Existing Hyper-V backup and replication jobs processing VM with SCSI disks start to consume x2 space on target storage after upgrade to v8

Challenge After upgrading to v8 the following issues are observed with the existing jobs processing Hyper-V VMs with SCSI disks: 1. First backup job run will transfer entire VM disks into the incremental backup storage. The following job runs will operate normally - regular incremental restore...

Critical update rollup for Veeam Backup and Replication 8.0.0.817

Challenge Critical update rollup for Veeam Backup and Replication 8.0.0.817 for Hyper-V This update rollup fixes the following Hyper-V processing issues: CBT does not track changes correctly on VHDX disks files larger than 2 TB veeam.com/KB1961 Existing Hyper-V backup and replication jobs...

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...

Hyper-V backup or replication job with guest-processing fails after installing Windows Update KB3000853

After installing November roll-up update http://support.microsoft.com/kb/3000853 on 2012 Hyper-V hosts, VSS-enabled backups may be failing in any backup solution. In Veeam you will get "Unable t...

RHEL 6 : kernel (RHSA-2014:1101)

Updated kernel packages that fix multiple security issues and several bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4 Extended Update Support. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores, which gi...

RHEL 6 : rhev-hypervisor6 3.4.0 (RHSA-2014:0674)

Updated rhev-hypervisor6 packages that fix multiple security issues, several bugs, and add various enhancements are now available. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having Moderate security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores, which give detailed...

No VM names for Hyper-V in SCOM

Challenge The Hyper-V topology is discovered correctly, however, the Display Names of Virtual Machines are listed as their VM IDs. Example: Additionally, error events 3603 are logged in the OperationsManager event log on the Hyper-V server: VMDiscovery.js : 'vmid' is null or not an object error...

Hyper-V Changed Block Tracking Troubleshooting

Challenge Backup and/or Replication jobs report that changed block tracking is not working properly. Article Applicability This article is only relevant when Veeam Backup & Replication is used with the following Hyper-V versions. In these older versions of Hyper-V there was no native CBT function...

Veeam ONE 7.0 Patch 2 Release Notes

Challenge Release Notes for Veeam ONE 7.0 Patch 2. Cause Please confirm you are running Veeam ONE 7 or Veeam ONE 7R2 prior to installing this update. You can check this under Help | About in Veeam ONE Monitor Client, the build number should be 7.0.0.xxx. After upgrading, your version build will b...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security and bug fix update

Updated kernel packages that fix multiple security issues and several bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4 Extended Update Support. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores, which gi...

“Invalid Credentials” Error Adding a Hyper-V Host Using a Local Account

Article Applicability This article relates to an error that only occurs when Veeam Backup & Replication is deployed on a Windows machine. With the Veeam Software Appliance, to add a Hyper-V host using credentials, it requires that both the appliance and the Windows machine are added to the same...

Virtual PC Hypervisor Memory Protection Vulnerability

No description provided by source. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Core Security Technologies - CoreLabs Advisory http://www.coresecurity.com/corelabs/ Virtual PC Hypervisor Memory Protection Vulnerability 1. Advisory Information Title: Virtual PC Hypervisor Memory Protection...

VM Uptime in Hyper-V Manager Might Reset During Backup

Article Applicability This article is relevant only to Hyper-V on Server 2012 and Server 2012 R2. Note: Server 2012 R2 reached end-of-life on October 10, 2023. Offline backup or saved state backup is a native Microsoft Hyper-V approach to quiesce VMs before taking a volume snapshot. Offline backu...

openSUSE Security Update : libvirt (openSUSE-SU-2012:0347-1)

This collective update 2012/02 for Xen provides fixes for the following reports : Xen === - 649209: Fix Xen live migrations being slow - 683580: Fix hangs during boot up after the message 'Enabled directed EOI with ioapicackold on! - 691256: unable to open a connection to the XEN Hypervisor -...

openSUSE Security Update : Hyper-V (openSUSE-SU-2012:1526-1)

This update fixes the following issues for Hyper-V: The source code without this patch caused hvkvpdaemon to exit when it processed a spoofed Netlink packet which has been sent from an untrusted local user. Now Netlink messages with a non-zero nlpid source address are ignored and a warning is...

openSUSE Security Update : kernel (openSUSE-SU-2013:1971-1)

The Linux Kernel was updated to fix various security issues and bugs. - sctp: Use correct sideffect command in duplicate cookie handling bnc826102, CVE-2013-2206. - Drivers: hv: util: Fix a bug in util version negotiation code bnc838346. - vmxnet3: prevent div-by-zero panic when ring resizing...

Oracle Linux 5 : kernel (ELSA-2014-0740)

The remote Oracle Linux 5 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2014-0740 advisory. - infiniband rds: dereference of a NULL device Jacob Tanenbaum 1079216 1079217 CVE-2013-7339 - block floppy: don't write kernel-only members to FDRAWCM...

kernel security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2014:0740 Updated kernel packages that fix three security issues and several bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having Important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring...

RHEL 5 : kernel (RHSA-2014:0740)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 5 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2014:0740 advisory. The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. A flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's floppy...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security and bug fix update

Updated kernel packages that fix three security issues and several bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having Important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores, which give detailed severit...