Restore to VMware Cloud Director fails when vmdk file extensions are missing

Article Applicability This article is relevant only when a vCloud VM restore fails and the restored disk files are missing their .vmdk file extension. Challenge When performing a vCloud VM Restore, the operation fails with the following generic error message : Restore job failed Error: Error in t...

Release Information for Veeam Backup for Red Hat Virtualization 1.0

Beta Support Support for this Public Beta release will be provided to all customers with a valid support contract for other Veeam products. Veeam Backup for Red Hat Virtualization , a feature of Veeam Backup & Replication, provides the necessary capabilities to meet your backup targets and servic...

Architecture Guideline for NEC EXPRESSCLUSTER X

Challenge When using NEC EXPRESSCLUSTER X NEC CLUSTERPRO X in Japan Market with Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows or Veeam Backup & Replication, there are specific configuration requirements to ensure successful backup and restores. Solution Please refer to the Software Integration Guide on the N...

Release Information for Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure v2a

Requirements You can check your build number under Configuration | Support Information | About | Server version by clicking the gear icon at the top-right corner of the main menu in Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure. After installing, your build number will be 2.0.0.337. What's New The new version...

How to split entire organization backup job on per-service basis

Challenge It might be required to create a backup job that would only process a particular Microsoft Office 365 service. This might help to improve backup performance of each service as well as to isolate performance issue to a particular service. Solution This example demonstrates creating a...

How to Configure Connections Required for Veeam Backup for Google Cloud in Highly Secured Environments

If your backup appliance is deployed in a highly secured environment with all outbound connections restricted, you must perform the following configuration steps to make Veeam Backup for Google Cloud function properly: 1. Allow internet access to the following Google Cloud APIs: Compute Engine AP...

The provided client secret keys are expired.

Challenge Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 displays one of the following errors: The provided client secret keys are expired. Copy Error: AADSTS7000222: The provided client secret keys are expired. Visit the Azure Portal to create new keys for your app, or consider using certificate credentials for...

AWS User Account Permissions for Deployment of Veeam Backup for AWS Appliance

This article documents the granular permissions needed for deploying a new Veeam Backup for AWS appliance...

Release Information for DataCore Plug-In for Veeam Backup & Replication

This plug-in leverages the Veeam Universal Storage API, which enables storage OEMs to allow Veeam Backup & Replication integration to the arrays for backup and replication jobs. Requirements Before installing DataCore Plug-In v1.2.2, ensure that you are running Veeam Backup & Replication 12.3.0.3...

Release Information for Veeam Backup for Nutanix AHV 2.1

This update has been superseded by Veeam Backup for Nutanix AHV 3.0. Requirements Be sure to review the upgrade check list section of the User Guide document closely prior to upgrading as Veeam Backup for Nutanix AHV 2.1 supports integration with Veeam Backup & Replication version 10 and later. Y...

Release Information for Veeam ONE 11

This version has been superseded by Veeam ONE 11a. Requirements Make sure you are running Veeam ONE version 9.5 Update 4 build 9.5.4.4566 or later builds prior to installing this update. You can check this under Help | About in Veeam ONE console. After upgrading, your build will be version...

VAO fails to deploy a VAO agent to a standalone Veeam Backup & Replication server

Challenge When VAO tries to deploy a VAO agent to a standalone Veeam Backup & Replication server, you get a generic error "Failed to communicate to agent", and all VAO attempts to communicate with the VAO agent fail. You can also see the following error in the VAO agent logs located in the log...

Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 Upgrade Paths

Shared Server with Veeam Backup & Replication If Veeam Backup & Replication is installed on the same server as Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365, upgrade Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 before upgrading Veeam Backup & Replication. Shared Server Compatibility of Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 and Veea...

How to Assign Permissions to Service Accounts Used by Veeam Backup for Google Cloud Platform

Challenge Veeam Backup for Google Cloud Platform requires a service account in each GCP project where data protection and disaster recovery tasks will be performed. The tasks include the following: Creating Snapshots Manually Performing Backup Perform Restore Adding Backup Repositories Create...

Online-only files in OneDrive folder not backed up by Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows

Challenge A restore point created by Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows appears to be missing files from a user's OneDrive folder. Upon further investigation, it is determined that Files On-Demand was enabled, and the missing files were in an Online-only state at the time of backup. Cause As a...

Support for IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions

Support Statement IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions provides full bare metal and hypervisor access and complete administrative permissions to vCenter, NSX, and any additional services. This ensures customers who transition their VMware infrastructure to IBM Cloud can expect a consistent level of...

Release Information for Veeam Management Pack for Microsoft System Center 9

This version has been superseded by Veeam Management Pack for Microsoft System Center version 9a. Requirements Please confirm that you are running version 8.0 build 8.0.0.2218 or later prior to upgrading. You can check this in the Operations Manager console under Administration, Management Packs...

