Veeam has release Veeam Backup and Replication 9.5 Update 4b to resolve issues that reported after release update 4 and 4a. This release is a rollup update, also it’s including some new features and enhancements. Update 4b is a cumulative update, meaning it includes all enhancements delivered as a part of Update 4a.
Why we have to monitor our infrastructure? Because preventing unplanned down time and keep service performance, you know why! So monitoring needs monitoring tools. You have spent money to prepare infrastructure for your business, you have also pay for good monitoring tool. Veeam ONE is one of most popular and might be best monitoring tool for virtual infrastructure (vSphere / Hyper-V). You can download and install Veeam ONE for 30 days and use it but after trial period you need to buy license.
Yesterday, Veeam has published cumulative hotfix for Veeam Backup and Replication 9.5 update 4. This update has some new platforms support and fixing more than 300 minor bugs and issues that reported by customers. VMware vSphere 6.7 U2 will be supported with this update.
Veeam Backup & Replication Community Edition [formerly known as Veeam Backup Free Edition] is a must have FREE tool for ad-hoc virtual machine (VM) backup, restore and management in VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V virtual environments. With no agents to deploy, powerful recovery options and VeeamZIP, you get flexibility in options and a reliable solution for important VMs. Whether you are locked in a legacy backup contract or are operating within a tight budget, you’ll find this FREE VM backup software helpful for your daily VM management. Why use Veeam Backup & Replication Community Edition? Even for small infrastructures, virtualization with either VMware ESXi or Hyper-V brings many benefits in terms of savings and ease of administration. Have you ever wanted to back up a VM before making changes to it, clone a VM for testing purposes or make a compressed data archive prior to a VM decommission — just in case? Veeam’s FREE backup tool will cover all your needs! Veeam Backup & Replication Community Edition works perfectly with both standalone ESXi and Hyper-V hosts, as well as with large virtual deployments. Whether you run a test lab or a production environment, it’ll be a perfect match. Are you on a budget or still experimenting with VM backup? Veeam...
Veeam Backup & Replication 9.5 Update 4, part of Veeam Availability Suite, delivers Availability for ALL your virtual, physical and cloud-based workloads. Through a single management console, you can manage fast, flexible and reliable backup, recovery and replication of all your applications and data to eliminate legacy backup solutions forever. The following is a list of the major new features and functionalities added in Update 4.
Veeam has released update for Veeam ONE 9.5. The new update came with new features and improvements. Veeam ONE 9.5 update 4 is available for download from January 22, 2019 on Veeam website.
If you have any version of Veeam Backup & Replication for protecting virtual machines in your virtual environment and using vSphere 4 and later, the below problem might happen to you.
What’s Veeam Availability Console? Veeam Availability Console is new product that provided by Veeam for Service Providers. Veeam Availability Console is a FREE cloud-enabled, multi-tenant platform that delivers everything a service provider needs to deploy, manage and monitor their customers’ Veeam environments virtual, physical or cloud-based no matter where they reside. There’s no doubt that Veeam Availability Console is a powerful solution for service providers, but equally powerful for the large, distributed enterprise. Veeam Managed Backup Portal will be replaced with Veeam Availability Console. Requirements Veeam Availability Console can be work with existing Veeam Cloud Connect. Here is the requirements: 64-bit – Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 / Windows 7 SP1 or later Veeam Backup & Replication 9.5 Update 2 or later Key Features Veeam Availability Console offers the below features: Remote monitoring and management: Start and stop Veeam jobs including backup, replication, backup copy and backup to tape. Remote access to Veeam shell. Email notification. More than 30 predefined alarms Automation Multitenancy Free Download The Veeam Availability Console is available to download at the below link: Veeam Availability Console Read More on Teimouri.Net: Veeam Backup & Replication Best Practices Veeam Endpoint Backup [Review]: Veeam BR – Storage-level Corruption Guard
Controlling resource usage by the metrics, it’s a key to keep your virtual infrastructure up and optimized and also keep your customer happy. Veeam ONE alarm will help you to controlling the metrics and resources.
Before create the alarms, we should know why I/O is important to us? And what is impact of generating lot of I/O by virtual machines?
Storage-level Corruption Guard Taking backup from virtual or physical machine is a good solution to protect data and services in an organization also some administrators taking backup form backup files on another storage space, it’s absolutely prefect but not enough! If backup is corrupted during backup session or after that, the source backup and copied files will be corrupted and this is actually big risk because you can’t trust to your backup files. Veeam has a utility to check and validate backups but it should be run manually or as a script after each job, you can read more iformation about this solution on the below post: [Review]: Veeam BR Validator Command-Line Tool Also Veeam BR offers “Sure Backup” feature for checking backup files totally on a isolated environment. In addition to Sure Backup and Validator, Veeam BR has another feature to check backup files automatically at scheduled time. The feature is called “Storage-Level Corruption Guard” How It Works? When a job has finished, storage-level corruption guard will perform a CRC verification for the most recent restore point. It will validate whether the content of the backup chain blocks match the content described within the backup file metadata. If a...
