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HangTen416
HangTen416Influencer
What is Cloud City? Why Cloud City?

Luke : I saw - I saw infrastructure in the clouds. Yoda : [nods] Data you have there. Luke : The data was at risk... Yoda : It is the future you see. Luke : The future? [pause] Luke : Will the data be recoverable? Yoda : [closes his eyes for a moment] Difficult to see. Always in motion is the future. Luke : But the cloud providers protect my data, right? Yoda : Decide you must, how to protect your data best. If native tools you use, recover some data you could; but protected from all disasters, that is uncertain... Why a specific Veeam User Group focusing on cloud? The Veeam cloud portfolio is different than the traditional Veeam portfolio in look, deployment, and functionality. Provide specific guidance for the Veeam cloud portfolio Plug the gap between traditional Veeam portfolio and the cloud portfolio. Help everyone along the cloud learning journey whether beginner or veteran. What do we can we expect from this group? Safe, respectful discussion on cloud related topics Focus on dat

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HangTen416
HangTen416Influencer
Veeam Cloud City Series "VDC For Me" episode 2 recording is now available

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HangTen416
HangTen416Influencer
Veeam Cloud City Series "VDC For Me" episode 1 recording is available

For those who were not able to join ​@MicoolPaul and I yesterday for the first in a series on VDC and how it fits in your data protection and cybersecurity plan, the recording is available here: Look out for the next episode at the end of March. Cheers, Hin

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wesmrt
wesmrtVeeam MVP
How to configure Microsoft 365 Modern Authentication for Notification on Veeam Backup for Azure

Hello guys! It’s possible to use Modern Authentication for E-mail Notifications in Veeam Public Cloud products, but we need a few additional steps outside the product, so I thought it’s a good idea show how to perform the steps needed to use Microsoft 365 with Modern Authentication to send Email Notifications. In this guide, I will demonstrate the process using Veeam Backup for Azure, but all the steps are the same for Veeam Backup for AWS and Veeam Backup for Google Cloud. 1) In Settings - Email we can find the section to enable the notifications: 2) Click on “Enable email notifications” to open the Email Server Settings. 3) We have to change to Modern on “AUthentication” field and to “Microsoft” to “Mail service”: 4) Now we need to create an Application in the Microsoft 365 tenant to authorize the appliance to authenticate and send e-mails.In the Microsoft 365 Admin Center we have to go to the Azure Active Directory: 5) You will be redirected to the “Microsoft Entra Admin Center”.Fro

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MicoolPaul
MicoolPaul
Veeam Data Cloud for Microsoft 365 Year in Review - 2024

Hey everyone! Just a quick update here that I've started creating some video content as well to share with you all regarding Veeam Data Cloud. My first entry gives a 'Year in Review' highlight of some of the key milestone releases of Veeam Data Cloud for Microsoft 365 over the past year, enjoy!

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piaakit1210New Here
veeam backup for M365 vm question

Dear All, I have recently installed Veeam backup for M365, and after the setup i designed to resize the disk from “standard_F2s_v2” to “Standard_B1ls” and i found its generate one more VM from azure with cpu standard_F2s_v2 itself, just wonder am i allow to resize the disk ? any help would be appreicated

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Iams3le
Iams3leVeeam Legend
Exploring Veeam Backup Deployment Options for Microsoft 365 Data Protection

Many organizations still don’t realize that backing up Microsoft 365 data is their responsibility. With the introduction of Veeam Data Cloud and Veeam Vault, I wanted to write a guide detailing the deployment options available to customers and reiterate the importance of backing up Microsoft 365 data. In the past, we have dealt with this topic as referenced below and also, why use Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365. If you would like to explore Microsoft 365 in a sandbox environment, please refer to this article below In this article, I started by discussing what Microsoft 365 is and detailed some misconceptions about Microsoft’s Built-in M365 Protection. The image below shows a shared responsibility model and I urge you to take a look at the referenced link for more information. A sub-topic on why Veeam Stands out amongst other competitors was also outlined. Furthermore, great emphasis was laid on the freedom of choice available for protecting your M365 data which are as follows: Backup a