Backup to NFS repository may hang

Challenge After the backup job starts, some task may hang if all of the following conditions are met: The backup repository type is the NFS repository. A Linux server is selected as a gateway server explicitly or it was selected by the automatic selection from options. NFS v3 is used to access th...

Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 4a cumulative patch KB3089

Challenge Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 4a cumulative patch KB3089. Cause Please confirm you are running Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 4a build 4.0.0.1553 prior to installing this cumulative patch KB3089. You can check this under Help About in Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 console. After...

Job fails to create VSS snapshot for SMB share

Challenge A File Backup/file to tape job skips VSS snapshot creation on SMB share and ends with the following message in the log: Failed to create a VSS snapshot, failing over to direct backup from the file share A File Backup job for an SMB3 File Share configured to use Backup from a Microsoft V...

Release notes for Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 4b

Challenge Release Notes for Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 4b. Please note that Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 4с is now available and contains all the resolved issues from Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 4b. Cause Please confirm you are running Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 version 2.0 builds...

How to Create Custom IAM Role to Perform Restores

How to Create Custom IAM Role to Perform Restores...

Release Notes for Veeam ONE 9.5 Update 4a

Challenge Release Notes for Veeam ONE 9.5 Update 4a. Please confirm that you are running version 9.0 Update 1 build 9.0.0.2088 or later prior to installing this update. You can check this under Help | About in Veeam ONE console. After the successful upgrade, your build number will be 9.5.4.4587...

Veeam Availability Orchestrator v2 Patch 1 (build 1463)

Challenge This patch fixes the following issue found in VAO 2.0. The presence of backup job objects created by Veeam plug-in backup jobs cause VAO Restore Plans to fail locating valid restore points required for the restore process. The following example shows the issue found in the Readiness Che...

Release Information for Veeam Backup & Replication 9.5 Update 4

More Recent Version Available Please find the latest version of Veeam Backup & Replication here: Veeam Downloads - Latest Version Challenge Release information for Veeam Backup & Replication 9.5 Update 4 Cause Please confirm that you are running version 9.0 Update 2 build 9.0.0.1715 or later prio...

Veeam Availability Console U1 Cumulative Patch 1824

Challenge Veeam Availability Console U1 Cumulative Patch 1824. This update supersedes Veeam Availability Console U1 Cumulative Patch 1817. Cause Please confirm you are running version 2.0.2.1750 or later prior to installing this cumulative patch 1824. You can check this under Windows Programs and...

Veeam Availability Console U1 Cumulative Patch 1807

Challenge Veeam Availability Console U1 Cumulative Patch 1807. Cause Please confirm you are running version 2.0.2.1750 or later prior to installing this cumulative patch 1807. You can check this under Windows Programs and features. After upgrading, your build will be version 2.0.2.1807. Solution...

Veeam Data Privacy Policy

Solution In accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation GDPR introduced on May 25, 2018. If you would like to: Delete your personal information Unsubscribe from marketing communications Get or update your personal information or for any general legal requests and GDPR compliance...

Considerations and Limitation - Live Resizing VHDX Disk

Challenge After live resizing a VHDX file, the following issue can occur based on the operation that was performed: Shrink -- If the VHDX associated with a VM is shrunk, the backup task for that VM will fail, and the following exception will be found in the Agent..Source. log file: cli|...

SQL Log Truncation and Log Backup Silently Fails After Installing Veeam 9.5 Update 3

Challenge After installing Veeam 9.5 Update 3, SQL logs are not truncated during backup, but the truncation task is still marked as a success in the job statistics. SQL Log Backup sessions complete with 0 KB transferred. You can confirm if any SQL VMs are affected by this change by checking the...

General Security Guidelines for Veeam Self-Service Backup Portal

Security Considerations The security advice in this article is provided as a courtesy and is not intended to replace the advice of a professional security consultant. The advice in this article has been tested with the assumption that the machine operating Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager and/or...

How to collect logs for cases involving Oracle

Challenge An issue with backing up of the Oracle database server and/or removal of Oracle archived logs is suspected. Veeam Technical Support would like to gather information from your servers and databases to investigate this issue. Additional logs must be gathered manually from the guest OS on...

Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows fails to start due to a port conflict

Challenge A Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows backup job ​with the following error message: Error: The remote procedure call failed and did not execute RPC function call failed. Function name: GetSvcVersion. Target machine: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx Copy Cause This error message relates to a failure to...

Sleep mode interrupts the backup job

Challenge If the machine is put to sleep while the backup job is running, the job will fail. Cause If your computer is in standby mode when the backup job is scheduled to start, Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows automatically wakes your computer from sleep. More information can be found here...

