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For anyone that uses Dell EMC PowerMax/VMAX there is a new plugin for Veeam just release and can be found here -KB4200: Release Notes for Dell EMC PowerMax Plug-In for Veeam Backup & Replication 1.0.84Great to see many storage vendors getting plugins to leverage snapshots for backup. 

If anyone is interested in hearing from Rasmus as well as some information about v11 feel free to attend the VUG Canada event -Sept 21st: Rasmus Haslund at VUG Canada Meeting, Tue, 21 Sep. 2021 at 13:00, America/New_York | Veeam Community Resource HubIt will be the first one and is at 1PM eastern standard time if you can make it.@Geoff Burke @Inder 

Just read a Veeam blog post about how to protect your organization from ransomware attacks. Because we cannot talk enough about ransomware-protection, I want to give a small summary of the blog post here. Consider it as an invitation to read the original post carefully! https://www.veeam.com/blog/how-to-protect-your-organization-from-ransomware-attacks.html Attack Vectors – often started at endpoints Phishing emails, with/without download links Reuse of compromised user identity Brute-force attacks Exploiting vulnerabilities DDoS attacks   Countermeasures Patch and keep your systems Apply strict MFA for all remote to avoid brute force attacks Protect user Protecting the endpoint Traditional antivirus is no longer enough Email security Data protection Backup, backup, backup 3-2-1 Rule Visibility Monitor ransomware attack specify metrics I personally add: train your employees Other related actions to reduce risk  However, nothing is guaranteed to prote

I have just discovered on Twitter that there’s currently a problem with Teams Backup in Veeam Backup for Office 365 which could affect many installations.It looks like Microsoft did change something on their side and so Teams backup is failing with the following error: “Object reference not set to an instance of an object”If you are affected by this problem, you can request the hotfix from Veeam Support.Here is the corresponding R&D forums topic: https://forums.veeam.com/veeam-backup-for-office-365-f47/teams-backup-failing-with-object-reference-not-set-to-an-instance-of-an-object-t76162.html

Test Mails via Veeam Windows free agent 5.0 work fine!However notification after backup do never arrive anywhere.Checked and found out, that other users encouter the same problem.Problem started after upgrading or installing Version 5.Hope to get a solution soon.RegardsMichael

Hello everyone! I have a case here that is about to copy some files on a Linux machine to a blob on Azure.These files are not generated by Veeam. So, I just like to know if it possible to take this files and upload to Azure through Veeam B&R. What you think about it?Any idea or tips?

have anyone encountered such on veeam agent for microsoft windows?

If anyone is interested in Veeam for BaaS or DRaaS then you can find some helpful videos on Youtube here - (36) BaaS and DRaaS - YouTubeIt looks at what BaaS & DRaaS are, how to choose a provider and also if you are an MSP then deploying VCC.

Anyone that uses VMware might want to check this out as they just release Update 2c for version 7.VMware ESXi 7.0 Update 2c Release NotesVMware vCenter Server 7.0 Update 2c Release NotesThis includes both vCenter and ESXi.

Do you have any questions about achieving or upgrading any VMCE certifications? Ask and you’ll get an answer

Hi, everyone I have some copyjobs that have been running for a significant amount of time due to a catchup-scenario we are in. I have noticed that on some of the jobs, it seems as if they start over. I check the jobs at some point the next day, and instead of the “Last Run” column showing days, I will see 8 hours ago, 3 hours ago, etc. The job will still be in running status. But it also looks like the job may not have started over. These jobs are immediate copy.

For those who don’t go to the VMware forums (another ‘communities’ based vendor website) often, there was finally a VMware employee who somewhat unofficially acknowledged the issue of running ESXi on SD cards, specifically with vSphere 7U2. I say U2 because v7 and v7U1c, of which I both have run on DELL IDSDMs, runs flawlessly; and has for the past year.To read a little more on the issue, you can review the VMware Communities post here. The issue, it seems, has to do with their newly formatted boot partitions. But honestly, I think the mishap (Hosts disconnecting/hanging) is mostly due to a new vmkusb driver. VMW is currently working on a fix, though they’re really recommending orgs to start using ‘high-performance’ storage (i.e. disks) for the boot  device moving forward. All that to say is, if you haven’t upgrade to 7U2, I recommend not to. If you’re running your boot on disk, I think you’ll be fine. Otherwise, hold off. One of the Veeam Vanguards, Luciano Patrao, did a nice little p

Hello, I currently use Veeam Agentfor Microsoft Windows Free to back up my Windows 10 computers to NAS.  I want to upgrade to a solution that can do the following1. Back up Windows 10 computers to NAS2. Back up network drive to NAS (network drive is 2TB USB drive connected to home router)3. Back up Android devices to NASDoes Veeam offer a product that covers all these requirements?Thank you!

