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New in Veeam VBR v11: Combine vSphere Tags

New in Veeam VBR v11: Combine vSphere Tags

In Veeam Backup & Replication (VBR) there are a few ways to select VMs for backup. One of this is to use VMware vSphere tags. New in v11 is the possibility to combine vSphere tags for VM selection. I want to show how this works.

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News about scripting Veeam SureBackup with PowerShell

News about scripting Veeam SureBackup with PowerShell

This post is about new possibilities in Veeam Backup&Replication (VBR) for scripting SureBackup jobs with PowerShell. These new features are available since v10 and will get important enhancements in v11.

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How Advanced Cross vCenter vMotion works

How Advanced Cross vCenter vMotion works

This post is about a new feature in vSphere 7.0 U1c: Advanced Cross vCenter vMotion (XVM). It is similar to Cross vCenter vMotion with a main difference.

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Export Veeam console job log with PowerShell

Export Veeam console job log with PowerShell

These days I investigated the possibility to export Veeam Backup&Replication (VBR) console job log programmatically with PowerShell. Read here how this can be done.

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New in Veeam v11: Hardened Repository – Immutable backups [Part 2]

New in Veeam v11: Hardened Repository – Immutable backups [Part 2]

This post is about a new feature in Veeam Backup&Replication v11: Hardened Repository. This means immutable backups. It will massively increase security on repositories. Read here how it behaves.

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New in Veeam v11: Hardened Repository – Immutable backups [Part 1]

New in Veeam v11: Hardened Repository – Immutable backups [Part 1]

This post is about a great new feature in Veeam Backup&Replication v11: Hardened Repository. This means immutable backups. It will massively increase security on repositories. With immutability enabled, root access is needed to delete or change backup files. Read here how it (just) works and how it behaves.

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Analyse XFS space savings with reflink

Analyse XFS space savings with reflink

When backing up on XFS repositories for example with Veeam Backup&Replication, XFS feature reflink can be used for Fast Cloning. I wrote already a post about checking Microsoft ReFS space savings. Now I want to show some basics to check XFS savings too.

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PowerCLI Script to check if VMs get backed up by Veeam B&R

PowerCLI Script to check if VMs get backed up by Veeam B&R

In this post I share a small PowerShell/PowerCLI script to check if VMs get backed up by Veeam B&R. If you do not run VeeamONE, it can be challenging to check if every VM that should be backed up, is really backed up. For checking this, this script should be helpful.

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Poor SAN transport mode performance

Poor SAN transport mode performance

These days I had to troubleshoot poor VMware vSphere SAN transport mode performance during backup with Veeam. Before SAN mode, NDB transport mode was used. NBD outperformed SAN mode totally!

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Slow VM snapshot deletion on NFS volumes on ESXi hosts

Slow VM snapshot deletion on NFS volumes on ESXi hosts

These days I had to troubleshoot a problem with system time within a VMware vSphere VM. During backup VM freezes for more than 30 seconds. When this happens, system time in VM also stops and resets to current time after the freeze. And this behavior causes massive problems in the application-layer. During troubleshooting we found a very slow VM snapshot deletion on NFS volumes on […]

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