Importing Veeam ONE Monitor alarms

Challenge You need to import all alarms with their default values into Veeam ONE Monitor. Solution 1. Obtain the full list of alarms for version 9.0 here or for version 9.5 here. 2. Open Veeam ONE Monitor and navigate to the Alarm Management node. 3. Right-click on the container you wish to impor...

'Events data collection failure' Issue

Challenge Veeam ONE raises Events data collection failure against Veeam Backup & Replication or Hyper-V server. Cause Permissions, UAC configuration, and firewall settings need to be configured. Solution Troubleshooting Checks Verify that the account used to connect to Veeam Backup & Replication ...

Veeam ONE and Automation Services

Challenge The suggestions below leverage the functionality of Veeam ONE in order to automate some administration tasks. Cause To be able to use the steps below, make sure you are using Veeam Availability Suite 8 or newer version. Solution VM with no backup 1. Create VM backup alarm in Veeam ONE...

Manually Moving Backup Files To or From a Scale-Out Backup Repository

Veeam Cloud Service Provider Specific Starting with Veeam Backup & Replication 12, migrating a tenant's backup files to or from a scale-out backup repository can be performed without the requirement to involve Veeam Technical Support as was needed in previous versions. Please carefully review:...

No Transaction Logs Truncated After Backup of Exchange DAG Passive Node

Article Applicability This article documents a niche issue caused by changes being made to the Exchange configuration. Challenge This article is specific to a scenario where all of the following are true: Microsoft Exchange transaction logs are not truncated after the backup completes. The...

Unable to install Backup Enterprise Manager

Challenge Attempting to install Backup Enterprise Manager results in a 'fail' during port selection, with the specified HTTPS Port being unavailable. Cause The port is already consumed by the World Wide Web Publishing Service Solution Disable the World Wide Web Publishing Service, proceed with th...

"The request was aborted: Could not create SSL/TLS secure channel" after installing Windows Updates

Challenge After installing the security Windows Updates released in September or October 2016, outgoing HTTPS connections from Veeam server to vCenter and NetApp storages may fail with The request was aborted: Could not create SSL/TLS secure channel. Any other HTTPS connections may be affected as...

No updates from gateway servers

Challenge No data come from the gateway servers. The Svc.VeeamGateSvc.log on the Gateway server default path C:\ProgramData\Veeam\Backup contains the following entry: Failed to establish target connection to endpoint: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:9999 where xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx points to the Veeam Managed Backup...

Restoring Domain Controller from an Application-Aware backup

Article Applicability The details discussed in this article are related only to Domain Controllers that are not virtual machines in a Hyper-V environment. In Hyper-V environments, Domain Controller VMs are not modified to change the boot method during restore because the HV Integration Tools noti...

Transaction Log Truncation Failure for MSSQL Instances on Shared VHDX

Challenge When attempting to run a backup job for a Microsoft SQL Server that is in either a SQL Server Failover Cluster or AlwaysOn Failover Cluster with a shared VHDX, the backup job reports the warning: Failed to truncate transaction logs for SQL instances: . Possible reasons: lack of...

Failback That Was Canceled or Failed Results in CID Mismatch

Challenge In rare situations, if a VMware Replication Failback to Original VM fails or is canceled, the original VM may be left in a 'consolidation needed' state and cannot be powered on or consolidated because of errors such as: The parent virtual disk has been modified since the child was creat...

Tape Write Operations Fail for MHVTL if Block Size Is Not Set to 64 KB

Challenge All tape write operations fail for MHVTL drives if the data block size is not set to 65,536 bytes. Cause Starting in Veeam Backup & Replication v9, a new algorithm for automatically selecting the data block size was implemented. The software will automatically detect the highest availab...

How to Force Enterprise Manager Login to Use Form-Based Authentication

Article Applicability This article applies to Veeam Backup & Replication 12.x and older, as in those versions, the default was for Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager to utilize a Windows Authentication pop-up key="useWindowsAuth" value="true". Starting in Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager v13, the...

Backup to DataDomain over DDboost hangs

You are using DDBoost connection to a DataDomain device.Backup to the DataDomain device starts to hang.In the log of Veeam agent that is writing the data to the device you can see agent crash dump is...

Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows job displays warning: Partition exceeds disk layout

Challenge A Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows backup job displays the following warning: Partition exceeds disk layout by bytes This warning may be accompanied by the error: Error: The drive cannot find the sector requested. Asynchronous read operation failed Failed to upload disk. Agent failed t...

Backup Copy Job Failures when using ExaGrid de-duplicating storage

Challenge Backup Copy Jobs can fail when writing to ExaGrid storage. Cause De-duplicating storage can incorrectly update existing backup files during Veeam "merge" operation. Solution Make sure your ExaGrid Storage firmware version is 4.7.0 P52 or newer. For additional information please contact...