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VMware just released the log4j patches for vCenter 6.5 and 6.7. https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2021-0028.html

Hi,Backup jobs target is SOBR with capacity tier.I have an option to configure versioning and lock on the capacity tier bucket.Can someone please tell me what could be the impact?Thanks,Moshe Mazor

The first of February was "Change your password" day. Because there are a lot of InfoSec people in the community I would like to ask: Is it still a good idea to change the password regularly? Respectively does this make sense any more?I am not convinced to change the password regularly. For sure it makes perfect sense, when:Account was hacked Check with tools like https://haveibeenpwned.com/ Using the same password for more than one service/account Using a bad password (for example: Password1)I am convinced of the following measures to protect accounts and passwords:Using long and/or complex passwords Using MFA wherever possible Using a password managerWhat do you think about this?

Veeam has release a Cumulative Patch for Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 version 5.0 and can be found here: https://www.veeam.com/kb4278Got some fixes about sharpoint backup failure

VMware vSphere 7.0 U3c is released today, this version can resolve some critical issues. Please check the followings.For Log4j issue on vCenter 7.0, vCenter 7.0 U3c can resolve this issue.https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2021-0028.html vSphere 7.0 Update 3 Critical Known Issueshttps://kb.vmware.com/s/article/86287

Hey guys,I am currently using v11. To use v11a, should I perform upgrade or download a cumulative patch and perform update?

Hey Veeam Community, Question goes to people who work with companies that use Salesforce. 1) What is the is the most typical setup you see, in terms of Salesforce administration: Internal Salesforce team Internal IT team External service provider2) What is the size of that company and Salesforce deployment? (relative estimate or actual user count)For example, at Veeam it is managed and owned by the dedicated internal Salesforce team.Thanks!  

I’m using Veeam 11 (11a? not sure how to tell) Community Edition on my home network.  Mostly everything is working fine; however, two of five win10 computer agents (5.0.1.4584) in the inventory are showing :  Microsoft Windows version installed on this machine is not officially supported by Veeam yet.  which is AFAIK is incorrect - both are standard Windows 10 Pro installs (I have never used any dev or pre-release builds).  For example, the machine that gave the above is 10.0.19044 N/A Build 1466 which according to this page https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/release-health/release-information is a production release, not a Technical Preview. Where is the issue?  How do I convince Veeam that it a production OS? PS, in case you are wondering; the backup still works.  The issue is my reporting mechanism… since Veeam reports a Warning due to “Technical Preview”, I keep getting alerts about the issue. 

Hello,We want to perform VEEAM backups on a server that has MAXDB. Is there an agent allowing MAXDB backups including logs as it is the case for SQL Server? Moreover, it seems to believe the forums that restoring a VM with a MAXDB database leads to an inconsistent database if you don't freeze it first. Is it always the case? cordially

I see a interesting thread on Veeam Forumhttps://forums.veeam.com/vmware-vsphere-f24/case-05192176-problem-restoring-backups-from-multiple-rdx-tapes-t78398.htmlwhere they’re trying to restore .vkb from RDX and got this error:  From your experience, what do you guys think it can be?In my opinion, the RDX device was broken BEFORE the backup job, or it is a known bug due to the missing update KB4025334 and ReFS enabled on Windows Server 2016.And above all, RDX in nearly 2022? What do you think?Let’s flow this thread with our experience in cases like this one, and just leave real solutions on R&D Forums.

Just wanted to let everyone know my new v11 book is set to publish in approximately two weeks so I am doing the marketing of it.  You can see my blog post below and can preorder the book at Amazon. Mastering Veeam Backup & Replication v11 - Publishing SOON 

I am just starting out doing Veeam SQL backups and one thing I found is I need to be able to exclude certain dBs from getting backed up in Veeam. The dBs that I do not want backed up are for dev and the dB is restored to a different server nightly so when a Veeam SQL log backup happens I’m getting the error “Collected SQL Server transaction logs do not match any existing database backup: DatabaseName” which is 100% accurate.I do not take full backups every day so when the logs are getting backed up this particular dB does not have a full associated with the log backups.This dB would not need to get backed up at all.

For anyone that is an MSP and happens to use the Veeam Service Provider v6 console for managing your tenants and VCC environments there was a patch released today for this.  I will take the build from 6.0.0.7739 to 6.0.0.8787.It contains some nice fixes including a new downloadable EXE file for the Windows agent installation.  Check here for further information - KB4277: Release Notes for Veeam Service Provider Console v6 Patch 1We will be patching and testing our server sometime this week or early next.

