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Kseniya
Kseniya✨
posted in Blogs and podcasts

FREE Veeam NFR Keys

If you are a certified IT pro, trainer or blogger, Veeam is happy to provide you with a FREE NFR license (Not-For-Resale keys).This license allows for non production use of Veeam Availability Suite in your home lab, without any feature limitations for one year and 20 workloads (VMs/Servers/Workstations) or of Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 in your home lab without any feature limitations for up to 10 users.Here is a list of IT members eligible for a free Veeam NFR license key:Veeam Certified Engineers (VMCEs) AWS Heroes AWS Community Builders AWS Heroes AWS Certified Pros Google Cloud Developer Advocates VMware vExperts VMware Certified Professionals (VCPs) VMware Certified Advanced Professionals (VCAPs) Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals (MVPs) Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals - Office 365 (MVPs) Microsoft Certified Solutions Experts (MCSEs) VMware, Microsoft, AWS trainers And more!Free NFR for Veeam Availability Suite https://go.veeam.com/free-nfr-veeam-availability-su

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Madi.Cristil
3 months ago
haslund
haslundMr. VMCE
posted in Discussion boards

Backup strategies: Pros and Cons: What is your strategy?

If you love a great technical presentation (with a lot of whiteboarding!) then don’t miss out this session by @jorge.delacruz and Alex Fraser on pros and cons of different backup strategies. 

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eprieto
1 year ago
haslund
haslundMr. VMCE
posted in Blogs and podcasts

#DailyQuiz - #VMCE 2020 Scenario question 21 walkthrough

Today’s #VMCE2020 #DailyQuiz walkthrough is ready. How proficient are you with the replication process on Hyper-V or vSphere? What is done by the source and target data movers?Try this question and more at https://rasmushaslund.com/vmce-practice-exam/

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eprieto
1 year ago
haslund
haslundMr. VMCE
posted in Blogs and podcasts

#HomelabWednesday - How to install VMware vCenter Server updates from the GUI

In this week's episode of #HomelabWednesdays, I show how to see if any updates are available for your VMware vCenter Server and how to install the updates using the vSphere Appliance Management Interface (VAMI).Don’t forget to subscribe to get automatic notifications whenever a new video is released. 

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haslund
1 year ago
JMeixner
JMeixnerVeeam Legend
asked in Discussion boards

RMAN plugin

Do you use the VEEAM RMAN Pluin in your environments?What are your experiences with it?Do you have one or more than one Oracle database instances on a system?

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BertrandFR
1 year ago
JMeixner
JMeixnerVeeam Legend
posted in Blogs and podcasts

RMAN Plugin Backup - ORA-01012 Error

Yesterday I got an error for two oracle databases which are backed up via the VEEAM RMAN plugin.Strange - there are several database instances on this system, all but the two are working fine. And these two had worked up to then, too…And… I did not change anything in the VEEAM and plugn configuraton  After some discussion and research with our Oracle admin - bingo.He had moved these two databases to another Home directory and did not change the corresponding entries in the /etc/oratab. So - as shown in the picture - the backup of the database and the recovery logs worked, but the creation of the AUTOBACKUP failed and the ORA-01012 error was given.After the entries were corrected all worked fine again.Perhaps some of you will face similar issues, too. I did not find anything for this problemin the forums with a quick search.

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haslund
1 year ago
vNote42
vNote42Veeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard
posted in Discussion boards

What scripting/programming language do you use for monitoring/reporting/automation?

I am curious what languages are used by the community for reporting, monitoring and/or automation. I personally do a lot of scripting with PowerShell. What language is worth learning it?I wish, Veeam will replace their PowerShell Plug-In by a PowerShell module in www.powershellgallery.com.@Kseniya Just a little thing: when embedding code here in the community, PowerShell is no language-option. Maybe this can be added in the future? 

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Rick Vanover
1 year ago
eprieto
eprietoVeeam Vanguard
posted in Blogs and podcasts

Transport Modes on a chart 👐

Applicability and efficiency of each transport mode primarily depends on the type of datastore used by the source host — local or shared, and on the backup proxy type — physical or virtual. The table below shows recommendations for installing the backup proxy, depending on the storage type and desired transport mode.which one do you use?                                                                                                             

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vNote42
1 year ago
MicoolPaul
MicoolPaulVeeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard
posted in Discussion boards

How do you handle downloading patches and ISOs?

Veeam ISOs and updates are all behind a login portal, how do you all handle downloading patches and fresh installations for customer environments? Some customers don’t wish to supply email addresses for Veeam accounts or they’ve registered it to an IT contact’s email address and so again, due to the integrations between the download portal and Veeam R&D forums (and even here at the Veeam Community) it’s providing access to far more than necessary for a download. The alternative is using our ProPartner accounts for downloading these files but then the question becomes, can we trust the customer’s network? In the age of zero trust that doesn’t seem wise. Finally with all the remote working requirements it feels excessive to be downloading files from Veeam to my own machine and then upload to the client device. Upload speed of residential connections is not the UK’s strongest point… Curious if other people share these difficulties?

