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rdixon01Not a newbie anymore

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P2V Physical Dell Server

How long have you been waiting and watching it spin? I can’t remember this happening for me on anything that waiting longer didn’t fix. Sorry that I’m not very helpful.

dlosekeVeeam Legend

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VCSP Licensing Cost Increase, about 6%

Yeah got this notice and let management know. Let's see what happens in the new year. Hopefully being a Platinum partner it won't affect us much. Dang...we’re so small in the Service Provider space that we’re not even at a minimum commit. Although I plan on that changing, but currently were only consuming 45 points. LOL

UghGravityNew Here

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Restore configuration backup - ACCESS DENIED

Any other applications on the machine such as AV, EDR, etc? Wondering if it’s not windows but maybe someone else is blocking Veeam from being able to browse to the backup file to be restored after it passes through UAC? Seems to me like it’s less likely to be Windows given what you’ve tried so far, though I could certainly could be wrong.

bp4JCVeeam Legend

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Thank you, Veeam, for being Veeam and being amazing

I’ll pile it on as well. This is an amazing community. I’ve done a small amount of similar stuff with Dell with what they called Heroes when it first started, but that was more regionally based (kinda like VMUG or VUG) and it was okay, but didn’t have the online component down, and then it was pretty well killed of and became less exclusive with COVID. Rick and Team have done an excellent job with the community and really makes it feel like a community, and the Veeam products as a whole are rock solid. And there’s a community to refer to for those weird instances of an issue, for feedback, and lots of friendly advice. I joined the community to help share knowledge and wisdom if I can summon it, but I also learn so much from everyone. Veeam and the community as a whole mesh very well together and results in a great customer experience, and has to go a long way into building a better product that the customers want.And yes…I’ve dealt with other products, and Veeam is the best baked

mkevenaarVeeam Vanguard

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December Chocolatey Month: Question of the day 02/12

mkevenaarVeeam Vanguard

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Images - for the blind people

But it does improve the reach of those guides you write 😊 Yeah, it’s great for guides…but I’ve not used it for the likes of memes, etc. I’ll do my best to try and add those going forward.

vmJoeComes here often

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troubleshooting a Veeam repository and proxy installation error

Great troubleshooting here. Sounds like another argument for using a Linux Proxy/Repo server though. I’m becoming more and more convinced that the Linux boxes are the way to go. That said, who’s to say that DataDog doesn’t have a linux agent and doesn’t use the same port…

mkevenaarVeeam Vanguard

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December Chocolatey Month: Question of the day 01/12

Option D, I’ve not yet embraced the Chocolatey?But I’ll go with C I guess...cause that’s what everyone else said. ;-)

mkevenaarVeeam Vanguard

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Images - for the blind people

Seriously…I’m catching up on posts and two posts ago I noticed you’re ALT text for the Mandalorian meme and realized this is a regular thing you do as was going to mention it, but I feel like I sometimes get threads off-topic, so thanks for creating a new topic for this!

JonahMayVeeam Vanguard

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PowerShell script to update SSL certificate used for Cloud Connect

Bookmarking this one, although I currently only have one Gateway....thanks Jonah!

Iams3leVeeam Legend

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VMware Tools for Windows update addresses a denial-of-service vulnerability

Ah nice one! I didn’t see this earlier and created a duplicate on the Security Group. For some reason I no longer get notifications from the Community boards. Go here (https://community.veeam.com/settings/general) to turn on your notifications. More than once (or 6 or 7 times or more) I’ve actually clicked the link at the bottom of the email to turn off notifications rather than the link to go to the posting I wanted to read, and had to go here to turn things back on.

SantoshPNew Here

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Running VMS, Backup and Replication simultaneously, will it work , considering the snapshot clash for same vms

In my opinion, one job would block the other from processing. So either the backup or the replication job can process a VM, but not both at the same time. They also have the same priority, but you could configure the backup job for high priority. Or exclude your backup windows from the replication schedule. I was just wondering about setting the backup as a high priority. I’ve never had to use the Priority checkbox though. Or, like you said, create a window in replication so that backups can run.

SantoshPNew Here

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Running VMS, Backup and Replication simultaneously, will it work , considering the snapshot clash for same vms

CDP does not use snapshots, therefore it does not compete about snapshots with the backups. I think, CDP should be less disruptive to backups and should be running during backups. I have no practical evidence for this, though, because we don’t use CDP... Exactly what I was thinking. I haven’t had any issues with backups on my VM’s using CDP. I have three VM’s using CDP with a 15 second RPO. Working great so far aside from trying to keep up with such a low RPO. Still tweaking things there.

SantoshPNew Here

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Running VMS, Backup and Replication simultaneously, will it work , considering the snapshot clash for same vms

I’ve wondered this as well…but I’ve never tested. My assumption was always that the backup would probably be delayed until the previous replication completed, slip in there and run, and then resume the replications. Makes me wonder if CDP replication would be a better option if you’re trying to replicate every 15 minutes and if this would be less disruptive to the backup cycles.

Iams3leVeeam Legend

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VMware Tools for Windows update addresses a denial-of-service vulnerability

Well in this case, I’m looking to upgrade more than just tools, but also upgrade vSphere ESXI and the VSCA. But…the first list you sent looks like a series for upgrading the PSC/VCSA and ESXI and such, so this may be helpful. And I hadn’t considered automating using the CLI though I have performed updates via the CLI in the past on really small environments where the VCSA runs on the only host present making it difficult to use VUM/VLM as it will have to be taken offline to perform the update of the host. Thanks for pointing this out and I’ll do a bit more digging!

