How to configure Veeam B&R to work with replicated volume snapshots on the target Pure Storage array

Replicated volume snapshots on the target Pure Storage array are not displayed in the storage system hierarchy in the Veeam Backup & Replication console...

Veeam Availability Console v3 Patch 3 (build 2762)

Challenge Veeam Availability Console v3 Patch 3 build 2762. This update supersedes Veeam Availability Console v3 Patch 2 build 2725. Cause Please confirm you are running version 3.0.0.2647 or later prior to installing this Patch 3. You can check this under Windows Programs and features. After...

Transaction Log Backup Job for Microsoft SQL Server with AlwaysOn Availability Groups fails after installing CU15 for SQL Server 2017

Challenge When utilizing Always On Availability Groups on a Windows Server Failover Cluster using Microsoft SQL Server 2017 and after installing Cumulative Update package 15 CU15 for SQL Server 2017, Veeam Transaction Log Backup Jobs may fail with the following error message in the the statistics...

Backups Fail After Upgrade to AOS 5.8.0.1 or Later

Article Applicability This article documents a bug ENG-163615 Nutanix discovered in AOS 5.6.1 and resolved in AOS 5.9.1. These AOS versions were supported by all versions of Veeam Backup for Nutanix AHV up to version 5. Starting with Veeam Backup for Nutanix AHV 5, the minimum required AOS versio...

The Update cannot be installed due to the websites configuration issue

Challenge The Update cannot be installed. The installation fails with the error message: "The object identifier does not represent a valid object. Exception from HRESULT: 0x800710D8" Cause Veeam ONE websites do not have proper bindings on the Internet Information Services IIS side. Solution To fi...

“Storage connection failure” alarm during the backup jobs with storage integration activity.

Challenge The alarm " Storage connection failure" is displayed in Veeam ONE when performing either of the following activities in Veeam Backup & Replication: Backup from Storage Snapshots Restore from Storage Snapshots While both Backup from Storage Snapshots and Restore from Storage Snapshots bo...

VMware Cloud on AWS - Support, Considerations, and Limitations

Challenge VMware Cloud on AWS is an integrated cloud offering developed by AWS and VMware. It requires specific preparation to enable Veeam Backup & Replication to function with it. Apart from the preparation process and the limitations mentioned at the end of this article, you can interact with...

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...

VESQL database restore to Always On Availability Groups with automatic seeding enabled is hanging

Challenge VESQL database restore to Always ON Availability Group with automatic seeding enabled SQL 2016 SP1 and later does not work. Veeam SQL Explorer log shows repeating records like: 10/23/2017 8:19:22 PM 11 5160 SQL query: ALTER DATABASE SET HADR AVAILABILITY GROUP = 10/23/2017 8:19:32 PM 11...

Backup jobs fail intermittently with Error observed by underlying BIO:

Challenge Intermittent network failures when communicating to the VMware host. The errors can vary but all have some variation of: "Error observed by underlying BIO: No such file or directoryDetail: 'SSL connect failed in tcpconnect', endpoint:" Guest processing credentials test will also fail ov...

How to Disable Monitoring of Specific Performance Counters in Veeam ONE

Purpose This article demonstrates how to limit the performance counters collected by Veeam ONE. This may be needed in situations where: There is a need to limit the network traffic between the Veeam ONE server and the virtual infrastructure servers. To decrease the Veeam ONE database growth rate...

File Name Is Changed During FLR to a Non-original Location

This article describes a known issue with the file level restore feature in Veeam Backup and Replication and Veeam Backup for Microsoft Windows...

Release Notes for Veeam Management Pack 8.0 Update 4

Challenge Release Notes for Veeam Management Pack 8.0 Update 4. Cause Please confirm you are running Veeam Management Pack 8.0 prior to installing this update. You can check this in Operations Manager console under Administration | Management Packs, the build number should be 8.0.0.2218 or later...

Orphaned Snapshot Alarm - Change Suppression Settings

Challenge Correct over frequent triggering of Snapshot alarm Cause Depending on environment and when data is pulled alarm can trigger at non specified interval. Solution Within Monitor, go to the Alarm Management tab, and locate the 'Orphaned VM Backup Snapshot' alarm I just search 'orphaned in t...

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:...

Required Applications and Permissions for Multi-OS FLR and Repository Support for Linux

Purpose This document provides information about required applications that must exist on Linux machines to function with Veeam Backup and Replication. Solution Permissions Requirements Permissions are dependent on the intended role of the Linux server. For more information, review this page of t...

