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To quote Gostev: Friends don’t let friends use anything but enterprise grade hardware RAID controllers with Battery Backed Write Cache. Well, now we’ve got another phrase we need to add: Friends don’t let friends use SD/USB for their VMware environments. VMware have just updated their KB regarding SD/USB support. Full details are here however the key takeaways are: VMware strongly advises that you move away completely from using SD card/USB as a boot device option on any future server hardware. Starting from the next major vSphere release, SD cards/USB media as a standalone boot device will not be supported. SD cards cannot be used to store the OSDATA partition, and an additional persistent device will be required. SD cards can continue to be used for the bootbank partition provided that a separate persistent local device to store the OSDATA partition (32GB minimum, 128GB recommended) is available in the host Preferably, the SD cards should be replaced with an M.2 or another local pers

Hello Veeam, I would like to ask regarding on how to size repository needed for Veeam via http://rps.dewin.me/If customer gave the data size that needs to backup which is 28tb and backup policy must have 2YR retention and the sched will be 24months Full, 4 weekly Full and 7 Daily incremental.So technically I will create a "Backup Copy Job GFS” in Dewin, and will enter 24 in Months the total for that one is 219.2TB, will create another one for weekly will enter 4 in Weekly and total of 44.2 TB, and last for Daily incremental will select "Forever Incremental” and retention will be 7 and total of 31.89 TB. For all type of backup i checked the Refs/XFS, 10% conservative for change rate, and 50% on data left after reduction. So it means i will add the total for all and that is equivalent to 295.29 TB of storage. So i need a total of 295.29 TB with 2YR retention? I think is is too much give that Veeam have dedup/compress features, if you will size can you share the details as well. Thanks

Hi Team,I going to deployment a POC for one of my customer.Customer wants to HA cluster Veeam B&R for his DC and DR location. If DC site Veeam B&R goes down then DR site take over the Veeam B&R. in this time need to ensure that no backup job will be fail. As per I know and below link Veeam does not support HA Cluster. Ha for Veeam B&R server and Ha for veeam one - Veeam R&D Forums any one can help me on this issue?if i go with always on SQL cluster is it work ? any one do any R&D on this? Thanks in advance……………   

I am trying to find or build a report that will provide a line chart for each datastore trending over the last 4 - 6 months.I looked at the report - Datastore Space Usage History - the data appears to be there under the individual datastore headings, but it appears that will be a significant amount of data manipulation to make it work.Is it possible to get the data in a .csv format?Does anyone else have a similar need and has addressed it?Thanks in advance. 

Happy Friday, Veeam Community! Since @MicoolPaul is on Majorca enjoying sunshine and beach, I am on a mission to back him up with the regular Fun Friday discussion!  What's the worst reason for an outage you've ever had and how badly did it impact you? Here’s story that @MicoolPaul shared with us:“When I was internal IT, we had a summer where we kept suffering power outages at our main building, with people keep getting stuck in the lift! One day we had a bad outage, but it was only partially an outage, apparently two of our three phases were dead! So we had a few random plugs around the office that still worked. To get things back up and running we managed to ignore all health & safety and ran a massive extension lead from a working socket to power our UPS and our entire rack! (it stunk of hot metal and I wouldn't leave it unattended for even a second!).Eventually we found out that the building management had replaced all of the fuses for the building with ones that were HUNDREDS

For those looking for storage integration you can check out this KB just release from Veeam - https://www.veeam.com/kb4206Great article and chart for listing compatible storage integrations.

Hello, Some way to get from an Oracle redo log job the list of protected databases and state with powershell, Thanks. 

This week Anton Gostev talks about hardware for primary backup repositories. He discusses what kind of servers are used in the market and which advantages they have.Really a must-read.  I've recently talked to a number of our field folks regarding primary backup repositories they see our customers deploying these days and collected quite a bit of factual data that I think is worth sharing, as it should be helpful for your planning purposes. I also included some anecdotal information about the pricing just to give you an idea but keep in mind this will the price to channel without reseller margin (so you will pay slightly more) and this data came from one particular cost-sensitive region – so YMMV depending on where your company is located. Also, while I will be talking about HPE and Cisco offerings simply because these are "safe choices" used by the majority of our customers (both companies are our resell partners which explains this phenomena) this does not mean other vendors should

Veeam will host a VeeamOn Update Session on Oct. 13 AMERS / Oct. 14 APJ & EMEAAre you already registered  https://www.veeam.com/veeamon  

Good morning people,just one question from a sysadmin who’s looking to get VMCE.Is it possible to have exam without take the course?

Anyone else experiencing slow response from Veeam support in the last few months? I’ve had a couple of calls where I had to ask for updates on the call before I get any response back from Veeam support. I even had to escalate a call once because I wasn’t getting any feedback. Support engineers also don’t ask for remote sessions anymore and just send mails asking for more details.

Time for everyone to show their age  what version of Veeam did you first use?Bonus points if you remember the version of the first hypervisor you used it with!

