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Veeam Backup and Replication V10 – VM and NAS File Restores

Previously, in part 1 of Veeam Backup and Replication V10, we created a virtual machine and NAS file-share backup. The virtual machine backup was configured to backup to our ReFS scale-out backup repository.…

Veeam Backup and Replication V10 – VM And NAS File Backups

Web Monkey4 years ago04 mins

Veeam Backup and Replication V10 was recently released and I was keen to get this deployed in the lab and check out some of the new features this awesome product has to offer.…

Backup VMware VCSA vPostgress Database to cifs share

Web Monkey7 years ago012 mins

One of the components that the VMware vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) is missing, is the ability to automatically backup. In VCSA 6.5, VMware has introduced a backup feature within the appliance admin portal, however what do we do with VCSA 6 ?…

Veeam the given key was not present in the dictionary

Web Monkey7 years ago04 mins

I came across this error message the other day when configuring a Veeam Replication job with separate virtual networks, which displayed “The given key was not present in the dictionary” The error appeared within the Replication Job after selecting Separate Virtual Networks, and clicking Next until I got to the point where you select Source and Destination Networks.…

Netapp and Veeam – Combining Snapmirror and Snapvault

Web Monkey8 years ago07 mins

I have been trying out a few different configurations in my lab with a Netapp and Veeam setup running snapmirror and snapvault on the same volume.…

VMware Fixes vSphere 6 CBT Issue

Web Monkey8 years ago01 mins

VMware Fixes vSphere 6 CBT Issue VMware have release a patch ESXi600-201511001 that resolves the vSphere 6 Change Block Tracking (CBT) issue which I wrote about in an earlier blog post The Patch willl resolve the issue on ESXi 6 Update 1a Reading a little more into this patch on the Veeam Community Forums, Gostev goes into explain that applying the patch is simply not enough.…

Veeam and Netapp Replication Bug 52968

Web Monkey8 years ago03 mins

Veeam and Netapp Replication Bug 52968 Last week we came across an issue where Veeam Backup and Replication Update 3 was unable to find Netapp snapmirror or snapvault relationships for the specific job that was running.…

Veeam and VMware ESXi 6 CBT issue

Web Monkey8 years ago02 mins

Veeam Backup and VMware ESXi 6 CBT issue Last week an issue was discovered within VMware ESXi 6 where by Change Block Tracking (CBT) can return incorrect changed blocks .…

Veeam Backup and Replication RPC error:Access is denied. Code: 5

Web Monkey8 years ago02 mins

Veeam Backup and Replication RPC error:Access is denied. Code: 5 Veeam Backup and Replication setup with application aware processing requires a user account that has admin access to the virtual machines you wish to backup.…

Whats New Veeam Backup Availability Suite v9 VeeamOn 2015

Web Monkey8 years ago07 mins

Veeam Backup Availability Suite v9 Veeam Backup and Replication Scale-Out Backup Repositories – You now have the ability to group multiple backup repositories into a single large Scale-Out repository.…

Veeam Replication between vSphere 5.x and vSphere 6

Web Monkey8 years ago02 mins

Veeam Replication between vSphere 5.x and vSphere 6 Compatibility A customer wanted to know if it was possible to use Veeam Replication between 2 different versions of VMware vSphere.…

Veeam Virtual Disk Size is not Multiple of 1KB

Web Monkey9 years ago01 mins

Veeam Backup and Replication Error This error came up the other day during a backup of a client’s virtual machine – Error: Virtual disk size is not a multiple of 1KB Veeam Error Not a Multiple of 1KB The fix is quite simple, all you need to do is edit the virtual machine within VMware vCenter – Select the Hard Disk and increase the size of the disk.…

Veeam Enterprise Manager with NAT Setup

Web Monkey9 years ago04 mins

Veeam Enterprise Manager NAT Setup We have been using Veeam Backup and Replication along with Veeam Enterprise Manager extensively over the past few months. Each setup is different but one common setup especially for service providers is to have your Veeam Enterprise Manager located in a DMZ.…