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JMeixner
JMeixnerVeeam Legend
posted in Blogs and podcasts

vSphere ESXi 7.x will be the final release supporting Apple Mac platforms

VMware has announced on August 3rd that vSphere ESXi 7.x is the last version supporting Apple Mac platform.https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/88698Reasom is that Apple is moving away from the x86 processor platform.With 7.0 the MacOS platform will be supported until EOL. Guest OS support for Mac is discontinued, too.  macOS guest operating system may only be operated in VMs on vSphere ESXi hosts installed on Apple Mac hardwarehttps://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2015161

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JMeixner
1 month ago
MicoolPaul
MicoolPaulVeeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard
posted in Discussion boards

Fun Friday: Sharing Time! Community Content

Happy Friday everyone!Today I'd like to see what you're all talking & reading about.I'm talking blogs, podcasts, vodcasts etc.Have you got a blog that you're actively writing in? Share it below! Got a blog/podcast/vodcast that you read the moment anything new is released? Share it below and WHY you like it so much?With tools such as Feedly, Reeder and other RSS clients gathering so many sources of data, it's interesting to see what keeps you "in the know".For example my RSS feed is full of Legends, Vanguards, and even Veeam staff, so I can see what's going on in the other corners of Veeam. But in addition to that, there are some great sources of information that I love to read up on such as: Security:Bruce Schneier - https://www.schneier.com/ - A wholistic view of securityOrca Security - https://orca.security - This company has found some incredibly high profile AWS/Azure vulnerabilities with great post-mortums.Microsoft Security Response Center - https://msrc-blog.microsoft.com/ -

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MicoolPaul
1 month ago
JustineP
JustinePComes here often
asked in Discussion boards

Huawei Cloud Compatibility

Hi Veeam Team, I would like to ask if you have any deployment of veeam, which is th Mgmt is located on prem and the repository is located on the the Huawei Cloud. Cant find specific article on that, please feel free to share docs :) Thanks

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MicoolPaul
1 month ago
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lowerThanLifeNew Here
asked in Discussion boards

Change IP for Repository?

I foolishly used an IP address for a ‘temporary test system’ which became a permanent fixture.A change of network schema means the repository is now on a new address.It does not appear to be possible to change the IP address in VEEAM (I should have used a fqdn). I could start again with new backups - but is there a method to resume backups to the same repository after re-defining it? All advice welcomed.Latest v11  

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JMeixner
1 month ago
vNote42
vNote42Veeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard
posted in Blogs and podcasts

[What (else) is new in v12 - V] gMSA support

With v12 it will be supported to use group Managed Service Account (gMSA) for user credentials.For my understanding of gMSA it will be necessary to have VBR server in a domain. Because it will still not be recommended to join this server the production domain, a special resource or management domain could be needed. For more details we will have to wait for general availability to get the user guide.If you have more ideas about gMSA implementation, let us know 😀

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Iams3le
1 month ago
Chris.Childerhose
Chris.ChilderhoseVeeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard
asked in Discussion boards

Veeam Backup Tape Reports for Tenants

I wanted to ask here in the community if anyone has developed a Veeam Tape report mainly for size reporting that they can share?  I am looking in to VONE but the reports there are not sufficient enough for our reporting.We have a service that clients send to VCC then it tapes out for long term offline storage.  So each month we need to automate reporting on size for each tenant of consumed data on tape.I am also asking in the Vanguard slack too about this so some of you may see this there as well.  Also doing my Googling too. 😋

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Chris.Childerhose
1 month ago
JMeixner
JMeixnerVeeam Legend
posted in Discussion boards

New Community Baddges

Oh, at least two new community badges have been launched 😎  

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JMeixner
1 month ago
regnor
regnorVeeam Legend
posted in Blogs and podcasts

VBR: Immutable object storage with Wasabi

Inspired by @Geoff Burke‘s post about immutability for Kasten with Wasabi, I decided to post the same for Veeam Backup & Replication. If you want to check out Geoff’s post, then follow this link:What/who is Wasabi?Probably Wasabi doesn’t need to be introduced. But if you can only think about the paste you get with Sushi, then you should check out their cloud object storage. Besides AWS and Microsoft, Wasabi is one of the Vendors, who often gets recommended for usage with Veeam Backup. The reason for that is their really competitive pricing, combined with great functionality/quality and low complexity.How to create an immutable bucketAfter registering an account with Wasabi, the creation of an immutable bucket isn’t complicated at all.Just make sure that you select the right region for your location, and also enable bucket versioning and object locking.Afterwards you need to create an access key. For testing purposes you can use the root account key, but for production you should cr

