How to Bypasss Load Balancing in Veeam Management Pack for Microsoft System Center

Challenge Load Balancing is automatically enabled between multiple collectors within one failover group. The issue is when you do not want collectors to failover or load balance between the two. Cause Load Balancing is a feature within Veeam Management Pack for Microsoft System Center and it is s...

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...

Failed to configure DC (Host is not licensed for this feature)

Challenge Cause The DC boots up only in the DSRM and all services are not operational. Solution To address this: Make sure ESX is licensed with the vStorage APIs feature. Make sure that the account used to backup the Virtual Machines has full administrative rights on Vcenter and is member of loca...

Duplicate e-mail notifications sent when a backup or replication job is completed.

When your backup or replication job is completed, you receive duplicate e-mail notifications...

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"...

VIX Error: Failed to resolve host Code: 30006

VIX Error: Failed to resolve host Code: 30006...

List of Security Fixes and Improvements in Veeam Recovery Orchestrator

Purpose This article describes all security-related fixes and improvements introduced in each release or update of Veeam Recovery Orchestrator. This article aims to provide our customers' security and compliance teams with detailed information on security improvements between releases to help the...

Restore to AWS EC2 Fails with: "ClientError: Unknown OS / Missing OS files" or "FirstBootFailure"

Challenge When restoring a VM to AWS EC2, one of the following errors occurs: StatusMessage: "CLIENTERROR : ClientError: Unknown OS / Missing OS files." Failed to import machine to Amazon EC2: CLIENTERROR : FirstBootFailure: This import request failed because the instance failed to boot and...

Backup Job to Cloud Provider Fails to Stop Running Health Check Session

Known Issues - Will be resolved in future release. This issue Issue ID: 1151633 has been identified and reviewed by Veeam's R&D team and will be fixed in a future release. This article serves to document the issue and provide information about workarounds. Challenge Observed Behavior If the Healt...

Guidelines for Mass Instant Recovery to Azure

Article Applicability This article contains information related to Veeam Backup & Replication build 13.0.1.180 and later, as performance for IR to Azure was significantly improved starting with this build. Challenge When attempting to perform mass recovery using Instant Recovery to Azure, the...

Connection to Veeam Software Appliance Fails With: "Authentication failed: invalid credentials"

Challenge When attempting to use local account credentials to connect to a Veeam Software Appliance that is joined to a domain, the Console fails to connect with the errror: Authentication failed: invalid credentials Cause This error occurs due to an account collision caused by the...

SharePoint Sites May Not Be Displayed When Browsing Backups

Challenge When browsing backups or backup copies, SharePoint root sites and their subsites may not be visible. Cause If a backed-up SharePoint subsite is moved between repositories using the Move-VBOEntityData cmdlet, or removed from a repository using the Remove-VBOEntityData cmdlet, the metadat...

Veeam ONE Upgrade Paths

Purpose This article documents the upgrade path to be taken to get to the most recent version of Veeam ONE. Solution End of Support Upgrade Path If you are using a version of Veeam ONE VONE that has reached its End of Support EOS and cannot be directly upgraded to a supported version, you will ne...

Security Context Constraints(SCC) capabilities setting for Generic Storage Backup and Restore with OCP 4.11 or higher

Purpose This article describes Security Context ConstraintsSCC capabilities that need to be added to use Generic Backup and Restore feature capabilities on OCP 4.11 and higher. Known Issues With OCP 4.11, default security context constraints SCC have changed. Due to this, when using Generic Stora...

Option to Add Veeam Kasten for Kubernetes Does Not Appear in Veeam Backup & Replication

Challenge When attempting to add Veeam Kasten for Kubernetes to Veeam Backup & Replication, the option for Kasten does not appear in the Add Server options. Cause This issue may occur if: The Veeam Kubernetes Service is not running and needs to be started. The Kasten Plug-In is not installed. Thi...

Resolving Pending State During Cluster Removal with k10multicluster Tool

Challenge This article helps in finding and deleting long-running finalizers that are waiting on other resources and can cause deletions to appear stuck in the terminating state. Description: When Kubernetes attempts to delete the cluster object that has finalizers "dist.kio.kasten.io/debootstrap...

Rescan of Cloud Native Machines in Azure Fails After Credentials Change

Challenge After the Azure Storage account is changed, rescan of Cloud Native Agents e.g., Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows , Veeam Agent for Linux fails with the error: Warning Failed to connect to Details: Azure REST API error. HTTP code: 403. Azure error: AuthenticationFailed. Full error:...

Restore to Google Cloud Engine Fails With "n1-standard-2 not found"

The Restore to Google Compute Engine utilizes the import-image API call, which in turn requires an N1 instance type, which is an instance type that is not available in certain regions...

