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Geoff Burke
Geoff BurkeVeeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard
posted in Discussion boards

VBR Upgrade 10 to 12

Hi Everyone, Has anyone performed a VBR 10 to a VBR 12 upgrade. I am going to search here and the forums for any pleasant surprises that might be waiting but thought I would throw out the hook and bait for some saucy nightmare tale.According to this https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backup/vsphere/upgrade_vbr_byb.html?ver=120License ist gut! and it is supported which make feel secure. Obviously, I would want to check the whole GFS situation but I believe none a present. Be Aware So has anybody done this and encountered anything untoward? Thanks

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Geoff Burke
1 month ago
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alfred.lerchComes here often
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Hyper-V VM - Windows 2012 R2 Cluster

Hello everybody,to backup the 2VM with a File Sevrer Role on Windows 2012 R2, is better agent less or with agent?I have a Job for Backup Hyper-V VM, ca i backup every VM with this? File Sever - Exchange? SQL? Or better save this with agent?Thanks a lot

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Chris.Childerhose
1 month ago
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Gili SelaComes here often
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How many vCenters can connect to one veeam backup server ?

Hi,we have a customer with 15 different vCenters (each one is different environment)how many vCenters can we connect to one Veeam backup server ? didn’t find any KB on that.each one have it’s own proxy server for backup.

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Moustafa_Hindawi
1 month ago
JMeixner
JMeixnerVeeam Legend
posted in Discussion boards

30 years of WWW

30 years ago today, CERN made the WWW available to the public free of charge. The beginning of the Web as we know it today. https://www.home.cern/science/computing/birth-webWhat is your earliest experience with or memory of the WWW?How did it influence your life and professional career?

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dloseke
1 month ago
C
cylemmuloNew Here
asked in Discussion boards

Veeam thinks my server 2022 instance is 32 bit

I'm running Server 2022 Definitely in 64 bit (Do they make 32 bit even????) and whenever I try to create a VMWare proxy or any other proxy I get the error "VMware backup proxy requires 64-bit operating system" I have no idea why, and I haven't found anywhere leading me to anyone else having this exact issue either. Any idea what might cause it?

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dloseke
1 month ago
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FrancComes here often
asked in Discussion boards

Veeam & Netap question

Hi, since this is not really a Veeam question I will not post it on the forums, so I’ll post it here ;-). We are using backup from storage snapshot on our NetApp running Ontap 9.12.1 and Veeam 11. Every time Veeam is taking a backup, lots of errors show up in the Netapp eventlog. Errors like this:tsse.scan.start.failed: 'Cold Data Scan' failed to start on 'VeeamAUX_iscsi_netapp_02_Rescan_68vTfMjeYHNw4M9BNF0NKb' - Scan was stopped.and other numerous errors regarding SIS. It appears that Ontap is starting a SIS operation to duplicate the volume that is mounted from the snapshot by Veeam. However, Ontap can never complete this scan since Veeam dismounts this volume once the backup has finished. This is filling up the eventlog of the Netapp quite substantially and we risk missing critical events due to this clutter.Does anyone know of a way to have Ontap not start a SIS scan when Veeam mounts a snapshot as a temporary volume? p.s. sorry for the typo in the subject. Unfortunately, the discu

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12 days ago
Geoff Burke
Geoff BurkeVeeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard
posted in Blogs and podcasts

This must be payback for all those skipped classes in High School

Hi Folks, This must be because I skipped so many classes in High School. Now, only a few years later of course :) I am forever training and being examined..I will do a write up of what I thought of the course afterwards. It has been a long time since I did formal VMware trainingTraining here I come 

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Scott
1 month ago
Geoff Burke
Geoff BurkeVeeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard
posted in Blogs and podcasts

Who is who in the Cloud, see if you can spot anyone, hint Godzilla!

FolksOnalytica just came out with their who is who in the cloud: I seem to see a familiar beard :)  https://onalytica.com/blog/posts/whos-who-in-cloud-top-50-influencers-to-follow/

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Chris.Childerhose
1 month ago
coolsport00
coolsport00Veeam Legend
posted in Blogs and podcasts

VCP-DCV 2023 PASSED!