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regnor
1 month ago
Tarra Mauldin
Tarra MauldinComes here often
posted in Discussion boards

Join to hear how Veeam delivers ransomware protection! August 9

Hello!Attend the virtual Canada Veeam® User Group meeting, Tuesday, Aug. 9, at 12 p.m. ET.Mario Marquez and Alex Crandall will share lots of useful ransomware information in this 1 hour session.Join to learn about ransomware best practices and how Veeam delivers protection with:Secure Backup Instant recovery at scale Disaster Recovery Orchestration And more!This is a great time to ask the Veeam experts your technical questions and see a live demo.Register

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dips
1 month ago
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karun.keeriotComes here often
asked in Discussion boards

Cross Cloud Backup Query

Hi TeamI have a customer where we have configured VBA for AWS backups across different tenants..KMS encryption configured for at the repository level.VBA integration with VBR using the VBA plugin to assist with centralized licensing and a single pane of glass for VBA management has also been configured.Customer was hoping he could create a backup copy job of data residing on AWS to an Azure or GCP bucket.Would this be possible ? If Yes How and if not possible would it be possible to configure a backup copy to a different region within AWS itself. Was unable to bringup any details of the same .Someone from Veeam presales had stated that it would be possible with regular password encryption and not KMS but how would this be achieved.  ThxKarun  

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R
1 month ago
K
karun.keeriotComes here often
asked in Discussion boards

Veeam Backup for M365 - Archival Options

Hi TeamWe have a customer where we have VBO deployed on premise with a local onpremise repository attached to an Object storage.Customer was requesting for option to perform a monthly full backup to cloud and also a yearly backup to cloud .Would this be possible ? Please confirm on the possibilities .I have created an archival object storage repository for the same .Based on my understanding of the technology , only backup copy to archival storage can be configured which will do a direct copy of the existing backup job. 

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K
1 month ago
vNote42
vNote42Veeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard
posted in Blogs and podcasts

[Quicktip] Increase limit of snapshots per datastore

Last week I had to troubleshoot a backup job that was using a brand new proxy and repository server. No other job was using these components. Nonetheless just 4 VMs were processed at the same time. All other VMs showed status “Pending”. As additional information, “Resource not ready: Active snapshots limit reached for datastore” was shown too in active job log.After a short investigation we found out, all VMs were located on just one VMFS datastore. Fortunately there is a rather simple solution for this limitation. You can create a registry key on VBR server to increase the limit of active snapshots per datastore:HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Veeam\Veeam Backup and Replication\MaxSnapshotsPerDatastore For more details see this forum posts:https://forums.veeam.com/vmware-vsphere-f24/active-snapshots-limit-reached-for-datastore-t19711.htmlNice detail: The change enters into force immediately – even the job is currently running!Keep in mind, this is a global setting!  

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JMeixner
1 month ago
drews
drewsNot a newbie anymore
posted in Discussion boards

Which Object Storage Performance Testing Tool do you use? - COSBench? S3Benchmark? Other?

Looking for guidance on which object storage performance tool provides the most reliable results. We’ve worked with COSBench and with S3-Benchmark Tool. Wondering what experience you’ve had with these tools or other tools… Thank in advance for your responses.

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Rick Vanover
1 month ago
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Philippe SNot a newbie anymore
posted in Blogs and podcasts

Disaster recovery plan like powershell script

Hello,I'm taking the opportunity right now to work on a like disaster recovery plan like, with Veeam.Once the replica job is up and running, my goal is to be able to trigger a failover if the server's ping is knocked out, so I wrote a little homemade powershell script to do that. If it is useful take it.^^ Clear-HostFunction FailoverCheck{    $server = "SERVER NAME"    if (Test-Connection $server -Count 1 -Quiet -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue){        Write-Output "$server connected successfully."    }else{        Write-Output "Connection to $server failed."        Write-Verbose "Pause for 10 minutes...then try again" -Verbose        Start-Sleep -Seconds 5 # set to 600        if (Test-Connection $server -Count 1 -Quiet -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue){            Write-Output "$server connected successfully after 2nd try."        }else{            Write-Verbose "Failed again. $server needs restart." -Verbose            # Insert Command to restart application here.            $RestorePoint

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Chris.Childerhose
1 month ago
Rick Vanover
Rick VanoverRICKATRON
published in News

