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vNote42
vNote42On the path to Greatness
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Is Object Storage ready for primary storage?

This week at VeeamON we will get a lot of information about VBR’s v12 new capabilities to use Object Storage as primary backup target. For many customers this is most often the use case of Object Storage: Backup. But not all are of this opinion of course! For example VMware vSAN is an Object Storage. Also MinIO says it is primary storage. I would be interested what the community thinks of this? Is Object Storage ready for primary storage? What are your experiences with it?

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dloseke
MicoolPaul
MicoolPaul
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#VeeamON2022 Starts This Week!

Thanks for everyone that took part in the polls in my Fun Friday lead up. Huge amount of excitement from the community to see what’s going on with Veeam Backup & Replication v12, in particular in the service provider and object storage spaces, as determined by you, the voters! Poll Results Below:If you haven’t already, don’t forget to register and check out VeeamON virtually at https://www.veeam.com/veeamonWhat session are you most excited to see? Let’s share sessions in the comments 👇👇👇

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dloseke
MicoolPaul
MicoolPaul
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Ever wanted a Write-Once SSD? It’s now here, sort of…

Evening, Wanted to share this interesting intersection of marketing & technology, the write-once SSD. Correct this isn’t April Fools… Verbatim have announced a write-once SSD. Theres a 10 year warranty against drive failure, it uses an exFAT file system and can be read by any OS supporting exFAT, but you require Win 10/11 and .Net 4.8 to install the proprietary software to write to the drive. Somewhat unsurprisingly, there are huge caveats listed, effectively it’s not tested to destruction against experienced hackers, but a handy way to prevent accidental file deletion. I wonder if we’ll start to see a market for this emerge…Interested in the full story? I read it on Tom’s Hardware here: https://www.tomshardware.com/news/verbatim-write-once-ssd

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Rick Vanover
victorwu
victorwuVeeam Vanguard
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VMware - SD card/USB boot device revised guidance (85685)

VMware will continue supporting USB/SD card as a boot device through the vSphere.Next product release, including the update releases. Refer to this KB for details.https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/85685

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vNote42
bp4JC
bp4JCInfluencer
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Quarterly backup to USB setup suggestions

Hi, team I need some advice. We have a client that we need to do a quarterly full backup for. We would like to run an active full to a USB attached drive that will be rotated out each quarter. Each USB drive will be designated for a specific quarter (i.e. USB Quarter 1, Quarter 2, etc). This job will only run once per quarter and we would like each run to be a full backup. What is the best way to accomplish this in VBR 11a?

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AnanduComes here often
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azure blob storage difference

Hey Guys,In a customer environment where I deployed Veeam, I setup azure blob and added as SOBR, I found that in backup server used space for azure blob is 597 GB but in azure portal it is shown to be 1.8 TB. I am running two backups(file and VM). Can anyone tell what could be wrong?

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Rick Vanover
JMeixner
JMeixnerOn the path to Greatness
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How to add extra space to vCenter for the upgrade

I just stumbled over tho following article and I think this is interesting.My colleagues who administer our vSphere clusters ran in such a problem some time ago.https://www.provirtualzone.com/how-to-add-extra-space-to-vcenter-for-the-upgrade/

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AnanduComes here often
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offload to azure

Hey guys,I have an azure blob repo and it is set up in SOBRI was facing an error where it shows offloading in azure blob failed due to  backup window setting. what should be done to get this resolved ? is azure expressroute a solution for this offloading?

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Chris.Childerhose
victorwu
victorwuVeeam Vanguard
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P2V Windows MSCS Cluster with Veeam VBR

Does anyone have experience performing physical-to-virtual Windows MSCS clusters with Veeam VBR?

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MicoolPaul
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Anonymous
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Deduplication Analyzer Free

Hi everyone,I would like to share with you this tool that Im using to estimate the deduplcation ratio for my storage,StarWind Deduplication Analyzer.https://www.starwindsoftware.com/starwind-deduplication-analyzerrunning done! Check it out!just a quick tip that works for me:Deduplication ratios for me are always “in theory”!!Have a good one.

