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This blog is the first in a series exploring HPE storage platforms and their integrations with Veeam Backup & Replication. This series will cover how different HPE storage solutions fit into a resilient data protection strategy, starting with the HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000, where data is first created, and expanding across backup storage options.  Establishing a Multi-Layered Backup Architecture with HPE  When building a 3-2-1-1-0 backup infrastructure, immutability is critical at as many layers as possible. The 3-2-1-1-0 rule dictates that you should have three copies of your data, stored on two different media types, with one off-site copy, one immutable copy, and zero errors assured through backup verification. While having at least one immutable layer meets the rule, HPE storage solutions allow organizations

I have few questions on the quick migration I am trying to do a quick migration of VM’s  from my 7.x vcenter to my 8.x Whether the VM will be stopped or suspended (and thus inaccessible) during the cold migration and will have impact on production ? If Quick Migration, retains the original UUID of the VMs to ensure the existing backup chain remains intact ?  An estimate of the time required for the migration, considering the same datastore is being used, with the only changes being the hosts and the vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) ? I have 5 proxies that I already quick migrated to my new vcenter and backups are running fine, my vbr server I cannot quick migrate because it is not being backed up so I plan on vmotion to new vcenter, do you foresee any issues?

Hi, I have just recently deployed Backup Enterprise Manager into my environment, so I can integrate this directly with PRTG for job monitoring.I have added my main Backup & Replication server into Enterprise Manager and this has discovered my jobs, however I have noticed that it is not displaying my AHV VM backup jobs (listed in B&R as Nutanix Backup type).  I can see my File Backups, Windows and Linux Agent Backups but not the Nutanix ones.Is there a step that I am missing to be able to see these jobs in Enterprise Manager?  I can’t see anything in the documentation and when I try to add the AHV Proxy as a backup server in Manager it won’t let me add it.I’m running B&R 12.3.0.310 and AHV Proxy 7.0.0.241Hoping someone may be able to offer some advice as I am sure it’s something simple if it’s possible. Thanks,Stuart

If you are not familiar with this topic and would like to follow these steps, you can purchase a mini PC from Amazon and install Proxmox VE or any other virtualization solution of your choice. Note: For test purposes, I will be installing VHR on a virtual machine (VM). Installing Veeam Hardened Repository on a Virtual Machine defeats the purpose of adequate data protection as the VM itself can be deleted. Therefore, installing the hardened repository on a physical box is advisable and ensures adequate physical security.Veeam Hardened Repository is a WORM storage solution that protects against unwanted changes to the backup files. It’s available since version 11. Veeam Hardened Repository passed an external audit for WORM storage and meets highest compliance standards. You can read more

The Nutanix and Veeam best practices document has been posted on the Nutanix website. It does not require a partner account to access. It has been updated to include VDP v12 and VBN AHV v7. Please feel free to share with partners and customers. Please use link below to access😀.Veeam Nutanix Best PracticesNutanix Unified Storage ClustersVeeam Backup for Nutanix AHV Documentation 

Hi All,I want to add a VBR in an non trust domain to Enterprise Manager in a different domain.Is this possible without username and password but with certificates?Thanks,Benny

How to reintegrate Veeam-Cloud-Connect with VSPC after the management agent has been uninstalled.

I’m really happy to share with the Veeam Community this Open Source Project Called Veeam Decoys.  It is public knowledge that multiple threat actors use various tactics and techniques to identify services when they are already inside the internal networks of the organization they are attacking. In fact, the Mitre ATT&CK Enterprise matrix has two complete tactics, "Discovery" TA0007 and "Lateral Movement" TA0008, which list and explain multiple techniques and tools used by attackers. For example, the most sought-after services within the internal network are Remote Desktop Protocol and SSH. If we review Coveware's reports from this year, in the Q1-2024 report, we can observe that the "Lateral Movement" tactic ranks third among the most used tactics by threat actors according to the percentage of cases: 

