Hypervisor Restore Options are Greyed Out in Context Menu

Challenge When attempting to restore an entire VM, some hypervisor options are greyed out in the right-click context menu. Solution This issue is currently under investigation and is scheduled to be addressed in a future patch. For now, there are two workarounds available: Select the machine to b...

Update Rollup 3 for System Center 2022 Data Protection Manager

Update Rollup 3 for System Center 2022 Data Protection Manager Applies to: System Center 2022 Data Protection Manager Introduction This article describes the issues that are fixed in Update Rollup 3 for Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager 2022. It also contains the installation...

CVE-2022-49146

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: virtio: use virtiodeviceready in virtiodevicerestore After waking up a suspended VM, the kernel prints the following trace for virtio drivers which do not directly call virtiodeviceready in the .restore: PM: suspend exit irq 22:...

Update Rollup 5 for System Center 2019 Data Protection Manager

Update Rollup 5 for System Center 2019 Data Protection Manager Applies to : System Center 2019 Data Protection Manager Introduction This article describes the issues that are fixed in Update Rollup 5 for Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager 2019. This article also contains the...

February 19, 2019—KB4486565 (Preview of Monthly Rollup)

February 19, 2019—KB4486565 Preview of Monthly Rollup Improvements and fixes This non-security update includes improvements and fixes that were a part of KB4486563 released February 12, 2019 and also includes these new quality improvements as a preview of the next Monthly Rollup update: Updates...

February 12, 2019—KB4487025 (Monthly Rollup)

February 12, 2019—KB4487025 Monthly Rollup Improvements and fixes This security update includes improvements and fixes that were a part of update KB4480971 released January 15, 2019 and addresses the following issues: Addresses an issue that may prevent applications that use a Microsoft Jet...

January 8, 2019—KB4480957 (Security-only update)

January 8, 2019—KB4480957 Security-only update Improvements and fixes This security update includes quality improvements. No new operating system features are being introduced in this update. Key changes include: Provides protections against an additional subclass of speculative execution...

January 8, 2019—KB4480970 (Monthly Rollup)

January 8, 2019—KB4480970 Monthly Rollup Improvements and fixes This security update addresses the following issues: Provides protections against an additional subclass of speculative execution side-channel vulnerability known as Speculative Store Bypass CVE-2018-3639 for AMD-based computers. The...

Full VM restore to a new Datacenter cause deletion of production VM if the name of recovered VM will match production VM name

Challenge Production VM will be deleted without warning if following conditions are met: 1. Full VM restore to vCenter Datacenter, different from original VM Datacenter, VM was running under. 2. Name of recovering VM coincide with existing VM in production. Cause Based on VmWare architecture, it...

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...

Choosing a restore proxy for performing a Full VM restore

When doing a Full VM restore with Veeam Backup & Replication, sometimes you will need to choose a proxy to get the restore done faster. An example would be restoring across a WAN where Veeam is local, but the repository is on the remote site...