Veeam Community Recap #83

This week @Rick Vanover and @Madi.Cristil recap the week’s activity from the Veeam TechExpo event in Austin, Texas. While not breaking the rule, we share three pieces of content and @MicoolPaul has hijacked the news we had planned to share! There were too many for the Who’s New, so we’ll put those in the chat only in the comments. Watch today’s episode below: 

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Madi.Cristil
1 month ago
D
ddomaskComes here often
posted in Script library

Tape Library Inventory Report

Hey all,Again, hope it’s not spam, but wanted to share some custom code that came up for the purpose of a case and let the community have it also (since why not?)Issue:You want to have an inventory of Current Tape Locations Library Association Other Tape Elements There isn’t really a “nice” VeeamOne report for this (vOne just reports on Vaulted Tapes), and checking the tape WebUI isn’t always convenient nor is checking the Veeam Tape node.If you find a need for this, check this out:using namespace System.Collections.Genericfunction Get-VBRTapesInLibrary { param( [Veeam.Backup.PowerShell.Infos.VBRTapeLibrary[]]$Library ) $TapesInLibrary = Get-VBRTapeMedium | Where-Object {$_.LibraryID -eq $Library.id} return $TapesInLibrary}function New-TapeLocationPropertiesObject { param( [Veeam.Backup.PowerShell.Infos.VBRTapeMedium[]]$tapemedium ) $TapeBarcode = $tapemedium.Barcode $TapeName = $tapemedium.Name $TapeLocation = $tapemedium.Location.Type if($tapemedium.Location.Type -eq "Drive"){

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Chris.Childerhose
1 month ago
MicoolPaul
MicoolPaulVeeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard
posted in Discussion boards

Fun Friday: Milestones & Goals

Happy Friday! We’re over halfway to 2023 (sorry to depress you!), it’s not uncommon for people to start a new year with goals or wishes for the year. How are yours shaping up? Are you on track? Have you had a busy start to the year but still have time to get on track? Share how you’re doing and any achievements below! For me, I knew I was starting a new job, so I wanted to make sure I passed my probation (I did), move house (I have), and either advance my Azure, VMware or Kubernetes knowledge and pass an exam in one of these subjects, I haven’t yet but now I’m getting into a better frame of mind I can start on this! I also had a great year with my blog last year and I wanted to prove its not a fluke by getting a similar view count this year as last year, I’m also proud to say I’ve smashed that 😁 Your turn community!

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Inder
1 month ago
D
danfoxleyNew Here
asked in Discussion boards

Add Hyper-V to Virtual Infrastructure Failing

Please help with adding a Hyper-V host. Veeam 11. New Hyper-V Server > Credentials: Added Domain User to Administrators Group on Hyper-V Host. Veeam B&R and Hyper-V Host on same domain. Window Firewall Off:Windows Firewall On: RANT:Hours in, this is frustrating that Veeam doesn’t nip this in the bud and does not rely on MS technology (Ports, WMI...etc) to install, and shifts responsibility onto the customer and offers unhelpful dialog boxes and similar push back in forums. 

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MicoolPaul
1 month ago
C
CarlMNew Here
asked in Discussion boards

Rename Copy Job to cloud

I created a test Backup Copy Job for a test to a new cloud provider, naming the job “provider test”.  Now I am switching to that provide and even with a new Copy Job the Server is appearing under the test job name.How can I rename job listed under Backups/Cloud to the new Copy job name?

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Stabz
1 month ago
Stabz
StabzExperienced User
asked in Discussion boards

Immutability Configuration in SOBR for backups with GFS

Hello,I would like to clarify the configuration of my capacity tier in my SOBR. I used a Wasabi bucket with object-lock enabled.I have a backup job set to run daily with 14 days retention and weekly synthetic fulls. I have a gfs policy defined with 6 monthly and 1 yearly.The immutability set on the capacity extent is 14 days. If my understand is correct all gfs backups that sit on the capacity tier still only immutable for the immutable days set on the capacity extent. Right?How do you protect this backup? I read a solution with AWS Glacier but I m not using AWS services.Regards. 

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dloseke
1 month ago
MicoolPaul
MicoolPaulVeeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard
posted in Blogs and podcasts

Thinking of becoming a Veeam Legend 2022?