Hi All, Doing the initial install of backup for Salesforce CE. Got to the point of connecting Veeam to SF Connected App with key/secret then: HTB8: Salesforce responded with an error: I/O error on GET request for "https://login.salesforce.com/services/oauth2/authorize": PKIX path building failed: sun.security.provider.certpath.SunCertPathBuilderException: unable to find valid certification path to requested target; nested exception is javax.net.ssl.SSLHandshakeException: PKIX path building failed: sun.security.provider.certpath.SunCertPathBuilderException: unable to find valid certification path to requested target The callback URL is showing a certificate error, so I’m not sure whether:I should focus on fixing the URL certificate. I need to whitelist something on the Salesforce side. Both (or something else entirely!) Any suggestions on how to resolve this

The Veeam QA team has validated NetApp ONTAP 9.1.6.1. It is now listed as supported in our storage integration guide link below.ONTAP Release notes information below. There are no new Veeam integrations in this release.Data protection enhancements• Support for SnapMirror cloud backups from a migrated volume• Support for encryption key migration between key managersMetroCluster configuration enhancements• SVM data mobility support for migrating MetroCluster configurations• MD5 authentication support for BGP peer groups• Fibrebridge firmware update using credentialsNetworking enhancements• MD5 authentication support for BGP peer groups• IPsec hardware offload supportS3 Object storage enhancement• S3 multiprotcol support for multipart upload• Enhanced ONTAP S3 API supp

Organizations worldwide use Microsoft Entra ID for identity and access management services. Microsoft Entra ID provides a solution to securely manage users, devices, applications, and data across cloud and on premises environments. Businesses rely on this service to manage and secure access to both internal and external resources, making it essential for their operations. With its integral function within organizations, it is also important that is protected.Universally, there is a common misconception when it comes to cloud applications, that there is no need for back up. Why do we think this? Because it resides in the cloud of course! However, despite this viewpoint, it is critical for organizations to protect cloud data for many reasons, I mean it is your data after all. 🤔The first reason we think of is security. It’s not only important to maintain the security of the environment but also its integrity.  Implementing a backup system that can detect

Recently, I had an insightful discussion on cybersecurity, where we dived deep into VHR (Veeam Hardened Repository) and OOTBI (Out-of-the-Box Immutability) by ObjectFirst. Since, these technologies play a crucial role in strengthening data protection strategies, I decided to create a blog post on it. This led to us discussing the pros and cons of both storage solutions, etc. If you are interested in some of the information we discussed and some I could share online, please take a look at “Best Storage for Veeam: Comparing OOTBI by ObjectFirst to VHR”. Below are some articles relating to OOTBI that we have shared with the community

I started installing Veaam backup&replication (v12). I ran out of space on the VM where it was installed so I aborted the installation. After I did that I got the following error when running setup.exe:An error has occurred: C:Program FilesVeeam Backup and Replication CatalogVeeam.Backup.CatalogDataService.exeI deleted as much as I could and can't find any traces of Veaam. Then tried again, but it doesn't work. Server rebooted several times as well.

Hello Community,As I read in a Veeam KB for vCenter Migration Utility to fix the MoRef IDs change due to replacing an old vCenter with new one is no longer supported with VBR v12.1 anymore!So is there another method to migrate the MoRef IDs to the new vCenter to not affect the VBR backup jobs and match the IDs ?If someone know any method or solution to keep the backup woring fine after the vcenter replacing as the the IP and Hostname will be the same but the old one will be removed and installed a newer one as patching not worked with the old vCenter.Thanks

The interest from the community and our customers in KVM based hypervisors recently led me to examine HPE’s VME offering. HPE provided an environment to examine its capabilities. Like many platforms, it runs on top of KVM/QEMU to schedule and manage virtual machines on the host. It’s built with HPE hardware and uses its own management plane to create clusters, provide a user interface and expose APIs. Veeam doesn’t have a hypervisor-integrated backup solution today for this platform as its management/API layer is different from other platforms we support such as oVirt and Proxmox. The management platform does have an existing CLI from Morpheus Data that can be paired with Veeam’s PowerShell modules to automate tasks such as building protection Groups for Veeam Agents.Veeam Agent for Windows and Veeam Agent for Linux are components of the Veeam Data Platform that can be used to protect Windows and Linux servers on most platforms. Due to this being an in-guest approach, they ca

