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AndySmall
AndySmallComes here often
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Moving VSphere hosts with Veeam Replication

Great post, @AndySmall! One note, if you follow steps 4-6, though you risk having some small data loss as data could have changed between the last replication run and the shutdown. Ideally, you would run another (very quick) replication run after the shutdown. A replacement to 4-6, could be to use the Planned Failover feature: https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backup/vsphere/planned_failover.html?ver=100   Depending on the needs, you don’t even need to set up a replication job. The quick migration feature is very nice: https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backup/vsphere/quick_migration.html?ver=100 Came here to say planned failover since we’re talking about a small outage window anyway Veeam can automate this task for you. The benefit to using planned failover + permanent failover is that if the job is running on a schedule (for example you were continuously rolling up the changes to keep the final cut over small during your maintenance window), you wouldn’t have Veeam attempt to replica

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Rick Vanover
2 years ago
Rick Vanover
Rick VanoverRICKATRON
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Veeam at Tech Field Day 22 - Reflections by the Rickatron

Awesome, thanks for sharing :) Getting Media not available on your embedded video btw @Rick Vanover .

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Rick Vanover
3 years ago
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Ahmed YehiaComes here often
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cannot connect to server sharepoint to restore site (SharePoint 2016 On Prime)

Hi, Check your logs for information and I’d suggest opening a ticket with Veeam if you’re having issues:Veeam Customer Support Portal

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haslund
3 years ago
Rick Vanover
Rick VanoverRICKATRON
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Veeam at Tech Field Day 22 - Reflections by the Rickatron

Hi @MicoolPaul! Some YouTube videos are still in ‘up and down’ mode after outage yesterday (some Google services were down). I hope that will be fixed soon and all video previews will get back shortly! At the meantime, here’s the link to video part for Rick’s recap  : https://youtu.be/yENRueyYDLM   Thanks, have you talked to Google yet about using Veeam as part of a multi-cloud resiliency strategy?

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Rick Vanover
3 years ago
Burak MARANGOZ
Burak MARANGOZComes here often
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Instant VM Recovery Performance Test

I think this is a great conversation point and it leaves me with more questions (no discredit to you here as I think you’ve done a great job of opening the conversation more). I think it’d be interesting to compare the performance of a disk that is being presented as a datastore natively within VMware and an identical disk that’s being presented via vPower to get a feel for what overheads are being introduced via both methods.I may go spin up my lab...

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2 years ago
MicoolPaul
MicoolPaulVeeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard
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Veeam Backup for Office 365 V5 Show stopping bug

Yesterday a new patch has been released: VBO 5a Cumulative Patch KB4078 @MicoolPaul: Did you see those JET errors and did the patch solve your problems? We’re currently testing this and will report back shortly.

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regnor
3 years ago
AndySmall
AndySmallComes here often
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Linux Repo Specs

So, I’m going to be working on rebuilding our repos to be Linux repos to leverage the new security in V11. If you were going to build a repo for 15 TB drives running on VSphere 6.7. Ubuntu. These will provide back up copies to 5 customers each.   I can look at what the specs are but I want to know what you all think.   Thanks all :) Hi Andy, Immutability is just a flag that will be set so the recommendations for sizing an XFS system will stand. If you haven’t seen it already https://Veeambp.com is an awesome site that includes industry based best practices and sizing guides.If you scale in line with best practice (1 CPU + 4GB RAM per concurrent task slot) then this will help maintain performance. The main questions are around concurrency of tasks as you’ve mentioned multiple customers so they may contend for resources frequently, this will have an impact on IO and network especially. A final thing I’d like to add is just like the hardware certification that you go through between vend

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vNote42
3 years ago
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Ahmed YehiaComes here often
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cannot connect to server sharepoint to restore site (SharePoint 2016 On Prime)

Hi, There’s nothing wrong I can see immediately visible within the logs. Can you confirm if there are any other logs and that the comment section hasn’t truncated the logs?

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haslund
3 years ago
eprieto
eprietoOn the path to Greatness
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Deduplication appliance as primary backup repository Yes or No?🤔 What you think?