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MicoolPaul
MicoolPaul
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FunFriday: The Countdown to VeeamON 2022 Continues!

Happy Friday everyone! Today I’d like to ask a simple question, what Veeam product are you most interested in seeing at VeeamON? Answers on a postcard below 👇👇👇

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Chris.Childerhose
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Gopal SinghComes here often
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How to take full monthly backup in tape and also tape are change the retation or identityfing its full backup.

How to take full monthly backup in tape  and also tape are change the retation or identityfing its full backup.

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marcofabbri
Pybarra
PybarraInfluencer
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New Veeam Backup for Nutanix Mine KB Article

KB4309 - After updating Veeam Backup & Replication, Mine repository fails to update

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Pybarra
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AnanduComes here often
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veeam backup for database

Can anyone tell why veeam doesn't provide database backup such as MSSQL? There are many backup softwares that can backup only database so how is veeam different from them? 

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MicoolPaul
MicoolPaul
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Fun Friday: The Countdown to VeeamON 2022 Begins!

Obligatory: If you haven’t registered for VeeamON yet, be sure to do so here: https://www.veeam.com/veeamonWith the agenda now available, we can see there are going to be huge advances in Veeam Availability Suite v12. With that in mind, what advancements are you looking forward to the most? Got a particular feature/improvement you’re hoping for? Drop it in the comments!

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MicoolPaul
jorge.delacruz
jorge.delacruzCommunity Manager
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VB365 - A collection of fines herbes

Greetings Community,Speaking with Kseniya last week, I asked if it would be possible to share with all of you a collection of articles that hope it will be of your interest.All of the articles, or projects, are related to VB365, some of them are just for fun, because we can do them (like translations of the Restore Portal), others are quite useful, like getting a valid SSL Certificate. It should be a note on every article of what is officially supported, and what is not, play carefully :)Please remember that a lot of them are Community driven blogs, tools, etc.How to have a holistic Audit of the Restore Operations - Perfect for anyone, but specially Service Providers, and big Enterprises that need to audit all the restore operations. How to restrict the login to certain users to the Restore Portal from Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 v6 Perfect to give the right access to the right users. Build an allow list in a few steps. Looking for the Perfect Dashboard: InfluxDB, Telegraf, and Graf

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pitcareNew Here
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Veeam Commmunity Edition and Amazon S3 Bucket

Hi @all,i am new by veeam. I have installed the community edition and will testing backup. Next week i have a tech demo with a veeam consult for full version. But now i will testing the free funktions, and i have added my S3 Bucket. The connections to Amazon S3 works, but when i will configure a backup job, i cannot choose the s3 Storage as backup destination. It there a limit function for this storage in the communitiy edition?Many thanks forwards Stefan

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Chris.Childerhose
Chris.ChilderhoseVeeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard
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VBM365 - Blog Series Content

I am going to be starting a blog series on VBM365 this week and wanted to ask if there is anything specific people want to see added as I am doing it from the perspective of the MSP since I work for one.Also if anyone wants to contribute as well let me know and I can add that to the appropriate blog as additional content.

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Chris.Childerhose
victorwu
victorwuVeeam Vanguard
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vSphere Diagnostic Tool

Sphere Diagnostic Tool is a python script that runs diagnostic commands on the vCenter Server Photon Appliance to return useful troubleshooting data while running within the confines of the local environment with out upstream dependencies.The tool itself is currently a set of self contained python and bash scripts that can perform the following tests for vCenter Server Appliance 6.5 or newer:vCenter Basic Info Lookup Service Check AD Check vCenter Certificate Check Core File Check Disk Check vCenter DNS Check vCenter NTP Check vCenter Port Check Root Account Check vCenter Services Check VCHA CheckInstructions Download the Sphere Diagnostic Tool in the following link, then upload it into vCenter Server Appliance with WinSCP.Report You can get the report for reference after the script is executed successfully.For detailshttps://flings.vmware.com/vsphere-diagnostic-tool

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wolff.mateus
JMeixner
JMeixnerOn the path to Greatness
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Procedure to shrink the VBR database?