Release Information for Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 6a

Cumulative Patches are available for this version: Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 6a Cumulative Patches Requirements Before upgrading to Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 6.0, Please confirm that you are running one of the following versions of Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365: 4.0 build 4.0.0.1345 4a...

Veeam's VSS Operations With SMB 3.0 Impacted by Windows June 14, 2022 Update

Challenge After installing the Windows June 14,2022 update KB5014702/KB5014746 on a Windows file server hosting SMB 3.0 shares, the follow Veeam Backup & Replication operations may be impacted: If those SMB 3.0 shares are added to Veeam Backup & Replication with the "Backup from Microsoft VSS...

Release Information for Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 6.0

Cumulative Patches are available for this version: Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 6.0 Cumulative Patches Requirements Before upgrading to Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 6.0, Please confirm that you are running one of the following versions of Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365: 4.0 build 4.0.0.1345 4...

Release Information for Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 5d Cumulative Patch KB4278

Requirements Please confirm you are running Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 build 5.0.3.1033 or higher prior to installing this cumulative patch KB4278. You can check this under Help and Support About in Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 console. After upgrading, your build version will change to...

Restricting Veeam Plug-In for Microsoft Azure Permissions to Resource Group

Challenge When deploying Veeam Plug-In for Microsoft Azure , and initially adding the Azure account, it must have the Microsoft.Authorization//Write permissions assigned in the subscription associated with the backup appliance. After deployment, the account can then be restricted to only allow fu...

Release Information for Veeam Backup for Google Cloud Platform v2 Patch 1

Requirements Before installing this patch, please confirm that you are running Veeam Backup for Google Cloud Platform v2 build 2.0.0.530. 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 mai...

Release Information for Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure v3

Requirements Please confirm that you are running version Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure v2 build 2.0.0.303 or later before upgrading. You can find the currently installed build number Server Version in the About section under Configuration | Support Information. After installing, your build...

Release Information for Veeam Service Provider Console v6

Requirements Please confirm that you are running version 5 build 5.0.0.6726 or later prior to upgrading. You can check this under Configuration | Support Information in the Veeam Service Provider Console UI. After upgrading, your build number will be 6.0.0.7739. To upgrade from versions of Veeam...

Release Information for Dell PowerMax 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 Dell PowerMax Plug-In v1.1.7, ensure that you are running Veeam Backup & Replication...

Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 5b cumulative patch KB4135

This patch is superseded by Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 5b cumulative patch KB4158 Requirements Please confirm you are running Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 build 5.0.1.179 or 5.0.1.207 prior to installing this cumulative patch KB4135. You can check this under Help and Support About in Veeam...

Unsupported license deployment alarm in Veeam Service Provider Console

Challenge Veeam Service Provider Console displays the alarm: Unsupported license deployment. Shared license key Copy The Alarm Description states: The same license ID has been detected for the backups servers: Copy Cause This alarm occurs when the same license is detected as having been installed...

How to specify an Azure Active Directory tenant for Azure Cloud Credentials wizard to use

Challenge You are adding a Microsoft Azure account to Veeam Backup & Replication. You need to select the method of importing your Azure Resource Manager subscription, and you want to use an existing Azure Active Directory Account. Also, you have more than one Azure Active Directory tenant...

Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 4c cumulative patch KB4099

This patch supersedes Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 4c cumulative patch KB4083. Requirements Please confirm you are running Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 version 4c builds 4.0.1.531, 4.0.1.545, 4.0.1.612 prior to installing this cumulative patch KB4099. You can check this under Help and Support...

Cisco HyperFlex & Veeam CDP support status

Challenge Cisco HyperFlex VM Snapshot creation process will stop VMs if a Veeam CDP storage policy filter is present. Affected VMs will not boot anymore. Cause Each time a Cisco HyperFlex Snapshot is created when a Veeam CDP storage policy filter is present, the HyperFlex snapshot creation proces...

Release Information for Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 5b

This update has been superseded by Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 5b cumulative patch KB4124. Requirements Please confirm that you are running one of the following versions of Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 before upgrading to 5b: 3.0 build 3.0.0.422 4.0 build 4.0.0.1345 4a builds 4.0.0.1553,...

Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 4c cumulative patch KB4083

This patch has been superseded by Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 4c cumulative patch KB4099. Requirements Please confirm you are running Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 builds 4.0.1.531 or 4.0.1.545 prior to installing this cumulative patch KB4083. You can check this under Help and Support About i...

Veeam products may fail to install on Windows 10 version 20H2

Challenge An attempt to install Veeam products may fail with the following error: "Setup failed". This error may affect the following products: Veeam Backup & Replication Veeam Availability Orchestrator Veeam Service Provider Console Veeam ONE Cause If a Microsoft SQL Server is not installed...