  I would say no, and my reason in one word would be: SureBackup.Unless your deduplicating appliance has a “landing zone”, then reading data requires the deduplication appliance to rehydrate the data which has a massive impact to performance in any recovery operation, far more performance impact than reading directly from a traditional DAS with Veeam’s normal compression & deduplication Landing zones aren’t necessarily faster than reading direct from dedupe. Quantum's DXi meets the restore performance requirements, and also supports Fast Clone for faster synthetic full creation. Read probably won’t be as fast as a similarly sized primary storage partition, (YMMV), but is likely to be as fast or faster than a “landing zone” tier, with the added advantages of Fast Clone support and no performance drop-off when the backup in question has left the landing zone, and all the space available for dedupe. You make a good point, having not used Quantum I can’t comment on the perform

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BertrandFR
3 years ago
eprieto
eprietoOn the path to Greatness
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Live Optics Report - Veeam

This is awesome!

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leduardoserrano
2 months ago
vNote42
vNote42On the path to Greatness
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"Still" use tape for backup? Interesting reading about tape usage in 2020 and in future.

IBM and Fujifilm have set yet another new world record in tape storage – the sixth since 2006. Pushing the limits, they achieved 317 GB/in2 (gigabits per square inch) in areal density on a prototype strontium ferrite (SrFe). https://www.ibm.com/blogs/research/2020/12/tape-density-record/   So there will be a lot of development and increase in capacity in the future... It’s amazing the density increases we’ve achieved by sticking to specific form factors such as tape, 3.5” HDD and microSD. Comparing where they started to now and the lack of any signs of slowing down is a testimony to what the human race can do!

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vNote42
3 years ago
MicoolPaul
MicoolPaulVeeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard
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Veeam Backup for Office 365 V5 Show stopping bug

Yesterday a new patch has been released: VBO 5a Cumulative Patch KB4078 @MicoolPaul: Did you see those JET errors and did the patch solve your problems? We’re currently testing this and will report back shortly. I can confirm it is resolved, well done Veeam for chasing up the GA with a patch so quickly!

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regnor
3 years ago
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dragoinformaticaNew Here
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Backup duration in VSPC

I agree, some basic metrics being captured would be awesome such as job start and end time and task start and end time, what was the bottleneck etc, I think in the longer term it’d be great to see VSPC inherit some Veeam One features in general so we can gain further insights.

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MicoolPaul
3 years ago
vNote42
vNote42On the path to Greatness
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New in v11: combine vSphere tags

This is great, and thanks for breaking down the logic of the tag combination as you did, it was great to see that example of selecting both DCs!

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A
7 months ago
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Ahmed YehiaComes here often
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Veeam Backup & Replication 10 Console

Requirements for the console are (v10):.Net 4.7.2 Windows Installer 4.5 PowerShell 2 or above Firefox/Chrome/Edge/IE11I believe the point vNote42 is making is that it’s more than just v9.5 or v10, there are patches too, so if you’re using GA of console but v10a is installed on the server, that’s not right as they should be using the same software version. To be safe patch both to latest, Veeam community post about latest patch here: 

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haslund
3 years ago
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Ahmed YehiaComes here often
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Veeam Backup & Replication 10 Console

Veeam B&R v10 is absolutely fine on server 2016, they support that OS as well as both older and newer OS’s.  Best thing to do is patch Veeam v10 to the latest update and then update your machine that has the console with the same update file. Windows Server 2016 comes with IE11 and a higher version of PowerShell than the required v2. Windows Installer 4.5 is ancient so again, you’re covered by this in your more modern OS. The only manual remediation I’d anticipate is .Net as unless you’re using a different custom image by default Windows Server 2016 comes with .Net 4.6.2. So grab the latest .Net version available and you’ll be fine. If you’ve still got issues after updating Veeam and .Net, let us know :)

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haslund
3 years ago
Kseniya
Kseniya✨
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[LinkedIn LIVE] Community at Veeam Continues: Veeam Legends

Since it’s related to the badge for blogging I suggest either Bob the Blogcat or Cool Content Kitty

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regnor
3 years ago
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Ahmed YehiaComes here often
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Veeam Backup & Replication 10 Console

