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VM does not meet the requirements for storage snapshot based jobs
Challenge A task utilizing storage snapshot integration fails with any of the following errors: VM does not meet requirements for storage snapshot based jobs: its virtual disks are not located on supported storage VM does not meet requirements for storage snapshot based jobs: its files are locate...
Oracle Berkeley DB Local Arbitrary Code Execution Vulnerability (CNVD-2015-04768)
Oracle Berkeley DB is the industry's leading open source, embeddable storage engine that provides developers with a fast, reliable native database that requires no administration. A security vulnerability exists in the Oracle Berkeley DB Data Store component that can be exploited by a local...
SRC-2015-0003 : Oracle Endeca Tools and Frameworks AMF Request Beanshell Script Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
Vulnerability Details: This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of Oracle Endeca Tools and Frameworks. Although authentication is required to exploit this vulnerability, the existing authentication mechanism can be bypassed. The specific fla...
[SECURITY] Fedora 21 Update: python-oauth2-1.5.211-8.fc21
Oauth2 was originally forked from Leah Culver and Andy Smith's oauth.py code. Some of the tests come from a fork by Vic Fryzel, while a revamped Request class and more tests were merged in from Mark Paschal's fork. A number of notable differences exist between this code and its forefathers: - 100...
[SECURITY] Fedora 20 Update: python-oauth2-1.5.211-8.fc20
Oauth2 was originally forked from Leah Culver and Andy Smith's oauth.py code. Some of the tests come from a fork by Vic Fryzel, while a revamped Request class and more tests were merged in from Mark Paschal's fork. A number of notable differences exist between this code and its forefathers: - 100...
[SECURITY] Fedora 19 Update: python-oauth2-1.5.211-8.fc19
Oauth2 was originally forked from Leah Culver and Andy Smith's oauth.py code. Some of the tests come from a fork by Vic Fryzel, while a revamped Request class and more tests were merged in from Mark Paschal's fork. A number of notable differences exist between this code and its forefathers: - 100...
Veeam doesn't clean up temporary datastore in vSphere after restore from NetApp storage snapshot
Challenge After completing one of the restore options available for NetApp storage snapshot, you may notice that the temporary datastore under the name "snap--" is still mounted on the ESXi hosts with inactive status. See the screenshot below for an example: After a manual rescan of the storage...
[SECURITY] Fedora 20 Update: python-oauth2-1.5.211-7.fc20
Oauth2 was originally forked from Leah Culver and Andy Smith's oauth.py code. Some of the tests come from a fork by Vic Fryzel, while a revamped Request class and more tests were merged in from Mark Paschal's fork. A number of notable differences exist between this code and its forefathers: - 100...
Entire VM restore fails with 'An error occurred while taking a snapshot: Error.'
Challenge Entire VM Restore fails with: An error occurred while taking a snapshot: Error. Cause This can occur when a workingDir entry in the VMX causes the VM to attempt to direct snapshots to a different datastore that is not present in the site where the restore is taking place. Solution To...
"Virtual machine has ‘X’ megabytes of memory which is larger than the maximum ‘X’ megabytes supported by the datastore.”
Challenge Error "Virtual-machine-has-X-megabytes-of-memory-which-is-larger-than-the-maximum-X-megabytes-supported-by-the-datastore" can occur with Other OS FLR, Instant Recovery, or SureBackup. Cause Assuming the VeeamBackup datastore is present and not being used the first troubleshooting step f...
Storage I/O Control (SIOC) and Veeam
Challenge Veeam will cause additional IOPS on the datastore of the source VM and a target VM, in a replication job potentially impacting other VMs in the same datastore. In some cases this may cause the performance of other neighboring VMs on the same datastore to decrease during this heavy I/O...
Gzip Memory Bomb Denial Of Service
This module generates and hosts a 10MB single-round gzip file that decompresses to 10GB. Many applications will not implement a length limit check and will eat up all memory and eventually die. This can also be used to kill systems that download/parse content from a user-provided URL...
Empty Folder(s) in Datastore after Replication job runs
Challenge When a replication job is ran, an empty folder is created in one of the datastores listed as the . Cause The cause of this behavior is Veeam getting pointed to write to one datastore, while the replica VM itself is on a different datastore. When the job is pointed to a different locatio...
Veeam Management Pack v6 Required Ports and Permissions
Solution Required Permissions Connection to Virtual Servers VI Object | Required Permissions ---|--- vCenter, ESXi Host | Read-Only1 Host.CIM.CIM Interaction2 Datastore.Browse Datastore3 Datastore.Configure Datastore3 Datastore Cluster.Browse Datastore Cluster3 1 Minimum required permission over...
Tips for DAG Exchange Backup and Replication in vSphere
vSphere Snapshot Improvements This article was initially written when vSphere 5 snapshot operations were known and expected to cause small amounts of I/O stun to a VM's guest OS. Improvements in the latter vSphere versions, including significant changes to snapshot operation methodology in vSpher...
Unable to Mount VPower NFS Specified Key Name or Identifier Already Exists
Challenge During a Veeam vPower NFS-based operation SureBackup, Instant Recovery, Instant Disk Recovery, or Other-OS FLR, the following errors may occur: Unable to mount vPower NFS volume :/VeeamBackup. Fault "AlreadyExistsFault", Error The specified key, name, or identifier already exists. Unabl...
VM Loses Connection During Snapshot Removal
Challenge During the snapshot removal step of a Veeam Backup & Replication task, the source vSphere VM loses connectivity temporarily. Cause Veeam does not remove the snapshot itself; Veeam sends an API call to the vSphere environment to have the action performed. The snapshot removal process...
Unable to collect files information from datastore in a timely manner due to high vCenter server load
Challenge Veeam ONE Reporter collects data from datastores using the SearchDatastoreSubFoldersTask tasks, which are pre-defined by vSphere. During that process, if a datastore becomes unavailable or experiences performance issues, Veeam ONE Reporter may be unable to complete data collection tasks...