Veeam has just released the Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure v3a. Check release notes here - KB4279: Release Information for Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure v3a

The Dell Technologies Proven Professional Knowledge Sharing competition is an industry award-winning platform which provides an opportunity to share your expertise, unique deployments, best practices, or any other relevant technical topic of interest. I have been participated in this competition for 4 years, fortunately my articles were selected for publication by Dell Technologies. I enjoyed this competition. My articles are list as below: 2021 – Get Ready for Edge Computinghttps://education.dellemc.com/content/dam/dell-emc/documents/en-us/2021KS_Wu-Get_Ready_for_Edge_Computing.pdf2020 – Multiple Active DataCenters Solutionhttps://education.dellemc.com/content/dam/dell-emc/documents/en-us/2020KS_Wu-Multiple_Active_DataCenters_Solution.pdf2019 – Unmatched Availability Solution for VxRailhttps://education.dellemc.com/content/dam/dell-emc/documents/en-us/2019KS_Wu-Unmatched_Availability_Solution_for_VxRail.pdf2018 – Storage Migration – Hybrid Array to All-Flash Arrayhttps://education.emc

VMware vSphere 7.0 u3c was released last week, the Log4j security issue can be resolved by this version. Dell VxRail appliance is a black box solution (Dell hardware + VMware solution). Dell just released VxRail 7.0.320 package that includes the resolution of VMware Log4j. Please refer to below for details. 

I have an issue on Veeam Storage Integration with IBM SVC. It hold the storage discovery for a long time. Anyone can help me?Veeam B&R: v11aIBM SVC OS: firmware 8.3.1.6Troubleshooting: Already restarted the VBR 

Pluralsight is a good platform to learn the skills of the different products, e.g. VMware, Kubernetes and Veeam, etc. If you’re Microsoft MVP's, Microsoft RD's, or VMware vExperts, etc, you can apply the complimentary subscriptions (1 year) to access all courses. Refer to below for details Please don't miss out. VMware experts, the 2022 vExpert application deadline is Friday, Jan 28th. https://vexpert.vmware.com/https://www.pluralsight.com/teach/resource/vips

Hi Folks, After a hiatus of wild IT academia activity and other events I want to get back to doing some posts. I am thinking of setting up a separate blog and then linking on to here like I noticed some people do. Looking for any recommendations on where to host my blog from the experts here? Thanks Geoff

Hi there, I didn’t know where to  question, so here I post it for any help or explanation.it’s weird for me not not find a SPAIN OR SPANISH VUG, so how can I request to create it? Or any other information?is there any VUG responsible, leather or so?also anyone interested to participate in a Spain / Spanish VUG? thanks,

Hey! Just like in March when @regnor posted about the Microsoft Ignite Cloud Skills Challenge, Microsoft are back again with their November 2021 edition! Didn’t see regnor’s post? Check it out here:The exam list is different this time and the options are:MS-700: Managing Microsoft Teams MS-720: Microsoft Teams Voice Engineer MD-100: Windows 10 MD-101: Managing Modern Desktops MB-210: Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales PL-400: Microsoft Power Platform Developer AZ-104: Microsoft Azure Administrator AZ-204: Developing Solutions for Microsoft Azure DP-300: Administering Relational Databases on Microsoft Azure AZ-800: Administering Windows Server Hybrid Core Infrastructure AZ-801: Configuring Windows Server Hybrid Advanced Services MB-330: Microsoft Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management SC-200: Microsoft Security Operations Analyst SC-300: Microsoft Identity and Access Administrator SC-400: Microsoft Information Protection AdministratorThe challenge starts on the 2nd November and runs until the 3

This Friday I’ll be delivering a talk alongside @Rick Vanover  on a key data protection best practice that I don’t believe gets enough attention: Data Encryption.Join myself and Rick as we talk about the escalating stakes in the battle against malicious actors and some of their latest tactics to extort a ransom out of you, some of the steps you can take to better protect yourself, and some of the gotchas that you’ll be glad to know when you remediate this in your environments.You’ll be able to see this on LinkedIn here or if you prefer, on YouTube here.Hope to see you there!

I created a SOBR in order to tier off data to AWS.  That process works perfectly.My capacity tier setting is setup to Copy and Move.  The Move is setup for 14 days (operational restore window)My backup job has a retention of 30 days with the Backup Repo being the SOBRAnd I am doing Forward Incremental with weekly Active Full on Sunday My issue is that in the Performance Tier, I only have 1 backup chain (currently there are 3 restore points Sun-Tues), not 2 as I would have anticipated with my Move policy.  My Object Storage is showing the correct number of restore points / backup chains based upon the 30 day Retention I have setup on my job.What do you think I am doing work with this configuration?  I am looking to have 1 complete backup chain plus current week, so 7 + 7 in my performance tier.What am I doing wrong that I am not getting my 14 days on Performance tier? Thank you everyone for your support 

Veeam has release a plugin for Datacore if anyone uses it.  Check out the release notes - KB4128: Release Notes for DataCore Plug-In for Veeam Backup & Replication

Issue Date:2022-01-04Updated On:2022-01-27VMSA-2022-0001 - VMware Workstation, Fusion and ESXi updates address a heap-overflow vulnerability (CVE-2021-22045)- Please see the updated advisory here: https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2022-0001.html Below is a related post.https://community.veeam.com/topic/show?tid=1966&fid=81