Veeam B&R v10 is absolutely fine on server 2016, they support that OS as well as both older and newer OS’s.    Best thing to do is patch Veeam v10 to the latest update and then update your machine that has the console with the same update file.   Windows Server 2016 comes with IE11 and a higher version of PowerShell than the required v2. Windows Installer 4.5 is ancient so again, you’re covered by this in your more modern OS. The only manual remediation I’d anticipate is .Net as unless you’re using a different custom image by default Windows Server 2016 comes with .Net 4.6.2. So grab the latest .Net version available and you’ll be fine.   If you’ve still got issues after updating Veeam and .Net, let us know :) Thx you so much problem solved by update patch Thanks for letting us know :)

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haslund
3 years ago
eprieto
eprietoOn the path to Greatness
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Veeam Agent For MAC 🍎 !!! Part II - Deployment

Great to see the Mac getting some love!

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gulzarshaikhveeam
3 years ago
MicoolPaul
MicoolPaulVeeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard
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Request: Enable Veeam vSphere Plugin without Veeam Enterprise Manager

I think deploying Enterprise Manager (VBEM) in a separate server using SQL Express is not too big a deal, it does not appear SQL Express is causing issues for VBEM in general. I get the point it would be nice to simplify, but the resources perspective does not seem like the best “story” to get there imho. At present it means an additional Windows license which I see deters people away, it’s also more expensive when people like their backup infrastructure existing as separate physical devices to mitigate reliance on their virtual platform responding. In summary it’d be nice to see plug-in functionality unlocked based on the Veeam components deployed. So Veeam B&R would give you the core backup information, Veeam One would give you advanced insights into the infrastructure and then Veeam EM would supply the rest. I know I’m heavily into wish list territory now but since it’s a feature request, might as well aim high!

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Cragdoo
3 years ago
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Ahmed YehiaComes here often
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Failed to restores Site sharepoint

Hi @Ahmed Yehia dont forget to mark the best answer given here as the solution, you seem to be marking your own thanks as the solution, it’d be good to recognise who solved your issue so when someone else comes here later with the same issue they can jump straight to what helped you! :)

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3 years ago
MicoolPaul
MicoolPaulVeeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard
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Request: Enable Veeam vSphere Plugin without Veeam Enterprise Manager

Do you often see end customers paying per Windows license? In my experience, almost everyone unless very small, purchase data center licenses and so having another VM makes no difference from a licensing perspective. If it is about combining roles, could just install a second SQL Express instance on the same box :) I actually see most of the SMB space still on Windows Server Standard edition, which is actually the audience I’m targeting this request at, as they’re the ones that would like a single pane of glass experience without throwing in VBEM as the majority of the features will go unused by them. As they’re also starting to embrace more of the cloud they require less on-prem VMs that then skew the cost/benefit for DC licensing. I appreciate the insights. My SQL Server background always says no to multiple SQL instances due to the nature of the software and it’s demand for resource. Granted there are some scenarios whereby you can quite safely configure instances to not cannibalis

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Cragdoo
3 years ago
eprieto
eprietoOn the path to Greatness
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Be the first to know when Veeam v11 is available🔥

 

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haslund
3 years ago
MicoolPaul
MicoolPaulVeeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard
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Request: Enable Veeam vSphere Plugin without Veeam Enterprise Manager

I personally do not deploy Enterprise Manger very often. Just when their is a need for one of its features (self service restore, lost password protection). So on the one hand it would be nice to have vCenter Plugin working with VBR Server directly.  But on the other hand: I personally do not like vCenter Plugins. I have seen many vCenter that were near unusable because of failed or not working Plugins. I don’t want to say Veeam Plugin will cause problems! But to operate a vCenter Plugin you need to take more into account: for example compatibility.  And then I have to ask: is it worth it? For large installation such a Plugin most often is not very interesting (scalability, compatibility). They often use other monitoring software that is able to report backup as well (for example VeeamONE of course). And for SMB the most important information (IMHO) will be if (and when) backups run were successful or not. And this can be easily done be letting VBR add notes to each backed VM: Long st

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Cragdoo
3 years ago
vNote42
vNote42On the path to Greatness
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New in v11: combine vSphere tags

The VMware Event Broker Appliance sounds great! Will need to test this out soon. +1 on this, every day’s a school day!

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A
7 months ago

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