Veeam Endpoint Backup (Free Version, Windows 7 32bitTrying to restore a Veeam Backup to a new hard drive but it can’t see the external drive. Has anyone had this problem. Please advise. Thanks

This Friday, join @Rick Vanover, myself and #VeeamLegend @MicoolPaul in exclusive LinkedIn Live session, as we are going to walk you through the first six months of the Veeam Legends program, talk about what does it take to be a Veeam Legend and how to become one.We’ll be announcing the second intake of Veeam Legends 2021 soon and there’s still time for YOU to become one!Prepare your questions and join the conversation   Register here: https://www.linkedin.com/events/6836274746288586752/

                           My #VeeamLegend #swag arrived   Not only has an incredible community been created, with great value content, they also sent us an amazing SWAG, my twins desperate to see each of the gifts, I wanted to share with you how much fun it was.  My twins  helped me to discover beautiful gifts With smiles and laughter , they tried everything, they happy me more Thank You @Kseniya & @Rick Vanover for this Amazing SWAG !!                 

30 years that one simple e-mail change the world: So many years passed since Linus Torvalds start a project that impact our life until now a days. Now, just let me know!Did you use Linux on your IT projects? How distribution do you preffer? How long are you a use of Linux?Let’s going to talk in comments! Long life to Linux!🎊🎈🐧

Happy Friday! It occurred to me I haven’t done one of these about data protection yet, so here we are. Tell us a short story of the worst excuse given for an outage you’ve experienced, here’s mine: Worst Excuse Given:Earlier this year, users of Amazon’s EU-CENTRAL-1 region had issues within a particular availability zone. Amazon claimed they had an increased API error rate and latencies for EC2 APIs and connectivity issues due to “an increase in ambient temperature within a subsection of the affected Availability Zone”.This is technically correct, as the datacentre was on fire!Corey Quinn on Twitter: "BREAKING: There is currently a fire in a data center that's part of @awscloud's eu-central-1 region. Impact limited to a single AZ, obviously. All humans reportedly safe." / Twitter Once again, it goes without saying, check your backups, adhere to the 3-2-1-1-0 rule, protect your data!

Quick question to the community -We are troubleshooting some Linux XFS SOBR issues.  I know for ReFS you need to use the Data Locality policy for the Fast Cloning and wondered would the same apply to XFS?I would think that it does but on the off chance I can change it to the Performance policy it might help us get over the hump for our issues and then I can swap it back. These repos are NOT immutable at the moment either.

Hi All Had a case open with VEEAM and NetApp neither of which is going anywhere pretty quickly, so will throw it out there and see if anyone has any ideas.We have a large estate broken down in to areas which mirror the configuration of each other so a nice lot of reference points.NetApp 16Tb LUN and 16TB volume mapped to a Veeam backup server.The client wrote a lot of data to this back up location and took it offline. So we cleared snapshots down and brought it back online. When the mapped drive was browsed it could be seen there was a lot (TBs + TBs) of “Dead” VM backup files VEEAM advised these could be deleted which they were.However the adjustment hasnt carried through to the storage end VEEAM UI thinks there is 11.9 Tb free NetApp only 2 Tb ** After Storage Snapshot removal Have stopped the jobs reset the storage passwordRe-scanned the storageRe-scanned the appropriate repository.Any thoughts at all ..? P

Veeam has released patch 1 for anyone that uses the AWS agent.  Notes here - https://www.veeam.com/kb4094 

I tried to search for Run Veeam Endpoint twice a day, but nothing came up. I heard their was some scripts. Could someone point to some?Thanks.

Hello, I created 10 new auxiliary backup applications into my organization. How could I know if my backup job is using all the new backup applications?Thanks in advance, Omar De Souza.,

Veeam have snuck this update out late in the day! Veeam Backup for Office 365 5c has been released! Full notes hereIn addition to the key Teams bug fix that has been doing the rounds as a hotfix there seem to be mainly other Teams related fixes such as inability to backup chat messages newer than October 2020 and Backup Proxies out of memory when backing up to object storage! Time to get patching! Thanks @Mildur for clarifying it’s a CU for 5c as 5c was released earlier this year!

Not sure how many people check the Events section but the first VUG Canada meeting is happening on September 21st. There are only two attendees including myself so be sure to sign up. We have Rasmus attending 😎https://community.veeam.com/events/sept-21st-rasmus-haslund-at-vug-canada-meeting-56Hope to see more people there.

Hi,We’re a long time user of Veeam B&R and it’s worked very well for our on-site backups.I’m now testing/evaluating Veeam Cloud Connect with a UK based Veeam CSP (PeaSoup) to additionally backup some of our critical VMs to a Cloud Repository. This is a 5TB trial, but I’m not sure if this has any bearing on my question.This is my scenario:When running a Cloud Connect Backup Copy Job containing 15 VMs only 2 of these VMs will ever be running/active concurrently. The other VMs will be “Waiting for backup infrastructure resources availabilty” until 1 of the active backups completes and then the remaining VMs are processed sequentially; but never more than 2 concurrently. Whilst I understand what this means, I’d like to know what “decides” this limitation.So my questions:Is it an internal Veeam algorithm, available bandwidth or is it the Cloud Service Provider that “decides” this? As a trial user is it possible that we’re being limited to 2 concurrent connections by the CSP? Is it a “ha