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tfewins
tfewinsVeeam MVP
VB365 Proxy Automation - Part 1 (VMware)

Background How the Proxy Automation works Script logic flow Configuration Requirements Script Parameters Scheduled Task Monitor Troubleshooting Background With the recent release of Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 (VB365) v8 there were several awesome additions to how VB365 proxies work. Scalable performance and high availability are now built in with the introduction of Proxy Pools and a the NATs queue that manages the processing of proxy tasks. We can now add or remove proxies from a proxy pool during backup processing and the queue will redistribute any remaining tasks among the active proxies. This opens the door for some dynamic proxy automation to either conserve resources while backups are not being processed or to save money by deallocating the unnecessary resources (Public Cloud). This lead to a discussion between Brad Barker and I about how we could potentially pave the way, or at least point in the right direction, for our customers to take advantage of this opportunity. We d

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tfewins
tfewinsVeeam MVP
VB365 Proxy Automation - Part 3 (AWS)

Background How the Proxy Automation works Configure Monitor Background With the release of VB365 v8, several awesome features (NATs, Proxy Pools, PostgreSQL cache DB, etc) were added to the product that add performance benefits and high availability for VB365 Proxy deployments. These features open the door to some possible proxy automations. The main benefit that came to mind and started this project is about efficiency and minimizing costs for deployments in the cloud. This has been a multi-part project that I hope will start the ball rolling for some even greater community projects to fully take advantage of these capabilities. The focus of this “Part 3” of the project is to automate VB365 proxies in AWS EC2. If you have followed along for Part 1 or Part 2 of this project, most things will be repeated except for the parts that specifically pertain to AWS. You can review the previous posts for VMware and Azure proxy automations here: Part 1 - VMware Part 2 - Azure How the Proxy Automa

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Brad
BradVeeam MVP
VB365 Proxy Automation - Part 2 (Azure)

Background With the recent release of Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 (VB365) v8 there were several awesome additions to how VB365 proxies work. Scalable performance and high availability are now built in with the introduction of Proxy Pools and a the NATs queue that manages the processing of proxy tasks. We can now add or remove proxies from a proxy pool during backup processing and the queue will redistribute any remaining tasks among the active proxies. This opens the door for some dynamic proxy automation to either conserve resources while backups are not being processed or to reduce costs by setting systems to a deallocated state when unnecessary. This lead to a discussion between Tyson Fewins and I about how we could potentially pave the way, or at least point in the right direction, for our customers to take advantage of this opportunity. We decided to start with a simple idea of automating proxy power state to have proxies come online when needed and take them offline when they

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wesmrt
wesmrtVeeam MVP
Configuring Private Network Deployment in Veeam Backup for Azure

Hello guys, Is very common today to see as a requirement that the Veeam Backup for Azure uses a Private Network Deployment.As this has MANY steps that involves not only Veeam Backup for Azure, but also Azure knowledge I decided to write this guide with all the necessary. So, let’s move on! 😊 Configuring Private DNS Configuring Storage Account for Repository Testing a VM Backup Policy (FIRST TRY) Testing a VM Backup Policy (SECOND TRY) Testing a VM Backup Policy (LAST TIME) This guide was created based on Veeam Backup for Azure v7.This guide assumes the following: The Veeam Backup for Azure is deployed and integrated with Veeam Backup & Replication using Private IP (Deploying Backup Appliance - Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure Guide) The basic configuration is already done (Service Account, Repository and Worker settings) A private Virtual Network exists on Azure (this means a Virtual Network with no direct access to the internet and no public IP) An internet connection is necessary du

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Cassandra Faris
Cassandra FarisProduct Strategy
Learning Azure Through Community: Veeam Enters the Chat