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alexheylin
1 year ago
haslund
haslundMr. VMCE
posted in Blogs and podcasts

#DailyQuiz - #VMCE 2020 Scenario question 20 walkthrough

Today’s #VMCE2020 #DailyQuiz walkthrough is ready. Have you been in a legal situation that demanded an export of a specific point in time of your backups to ensure data is not compromised or lost? How did you handle it? 

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haslund
1 year ago
falkob
falkobVeeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard
posted in Blogs and podcasts

Veeam Backup for Office 365 – Backing up single OneDrive folders

This is going to be a quick post on how to backup a single OneDrive folder with Veeam Backup for Office 365.One of my customers developed an internal policy regarding the usage of OneDrive for Business.The policy is, that each user has a specific “Work” folder (root folder) which gets backed up with Veeam Backup for Office 365. All other folders are not backed up and the users do know that. So in this scenario we needed a OneDrive backup job, which backs up the whole organization with the OneDrive object and only includes that work folder.By the way, you are also able to exclude specific OneDrive folders by using the “-ExcludedOneDriveFolders” variable.However, in my case here it makes more sense to only include that specific folder.The scenarioI recreated that scenario with my own Office 365 Tenant, whereby I selected to only backup my webhosting folder. If you didn’t know it already, the ability to exclude or include specific folders for OneDrive backups is only available by using Po

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eprieto
1 year ago
vmiss33
vmiss33Comes here often
posted in Blogs and podcasts

#DRTestTuesday - Easily Schedule DR Tests with Veeam Availability Orchestrator

Did you know you can easily schedule your disaster recovery tests to run with Veeam Availability Orchestrator?Orchestrator’s Lab Calendar makes it simple to run a DR test on a scheduled basis whenever you want - like on #DRTestTuesday.The best part of course, is being able to provide a copy of a production environment to your application owners when after the test has run.Just think of what you can do with a copy of your data - test patches and application upgrades, train new staff members, and do all of the testing you would never want to do in a live environment.Be sure to check out how easy it is to do right in the Orchestrator documentation.If you’re looking for the ultimate deep dive on everything testing (including running a DR test on demand and scheduling one in the Lab Calendar) in Orchestrator, don’t miss this great webinar which is nearly 100% demo (no boring PowerPoints from me!) and tackles Orchestrator’s amazing dynamic documentation as well.  As part of every DR test you

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MicoolPaul
1 year ago
mhmdadl
mhmdadlComes here often
asked in Discussion boards

About VeeamOne future

Is there any future vision to automate the remediation workflow right from VeeamOne?

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vNote42
1 year ago
eprieto
eprietoVeeam Vanguard
posted in Blogs and podcasts

Configuration Maximums 🛠️ - Best Practice Guide for Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 😎

In this Link https://bp.veeam.com/vbo/ you can find everything related to:Best Practice Guide for Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365This guide is intended to provide best practices for Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365. It is not meant as a full documentation or detailed explanation of features. Please refer to the Veeam Help Center for this kind of documents.The best practice guide is inteded for professionals who search for a best practice answer to different topics. To allow deeper understanding of why we recommend specific best practices we add deeper information on the topics where applicable.Be aware that a best practice is not the only answer available. It will fit in the majority of cases but can also be totally wrong under different circumstances. Make sure you understand the implications of the advised best practices or ask someone who does. This time we will seeConfiguration Maximums This section covers the supported VBO configuration maximums. Numbers might vary depe

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bene
1 year ago
eprieto
eprietoVeeam Vanguard
posted in Blogs and podcasts

Make Veeam designs online 📝

Many times I have had to do Veeam designs and this online site http://www.draw.io/ has helped me more than once !!It has Shapes from Veeam - VMware and many other Shapes, which will help you do what you need.  We can import from these options  Export in many formats  Or Save it  

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R
1 year ago
haslund
haslundMr. VMCE
posted in Blogs and podcasts

#DailyQuiz - #VMCE 2020 Scenario question 19 walkthrough

Today’s #VMCE2020 #DailyQuiz walkthrough is ready. Do you have network-attached storage file shares in your environment? Have you ever used NDMP? 

