Veeam

41 posts
2025

Veeam CDP with a Workgroup VBR

Veeam Continuous Data Protection, or CDP, is a technology that allows VMware workloads to achieve near zero RPOs when replicating between …
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2024

Changing to Linux Proxy for Veeam Backup for M365

A short video on how to move to using Linux proxy servers instead of Windows proxy servers after you upgrade to Veeam Backup for Microsoft …
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Upgrade Veeam backup for M365 from v7 to v8

A short how to video on easily upgrading from v7 to v8 of VB365 - including moving the standalone proxies into the new proxy pools, which …
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Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 Advanced Deployment - Architecture

Introduction This blog series will cover deploying Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365, specifically an advanced deployment. Most are already …
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Immutability with Veeam 365 backups and Synology

Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 is about to release version 8! There’s a lot of exciting features coming, including immutability to the …
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2023

Upgrading Veeam CDP to v12

With the release of Veeam Backup and Replication v12 on 2/14/23, there’s going to be a lot of upgrades happening! For the installs …
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2022

Veeam Orchestrator & NetApp - Aggregate not found

Veeam Disaster Recovery Orchestrator not only orchestrates recovery from Veeam backups, replication, and CDP replication; but it can also …
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2019

Add Org to Veeam Backup for o365 with Modern Auth and MFA

With the recent publicly available Veeam Backup for Microsoft o365 v3 beta, Modern Authentication is now supported for the account used to …
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Veeam Backup for O365 v3 beta available!

Last week, Veeam made the Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 v3 beta publicly available, which means you can download and try out all the …
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Disable Welcome Email for O365 Group

Recently, I was helping a customer with using dynamic groups in Azure Active Directory. The customer didn’t want to backup their …
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2018

Can't mount NFS volume in vSphere

Yesterday, I was working with Veeam Availability Orchestrator .next beta, and ran into a fun issue. During a Recovery plan test, the VMs are …
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v101tv - Veeam Availability Orchestrator Install

In this video, follow along as we install Veeam’s Availability Orchestrator and walk through the initial configuration wizard. Stay …
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Veeam Architecture in a HPE Datacenter

While out at HPE’s Discover 2018, I wanted to talk about what Veeam architecture would look like in a HPE datacenter. This …
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Veeam Restore To Azure

Now that the Veeam Azure proxy is deployed, and we have some workloads protected, it’s time to test a restore. There are a couple ways …
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2017

Veeam Restore To Azure - Proxy Setup

There are many reasons to run virtual machines in the public cloud, and more and more companies are taking advantage of the flexibility and …
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Time for a Change

After 15 years of working with various IT consulting companies, or VARs (Value Added Resellers) - I’ve decided it’s time for a …
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Talking about Community at VeeamOn 2017

Last week was Veeam’s Availability conference, VeeamOn, in New Orleans, LA. I was able to get some time with Nigel Hickey and Matt …
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Ransomware Talk with fellow Veeam Vanguards

While at VeeamOn 2017, I had an opportunity to talk with my fellow Veeam Vanguards. With the hot topic of WannaCry ransomware the week …
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VeeamON 2017 - New Announcements from Day 1

On Tuesday, VeeamOn was kicked off the morning general session. If you aren’t familiar, VeeamOn is the premiere availability …
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VMware discontinues vSphere Data Protection

On April 5th, VMware announced that they would discontinue VDP, vSphere Data Protection - VMware’s integration backup solution. Now, …
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Veeam Vanguard 2017

I was informed earlier this month that I was awarded the title of Veeam Vanguard again, for the 2017 year. This is indeed a great honor and …
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Veeam Cloud Connect - Service Provider Setup

Veeam has always been a great product for backup and replication, and in the recent past, they had introduced Cloud Connect, as a way to …
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Veeam Architect - Repository Types

In the previous Veeam Architect post, we talked about the different transport modes available to move our data from the production VMs, into …
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Veeam Architect - Proxy Transport Modes

Veeam, the leader in virtualization backups, has a couple different ways of gathering your production data and transporting it to the Backup …
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2016

Veeam Replication – VM Failover

Part 1 here: Veeam Replication – Installation Part 2 here: Veeam Replication – Configuration Part 3 here: Veeam Replication - VM Replication …
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Veeam SureBackup - Failed to create process with net logon

Recently, I was setting up a Veeam SureBackup job for a client and received an error when running the application group for the domain …
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Veeam Replication - VM Replication

Part 1 here: Veeam Replication - Installation Part 2 here: Veeam Replication - Configuration Now that we have Veeam installed, and …
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Veeam Replication - Configuration

Part 1 here: Veeam Replication - Installation Now that we have Veeam installed in a virtual machine, it’s time to configure it to talk …
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Veeam Replication - Installation

To continue on the Replication Roundup series, and not too far behind the Veeam ON conference, it only make sense to highlight Veeam …
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2015

Veeam Endpoint Backup - VeeamON

One of the sessions I attended at VeeamON was the Veeam Endpoint Backup Free - tips and tricks. I wanted to share some of the thoughts from …
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VeeamON - v9 Announcements

This week, I’m out at in Las Vegas for the 20125 VeeamON conference. I wasn’t sure what to expect, as this is my first time, but …
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Replication Roundup - Kickoff

Since replication is a staple to any DR scenario, I wanted to cover various replication products installation, and failover procedures. This …
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Veeam and DataDomain using DD Boost

In a previous article , I talked about how to setup Veeam to use a linux proxy, to transfer data via NFS to an EMC DataDomain to increase …
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2014

Veeam rescues 1400 computer objects in AD

*disclaimer* Veeam is a sponsor of this blog - but has not requested, or had any part in this entry. Working for a consulting firm, I work …
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Veeam and DataDomain

I’ve done a fair amount of installs of this combination, Veeam and EMC’s DataDomain deduplication device. The solution is a …
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2013

Veeam and Server 2012 DeDuplication

With a wide range of deduplication appliances out there for a backup target, one option is simply server 2012. Server 2012 has a …
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Veeam Announces Support for vSphere 5.5

Veeam announced today Veeam 7 R2. The update now adds support for vSphere 5.5. Find all the information, and downloads from Veeam’s …
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Veeam v7 Released!

This week Veeam released v7 , which will bring with it a lot of extra features! I am excited to upgrade the lab and clients, and will be …
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Veeam v7 Features Announcement

Today, Veeam released all of it’s product enhancements for version 7, which will be released later this summer. I am excited to …
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2012

Veeam Job fails after upgrade to vSphere 5.1

Now that vSphere 5.1 is been out a little while, there are more and more upgrades happening. One problem that I run across while upgrading …
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Veeam Encounter - Part 1

I’ve been using various products along the way to backup Virtual Machines in VMware Environments. However, it wasn’t until mid …
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