Vulnerability Scanner Detection Related to CVE-2024-7264

Support Statement This Veeam KB article was created to address customers' concerns regarding the detection of the libcurl library by their security software on VMware Backup Proxies, where the VMware VDDK package is installed. Libcurl is a component of VMware VDDK Virtual Disk Development Kit,...

Advanced transport modes (HotAdd and SAN) fail over to NBD mode

Challenge Advanced transport modes Virtual Appliance HotAdd or Direct Storage access may not work, failing over to the NBD transport mode instead. If you are seeing error "Cannot use advanced transport modes, failing over to NBD " you should check the HotAdd attacher agent log default location -...

Backup proxy that uses Virtual Appliance (HotAdd) mode and is installed on Microsoft Windows 2019 shows "Restart Required" message

Challenge When you log in to the Veeam backup proxy server interactively following the execution of a job using the hot add transport mode, you may get a notification from the OS prompting to restart the server. The notification can be one of the following: Your PC needs to be restarted to finish...

Backup jobs using Virtual Appliance (HotAdd) transport mode take longer after installing 9.5 Update 3a

Challenge After installing Veeam Backup & Replication 9.5 Update 3a, the backup duration may be significantly increased for jobs using the Virtual Appliance HodAdd transport mode. Other transport modes NBD/NBDSSL, Direct SAN, Direct NFS are not affected. Cause This is a known issue affecting VMwa...

Backup and Replication jobs fail with the following error: "CDeviceBase: resize is not supported. Failed to download disk"

Challenge Backup and Replication jobs fail with the following error: "CDeviceBase: resize is not supported. Failed to download disk". The following conditions must be met: 1. Veeam 8 Update 2 8.0.0.2021 or later 2. Backed up VM is running on ESXi 5.5 or later 3. Hot Add transport mode is used 4. ...

Virtual Appliance or SAN mode fails on a localized proxy server

Challenge Hot-add or SAN mode fails on a localized proxy. In the job log, you can see the following error: Info AP 2a1a output: 2012-01-26T12:07:14.429+01:00 02252 error 'Default' Cannot use advanced transport modes for xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/moref=vm-xxx/snapshot-xxx: Cannot lock directory...