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1. July 2016

vCenter Migration Utility & new customer portal

Hello everyone I’ve got three information’s for those, who didn’t see the changes: First, Veeam has released their new customer portal. You can manage you license, downloads or create a new case. Really the same as in the old version, but it looks pretty nice now. https://my.veeam.com/ Second, there is a changed / new KB: vCenter Migration Utility https://www.veeam.com/kb2136 Third, Veeam has a new CEO William Largent, Veeam’s executive vice president, will be the company’s new CEO Full article

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Anti-Virus / Performance

2. June 2016

Some words about performance

Dear Veeam Admin Some words about performance (one of the top 5 topics I see in any review J) In the last years I did a lot of Veeam installations and reviews. Normally you check the default components such as backup repos, Windows server config, network and you spend a lot of time to analyze the Veeam reports, or you use IOmeter – only a short list of all the possibilities you have to do a review. But what I see a lot is that customers do not check their Anti-Virus exclusions. Especially with Sophos we had some big troubles...

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Veeam Events

1. June 2016

Impressions from VeeamON Forum 2016 in Hanau – Germany

Today I was at the VeeamON Forum 2016 in Hanau Germany. It was a great event with some very cool meetings and really good food. I’ll share some impressions: We had the possibility to visit a lot of sessions, but one sessions was really interesting and funny. The part of Carlo Velten, CEO from crisp research did a great job. If the session will be available online, I will publish the link. More Information’s: https://www.crisp-research.com/veranstaltungen/veeamon-forum/

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General

19. May 2016

DRaaS for Dummies – Download NOW!

Download now: https://go.veeam.com/draas-for-dummies

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General

26. April 2016

ANNOUNCING – Veeam Availability Suite 9.5

Today Veeam launched the 9.5 website. Nimbel would be the next storage integration in Veeam Availability Suite (v.9.5) Read all about that new integration: https://www.veeam.com/blog/integration-nimble-storage-veeam-availability-suite.html More information: https://go.veeam.com/v9-5

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General

18. April 2016

Error: Processing “VM” Error: The RPC service is unavailable RPC function call failed….

Last week I saw the following CopyJob error (problem startet after installing U1 for V9): After some researching and try’s to fix this issue ( https://www.veeam.com/kb2065 did not work) I found a solution that worked for me: Check AV exclusions: https://www.veeam.com/kb1999 I clicked through (next, next, finish) all the wizards for proxy, repository, WAN accelerator (all Veeam components) and restarted the job. Maybe this helps someone else.

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Tape

6. April 2016

Parallel Processing and GFS Mediapool

Today I was implementing a tape library with 2 drives. After the library was set up and ready to use I created a GFS Mediapool and a new backup job. In the logs I recognized, that only one drive was used instead of both. After some research I found following explanation: NOTE: You cannot enable parallel processing for GFS media pools. https://helpcenter.veeam.com/backup/hyperv/parallel_processing.html In the “classic” Mediapool you have the setting: There was a post in the Veeam Community from Dima P.: „Parallel processing for GFS media pools feature is planned as a part of further GFS media pool enhancements“...

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General

6. April 2016

Blog language

Decided to continue this blog in English rather than German

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Script

6. April 2016

Veeam Cloud Provider Test Script

New script to check if Veeam port (Cloud connect) is open based on URL and telnet > port 6180. Helps if you have multiple gateways and you will check, if they’re available. Script can be used from service providers and customers. Note: please change $Servers to your service provider URL.

clear
# Parameter Veeam Cloud Connect Gateway
$Servers = 'baas.serviceprovider.net'
$Port = '6180'


# NSLOOKUP
foreach ($Server in $Servers)
{
    $Addresses = $null
    try {
        $Addresses = [System.Net.Dns]::GetHostAddresses("$Server").IPAddressToString
    }
    catch { 
        $Addresses = "Can't resolve hostname."
    }
}



# Test Veeam Cloud Connect Ports
foreach($Address in $addresses) {

$Socket = New-Object System.Net.Sockets.TcpClient;

    try {
        Write-Host "Connecting to "$Address":"$Port" (TCP)..";
        $Socket.Connect($Address, $Port);  
        
        Write-Host -foreground "green" "Connection successful [Gateway]";
        
        if ($Socket.Connected) {
            $Socket.Close()
        }
    }
    catch  {
        Write-Host -foreground "red" "Connection failed [Gateway]";
    }
    finally {
        $Socket.Dispose();
    }
}

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clear

# Parameter Veeam Cloud Connect Gateway

$Servers = 'baas.serviceprovider.net'

$Port = '6180'

# NSLOOKUP

foreach ($Server in $Servers)

{

$Addresses = $null

try {

$Addresses = [System.Net.Dns]::GetHostAddresses("$Server").IPAddressToString

}

catch {

$Addresses = "Can't resolve hostname."

}

# Test Veeam Cloud Connect Ports

foreach($Address in $addresses) {

$Socket = New-Object System.Net.Sockets.TcpClient;

try {

Write-Host "Connecting to "$Address":"$Port" (TCP)..";

$Socket.Connect($Address, $Port);

Write-Host -foreground "green" "Connection successful [Gateway]";

if ($Socket.Connected) {

$Socket.Close()

}

catch {

Write-Host -foreground "red" "Connection failed [Gateway]";

}

finally {

$Socket.Dispose();

}

Das Script findet man auch in der Script Setion.

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Script

15. March 2016

Veeam Copy-Job und die 30MB Files

Kürzlich haben wir in einer Umgebung einige Veeam Backup-Files aufgefunden, welche nur 30MB gross waren. Veeam erstellt bei jedem Copy-Job ein Backup-File, welches standardmässig 30MB gross ist. Wenn keine Änderungsdaten übermittelt werden müssen (z.B. VM ist ausgeschaltet), kann dieses File leer bleiben. In unserem Falle hatten wir aber Änderungen, welche übertragen werden sollten. Um ein solches verhalten nicht nur anhand des Copy-Job Status zu überwachen, habe ich habe ich in ein einfaches Script (PowerShell) in der neuen Script Section publiziert, welches dabei hilft, solche Files zu finden.

vm-UP! Blog

vCenter Migration Utility & new customer portal

Some words about performance

Impressions from VeeamON Forum 2016 in Hanau – Germany

DRaaS for Dummies – Download NOW!

ANNOUNCING – Veeam Availability Suite 9.5

Error: Processing “VM” Error: The RPC service is unavailable RPC function call failed….

Parallel Processing and GFS Mediapool

Blog language

Veeam Copy-Job und die 30MB Files

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