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haslund
1 year ago
bene
beneComes here often
posted in Blogs and podcasts

VBO Calculator Community Edition V2

VBO Calculator Community Edition V2 First we want to thank you for the great feedback and your input for Version 1 of the Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 Calculator Community Edition! We already added some new features and bugfixes which we want to share with you.Click here to download the new version:Download(If you missed the first post where you can find all instructions, please follow: https://www.backupbros.com/2020/09/22/veeam-backup-for-microsoft-office-365-calculator/)To keep this short let me introduce the new features:Price ComparisonWe are now able to do a price comparision with on-premise-storage (where the compression is a bit lower) and your preferred object storage. As well as a second object storage vendor.You can enter your on-premise-storage costs (local object storage and local direct storage) in the input sheet:If you want to compare your preferred cloud object storage vendor with another one, just select the second vendor in the dropdown above the chart.VM eg

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marcofabbri
10 months ago
vNote42
vNote42Veeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard
posted in Discussion boards

LTO Roadmap

I just read @Gostev ‘s R&D Forums Digest. He talks about LTO9 support in Veeam and new tape-features in v11 like tape cloning.So I thought it could be interesting to read about the changed/adjusted LTO roadmap:https://blocksandfiles.com/2020/09/10/lto-changes-tape-roadmap-strategy-cuts-capacity-to-build-air-gapped-ransomware-defence-storage/For short: LTO does not provide double-sizing its capacity from generation to generation any more. Also speed does not scale that much from now on.

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MicoolPaul
1 year ago
mhmdadl
mhmdadlComes here often
posted in Discussion boards

Features I need

    I used to use Veeam since late 2014, I always try to find some ways to enhance my usage. Here are some features I thought might be interested if added in the future releases:1- SureBackup: SureBackup is one of the features made me choose Veeam in the first place. But while configuring it, I found that I need to choose specific VM to work on specific host. I thought that it will be good if SureBackup went cluster-aware to choose VM and host randomly every time it runs.2- Proxies:Once I started to backup VMs located on vSAN storage, I was told to use proxy server to work as a virtual appliance in order to complete a successful backup job without "doubling" the size. However, I needed to create a proxy on each and every host on my cluster. Now Veeam supports linux proxies but the problem with me that the number of proxies on my cluster as my environment expands.Is there any way in the future to use a single or couple of proxies to work with all cluster? 

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mhmdadl
1 year ago
haslund
haslundMr. VMCE
posted in Blogs and podcasts

#DailyQuiz - #VMCE 2020 Scenario question 18 walkthrough

Today’s #VMCE2020 #DailyQuiz walkthrough is ready. Are you protecting transaction logs? Do you push out the runtime from your backup server or a guest interaction proxy? Do you make copies of your transaction logs to a secondary location? 

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haslund
1 year ago
BertrandFR
BertrandFRVeeam Legend
asked in Discussion boards

How to deal with vmware snapshot? veeam functionnality to replace this

Hello everyone,In our company due to bad practices, some application integrators was using vmware snapshot before doing applications deployments on legacy part (no more needed with openshift). Obviously they often forgot to remove snapshot or maintain snapshot cauz they’re waiting answer from project team.We replaced this hijacked habit and provide to integrator/devops the possibility to launch quickbackup in the first time. It was not enough for stagging part and we had to provide capability to create veeam zip with one year retention (yes i know it’s bad...) .  We did awx roles for this too because they wre missing the vmware snapshot comment…I’m curious to hear if other people have encountered a similar situation :)

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vNote42
1 year ago
jorge.delacruz
jorge.delacruzCommunity Manager
posted in Discussion boards

[Chalkboard] RansomWar - Prepare yourself for the war against ransomware

Join me on November 20th at 12pm GMT | 1pm CET to learn everything you need to protect your backups against ransomware, just 15 minutes, tapas size. Hope to see you all there! https://go.veeam.com/chalkboard-war-against-ransomwareLooking forward to see you all there :)

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jorge.delacruz
1 year ago
Kseniya
Kseniya✨
published in News

Veeam Community Recap #2

Hi Veeam Community!This is our second Veeam Community Recap Check it out now to learn highlights of the week!  

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Kseniya
1 year ago
haslund
haslundMr. VMCE
posted in Blogs and podcasts

#DailyQuiz - #VMCE 2020 Scenario question 17 walkthrough

Today’s #VMCE2020 #DailyQuiz walkthrough is ready. Are you making backup copies? How did you determine what your operational restore window is/should be? What is the oldest backup you had to restore from? 

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haslund
1 year ago
Kseniya
Kseniya✨
published in News

NEW Veeam User Groups are LIVE: France, Denmark, UAE

Hi Community, I’m happy to let you know that we are introducing NEW Veeam User Groups at Community Hub:VUG France VUG Denmark VUG United Arab Emirates VUG SAARCAll conversations and content shared in VUG groups are in local language: share experiences, learn from your peers and expand your network!If you would like to run a VUG in your region or organize a VUG meeting near you - please reach out to me. Haven’t heard about VUG yet? A few useful resources for you to start with:VUG overview: what is this and how to become a memberVUG Groups to join  

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Kseniya
1 year ago

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