Aug 18

Guide to automate Veeam Agent for Windows

Here’s a guide to automate the installation of your Veeam Agents for Windows (VAW) with PowerShell and Batch scripts. Basically, I used Clint’s guide to automate the deployment of Veeam Agent for Windows. But I did some modifications for an end-user environment because the license and configuration files did not work with his PS script. The issue is you need to use those credentials would be in the Config.XML file so only an Administrator account would need to be used to install via the script. Depend on your context, end-user would use other credentials to run the script. You can follow this guide to automate Veeam Agent for Windows below…

One very interesting thing with Veeam Agent is the ability to monitor the agents via your centralized Veeam Backup & Replication console. You need to to upgrade your Veeam Backup Server to Veeam B&R 9.5 Update 2, (version 9.5.0.1038) then you will be able to manage/track your jobs from Veeam B&R console.

Note: You can follow this step by step guide to install Veeam Agent for Windows and this one to monitor agents from the Veeam B&R console or add the existing agents to the console for monitoring.

 

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Aug 16

Veeam B&R 9.5 U2 – Failed to index guest file system

Since Veeam Backup and Replication 9.5 Update 2 had been released, Veeam’s support received this error from some end-users: “Failed to Index guest file system. VSSControl: Index Failed” during backing up (Veeam B&R 9.5 U2 – Failed to index guest file system). The issue is confirmed (upgraded from Veeam B&R 9.5 Update 1 to Update 2), the hotfix for Veeam B&R v9.5 u2 (104602) is available through support and is planned to be included into one of the next updates (Veeam B&R 9.5 Update 3).

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Aug 15

HPE Catalyst technology as Veeam Replication source!

Since Veeam B&R v9, there is a support of HPE StoreOnce Catalyst storage. HPE StoreOnce Catalyst integration improves the time it takes to boot a VM from backup file residing on StoreOnce about two times comparing to Instant VM Recovery from backup files on a StoreOnce NAS Share. This post is about using a Catalyst store as a replication source, Veeam ‘s documentation does not mention it in scenarios. Basically, it does not explain the automatic election algorithm of a Gateway server during a replication job (Veeam Help Center).

Veeam Backup v9

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Aug 11

Vembu BDR Suite v3.8.0 GA release!

Last week, Vembu BDR v3.8 Suite has been released. Here a post contains the added/enhanced features of the new version. Vembu BDR Suite serves the purpose to be one of the most comprehensive, simple and affordable backup & disaster recovery solutions for the small & medium businesses. Vembu can backup VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V, Physical Servers, Workstations, Exchange Items, SharePoint Items, SQL Items, Office365, G Suite, etc. – and they can back that up on-site, off-site, or even to the cloud – not to mention that most of this is done within a single UI.


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Aug 10

Veeam Backup & Replication v10 – 4 major features

In the upcoming Veeam Availability Suite v10 release (Veeam Backup & Replication 10 and Veeam One v10), Veeam announced some new interesting features. First, based on actual v10 features readiness, Veeam is moving some of them into 9.5 Update 3, so that they don’t have to sit and wait until they are done implementing the last feature. This means we are going to get some of the v10 goodness much sooner. Until awaiting the release, here is a review of Veeam Backup & Replication v10 with the following 4 major features…

Veeam Availability Suite 10

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