Introduction Veeam Backup & Replication – PowerShell Extension Veeam Backup & Replication – PowerShell Extension or Veeam Backup and Replication PowerShell Toolkit is a snap-in to Microsoft Windows PowerShell. The Veeam Backup PowerShell snap-in allows you to do almost all operations that are available in the user interface. Keep in mind that actions performed with PowerShell have the same force as actions performed via Veeam Backup & Replication: for example, if you delete a job with a PowerShell script, the job will be removed from the Veeam Backup & Replication database, and you will not be able to undo changes. You can use it for managing anything in backup server faster than GUI and prepare reports for your BOSS! Requirements You can run Veeam Backup & Replication PowerShell Extension on PowerShell 2 and later. PowerShell 4.0 is recommended for Veeam Backup & Replication 9.5. How To Run Veeam Backup & Replication – PowerShell Extension If you are working on your backup server directly, you can access to PowerShell via Veeam Backup & Replication Console: You can install Veeam Backup & Replication – PowerShell Extension on other Windows machine and connect to remote backup server. Find and execute BPS_x64.msi from the “Backup” folder...
Veeam BR provides an internal tool for checking backup health offline. Backup is a way to keep data safer in any environment but no one can guarantee that the backup file is healthy because there is some reason that backup file can be corrupted during backup or after backup such as storage failure or during backup copy on an external medium. As the backup file health is very important and sometimes administrators have to restore virtual machines after accidentally deletion. Without removing VM data, that is a tool that checks the integrity of backup files. A backup is tested at the file level by the command-prompt CRC check programme Veeam Backup Validator. If backup data were transmitted over a network or if hardware issues happened in a backup storage area, you might need to use this application to determine whether they were damaged. The tool use the checksum method for integrity validation. Every data block in the backup file is given a checksum, which Veeam Backup & Replication adds to the data blocks when it creates a backup of a virtual machine. Data block checksums are recalculated by Veeam Backup Validator, and they are compared to the original checksum values....
Introduction To Veeam Backup Extractor Veeam Backup Extractor is a Veeam utility to extract VMs from full backup (VBK) file. Administrators can extract VMs from backup file without installing Veeam Backup & Replication. There is no dependency between the utility and Veeam Backup & Replication, so the utility works as independent utility. Administrators can copy the utility from backup server to another server and run that easily. Note: I didn’t test extract VMs from a backup file which it’s placed on a shared folder. There is two interface for extracting VMs from backup files: The extract utility is located in the installation folder of Veeam Backup & Replication, by default: %PROGRAMFILES%\Veeam\Backup and Replication\Backup. The folder contains three files for the extract utility: Graphical User Interface GUI is available by run Veeam.Backup.Extractor.exe from this path: %PROGRAMFILES%\Veeam\Backup and Replication\Backup Extracting VMs is so simple from backup files by using Veeam.Backup.Extractor.exe, just click on browse button (1), select backup file (2), then select VM from the VMs list and then click Extract to extracting virtual machines from the backup file. Command-Line Utility There is two command-line utility for Windows and Linux that administrators be able to extract VMs from backup file by run the commands. There...
Veeam ONE Reporter Collection Job Veeam ONE Reporter collection job is a scheduled job to gathering virtual infrastructure information to providing reports for administrators about virtual infrastructure performance, issues and capacity planning. Sometimes, the job will be failed cause of some issues in the Veeam Reporter service and an error will indicate on Veeam ONE Monitor Client. Administrators should care about the issue because the error means that virtual infrastructure information is out of date and any report is unusable. Troubleshooting Step 1: At first step, checking “Veeam ONE Reporter Server” service is very important. Check the service and if it’s stopped, start the service and if it’s started , restart the service and run “Object Properties Collection Task” from Veeam ONE Reporter portal. Wait to job is completed and if issue not resolve go to the next step. Step 2: If stop/start the service didn’t resolve issue, restarting the server is second solution because of OS issues. Run “Object Properties Collection Task” from Veeam ONE Reporter portal, wait to job is completed and if issue not resolve go to the next step. Step 3: If step 1 and step 2 didn’t help to resolve issue, the monitor user permission...
Whats up? Veeam Endpoint Backup that renamed to Veeam Agent has been released for Microsoft Windows with some new features. The agent called Veeam Agent For Microsoft Windows and now, beta version is available publicly. Download need to fill the invitation request on this link: https://go.veeam.com/windows-backup The new agent will be published as two new paid edition and free editions is also available yet:
