Veeam has released new Agent for Microsoft Windows 2.1 and Agent for Linux 2.0. you can finde the release notes for this here: Agent for Microsoft Windows 2.1: https://www.veeam.com/veeam_agent_windows_2_1_release_notes_rn.pdf Agent for Linux 2.0: https://www.veeam.com/veeam_agent_linux_2_0_release_notes_rn.pdf
Veeam has released the much awaited update 3 for Veeam Backup & Replication 9.5. New features Built-in agent management. Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows and Veeam Agent for Linux can now be deployed and managed directly from the Veeam Backup & Replication console, adding support for physical and cloud workloads protection. Maintain complete control of data protection […]
I have been looking for this for at long time and there are some script on, VMware forums and other places, that can do this, but I was satisfied with them, since they did not give me all the information i needed. So began to peace some of them tougher to a new one, And this […]
You can now sign up for the Public Beta of the Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows 2.0. System requirements Hardware CPU: x86-64 processor architecture. Memory: 2 GB RAM. Disk Space: 150 MB for product installation. Network: 1 Mbps or faster. High latency and reasonably unstable WAN links are supported. System firmware: BIOS or UEFI. Drive encryption: […]
Veeam has released 3 updates today. Veeam Backup and Replication 9.5 Update 1 This gives support for vSphere 6.5, and have other fixes. Solution Platform support Dell EMC Data Domain OS 6.0, including synthetic full backup performances optimizations, backup retention and health check reliability improvements. HPE 3PAR 3.2.2 MU3, including multiple API interaction improvements for […]
We are still waiting for the backup vendors to support vSphere 6.5. At the moment VMware VDP 6.1.3 and Veritas Backup Exec 16 has support. Veritas Backup Exec 16 does not support vSAN 6.5 (see the Software Compatibility list here: https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/article.000115689) Veritas NetBackup 7.7.3 has a limited support, see here. https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/article.000116592 Veeam B&R 9.5 Update 1 will have support and is […]
I have a customer with some SQL servers on a DMZ, that they need to restore databases to, and we looked at the documentation for which ports to open. This is the documentation for Veeam B&R 9.0, and we found the ports and it worked fine, until we had to restore to an SQL instance […]
I had a customer that contacted me to day because he got a warning that Veeam Backup was "Unable to truncate Microsoft SQL Server transaction logs.Details: Failed to process 'TruncateSQLLog' command. Failed to truncate SQL server transaction logs for instances: BI See guest helper log." This normally means that the account used for Application Aware backup is not […]
Microsoft has released a Convenience Patch, this is not compatible with VMXNET3 driver. This affects Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 and Windows 7. See more information here: http://blogs.vmware.com/apps/2016/06/rush-post-microsoft-convenience-update-and-vmware-vmxnet3-incompatibilities.html
I was looking at which ports that should be open in a Firewall, for SQL log Shipping to work, so I was looking at the "VM Guest OS Connection" section of the documentation: https://helpcenter.veeam.com/backup/vsphere/used_ports.html#guest But that is not all that needs to be opened you also have to look at the "Backup Server Connections" section and […]