Tape library and drives are shown as separate devices

Challenge Tape library and drives are shown as separate devices in console or loading tape into TapeDrive0 moves the tape into TapeDrive1 etc. Shown here, the Tape Library has no Tape Drive listed Shown here, the Tape Drive is separate from the Tape Library. Cause The tape library is not reportin...

Unexpected Latency Values Shown in Veeam MP

Challenge Veeam MP alerts about unreasonably high values for highest latency on VMs see screenshot below: Cause The same latency values can be observed in VI Client performance charts under disk/real-time during snapshot deletion. The values may also be negative. Solution This is a known behavior...

Missing Data in SCOM Top Dashboards

Challenge While Veeam Collector works fine, and performance data are showing up in SCOM performance views, the Top dashboards are empty. Top Clusters Top Datastores Top Hosts Top Virtual Machines Cause The Top dashboards are populated with data from the Data Warehouse database, unlike the...

Unexpected Highest Latency Values Shown in Veeam ONE

Challenge Veeam ONE indicates unreasonably high values for highest latency on VMs see screenshot below: Cause The same latency values can be observed in VI Client performance charts under disk/real-time during snapshot deletion. The values may also be negative. Solution This is a known behavior o...

How to Collect Logs for Veeam Backup & Replication

Purpose This article documents how to collect logs from Veeam Backup & Replication and additional information to include when submitting a Veeam Support case for technical assistance. Additional Logging Veeam Backup & Replication interoperates with other Veeam products. Please refer to the...

Veeam Backup & Replication event set for Kaseya

The Kaseya plug-in for Veeam Backup & Replication was discontinued in 2019 and is no longer available nor supported by Veeam. Challenge Monitoring Veeam Backup & Replication activity through Kaseya. Solution To monitor Veeam Backup & Replication please confirm you are running version 9.0. You can...

Release Information for Veeam Backup & Replication 7 R2 Update

More Recent Version Available Please find the latest version of Veeam Backup & Replication here: Veeam Downloads - Latest Version Challenge Release Notes for Veeam Backup & Replication 7.0 R2а update Cause Please confirm you are running version 7.0.0.690, 7.0.0.715 or 7.0.0.764 prior to installin...

IBM Tape Library Not Listed in Device Manager under “Medium Changers”

Challenge IBM System Storage Tape Library does not appear under the heading Medium Changers in the Device Manager, preventing it from working with Veeam Backup & Replication. Cause The issue occurs when the Library Mode is set to Sequential within the IBM System Storage Tape Library configuration...

vCenter Connection Failover Requirements for SCOM Action Account

Challenge Although everything is set up according to the vCenter Connection Failover manual, the script fails. As a result, the following event appears in the Operations Manager Event Log on Veeam Virtualizations Extension Server VES with id: 995. vCenterFailover.ps1 : Error: Cannot open...

WAN Accelerator Fails to Install

Challenge When creating a new WAN Accelerator or reconfiguring an existing WAN Accelerator, the installation of the WAN Accelerator package fails with the error: Error Installing package WAN Accelerator Error: Error 1920.Service Veeam WAN Accelerator Service VeeamWANSvc failed to start. Verify...

There Is Not Enough Space on the Disk

Challenge A job or task reports the error: There is not enough space on the disk Cause This error is relayed by Veeam Backup & Replication when the underlying system reports the error while attempting to write a file. More often than not, this error quite literally means the disk has insufficient...

SureBackup fails with “Virtual machine has 4,096 megabytes of memory, which is larger than the maximum 1,024 megabytes supported by the datastore”

Challenge A SureBackup job fails to boot a VM in the application group with the following error in a vSphere 5.5 environment: 10/16/2013 2:13:31 PM Getting virtual lab configuration 10/16/2013 2:14:41 PM Starting virtual lab routing engine 10/16/2013 2:15:24 PM DC1 - Publishing 10/16/2013 2:15:30...

How to Change the Settings Related to Veeam Backup & Replication Log Files

Purpose This article documents how to change settings regarding where log files are stored, how large an individual log file may become, and how many generations of log files are retained. Solution Log Files Stored on the Veeam Backup Server The following registry values must be created on the...

Backup Copy job report shows inflated traffic saving in the notification email

Challenge After installing Patch 1 for Veeam v7, the enhanced Backup Copy job report shows inflated traffic saving in the notification email. Cause Traffic savings ratio is incorrectly calculated off total VM size, rather than the size of changed data. Solution Please download and apply the...

Veeam ONE Tuning for Larger Environments

Purpose Veeam ONE dropping data due to slow database performance when monitoring 1K+ VMs. Cause For efficient use of Veeam ONE in environments with 1 000+ VMs it is recommended to make scalability adjustments. Solution For better scalability it is possible to change real-time data to 1 datapoint ...

Failed to start service VeeamDeploymentService on ServerCore installation

Challenge Adding a Hyper-V core server to Veeam fails. The following is present in logs: Timestamp Error Failed to start service 'VeeamDeploymentService'. Host: 'x.x.x.x'.. Timestamp Error Failed to start deployment service on the target host Timestamp Error --tr:Failed to install service...

Prevent Veeam from locking tape drives

Challenge Veeam periodically rescans the tape drives. This locks the drives and prevents other tape software from writing to them. Cause The refresh rate on the automatic rescan is too frequent if using third party tape backup software. Solution The registry keys below prevent Veeam Backup &...

Error: Username or password is incorrect when adding vCloud Director

Challenge Encountering issue "Error: Username or password is incorrect" when adding vCloud Director to Veeam Backup & Replication. Solution 1. Verify that the correct password is being utilized. 2. Ports, Permissions, or DNS issues can cause this failure: 1. Ensure connectivity between the Veeam...

Error: Credentials with id was not found

Challenge Error: Credentials with id '...' was not found Cause Credentials within database need to be reset. Solution When a job fails with the above error you will need to perform the following steps to resolve this issue: 1. Within the 'Backup Infrastructure' pane navigate to 'Windows Servers' ...

Error "One or more legacy replicas are detected in configuration remove them manually and try again" during upgrade to v7

Challenge During version 7.x Upgrade from 6.x, you receive the error "One or more legacy replicas are detected in configuration remove them manually and try again". Legacy Replicas are any replica created by Veeam Backup prior to version 6.x. Cause Legacy Created prior to Version 6 of Veeam Backu...