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

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.

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 👇👇👇

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

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

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? 

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!

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

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

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.

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

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? 🤔

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

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 - 

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?

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

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. 

VEEAM integration APIs can be combined with other market solutions    

Hey all, help me create sop for how to take my on-primies backup to aws s3 and restore aws s3 to ec2. 

Hi Folks, VeeamON 2022 is coming up fast. Recently a video was put out that caused quite a stir. Veeam’s marketing department let a notorious Anti-Swagger slip through into one of their promotional videos for VeeamON. The repercussions have been quite serious and the upper hierarchy at Veeam are even discussing a ballistic Paddle Board swag response. He is second to last in the video . VeeamON is never dull!!  

Hi, What we have:A Protection Group (protection-sql) containing SQL Server Cluster: sql_c01 with two sql Servers. sql1 and sql2 I have one agent Backup Job bj-sql-01 , Type “Failover Cluster”. Useing a sobr with aws capacity and archive tiers.  Anything is working absolutely fine. Backup ist fine. Offloading is fine. Whats going on:Both sql servers will be renewed. There will be two new sql server. sql1-new and sql2-new (agent already installed) After installation, both new sql servers will useing the same SQL Server Cluster sql-c01 sql1 and sql2 will be turned off.My Accepetion:Should I build a new backup job (clone) or is it possible to keep the existing backup job. bj-sql-01 ?I would manually initiate a Protection Group rescan. The new sql-server should appear in the Protection Group protection-sql the OLD sql server should disappear, because they do not belong to the sql cluster anymore. The existing backup job should recocognize the missing sql Server but will continue backup the

Hi guy update April 2022 for fix RPC vulCVE-2022-26809 - Security Update Guide - Microsoft - Remote Procedure Call Runtime Remote Code Execution VulnerabilityHow could an attacker exploit the vulnerability?To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would need to send a specially crafted RPC call to an RPC host. This could result in remote code execution on the server side with the same permissions as the RPC service.Why did Microsoft remove the Mitigation to “Block TCP port 445 at the enterprise perimeter firewall”?The researcher who submitted the vulnerability used SMB as the attack vector to trigger the exploit in the RPC service, so the mitigation was effective for the issue that was presented to us. Although blocking ports 139 and 445 [smb] at the perimeter firewall is a recommended practice, it does not directly protect against all potential attack scenarios for this specific vulnerability. At this time we are not aware of any other specific attack vectors for this vulnerability,

Hi,Can anyone guide me for the best practise while configuring Protection Group options. Hereby attached file, please advise as to which options are to configured for best performance.  Manish

I try to backup a VM Machine on hyper-v but i get error: 20.04.2022 10:56:18 :: Processing DC-01 Error: There are no available IP addresses to connect to Hyper-V Integration Service.   How can I solve this, with anoter hyper-v server it works. Thx Peter

Tape consumes 87% less energy and produces 87% less CO2 than equivalent amounts of HDD storage. When analyzed over the total product lifecycle from procurement of raw materials to production to distribution to usage and finally disposal, tape produces 95% less CO2 than HDD and produces 80% less e-waste. https://datastorage-na.fujifilm.com/sustainability/