The Veeam Legend programme is due to have its second intake in the coming weeks/months, and I wanted to put together a small collection of resources for people to find out more about this amazing sub-community. What is the Veeam Legends Programme? The Veeam Legends programme is at its heart, a Veeam community, its a sub-group of the wider Veeam Community Hub & R&D forums’ users. It was created as part of the ongoing recognition that Veeam wanted to give to its most active Veeam experts within these spaces.The Veeam Legends programme is one of three sub-communities within the ‘Veeam 100’ collective, with the other two being Veeam Vanguard and VeeaMVP. But whilst Veeam Vanguard focuses on external evangelism & activity, and VeeaMVP celebrates Veeam staff that contribute externally to the Veeam community, Veeam Legends is focused on Veeam platform-based activity. Are there perks to becoming a Veeam Legend? Of course there are! To date I’ve witnessed the following perks from th

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victorwu
28 days ago
Rick Vanover
Rick VanoverRICKATRON
posted in Blogs and podcasts

What is your BEST SysAdmin Story - I will feature it Friday!

This Friday - I am presenting on SysAdmin Day 2022 with Sagi Brody - one of the Veeam Vanguards.But I need YOUR HELP - What is your best SysAdmin Story? I will feature it on the show and stream. Tell me a good one - I’ll share it! You can join the show to see if your session is featured also! This Friday at 11:00 AM New York time, Sagi and I will be LIVE on 4 Veeam social feeds (LinkedIn, Facebook, YouTube and Twitter) with a special stream. Join us on the LinkedIN feed here.I have a story that, for now, I will only refer to as “The Coworker” and Sagi will share his best SysAdmin Day story as well.But what is your best SysAdmin Day story? Do you have a save the day moment? What about those pesky dev is actually production situations? Believe it or not - the SysAdmins are still heroes. I would love to hear your stories and any appreciation story to go with it.Speaking of appreciation…. Veeam’s celebration of SysAdmin Day puts some prizes on the line. We are doing a lucky draw where you

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Geoff Burke
2 months ago
MicoolPaul
MicoolPaulVeeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard
posted in Blogs and podcasts

Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure: Updating Account Permissions

With the release of Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure v4, I thought now would be a good time to discuss how to handle account permission changes. This tends to be required when Veeam release updates to the Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure product, typically required to support new functionality.I was greeted by the request for all of these permissions after updating from v3 to v4Once you sign into Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure after an update, you’ll likely have a notification similar to the above, depicting the missing permissions.There are two ways to update the permissions, and I’m going to take you through them both now. Method 1: Let Veeam Update its Permissions Yep, Veeam can handle this for you, and it’s really easy.Step One: Enter the Configuration section of the Web UI. Navigate to Administration > Accounts. Find your Azure account, select ‘Edit’.Step Two: Within the Edit Azure Account screen, edit any name & description details if required, otherwise click next to en

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Chris.Childerhose
2 months ago
Link State
Link StateVeeam Legend
posted in Blogs and podcasts

VBR-VCC Storage migration data backup SEAL mode

Switching to Seal Mode - User Guide for VMware vSphere (veeam.com) Hello I wanted to bring to your attention a really interesting and useful feature.Create new Veeam  backup repository on new storage   Insert new exent on existing SOBRSet seal mode extent to be decommissioned After the extent is sealed, no further data is saved to the extent, and only read operations such as restore, merge and remove are allowed.Wait for the chains of all your jobs to reach the set restore points.Then verify that no Veeamzip \ export backups or oneshot backups without schedules are allocated on the old extent to be decommissioned.Such data will not be migrated needs a manual operation of moving veeamzip \export backup files etc.I love this feature allows me painless storage migrations for both standalone VBR environments and Veeam Cloud Connect platform .thanks for your attention

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Chris.Childerhose
2 months ago
T
ThorstenSNew Here
asked in Discussion boards

ubuntu 22.04: mlocate

Hi,after backuping ubuntu ever since without problems, the first fresh installed ubuntu 22.04 came up with this warning message in our latest veeam b&r 11: Failed to index guest file system. mlocate was not found.   As since ubuntu 22.04 the package mlocate is just a transitional package to plocate, there is no mlocate binary.So I did a ln -s plocate mlocate  and expected the message to be gone - but it keeps reporting, that mlocate was not found. updatedb and locate do not show any errors:root@ubuntu2204:/var/log# updatedb -Vupdatedb (plocate) 1.1.15Copyright (C) 2007 Red Hat, Inc. All rights reserved.This software is distributed under the GPL v.2....root@ubuntu2204:/var/log# locate -Vplocate 1.1.15Copyright 2020 Steinar H. Gunderson...So whats to do now?

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marcofabbri
2 months ago

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