Afternoon everyone, I’ve just seen that Veeam have released the new version of Veeam Backup for GCP! Release Notes: https://www.veeam.com/veeam_backup_gcp_2_0_release_notes_rn.pdfWhat’s new:https://www.veeam.com/veeam_backup_gcp_2_0_whats_new_wn.pdf A key highlight is GCP will be joining AWS & Azure native backup options in being managed by Veeam B&R v11a when that becomes available!

I ran a report in Veeam and found out that there were several garbage files in Veeam. But, we have CISCO UCS sentinal snapshots. Do you think that what Veeam shows in Garbage files could include the Sentinel Snapshots also? As, we do not want to delete the Sentinel snapshots in UCS which might be appearing as Garbage files in Veeam. Anyone could explain more about this Garbage file and which one we should delete.

FROM THE DESK OF RICKATRONI hope everyone enjoyed the VeeamON 2021 online event. Now the real work begins for us. How to we incorporate a real event with the online experience. We can’t say no to the great reach of the online world yet much of the market wants the real event for a more authentic experience.My question for you is what would we do better at a subsequent online event format?Keep the suggestions as constructive as you can please!BONUS:  Help us steer our presence at VMworld and AWS with this survey! Tell us the experience you want!

Hello, I would like to try the immutable backup functionality of V11. A first trial was successful but I would like to continue. The repository machine is an older desktop PC where I have installed 4 x 1TB SATA HDD. How do I have to  configure the initial configuration script of Ubuntu in order to realize a 100GB RAID10 for the OS and the remaining space as RAID10 for the backup files? BRFrank

Hey Guys,I have query. Suppose I have my veeam backup server on-premise and if I wanna store my backups on a repository(let’s say windows or linux) on cloud. Is it possible to integrate on-premise backup server with repository on cloud?

Has anyone tried registering for the VMCE 2021 using a surface pro? Mine was temporarily goosed after the Pearson Vue test, and the mouse performance was terrible.

Require some clarification on Veeam Rental licensing.  Do rental licenses follow the same offering as the Veeam Universal License (VUL) offering listed in the Veeam Licensing Policy? Meaning, for every 1 license of Veeam Backup & Replication, they are offered in packs of 10 instances? We report per workload type (VM, Workstation) on a monthly basis to our aggregator.  With that said, does that mean it’s a 1:1 ratio for rental licenses? for every protected workload you have to license per unit (VM, Server, Workstation).Generally a little confused with the different offerings between commercial and rental, and whether rental licenses follow the VUL offering.

Hello Veeam Community, If customer have 500gb left in their datastore, how can I know or compute If how many days/months the 500gb will be? Assuming the daily trend average backup size is 900gb definitely it will reduce since there is dedup and compress in Veeam and have forever incremental sched. Thanks

Hi,Can anyone confirm if .NET 4.8 can safely be used with Veeam B&R 11?I need to install an agent on the host server and .NET 4.8 is a requirement. I cannot get a definitive answer from our 3rd party vendor who just refer me back to the System Requirements. Thank you

Veeam has introduced yet another plugin for storage so anyone that uses HPE XP8 can find the KB here - KB4194: Release Notes for HPE XP Plug-In for Veeam Backup & Replication 1.0.66As per Gostev’s digest it uses the Hitachi SVP engine so it was easy for them to add support -Last week we've shipped yet another Universal Storage API plug-in, this time it is for HPE XP8 storage. This storage model uses the Hitachi VSP engine underneath, so it was easy for us to quickly add support after we integrated with the latter. For the release notes, please refer to KB4194.Check it out! 

Hello everyone,I Have been learning about veeam products and recently for practice, I  setup a windows server VM  & installed veeam backup & replication in that. I was trying to backup a physical machine and the backup job failed. I feel the reason is  veeam is not able to identify details such as hostname and credentials. I looked various documents related to this but still I am missing out something. I even installed veeam agent on physical machine during initial setup. Can anyone help me out with this?

Hi all,from Gostev's Veeam R&D Forums Digest, report a new threat targeting ESXi hostsSecure your VMware ESXi hosts against ransomware in 3 simple steps! (truesec.com) Linux version of HelloKitty ransomware targets VMware ESXi servers (bleepingcomputer.com)