VeeamONE SQL Database Log File (ldf) Growth

Challenge The transaction log file .ldf for the Veeam ONE configuration database VeeamONE consumes an unexpectedly large amount of disk space. Cause This occurs when the Recovery Model of the VeeamONE configuration database is set to Full or Bulk-Logged. Note: By deafult, Veeam ONE expects and...

multi-OS restore fails on Hyper-V 2008R2

To restore individual files and folders from file systems other than Microsoft Windows, you can use the multi-OS File-Level Restore wizard. To restore files from VM guest OS, Veeam Backup & Replic...

The tasks array included at least one null element

Challenge Management Pack fails to display a segment of the environmental topology or a portion of performance information. The vmspi.log default location: C:\Program Files\Veeam\Veeam Virtualization Extensions for System Center\Collector\Log contains the following entries: + VP038 buildInventory...

How to Change the Oracle Archive Log File Location During Application-Aware Backup

Purpose This article explains how to change the Oracle Archive log file location used during Application-Aware Backup. Note: These settings only affect the log file location for Application-Aware Backup operations. Solution Linux-based Oracle Server: In the location where the Veeam agent starts, ...

RestAPI requests to tenant entities fail with "Specified cast is not valid" error

After upgrading Enterprise Manager and Backup server to version 9, RestAPI requests to tenant entities fail with "Specified cast is not valid" error...

Cloud Connect Jobs might start failing after upgrading to v8 update#3

Challenge After installation of update 3 for v8, tenants might report that their Cloud Connect jobs fail with "Failed to connect to the Veeam Cloud Connect service" error message, while tenant's job log includes "No such host is known" error message. Cause Tenant has a service provider added to h...

Hyper-V crash consistent Backups/Replicas due to McAfee mfehidk driver

Challenge If McAfee FS minifilter MFEHIDK driver is loaded into Windows kernel, then it doesn't allow any other driver to load at lower altitudes, it only allows other drivers to load at higher altitudes, supposedly because of proactive defense logic of McAfee Antivirus. Therefore Veeam CBT drive...

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...

Instant Recovery or Multi-OS File Level Recovery fails when the VM has Flex-SE disk

Challenge Even if there is at least one manually created SEsparse Flex-SE disk attached to the VM in backup you will experience the following issues: A File Level Restore from Other OS session fails with the error: Failed to mount restore point PowerOn failed, vmRef 'vm-', hostRef 'host-' File...

“After this job” (Daisy Chain) behavior change in Veeam Backup & Replication v8

This article documents the behavioral change made to the “After this job” function in Veeam Backup & Replication v8...

Veeam Explorer for Microsoft SQL Server displays no content

Challenge When performing a SQL Item Restore, Veeam Explorer for Microsoft SQL Server launches successfully, but no content is displayed. The following is an example of what should be seen when the restore is working properly: Cause The account used to perform Application-Aware Image Processing f...

After replacing the license file, you get warnings about a “Grace Period” to renew the license in 4000 days

Challenge This article covers an issue which impacts the following versions differently, but is caused by the same issue. Veeam Backup & Replication 7 Veeam Backup & Replication 8 and 9 ─ ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────── Veeam Backup & Replication 7 ─...

Backup Copy Retention

Purpose This article is intended to document how Backup Copy's retention is enforced. Solution Starting with Veeam Backup & Replication 11, there are two diferent retention policy schemes for backup copy jobs: Short-Term Retention Policy GFS Retention Policy Weekly, Monthly, Yearly More Informati...

Monitoring of vSphere 4.x fails with Veeam MP v7

Challenge Though everything is configured correctly and you have successfully added vCenter 4.x or standalone ESX 4.x to Veeam Extensions as a Monitoring target, no data is shown in SCOM and you can see "Veeam VMware Collector: VMware connection is unavailable" alerts . Additionally, the followin...

Number of Cores Incorrectly Detected - Server 2003/XP

Challenge When adding a Server 2003 or Windows XP machine to Veeam, the true number of cores is not detected properly. Instead Veeam Backup & Replication only detects the number of Sockets. Example: A virtual machine with Server 2003, having a configuration of 2 Sockets and 4 Cores, is added to...

Limitation on number of EDBs mounted in Veeam Explorer for Exchange

Challenge The number of databases that can be mounted in Veeam Explorer for Exchange at a time is currently limited to 15. Solution If the limit has been reached, you will not be able to mount new databases. You can manually remove unnecessary mailbox stores in Veeam Explorer for Exchange and the...