Iams3leVeeam Legend

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VMware Tools for Windows update addresses a denial-of-service vulnerability

I should make another post for this, but I’m curious of anyone is aware of a tool that can be used to upgrade multiple vCenter’s and Hosts remotely for multiple clients. To be clear, I have 20-30 VMware environments that I manage, and vCenter Update Manager/Lifecycle Manager does a great job of patching hosts and keeping up to date itself from the appliance management, but each environment is managed one by one which is quite the task. Our RMM manages our Windows boxes, etc, but it would be great if there was a tool to manage or even just monitor versions and available patches, etc for VMware environments. I did some looking to see if there were any tools for this sort of thing a year ago or so, but didn’t really find anything.

olivier.rossiComes here often

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Object Storage: Secure your buckets

Thank you for this…I posted a while back (linked below) about restricting access to buckets when hosting in Wasabi as a multi-tenant environment (such as Service Providers) but haven’t had much luck in restricting access but allowing the ListAllBuckets or ListAllMyBuckets command (don’t recall which it was), but I was only using user Policies and haven’t dipped into Bucket Policies. This looks like this might work great or some combination thereof, as well as I’m happy to see the syntax for restricting by IP address. This is immensely helpful since I don’t speak S3 very well.

Iams3leVeeam Legend

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AD Security: Domain Join hardening

Thank you for posting this...makes it easier considering I’m sure I’ll run into it and have to do research to see why I’m running into a “new” error, so this will help save that time!

Geoff BurkeVeeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard

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Engineer Entitlement? Stop being at twit :)

Oh yeah..that recap is pretty great. At least all of my family now has their own account, so hopefully I’ll get a lot less of what my wife and kids listened to this year.

Geoff BurkeVeeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard

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Engineer Entitlement? Stop being at twit :)

You raise a good point...I spent most of my time on Reddit. I pretty actively avoid Facebook when possible, and Twitter occasionally sucks me in. The crazy thing about Twitter and it’s character limit is that I was talking to a much younger coworker of mine and he had no idea why the character limit exists, and the root of how you posted to twitter by sending SMS/texts to it to post. Speaking of miles of endless scrolling, we’re getting towards the end of the year…won’t be long until Reddit sends out the RedditRecap stats for each user and how much time and scrolling everyone did.

Enayat.GNew Here

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Restore VM to Proxmox VE

I would just say up front that I may be somewhat of a VMware snob and don’t have any Proxmox experience, but I would not be using Proxmox in a business environment. I don’t believe that it’s a mature enough product for mission critical workloads. Honestly, as much as a dislike Hyper-V, I’d probably be looking at a well-built Hyper-V cluster before Proxmox, but VMware would easily by my top choice. If you’re fine with being an early adopter, then perhaps Proxmox is an okay choice, but I would prefer more well-baked applications.As for you question, as noted above, Veeam does not have integrations with Proxmox, so you’d be looking at agent backups and “bare-metal” restores.

Geoff BurkeVeeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard

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Engineer Entitlement? Stop being at twit :)

Twitter has been a s**t-show since Musk took over. I used to respect the guy, but he needs to understand that not everyone plans to work 80+ hour weeks and sleep at the office (let alone go to the office) like he does. I respect his drive, but his apparently lack of respect for employees that honestly are just trying to have some work/life balance and do their jobs well is….appalling. I’d be very hesitant to allow him to take over any more company’s for sure. The amazing thing about IT folks is that if they don’t like what they see, they’ll often come up with a better alternative. I haven’t spent much time on Mastadon, but I’ll be interested to see how things turn out. For sure, it was a bit…interesting to realize how much Facebook and the like targets you with ad’s and post and such...things that Mastadon doesn’t do.

dlosekeVeeam Legend

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Gotcha's for using Linux Hardened Repository as Primary Backup Repo

You can certainly use the hardened repository as the primary backup repository. Just be aware that (at the moment) there are some limitations: hardened repository cannot host any other Veeam roles not all job types are supported (https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backup/vsphere/hardened_repository.html?ver=110#supported-job-types) Capacity tier move mode won’t work if the backup files are immutable (→ Some of this will change with v12) Sorry, yes, those are different repo’s that I’m scoping out right now...currently the hardened repo will be the primary repo, but the offsite repo that’s part of a SOBR is running through a Windows repo server/proxy server, but that could change down the road. Depending on your policy and RTO target, you can migrate your existing backups or start from scratch for the next 30 days. But you’re also right, that if you wipe the performance tier, a rescan will download missing backups back from the capacitiy tier; not sure if you can prevent that. I wou

dlosekeVeeam Legend

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Gotcha's for using Linux Hardened Repository as Primary Backup Repo

Only issue you may come across is reporting for clients. That is the biggest thing we have hit but other than that we are slowing moving to XFS Immutable repos to even replace ReFS ones. Will be easier when v12 comes and VeeaMover. 😁 Yeah, I’m excited for VeeaMover, but I’m going to need to create space. I have a fair amount of clients that will need to move from Per Job to Per VM backup files. Fortunately, I don’t have to worry about reporting because I don’t host client data…the data is all stored at each client site on their own hardware.As for my copy job repos, when converting from REFS to XFS, I need to land the data somewhere temporarily until I can move it back…although I have some loaner hardware for that, it could work… Actually, it’s easy for those I have going out to Wasabi, because I should be able to I believe clear out the performance tier, and redownload back from Capacity tier, but I haven’t quite worked that all out. And actually, maybe I don’t need to have t

MicoolPaulVeeam Legend, Veeam Vanguard

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Fun Friday #55: Scale-Out Full Backups

Like everything...it depends. That said, I don’t typically enable it as I’d rather address the failure than have it cover the failure and create new fulls. Then once I have it addressed, retry the job and get a good backup.

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