Aug 29

Way to cleanly remove Veeam Agent for Windows

This article provides a step by step guide to cleanly remove Veeam Agent for Windows (VAW). Veeam Agent for Windows is now available in version 2. There are three editions: “Free“, “Workstation” and “Server” being released that include enterprise features such as Application Aware Processing (VSS), flexible scheduling and retention options all while being able to backup directly to Cloud Connect repositories. The most important here is that this covers physical workloads (physical server) as well by way of the Server version.. Uninstall of the software is successful but you can not get rid of any historical data from the old build of VAW. Here’s way to cleanly remove Veeam Agent for Windows…

 

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Aug 22

Hyper-V 2016 New Features – Network (Part 1)

Hyper-V is the Microsoft’s virtualization platform that allows creating virtual infrastructures under Windows and/or Linux (Hyper-V 2016 Overview and Architecture Guide). Hyper-V 2016 version has been improved by Microsoft then they released a lot of new features such as network, installation mode, Nano Server, Virtual Machines and Security, administration, Nested Virtualization, QoS for storage, rolling Hyper-V Cluster upgrade, improved ReFS (Resilient File System), and virtual hard disk. Here’s the post to introduce Hyper-V 2016 New Features – Network.

Original Network - Hyper-v 2016

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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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