In my last blog post I covered Support Integration with the recently released Veeam Service Provider Console V8. In this post I'll be continuing to focus on VSPC, specifically remotely upgrading Veeam Backup & Replication. This feature allows you to initiate an upgrade of Veeam Backup & Replication on client or hosted computers without having to access... Continue Reading →

If you are working with Veeam in the Service Provider world you will almost certainly be familiar with the Veeam Service Provider Console. It provides a centralised platform allowing for remote monitoring and management capabilities across a range of Veeam products. This makes it easier to manage your customers and in house deployments whether they are... Continue Reading →

As the year draws to a close and with Christmas almost upon us, Veeam has kindly dropped off an early present to us all with the release of Data Platform 23H2 Update as covered in their Resiliency Summit event a few months back. Although the main headline for most will be Backup & Replication, it... Continue Reading →

Veeam recently held their bi-annual VeeamOn event which this year was called the Resiliency Summit. The event was heavily security focused and includes new features coming to the Veeam Data Platform. It looks like Veeam have changed from the naming convention for "minor" product releases with this version being 12.1 rather than the expected 12a.... Continue Reading →

We all know too well that nothing in the world of IT works 100% of the time. Issues are inevitable and troubleshooting is a key part of any hands on role in the industry. One of the more common tasks when fault finding is identifying performance issues in the form of a bottlenecks, especially when... Continue Reading →

Today I came across a change to the UI in Veeam V12 which I think is worth mentioning and could catch you out. If you have ever had the need to remove backup data from the Backup & Replication configuration database but want to keep the backup files intact, you might be familiar with the... Continue Reading →

For the past week the system drive on one of the backup servers I manage was gradually filling up as each day progressed. This behaviour was unexpected since things had been stable and the Veeam logs are configured to write to a different volume. After some investigation, I found a number folders relating to Veeam... Continue Reading →

Since Veeam Backup & Replication V12 was released a few months ago, I've had time to get some hands on real world experience with the product and thought I'd share my top 3 favourite new features. Direct to Object Storage I think this one is likely to be at the top of most peoples list.... Continue Reading →

I was upgrading an internal Veeam instance from V11 to V12 today and came across the error Failed to upgrade host components. Error: Access is denied.' when upgrading the components. After digging through the logs a bit I found mention of 'Access is denied' in Utils.HostsUpgrade.log: [10.05.2023 16:18:22.074] <17> Info [xxx] Preparing VeeamDeploymentDll for upgrade... Continue Reading →

One of the most anticipated features of Veeam Backup & Replication version 12 was the change from Microsoft SQL Server to PostgreSQL. Any new installation of v12 will now by default install an instance of PostgreSQL. It's worth noting though that SQL Server support has not gone away. During the install it is still possible... Continue Reading →