage Accounts provide the foundational management layer for storing cloud data in Microsoft Azure. For the entire blogpost, please see https://techdirectarchive.com/2026/05/16/leverage-azure-blob-storage-as-an-object-storage-repo-in-veeam/They create a unique, secure, highly scalable, and globally accessible namespace for your data. Azure Storage Account give you access to Azure’s core storage services. Such as the Blob Storage (object storage), Azure Files (SMB file shares), Queue Storage (messaging), and Table Storage (NoSQL key-value data).Types of storage accountsAs mentioned above, Azure Storage offers several types of storage accounts. Each type supports different features and has its own pricing model. To learn more about blob storage, please take a look at this Microsoft Learn article. This matrix below outlines the different Azure storage account tiers. It shows th