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 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…
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:…
Veeam B&R 9.5 and ONE 9.5 Released
Veeam has released there new Availability Suite 9.5. What's new in Backup & Replication 9.5: Enterprise scalability enhancements Advanced data fetcher VMware vSphere infrastructure cache Highly optimized vSphere infrastructure queries Restore acceleration technologies Instant VM Recovery Parallel processing for full VM restore Data Domain accelerated restores Direct restore from tape Engine enhancements Major configuration database optimizations…
Veeam SureBackup – DC starts in safe mode
I have customer using Veeam Backup & Replication, and they are using SureBackup for backup verfication. After upgrading version 9.0 with update 2, there verification of the Domain Controllers started to fail on check of "DNS", "Domain Controller", and "Global Catalogs" (TCP port connection check). After some searching i found this Community forum thread, that has a solution: https://forums.veeam.com/veeam-backup-replication-f2/surebackup-dc-starts-in-safe-mode-t37064.html…