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VMCE Practice Question - 13 June 2024


coolsport00
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Happy Thursday everyone. Here’s the week’s 2nd question. As always, please remember to hide your comments.

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During your daily monitoring of the Veeam Backup server, you notice disk space is running low on the System drive. After some investigation, you determine the cause is due to excessive Veeam Server logging. You don't want to modify log criticality or verbosity, and your organization doesn't have a SIEM. What can you do to eleviate logging space issues on your Backup server?

  1. Disable the Veeam Backup server from being a Proxy server
  2. Disable logging
  3. Add a registry key to your Backup server to change log location
  4. Delete the following directory: C:\ProgramData\Veeam\Backup
  5. Remove /var/log/VeeamBackup from the Console

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  1. Use a registry key to move logs to dedicated drive

 


Chris.Childerhose
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  1. Add a registry key to your Backup server to change log location

 


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c

 


admd
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Réponse C 🤔

 


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  1. Add a registry key to your Backup server to change log location

 


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  1. Add a registry key to your Backup server to change log location

 


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C

 


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Thinking on the problem and for exclusion :

A) not possible

B)You don't want to modify log criticality or verbosity.. no not possible​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

C)It makes sense

E)?

So i say C: registry modification

 


coolsport00
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Well, you can’t do a. as VBR is a Proxy by default. Well, maybe theoretically you can remove VBR as a ‘default’ Proxy..not sure..I haven’t attempted that before. Regardless, this has no bearing on the question so incorrect. No, you don’t want to disable logging, and don’t believe you can (maybe a registry key setting via Support? 🤔). You of course do not want to delete the Backup folder. That’s a major VBR settings folder. There is no such directory in the Veeam Console (e.), which leaves the only available option as c. Make a registry change. See link below, and specifically, look at the KB which is referenced from the Guide:

https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backup/vsphere/logging.html?ver=120

 

BTW...this is another good example of a question type Veeam no longer uses, and thankfully so. It’s too “deep” of a question imo. But, from an operational standpoint, is good to know.


Good job folks!

 

BONUS QUESTION! If, after making the registry change, space/logging is still an issue...why would this be the case? 🤔
 

 


Chris.Childerhose
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coolsport00 wrote:

And the answer to this week’s second practice question is..

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Well, you can’t do a. as VBR is a Proxy by default. Well, maybe theoretically you can remove VBR as a ‘default’ Proxy..not sure..I haven’t attempted that before. Regardless, this has no bearing on the question so incorrect. No, you don’t want to disable logging, and don’t believe you can (maybe a registry key setting via Support? 🤔). You of course do not want to delete the Backup folder. That’s a major VBR settings folder. There is no such directory in the Veeam Console (e.), which leaves the only available option as c. Make a registry change. See link below, and specifically, look at the KB which is referenced from the Guide:

https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backup/vsphere/logging.html?ver=120

 

BTW...this is another good example of a question type Veeam no longer uses, and thankfully so. It’s too “deep” of a question imo. But, from an operational standpoint, is good to know.


Good job folks!

 

BONUS QUESTION! If, after making the registry change, space/logging is still an issue...why would this be the case? 🤔
 

 

This now comes down to the size of the logs and retention settings.  If too big and too many retention points for them you can fill up the new location (as per the KB article in that link). 😉


coolsport00
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I actually didn't think of that Chris...good one! I was just going by the KB. If you don't reboot the server after the change it won't take effect 😊


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coolsport00 wrote:

I actually didn't think of that Chris...good one! I was just going by the KB. If you don't reboot the server after the change it won't take effect 😊

I assumed after the change everyone rebooted.  😋😂


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coolsport00 wrote:

I actually didn't think of that Chris...good one! I was just going by the KB. If you don't reboot the server after the change it won't take effect 😊

True, at least it won’t affect your OS disk 😉


coolsport00
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@Chris.Childerhose ..you "assumed" huh? 😉🤣


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