Category: Veeam

New Veeam B&R v11 Features: License and Deployment FAQs

March 2, 2021

With some veeamazing new features available in the v11 suite of Veeam products, there’s a lot to talk about, but if you’re an existing customer it’s important to know what updates you’re getting for free based on your license!
Last Call: Veeam v11 Launch Event & Updated Veeam Documentation Now Available

February 24, 2021

Morning, Just a quick reminder that Veeam v11 is launching TODAY! If you haven’t already, click here to register for the event! Here’s the time the launch event kicks off in some time zones: AWST (Australian Western Standard Time): Midnight (25th Feb) EET (Eastern European Time): 6PM EST (Eastern Standard Time): 11AM GMT (Greenwich Mean…
Veeam Legend 2021!

February 19, 2021

Everyone likes receiving good news. Today I’m delighted to publicly share the good news that Veeam informed me of on Wednesday. I’ve been accepted into the first intake of Veeam Legends. What are Veeam Legends? To hear it straight from the wonderful Kseniya of Veeam you can read here. In essence though, the Veeam Legends…
Veeam Agent for Linux – Failed to create Volume Snapshot / Failed to Load Module [veeamsnap]

February 1, 2021

So I had a unique support case recently, a customer using Veeam Agent for Linux with mixed success, they had one particular server that worked fine during implementation and then after a week the backups had started to immediately fail. The server was unable to load the veeamsnap module. Veeam themselves have a great article…
Reminder: Veeam Support Stance when new Product Versions are released (e.g. v11)

January 27, 2021

I just wanted to remind people of Veeam’s stance towards supporting multiple editions of products with the impending release of v11 and the all-star collection of upgrades we’re about to receive. Veeam have three stages to the end of the lifecycle of a product version: Stage One: End of Fix Veeam focus their development on…
Veeam License Options & Changes for New Customers in 2021

December 23, 2020

Just a quick pre-end of year blog post from me today. I recently published an article on the changes to Veeam Licensing that are due to start next month on the Veeam Community. You can see the full article here.
Vodcast Appearance: Nexus Bitesize – Backing up Microsoft Teams & The Release of Veeam Backup for Office 365 v5

December 14, 2020

Just a quick blog update today. I was recently asked to appear in a Nexus Bitesize vodcast to talk about Microsoft Teams and Office 365 data protection in general, it was a great opportunity to highlight Veeam’s latest release of their Veeam Backup for Office 365 v5 product. To check out the Bitesize go to…
The NEW Veeam Community

December 4, 2020

Veeam did the unexpected at Veeam Live at the end of October, they announced a new Veeam Community. Now most frequent users of Veeam will no doubt be aware that Veeam already has a community of sorts, the Veeam Forums, so what’s different here?
VMware / Veeam SureBackup: Invalid Change Tracker Error Code

April 27, 2020

Afternoon, Had a very peculiar error message when deploying SureBackup and the internet couldn’t give me any meaningful results! So I thought time to add to the collective world of knowledge with a blog post. Scenario: Onboarding customer for a managed backup solution, configuring SureBackup to ensure all backups are validated prior to sending to…
Handy Tip: Veeam Replication & vCenter VM Mac Conflict

April 4, 2016

Evening, I just wanted to write this quick blog post to help people who use Veeam to replicate their VMs on vCenter 6 U1B or newer. Apparently somewhere in the vCenter 6 lifeline it was decided that an alarm will trigger if a MAC address conflict was detected. I personally am all for this trigger…