Additional Information on Cost Estimation in Veeam Backup for Google Cloud

Challenge The cost estimation feature allows you to approximately estimate the costs of Google Cloud resources required to run data protection operations for a backup policy. You can obtain granular information on how much costs running the policy will incur, with an option to export the estimati...

Release Information for Veeam Agent for Oracle Solaris 2.1

The latest version of Veeam Agent for Oracle Solaris can be found here: https://www.veeam.com/oracle-solaris-agent-download.html This update supersedes Veeam Agent for Oracle Solaris 2.0. Requirements Upgrade from v1 is not supported, clean installation is required. Upgrade from Veeam Agent for...

Release Information for Veeam Agent for IBM AIX 2.0

The latest version of Veeam Agent for IBM AIX is available: https://www.veeam.com/ibm-aix-agent-download.html Requirements Upgrade from v1 is not supported, clean installation is required. Please follow this instruction to install Veeam Agent for IBM AIX. After installing, your build number will ...

Veeam Support For Azure FIles

This article provides information around Veeam Backup & Replication support for Microsoft Azure Files. Note that it is possible to protect Azure Files natively with Azure Files Policies in Veeam Plug-In for Microsoft Azure. This article specifically discusses using Veeam Backup & Replication in...

Veeam Agent for Oracle Solaris Skips Hidden ZFS Snapshots

Challenge Veeam Agent for Oracle Solaris does not back up hidden ZFS snapshots. Cause Veeam Agent for Oracle Solaris cannot back up hidden ZFS snapshots that are explicitly specified as a source for backup. This is a by-design limitation from Oracle. By default, the .zfs directory is not visible...

Network mapping does not work for Hyper-V replicas in Veeam Cloud Connect after renaming Hyper-V virtual switch

Article Applicability This article relates to a known issue documented in the Veeam Cloud Connect User Guide: After you subscribe a tenant to a Hyper-V hardware plan, you cannot rename the virtual switch in Microsoft Hyper-V infrastructure that is used by VM replicas. If you rename the virtual...

How to Migrate Tenant Replicas From a Standard Switch (vSS) to a Distributed Switch (vDS)

Purpose This article documents how a Veeam Cloud Service Provider VCSP or simply SP would migrate their tenants's replicas from a virtual Standard Switch vSS to a virtual Distributed Switch vDS. Solution Part 1: Update the Hardware Plan Configuration 1. Edit the Hardware Plan used by tenants that...

Veeam Support for Azure Stack Hub

Overview Veeam Backup & Replication supports backup and restore of workloads running on Azure Stack Hub using Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows and Veeam Agent for Linux. These can be centrally managed with Veeam Backup & Replication. Restore operations are performed using the Direct Restore to...

Release Information for Veeam ONE 10a

Challenge Release Information for Veeam ONE 10a build 10.0.2.1094. Cause Please make sure you are running version 9.5.0.3801 9.5 Update 3 or later prior to installing this update. You can check this under Windows Programs and Features. After upgrade, your build will be version 10.0.2.1094. Soluti...

Veeam Service Provider Console v4 Patch 1 (build 4911)

Challenge Veeam Service Provider Console v4 Patch 1. This patch is superseded by the Patch 2 Cause Please confirm you are running version 4.0.0.4877 before installing this Patch 1. You can check this under Windows Programs and features. After upgrading, your build will be version 4.0.0.4911. As a...

How to Configure Endpoints for Veeam Backup for AWS

You want to launch workers in the subnet with disabled auto-assignment of the Public IPv4 addresses...

Veeam Backup & Replication 10 Cumulative Patch 2

More Recent Version Available Please find the latest version of Veeam Backup & Replication here: Veeam Downloads - Latest Version Requirements Please confirm that you are running the GA build of version 10 build 10.0.0.4461 or 10.0.0.4461 P1 prior to installing this update. You can check this und...

Release Information for Veeam Backup & Replication 10

This version has been superseded by Veeam Backup & Replication 10a. Challenge Release information for Veeam Backup & Replication 10. NOTE : A cumulative hotfix rollup that addresses issues reported by customers on the original build of v10 GA is now available, click here for more information...

AlwaysOn Availability Groups cannot be selected while restoring a SQL database to Microsoft SQL Server 2017 after installation of CU15

Challenge You try to restore a SQL database to Microsoft SQL Server 2017 with CU15 that supports AlwaysOn Availability Groups, but you are not able to select an availability group at the "Specify AlwaysON Restore Options" step. Cause ServerNetworkProtocolProperty is missing in CU15 for SQL Server...

Veeam Backup for Office 365 Complete Permissions

This KB is being phased out The content of this article is being transitioned to the Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 User Guide. An up-to-date list of Required Permission is available in the Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 User Guide. Authentication Modes Summary Depending on the Microsoft 365...