Happy Friday Community!And an even better Friday for me after passing the VMware VCP-DCV this morning. Whew! What a challenge, but with some patient studying, practical experience, and hard work, it’s passable. ReviewAs I shared in my Study Guide post from a few weeks ago, the exam has 70 questions and is 135 minutes long, which is 5 minutes more allotted time than the prior version. Unlike previous exams, I really needed most of the time to finish the questions and review my answers. I still had about 45-50 minutes left after my review. But on the last 2 VCP exam versions I’ve taken, I was able to finish and review in a little over an hour.I think part of the reason for the extra time it took me to finish was the question format. They were normal questions but several sentences long (long for sure, but not book-length). As such, those took a little time to read, and verify whatever requirements were asked for. Thankfully there was also what I call ‘standard’ questions consisting of ju

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coolsport00
1 month ago
Geoff Burke
Geoff BurkeVeeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard
posted in Discussion boards

Software ... no Softwares :)

Folks, I don’t want to sound like an old grumpy grand pa but.. Software is a mass noun so you don’t make a plural form out of it. I just bet and won $20 that there is no such thing as Softwares :) . Now that does not mean that language does not evolve over time, but so far that is still the case. https://www.grammarflex.com/posts/whats-the-plural-of-software

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BertrandFR
1 month ago
Geoff Burke
Geoff BurkeVeeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard
asked in Discussion boards

Veeam Management Agent on VBR server

Hi Folks, I am back into the wild and wonderful world of Veeam Service Provider Console after a brief sojourn. I wanted to see if there is a quick answer to this and if my old solution perhaps has a better one now.I have a VBR that is connected to the Service Provider and all backup copy jobs are working fine. In VSPC the company is smiling with a happy green Healthy! However, at the VBR level the when pressing the Management Agent icon it complains that is connecting, and can’t connect after rolling through all the gateways. I tried running through the SP properties again but no luck. Is it time to un-install the pesky agent and redeploy? The ClientAgent_error, Communication and ClientAgent logs have things like CloudGate “No such host is known” and “Endpoint Hanshake Failed” and The write operation failed, see inner exception. ---> System.TimeoutException: Could not finish read operation in timely manner.Now could this be that if they have running backups and have used up the Tena

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Mildur
1 month ago
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BHET.EamonNew Here
asked in Discussion boards

Tape Job that deviates from Source Job

Hi, ive just setup Veeam - Backup and Replication v12 and im a little stuck on how to setup my backup scenario.What i would like to do is perform a daily weekday backup to NAS with a retention of 10 restore points (Mon to Fri, so 2 weeks) with an active full on saturday plus a full daily backup to Tape.The data is 2tb, and i use LTO6 tapes (2.4tb).The Nas job is setup, and works perfectly, but im struggling with the Tape part. The problem is that the source job, having 10 restore points (and 2 active fulls), becomes too big for the tapes but can easily fit the actual data being backed up. The active full plus the daily incremental should fit, but its the 2nd Active Full that makes it too big.Is there anywhere to set the job to backup only one chain, daily, as a full?I may be looking at this the wrong way round, and there is a probably a better solution to this, but my thinking was that the data should fit on one tape, so why not back that up, in full, daily. This would save using pools

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JMeixner
1 month ago
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KiloMan247New Here
asked in Discussion boards

Adding Multiple VCentres to one console

I want to added multiple VCentres spread across trusted domains to one console ( 1 from each Domain)..  At first glance I should be able to add the the second Vcentre Server. Is this as straight forward as it appears?

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coolsport00
1 month ago
Rick Vanover
Rick VanoverRICKATRON
published in News

Veeam Community Recap #118Veeam Community Recap #118

We said this week would have something special! @Madi.Cristil and El Rickatron are in Prague with a few different teams and had the opportunity to corner @HannesK and the one and only detective @Mildur! We had the opportunity to focus on discussions and questions this week. Watch this week’s episode here:The Linksvia @fredooog via @frank.nord via @BertrandFR Special Department Newsvia @MicoolPaul and @HangTen416 - we are happy to announce a new Thematic Group - Cloud City!via @Geoff Burke and @Cassandra Faris via @HunterLAFR via @MicoolPaul → Get ready for VeeamON!Who’s NewWho’s New will be back next week and we will be in the final countdown to VeeamON. Have a great weekend everyone. 

