How to Enable Changed Block Tracking for Guest Cluster on vSphere with Tanzu

Purpose Changed Block Tracking is a VMware feature that tracks changes in virtual disks. Veeam Kasten for Kubernetes uses this feature in vSphere with Tanzu Guest Clusters to efficiently back up Persistent Volumes. Enabling Changed Block Tracking in each Supervisor Cluster where Veeam Kasten for...

Release Information for Veeam Backup for AWS v2

Requirements IMPORTANT You cannot update Veeam Backup for AWS operating in the Paid edition to version 2.0 from the Veeam Backup for AWS Web UI. To update the product, you must install Veeam Backup for AWS version 2.0 from AWS Marketplace on a new EC2 instance, and then migrate Veeam Backup for A...

How to get disk changed areas from CBT(changed block tracker) in vSphere

Purpose This article demonstrates how to pull the changed disk areas in a vSphere environment. Performing this task is intended as a way to demonstrate how changed block tracking functions for Veeam Backup & Replication jobs. The most common situation where this article comes into play is when a...

Backup and Replicas of virtual machines running on ESXi 6.0.x with Change Block Tracking (CBT) enabled may not be recoverable

Challenge Leveraging VMware Changed Block Tracking CBT data supplied by VMware ESXi 6.0 can potentially render the data in backups or replicas inconsistent or corrupt. Cause This is a VMware ESXi issue in CBT logic that affects ESXi 6.0 through ESXi 6.0 Update 1a. It is resolved with VMware ESXi...

CBT does not track changes correctly on VHDX disks files larger than 2 TB

Challenge Veeam Change Block Tracking CBT driver incorrectly parses virtual disk file change information causing jobs to failover to "full scan" incremental passes in case of VSS backup or to create an empty incremental backup in case of crash-consistent backup when both of the following conditio...

Changed block tracking cannot be enabled: virtual hardware version 7 or later required

Challenge The backup or replication job is processed slower than expected and gives the warning message "changed block tracking cannot be enabled: virtual hardware version 7 or later required." The job works without Changed Block Tracking, and the "changed block tracking cannot be enabled: virtua...