Hello, I want to run backup job, which was already working. It was (dont know how) interrupted, but when I run job manually or with scheduler automatically.Actual version: 8.1.0.3503Starting job: M365 backup...[03.03.2025 11:52:52.261]      8 (1) Error: The job is already running.[03.03.2025 11:52:52.261]      8 (1) Type: System.ServiceModel.FaultException[03.03.2025 11:52:52.261]      8 (1) Stack:[03.03.2025 11:52:52.481]      1 (1) Error: The job is already running.[03.03.2025 11:52:52.481]      1 (1) Type: System.ServiceModel.FaultException[03.03.2025 11:52:52.481]      1 (1) Stack:[03.03.2025 11:52:52.481]      1 (1)    at Veeam.SPP.Communication.TypeProvider.InvokeResult.ThrowIfError(Boolean enableRpcErrors)[03.03.2025 11:52:52.481]      1 (1)    at Veeam.SPP.Communication.TypeProvider.InvokeResult.GetResultOrException(Boolean enableRpcErrors)[03.03.2025 11:52:52.481]      1 (1)    at Veeam.SPP.Communication.Ty

 Recently, I had a conversation with one of my service providers that gave me the chance to dive deeper into Veeam’s Incident API. They had some specific questions about what they could achieve with this API, and it sparked an idea for me to put together this blog to share my insights. I'd love to hear your thoughts on this as well, especially if you've had any hands-on experience with the API. Personally, I’ve found it to be an incredibly useful integration for Veeam.In today’s fast-paced business world, protecting your data is more important than ever. For organizations using Veeam Backup & Replication—an essential tool for backup and disaster recovery—it’s crucial to ensure that backup processes are running smoothly and that any issues are addressed quickly. That’s where Veeam’s Incident API comes in.Veeam’s Incident API is all about helping you manage and automate responses to backup-related issues. In this blog, I’ll Walk through what the Veeam Incident

I recently wrote an entry about updating our OOTBI clusterNow, Object First has launched a new release of OOTBI, 1.6.63.10886These are the new features described in the release:The update process, as shown before, is super straightforward and allows you to update and reboot your cluster in a few clicks without any stress or «fancy» steps, guides, or troubleshooting.

Hi. I want to do recovery on a machine for a test setup to replicate whats used in production. All the servers that are being backed up are in a remote location and I have logged in to a remote fileserver to download the backup files. I dont have access to the actual servers. I have created a bootable USB using a Veeam Recovery Media .iso that I previously created, but when I try to do a Bare Metal Recovery and selected the metadata file, I get the following error message:I have done this before, so I cant figure out why its not working now. I’ve downloaded backups of different machines and tried, and I’ve tried different Veeam Recovery Media .iso’s. I also downloaded a community version of Veeam, imported the backup and created recovery media there.We used the SIDSI Backup Wizard to configure backups and also did some recovery before

Recently, I had the opportunity to lead a challenging project for Supermercados BH, one of the largest supermarket chains in Brazil. The mission? To migrate the entire Veeam Backup & Replication environment to a new server, rebuilding everything from scratch. Instead of simply restoring the old configuration, we chose to redesign the architecture to optimize performance, security, and ensure a more efficient RTO. One of the main concerns was the network design to ensure that backups and restores were fast and efficient. Properly segmenting the traffic, adjusting the transport proxies, and load balancing the repositories made all the difference. Additionally, we implemented an immutable repository based on Linux Red Hat, providing an extra layer of protection against ransomware. Another critical point was backing up critical machines. For this, we configured snapshots via SAN, minimizing the impact on the production environment and speeding up the proc