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Scott
1 month ago
Michael Melter
Michael MelterVeeam Legend
asked in Discussion boards

Restore full mailbox with Veeam Explorer for Exchange - ID handling

If you want to restore a deleted Exchange mailbox (on-prem), you first have to create an empty mailbox within Exchange for the user. This has already been described earlier: https://forums.veeam.com/veeam-backup-replication-f2/restore-deleted-mailbox-with-veeam-explorer-for-exchange-t16174.html Challenge is, while creating a new mailbox you also create a new ID for it. This leads to loosing some functionality (permissions to folders for 3rd parties etc., recurring appointments, etc.). Is there another known way to recover the mailbox including its original ID?I would rather have expected VEXE to create the mailbox for me while recovering - including all metadata.

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Michael Melter
1 month ago
Chris.Childerhose
Chris.ChilderhoseVeeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard
posted in Blogs and podcasts

Mastering Veeam Backup & Replication v12 (Third Edition) - PUBLISHED!

"Mastering Veeam Backup & Replication 12 - Third Edition" is now in publication (since April 2023) and is ready to order either the book or e-book/kindle.Well, since writing my first book on v10 and my second one on v11, I debated to myself about writing the update of the book to v12.  It took me some time to process and think about if I wanted to do it, and after attending VeeamON 2022 in Las Vegas, where v12 was introduced, it got me excited, and I then took the plunge.  This time, the process was much smoother as I had already done the first & second books and understood the templates, formatting, etc.  The team at Packt worked with me again and my busy schedule to create something I think that everyone will enjoy reading.  Whether you are a newbie with Veeam or a seasoned expert, you can learn something from this book.Veeam 12 best practices: design and deploy a secure and resilient platformKey FeaturesGain in-depth knowledge of Core Architecture Changes, including PostgreS

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Chris.Childerhose
25 days ago
Chris.Childerhose
Chris.ChilderhoseVeeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard
posted in Blogs and podcasts

Monitoring Veeam Backup with Backup Eagle

Monitoring with Backup Eagle I was recently introduced to a product requiring me to do a PoC to determine if it was a viable monitoring option for my company. I was granted an NFR license to test within my HomeLab for a product named - Backup Eagle by Schmitz RZ Consult GmbH.I was curious about how the Backup Eagle product works compared to other monitoring software. It was a straightforward install for the software based on Java, including the database used to store the data.Backup Eagle is used for Backup Monitoring, Reporting, and Audit & Compliance.Backup Eagle Chart - What you can use it forInstalling the software is very simple after downloading and extracting the zip file. The latest release as of this writing is - 9.9.2.73. Begin the installation using the EXE file and click through the screens.Running the EXE to start the installation processAfter the initial screen, you can install either the BE Server or the Admin Client, a component that can be installed on other system

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Chris.Childerhose
1 month ago
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SantoshPComes here often
asked in Discussion boards

primary and backup to Tape - GFS Backup Query

Primary backup is configured with daily retention 14 days , synthetic on Sunday and GFS (Monthly - First,  Yearly- April) option and target to disk storage.Monthly - 1st of every month Yearly - 1st of April Now Backup to  Tape , above primary backups ,  incremental in incremental media pool , weekly synthetic  backups  to go in weekly media pool, monthly in monthly media pool, yearly in yearly media pool. like wise is this possible with GFS media pool configuration.

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JMeixner
1 month ago
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johnkaNot a newbie anymore
asked in Discussion boards

Exchange Explorer

Hi,I have installed the testlicence of veeam o365 Version 7. Exporting single items from a mailbox works fine, but export the hole mailbox of a user ends up with: unable to read beyond of the end of the stream. How can I solve this?

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J
1 month ago
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Ash19New Here
asked in Discussion boards

WAN accelerator sizing for 4 PB

Hi ,1. How many WAN accelerators are needed for 4PB of data with 500Mbps bandwidth ? I have gone through the best practices as well.Didnt got a clear understanding.2. Can we use WAN accelerators during backup and recovery 1DC or just for replication purpose ? Thanks.