Hello,a customer has the problem that his VBR server has gotten very slow the last days and since today some agent and plugin jobs are failing (and yes, agent and plugin jobs only are failing, no VM backup jobs...).I had a look at the server and it has hit the 10GB constraint of the the MS SQL express edition for the database size…Is there a procedure to shrink the database? For example to delete the session history or something else?The setting for the History under General Options is  a option how much entries are shown in the console but not how many entries are saved in the db.Any ideas? 🤔

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Iams3le
victorwu
victorwuVeeam Vanguard
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Advanced Cross vCenter Server vMotion - Clone Operation

The Advanced Cross vCenter Server vMotion (XVM) capability was one of the most popular VMware Flings. A lot of customers were anxious to see this capability being an integrated part of vSphere. With the vSphere 7 Update 1c release, the XVM capability is embedded into the vSphere Client!There are two options for this migration “Cross vCenter Server Export” and “The Importing VMs Option“.Cross vCenter Server ExportThe operation is similar to the VMware vSphere storage vMotion.Select Cross vCenter Server export, Next.Input the management IP address of target vCenter Server, username and password, Next.Select the target compute resource, Next.Select the target storage, Next.Select the target folder, Next.Select the target network port group, Next.Select the vMotion priority, Next.Finish to confirm the migration task.The Importing VMs OptionSelecting the option “Import VMs” opens a wizard to walk you through the import process.Connect to the source vCenter Server, Next.Select the import vir

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Chris.Childerhose
Chris.ChilderhoseVeeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard
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XFS Issue - Anyone come across this with XFS?

We recently ran in to an issue as noted here in the forums - Ubuntu Hardened Repository - Path is not XFS - Veeam R&D ForumsHas anyone seen this and come across a fix?  We are working with support on it but wanted to ask the community.  The server has been working fine and the path is definitely XFS as we validated everything.Error - 

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bp4JC
bp4JCInfluencer
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Best route to go for a 65TB+ backup

Hi, everyone! We have a single VM that is over 65TB in size, that we are backing up. We have run into a snag. VMware maxes out at 65TB, so we are running out of space on this backup and we don’t know what route to go in terms of setup. Is SOBR the preferred backup infrastructure for a VM of this size?

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ankireddy501New Here
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Restore of Snapshot Not working

when i try to the restore of the snapshot, getting the following exception. cause:cause:- cause:cause:cause:message: context deadline exceededfunction: kasten.io/k10/kio/poll.waitWithBackoffWithRetriesHelperlinenumber: 95message: Context done while pollingfields:- name: durationvalue: 1m0.006821018sfunction: kasten.io/k10/kio/poll.waitWithBackoffWithRetrieslinenumber: 65message: Timeout while pollingfields:- name: k8sTypevalue: statefulset- name: k8sNamevalue: adsadminfunction: kasten.io/k10/kio/exec/phases/phase.deleteStatefulSetPVCslinenumber: 1035message: Failed to delete associated PVCs- cause:when we try to restore the shapshot, getting the follcause:cause:message: context deadline exceededfunction: kasten.io/k10/kio/poll.waitWithBackoffWithRetriesHelperlinenumber: 95message: Context done while pollingfields:- name: durationvalue: 1m0.00499119sfunction: kasten.io/k10/kio/poll.waitWithBackoffWithRetrieslinenumber: 65message: Timeout while pollingfields:- name: k8sTypevalue: statefu

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MicoolPaul
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Anonymous
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Read-Only Mondays

Hi everybody!I would like to share will all of you a little story,For almost a year, we were doing this "none written" rule, and it's being adopted by the whole department:"READ-ONLY MONDAYS"Tired of deploying things and changing production things on Mondays, tired after the weekend, and many people coming back to the office with tons of issues, after working from home on Fridays, we took this decision so we were able to fix and take care of the "after the weekend" issues, not adding extra failure points to the day.Now we are thinking of improving this rule to Mondays and Fridays!What do you think?Do you have any "none written" rules you would like to share?Many thanks. 

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