As I’ve been learning Azure, I’ve been using Microsoft Word for various note taking and writing tasks. Every time I open that app, I think of college. I have a philosophy degree and spent a lot of late nights writing papers. I didn’t have a computer at home until I was well into college, so I had to learn to use Word while also learning and writing material for my classes. My freshman year, I was writing an essay about Plato that was due the following day. I had procrastinated of course and was looking at an all-nighter. Inevitably, the computer crashed. This was in 1999 when you had to manually save your work. I hadn’t done that and lost most of the essay. Lesson learned. I started saving my documents after every paragraph and sometimes even in multiple locations. To this day, even though OneDrive saves my work automatically, I manually click that floppy disk icon all the time. I think it’s interesting that even as a college student, studying something totally unrelated to technology,

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Julia F Morgado
Julia F MorgadoProduct Strategy
Deploy Veeam Backup for AWS with Terraform!

Today, I bring you another exciting video about Veeam Backup for AWS. I know we'll have many more videos about this incredible tool, so bear with me on this journey! In this new video, you'll discover step-by-step how to make the most of Veeam Backup for AWS along with Terraform, an open-source tool for infrastructure automation. Get ready to learn: ➡ How to configure Terraform easily ➡ Using Terraform templates to deploy Veeam Backup for AWS with ease ➡ How to customize your deployment by setting variable values ➡ How to quickly provision all the necessary resources in AWS with a simple command ➡ And finally, how to access the Veeam Backup for AWS web console to complete the configuration and secure your AWS workloads in a matter of minutes Protect your data and AWS workloads more effectively and optimize your time with this powerful and practical solution.

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Julia F Morgado
Julia F MorgadoProduct Strategy
How to Upgrade your Veeam Backup for AWS appliance to v8.0

I've just released a new blog post and video tutorial aimed at helping you upgrade your Veeam Backup for AWS with VBR to the latest version 8.0. Blog post: https://www.juliafmorgado.com/posts/how-to-upgrade-to-veeam-backup-aws-v8/ Video: This recent release, unveiled just last week, brings a host of advanced features and capabilities designed to enhance your cloud data protection strategy. With Veeam Backup for AWS v8.0, you can now take advantage of robust functionalities such as; Amazon Redshift Cluster protection Seamless Amazon FSx file system protection Improved immutability extensions that help optimize costs and streamline your backup processes. Dive into the tutorial and discover how these new features can elevate your AWS backup solutions!!

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diegocs082Comes here often
Veeam Backup in Cloud AWS

In a scenario where we have Linux and Windows servers, with Oracle and Microsoft SQL databases, running in the AWS Cloud. The best way would be, server image backup + Database backup (Oracle and SQL) via integration? Would anyone have any different suggestions? Thank you for your support.

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Chris.Childerhose
Cassandra Faris
Cassandra FarisProduct Strategy
Learning Azure Through Community: Cloud Basics

As the newest member of Veeam’s Product Strategy team, I’m enhancing my knowledge and becoming more hands-on with Azure and Veeam’s backup and recovery solutions for the cloud. This post is part of a series called “Learning Azure Through Community” that will cover human and technological considerations and my own experiences with Azure, Veeam Data Cloud, and related topics. Today, I’m sharing things I learned in my initial Azure training that I hadn’t necessarily considered before. Consistent Change Requires Consistent Learning Technology changes fast; and every change gives us the chance to learn. My experience with the cloud has been consistent yet random, picked up through years of leading and participating in tech meetups, blogs, webinars, videos, talks, and the all-important hallway track at conferences. At every event, there’s some new feature, product, or consideration that experienced cloud professionals are buzzing about. Meanwhile there are new cloud users every day with vary

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Geoff Burke
Geoff BurkeVeeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard
AWS tasks on available on Kodekloud Engineer (Free)

Hi Everyone, For anyone who wants to learn AWS, Kodekloud now have introduced Aws tasks in their Kodekloud Engineer game. You can use this for free. If you have a subscription then you can point to one topic only (but I would not do that since all the task sections are really interesting and lets you learn different technologies hands on without trashing production :) ) https://engineer.kodekloud.com/?utm_source=linkedin&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=aws_cloud_tasks&utm_term=mm_post

