Re-register VM without getting a new MOREF
I have see some VMware admins, that do a un-register / register of VM's if a host fails, and HA is not used, or for some reason fails. I have also see VMware admins remove ESXi hosts from the cluster to get the VM's un-registered. The problem with this method is that the VM will get a…
Veeam Backup & Replication 9.5 Update 3 New Features
Veeam are Beta testing the upcoming Update 3 for Veeam Backup & Replication 9.5. I have been looking thru different medias like Forum, "Word for Gostev", and other, for information about the update. And I have compile a list of the new features, that it looks like will be a part of the update. I have no release date for the…
Veeam B&R 9.5 support for vSphere 6.5 Update 1
Veeam has been testing support for VMware vSphere 6.5 Update 1 and vSAN 6.6.1, and they now supports this combination. There is no version information for Veeam Backup & Replication, other then vSphere 6.5 is supportet from 9.5 Update 1, and vSAN 6.6 was support in 9.5 Update 2. So I will say you have to use 9.5 Update…
Veeam Scale-Out Repository Full Error
I had a customer that got this error “Unable to allocate resources, Error: No scale-out repository extend have sufficient disk space to store the backup file.” in Veeam, for a backup job. The problem is that there was plenty of space free on all the Scale-out extends. After some searching I found this i the…
Veeam Proxy HotApp failed (error 13)
I have installed en new Veeam installation, into a vSphere 6.5 environment, and created 2 new virtual Veeam Proxy servers. After creating them, i added a extra SCSI adapter to the Backup Proxy, and the backup jobs began to do "failling over to network.png". I the logs on the Veeam Proxy servers i found multiple "error 13"…
Veeam Backup & Replication 9.5 Update 2 Released
Veeam has releasedVeeam Backup & Replication 9.5 Update 2. What's new. Platform Support Cisco HyperFlex Systems (formerly HX-Series/SpringPath) support for Backup from Storage Snapshots functionality. HPE 3PAR StoreServ 3.3.1 support and improved scalability by migrating some API calls from SSH to RESTful API. Microsoft Hyper-V BigEndian platform support. Microsoft Exchange 2016 CU5 support for mailbox…
Veeam Error “PhysicalHost with id ‘xxxx…’ was not found”
I had a customer that had some backup jobs that failed with this error “Task failed, Error: PhysicalHost with id ‘xxxx…’ was not found”, and it looks likethis. We found the host that this machine was running on, and this host was reinstalled. After some searching i found that there was 2 record in the Veeam…
Veeam has release Update 1 for B&R, One and Office 365
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…
vSphere 6.5 Backup Interoperability
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…
Veeam B&R 9.5 upgrade “All Active Full Schedules Reset”
I just saw this i the Veeam forum. After upgrading to version 9.5 of Veeam Backup & Replication, all jobs that has configured "active full" wil have the schedule reset to default (first Monday) for the "active full". Veeam has reported this as a bug, and are working on a fix. See the forum thread here: https://forums.veeam.com/veeam-backup-replication-f2/all-active-full-schedules-reset-with-9-5-t39349.html Temporary fix:…