VSS Timeout when backing up Exchange VM

Article Applicability This article was initially created for Veeam Backup & Replication 6.1. While the article remains technically accurate regarding the behavior of Microsoft VSS and Veeam's interactions with VSS, the issue discussed rarely occurs thanks to the improvements made in Veeam Backup ...

Quota Violation While Running WMI Queries

Challenge In the Veeam Management Pack for System Center UI, some monitored objects are grey or missing altogether. Standard troubleshooting steps do not help. The SCOM agent log on the Collector server contains the following error: WMI Error: 0x8004106C When you try to use the WBEMTEST utility,...

Re-IP issues: Win2008R2 with VMXNET 3 Adapter

Article Applicability The issue discussed in this article is strictly related to the use of VMXNET3 network adapters with the following vSphere VM guest operating systems: Windows 7 Windows 7 SP1 Server 2008 R2 Server 2008 R2 SP1 Challenge When you perform failover for a Win2008R2 server with a...

Performance Charts for vSphere Environment Display "No data available"

Challenge Veeam ONE Client shows the "No data available" message on performance charts for different metrics: Cause Here are the most common reasons for missing data on the performance charts: The Veeam ONE service account does not have Write access to the "PerfСache" folder. The account used by...

Naming requirement for correct functioning of the "Guest to Agent Relationship" feature

Challenge To make the VM and OpsMgr Agent integration work properly, it is necessary that VMs discovered by the VMGUEST contains OpsMgr Agent discovery have an identical display name and NETBIOS name. Cause If the VMware display name is different from the NETBIOS name, the VM will have two source...

Veeam Management Pack for Microsoft System Center Collector Error: "Proxy Authentication Required"

Challenge Despite there being no internet proxy between the collector and the monitored targets, and connection to the monitored targets is stable i.e., the Test Connection utility shows "Success", the following problems occur: No data is displayed in the Operations Manager console. The log shows...

How to Run Multiple Instances of the Veeam One Client

Purpose This article documents to enable multiple instances of the Veeam ONE Client to be launched on the same machine. By default attempting to launch a second Veeam ONE Client while one is already running will change focus to the existing running Veeam ONE Client. The setting document in this...

Hyper-V CSV Backup - Blue Screen

Challenge During Hyper-V backup via CSV, a node in Hyper-V connected to the CSV shows Blue Screen error and crashes. Cause This is a known Microsoft error requiring updates. Solution Apply hotfixes mentioned in these articles to resolve this behavior. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2494162...

How to Edit Multiple Alarms at the Same Time

Purpose This article provides supplemental information regarding batch alarm editing. As documented in the Veeam ONE Monitoring Guide, in batch editing mode, you can only change the Assignment, Notifications, Actions, and Suppression alarm settings. Solution For information about modifying multip...

Your license has expired

Challenge During upgrade to a newer version of Veeam Backup & Replication, the following error occurs: Solution Review KB1191 for information about how to download a new license file. More Information Prior to Veeam Backup & Replication v10, all license files were bound by version release. To...

Creating snapshots in a different location than default virtual machine directory

How to change the default virtual machine working directory location for snapshots...

Troubleshooting Exchange AIR

Challenge You are not able to proceed through AIR wizard to perform application item recovery. You are not able to restore individual mailbox items. Cause vLab is misconfigured or you do not have sufficient permissions. Solution To address the issue, follow the steps below: 1. Make sure vLab is...

Installing a new license does not take effect/hold.

When installing a new license for Backup & Replication, the license key does not apply or hold...

Configuration system failed to initialize

Product Improvements Starting with Veeam Backup & Replication 12, when launching the Console, the software will check the validity of the user.config file, and if found to be corrupt display a prompt notifying the user that "your user settings file is corrupted. " That prompt will allow the user ...

How to download a trial version of nworks products

When you try to download the management pack/SPI trial version from the Veeam Software website, the link does not work...

SureBackup for a Virtual Machine with excluded disks

Challenge How to run a VM directly from a backup file if some of its disks are excluded from backup. Solution To run a VM directly from a backup file, make sure you select 'Remove excluded disks from VM configuration' option when excluding your disks from the backup: More Information If the 'Remo...

Failed to create dir "\\LOCATION\FOLDER" Could not find a part of the path "\\LOCATION\FOLDER"

Failed to create dir "\LOCATION\FOLDER" Could not find a part of the path "\LOCATION\FOLDER"...

How to Disable the Renaming of Reversed Incremental VBK File

Article Applicability This article is related to the automatic renaming of the VBK file, which occurs only when using Reverse Incremental backup mode. Note: Reverse Incremental as a backup mode will begin being deprecated starting in version 13 of Veeam Backup & Replication. For more information,...