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MicoolPaul
MicoolPaul
Veeam Data Cloud Microsoft 365: Remove Deleted Sites from Backup Jobs

So, you’ve just completed a bit of data management on your SharePoint/Microsoft Teams estate, and now your Veeam Data Cloud Microsoft 365 (VDC:M365) job reports are showing warnings, how do you fix this? This is a nice simple one: Navigate to Backup Jobs, find your backup job that is protecting these resources, in my scenario as I’m on a fixed license, I had a single job called ‘Shared objects backup’. Select your backup job and choose ‘Manage backup’ from the top of the screen. At the top of the job configuration screen, you’ll see that by default you’re taken to ‘M365 Users and Groups’, but you’ve got another tab called ‘SharePoint Sites and Teams’, click on this option. You’ll then see two sections here, one is called ‘Add more items’, allowing you to add additional SharePoint or Teams sites. The other is called ‘Backup items’, everything listed under here is currently being protected. Check the ones you want to remove and then click ‘Delete’. We’ll be asked to confirm we want to de

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leduardoserrano
leduardoserranoOn the path to Greatness
From RedHat Summit 2024: Policy as Code (PaC) will be delivered on the Ansible Automation Platform

It´s good news from Red Hat Summit for those working with DevSecOps, Cloud, and automation. As the primary goal of IaC (Infrastructure as Code) is to automate the provisioning and configuration of infrastructure, making it more reliable, repeatable, and scalable, the PaC is essential to automate the enforcement and validation of policies across infrastructure, ensuring compliance, security, and operational best practices. By codifying policies, organizations can automate enforcing and validating these policies across their infrastructure. This automation ensures consistency, reduces manual errors, and helps maintain compliance with regulatory requirements and security standards. The tech preview will be available in the coming months. Link to the news: https://www.redhat.com/en/about/press-releases/red-hat-introduces-policy-code-help-address-ai-complexities-scale

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Iams3le
Iams3leVeeam Legend
Comprehensive guide on protecting AWS EC2, RDS Instances and VPC

Veeam Backup for Amazon Web Services (Veeam Backup for AWS or VBAWS) protects and facilitates disaster recovery for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS), Amazon DynamoDB, and Amazon Elastic File System (EFS) environments. Due to the nature of this guide, I can only share the link: https://techdirectarchive.com/2024/05/06/deep-dive-into-protecting-aws-ec2-rds-instances-and-vpc/ In this article, I discussed comprehensively how to deploy the VBAWS Appliance from the Veeam Backup and Replication Console, create a backup policy and back up EC2, RDS, and VPC. Also, I demonstrated the restoration process of EC2 and showed the steps to perform RDS restoration as well. If you would like to follow the steps discussed here, you should create an AWS account and learn the steps to create a “VPC, Subnet, NACL, Security Group: Create your own Network on AWS from Scratch“. Also, see how to create an EC2 instance, because we will be protecting it with VBAWS, crea

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MicoolPaul
MicoolPaul
☁ Call for papers: Cloud City Virtual Events ☁

Hi everyone, With the year well underway, we’re planning on being very busy over here at Cloud City, and why not? We saw 2023 end with updates to all of Veeam’s cloud hyperscale data protection products, VB365 v8 round the corner, the official rebranding and 1.5 update to the Veeam Data Cloud, and we’ve not even made it to VeeamON yet for what Veeam have waiting up their sleeve! With this in mind there’s a lot to talk about, and a lot to share! So whilst @HangTen416 and I are finalising the virtual events calendar, we thought we’d kick off the call for papers. So, what do you want to share with the Veeam community this year? Either drop a comment below with a draft title and brief or if preferred send either Hin or I a private message on here to start the conversation. We expect we’ll have three events this year at a minimum, one per quarter, but if there’s enough content to go round, we’ll certainly do more!