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BertrandFR
1 month ago
Michael Melter
Michael MelterVeeam Legend
asked in Discussion boards

Restore permissions for Veeam Backup for Office 365

To back up data from M365 one can pre-create an app within AzureAD and connect via a certificate from VBM. Then no additional login to M365 is necessary:Step 5. Register or Select Azure AD Application - Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 GuideKeep in mind that you do not need to select this check box if you have granted the required permissions to the specified Azure AD application beforehand and already registered its certificate in Azure Active Directory. If the Grant this application required permissions and register its certificate in Azure AD check box is not selected, Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 skips the Log in to Microsoft 365 step and proceeds to Finish Working With Wizard.But once you want to restore back to M365 things change: From within Exchange Explorer, you are prompted to do the device flow login with e.g. an Exchange admin to restore mail objects.Though while deploying the AzureAD-App an impersonation user was already specified. Is there a way to pre-define rights to th

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Michael Melter
16 days ago
Madi.Cristil
Madi.CristilCommunity Manager
published in Discussion boards

Blog of the Month April 2023

Final week of April is here!  We had previously committed to organizing a poll to determine the top blog of the month that is going to be featured on the homepage in the first week of May.Our selection comprises of three blogs that were featured in the weekly recap, as well as three additional blogs that were not mentioned. Please help us determine the best by voting on your favorite one by May 3rd.   Good luck to all participants! 😊@coolsport00 , @MicoolPaul , @Nico Losschaert , @Iams3le , @Scott , @Geoff Burke Please feel free to share it on your social media platforms and encourage your network to vote for you!Best, Madi

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Geoff Burke
1 month ago
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wjenNew Here
asked in Discussion boards

Restoring the VM Veeam is running on?

Got a weird situation I’m not sure of the right approach.  This setup is new to me and has some issues which I fully acknowledge and will be seeking to rectify. I have a restore request to recover the server VM that Veeam B&R is installed on.  It’s a shared application server running on Hyper-V and one of the other applications has become corrupted and the system will have to be rolled back. My plan was to take a configuration backup of Veeam so I could recover Veeam to the current state after the server itself has been rolled back.  The repository is on separate storage so won’t be overwritten by the restore. What I can’t quite figure out is whether or not Veeam is going to be able to instigate a restoration of the machine the B&R server itself is actually running on.  Can it do that or will I have to install a second copy of Veeam on another server and import the backup before restoring it? 

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MicoolPaul
1 month ago
victorwu
victorwuVeeam Vanguard
posted in Discussion boards

Building the VMware vSphere 8 and Veeam VBR v12 on Intel NUC 12

Model: NUC12WSHi5Processor type: 12th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-1240PMemory: G.Skill RipJaws DDR4 SO-DIMM Series 64GBStorage: SAMSUNG 980 SSD 1TB PCle 3.0x4, NVMe M.2 2280Network: Intel Ethernet Controller I225 SeriesVMware vSphere Edition: ESXi-8.0b-21203435-standard (VMware, Inc.)Veeam Backup and Replication Edition: 12.0.0.1420PreparationDownload VMware-VMvisor-Installer-8.0b-21203435.x86_64.isoDownload VMware-VCSA-all-8.0.0-21457384.isoDownload Veeam Backup and Replication v12 isoVMware vSphere 8 Enterprise Plus licenseVMware vCenter 8 Standard Edition licenseVeeam Data Platform Advanced licenseRemark: When you try to install ESXi 7.0 or 8.0 on a system with 12th Gen Intel 1240 CPU, the installation fails with the following PSOD. You need to follow the following steps to install the ESXi 8.0.Fatal CPU mismatch on feature "Hyperthreads per core"Fatal CPU mismatch on feature "Cores per package"Fatal CPU mismatch on feature "Cores per die"InstallationCreate a bootable USB drive with ES

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D
30 days ago
MicoolPaul
MicoolPaulVeeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard
asked in Discussion boards

RMAN Plugin - Read Bandwidth Throttling?

Hey everyone, Has anyone ever seen Veeam throttling bandwidth with the RMAN plugin? I’m working with a really beefy Veeam environment at the moment. Source data is all on flash, 40GbE networking available, high performance RAID controller + 4x RAID 60 repositories in a SOBR. Backups are flying for most workloads, VMware, Agent, NAS etc, but RMAN is letting me down. For example, a Veeam Agent using an unoptimised network path via the firewall can still do over 200MBps (Firewall is the bottleneck here), but RMAN is doing 5-7MBps and it’s on an L2 network with no firewalls involved. Testing with iperf can get 6-8Gbps easily without tuning between the hosts and the backup repositories, one test with iperf between the backup repositories was giving 26Gbps, so the network really is moving quick.When I’m going through the Veeam logs I’m finding things like this: plugin_co| [8b43] >> : Invoke: Network.UpdateThrottling\n{ (EInt32) KbpsReadBandwidth = 0\n (EInt32) KbpsWriteBandwidth

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MicoolPaul
1 month ago

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