Can I Upgrade Veeam 10 to Veeam 11?
KB ID 0001758 Problem People are always ‘a bit twitchy’ about upgrading their backup software. Mines on my test network so I’m a little more cavalier about diving in and clicking next. So when you want to Upgrade Veeam 10 to Veeam 11, peoples main concerns are; Will I lose my backup / replication jobs? Will I need to rescan backup repositories? Remember Veeam keeps all its data in a database, so your configs should...
Can you Backup the Free Version of ESX 7?
KB ID 0001757 Problem ‘Backup the Free Version of ESX?’ This was asked on Experts Exchange this week, I responded with the usual answer of “No the VAPI is not exposed in the free version, so it cannot be backed up by a third party backup application.” The poster responded with, “That’s what I thought, but I’ve got a Technical Consultant here who says it can be done with version 7” This...
Download Veeam
KB ID 0001724 Download Veeam At PNL we have always championed Veeam, below are our links to download Veeam, Theres no surprise it’s the market leader in backup and recovery, it came onto the market when backups were a major IT headache. I can remember having to change nearly 30 different server tapes (a day) and from 09:00 to probably lunch time every day I was fixing backup issues. (Simply Download Veeam and give it a trial!)...
Veeam: Backup to Public Cloud?
KB ID 0001691 Problem I’ve always been a fan of Veeam, I’ve championed it for years, as a consultant and engineer I want solutions that are easy to deploy, administer, and upgrade, that cause no problems. Like all things that are easy to use, and gain a lot of popularity, Veeam is starting to get DESTROYED BY DEVELOPMENT. What do I mean? Well, things that were simple and easy to find now require you to look at knowledge...
Veeam: No Backup Proxy is Able to Process this VM
KB ID 0001644 Problem While setting up some new backups, all the virtual machine failed like so; Unable to allocate processing resources. Error: No backup proxy is able to process this VM due to proxy processing mode restrictions. Solution On the face of it this looks like a simple problem, either you backup proxy does not have the capacity, you have too many jobs running at one, or you need to deploy some more backup proxies....
Veeam: ‘Error Storage Not Initialized’
KB ID 0001614 Problem I got tasked with looking at a failover plan for a customer recently, but I noticed their replications were failing, two of the VMs in the replication job were repeatedly failing with; Error: Storage not initialized Solution This took a while to get to the bottom of! Essentially the problem was the ‘Metadata’ for these two VMs was either corrupt or could not be written to. So to fix the problem, the...