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Iams3le
Iams3leVeeam Legend
Learn how to create VPC, Subnet, NACL, Security Group on AWS instead of using the defaults

Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) allows you to deploy AWS resources within a logically isolated virtual network that you create. This virtual network mirrors the structure of a conventional network found in your own data centre while leveraging the scalable infrastructure provided by AWS. If you would like to follow this process, kindly use these steps to create your AWS account. BTW, Why You Should Create Your Own VPC? Creating your own virtual private cloud (VPC) offers numerous advantages. This allows you to design a networking architecture that aligns with your organisation’s requirements. You can define subnets, configure route tables, and implement various network configurations to optimise performance, reliability, and data flow within your virtual network. Note: You can delete the default subnet or default VPC just as you can delete any other subnet or VPC. However, if you delete your default subnets or default VPC, you must explicitly specify a subnet in one of your V

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HangTen416
HangTen416Influencer
Veeam Data Cloud announced today

Thoughts? https://www.veeam.com/news/veeam-data-cloud.html

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Ian Wright UKI
Ian Wright UKIComes here often
Deploy Veeam Backup for AWS using AWS Cloudformation (AWS Marketplace)

Hey Cloud City, Hope you are all well - I have created so many videos over the past year or so, partially for my own memory/learning so I don’t have to revisit the basics that I thought I’d upload a few on here. This video is deploying Veeam Backup for AWS from the AWS Marketplace, using AWS CloudFormation and the steps required to get the appliance working. In typical Veeam fashion, it’s a doddle. If you want to learn how to deploy an AWS appliance with another method using AWS AMI and Terraform, we have a Hands on Lab for that here (Machine Learning, Terraform, Microsoft Teams BOT & Ransomware clean room with Veeam API) > Veeam Hands on Labs Hope you enjoy and get some value. Deploy Veeam Backup for AWS with Cloudformation - from the AWS MarketPlace Enjoy! Ian Wright (UKI Enterprise System Engineer)

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Ian Wright UKI
Ian Wright UKIComes here often
Veeam Backup for AWS - Data Mobility to Azure/VMware and Immutability!

Hey all in Cloud City! First post here - which hopefully is in the correct section (I’m relatively new to the community pages). I performed a demonstration earlier this week, that was around protecting AWS EC2’s, RDS etc but with immutability. So I attempted deletion of backup data from the Veeam Backup for AWS console and the S3 bucket and the data was still there - fantastic. As immutability is pretty easy for Veeam to enable, I thought I’d sow some extra value into the demonstration with Veeam recovery from AWS to Azure. I also performed a copy of the immutable S3 data to an immutable repo “on premises” and restored my EC2 backup instantly/rapidly to VMware also. I appreciate there’s been videos on these topics before, but I thought it’d be good to revisit these topics. Veeam makes it super easy to deploy the cloud appliances and restore between clouds, taking a relatively complex task and making it easy. Here’s my video - hope you enjoy. It was all one take with no prep so apols fo

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Welcome to Cloud City! 

This Veeam User Group exists to provide a centralised location to discuss Veeam's Public Cloud and SaaS solutions, namely M365, AWS, Azure, GCP, and Salesforce. We want to facilitate discussion around our successes and struggles with these Veeam products so we can all learn how to best protect the data within the cloud. 

 

About the leaders

Hin Tang (@hangtentech)  

Hin is a Cloud Solutions Architect based in Canada who started working as a customer with Veeam for Hyper-V and later transitioned to supporting both the Hyper-V and the VMWare products on the service provider side. Currently, he is focusing on the Veeam backup products for Public Cloud. Hin holds current VMCE2021 and VMCA2022 as well as Azure and AWS certification. Hin has been a Veeam Legend since 2023 and is looking forward to enabling deeper learning on all the Veeam Cloud products through this VUG. 

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Michael Paul (@micoolpaul)  

 Michael is a Data Protection Consultant based in the United Kingdom. Michael has been working with Veeam technologies for over a decade, and primarily finds himself working with the Veeam, VMware, and Microsoft worlds, holding various certifications with each organisation. Michael has been a Veeam Legend since 2021, and a Veeam Vanguard since 2022. When Michael is not on the Veeam Community you’ll likely find him on Twitter, Linkedin, Mastodon, or his blog. 

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