vCenter Connection Failover Requirements for SCOM Action Account

Challenge Although everything is set up according to the vCenter Connection Failover manual, the script fails. As a result, the following event appears in the Operations Manager Event Log on Veeam Virtualizations Extension Server VES with id: 995. vCenterFailover.ps1 : Error: Cannot open...

Error: Username or password is incorrect when adding vCloud Director

Challenge Encountering issue "Error: Username or password is incorrect" when adding vCloud Director to Veeam Backup & Replication. Solution 1. Verify that the correct password is being utilized. 2. Ports, Permissions, or DNS issues can cause this failure: 1. Ensure connectivity between the Veeam...

Installing Veeam Backup & Replication 6.5.0.144

Challenge You need to install Veeam Backup & Replication version 6.5.0.144. Solution To install Veeam Backup & Replication version 6.5.0.144, you must first install version 6.5.0.109 and then apply Patch 3. 1. Install the correct 32-bit or 64-bit version of Veeam Backup & Replication version...

Attempt to launch Veeam Backup and Replication fails

Challenge An attempt to launch Veeam Backup & Replication fails with the message that Veeam Backup and Replication service is not running: The service can actually be seen as running: The following entries can be seen in VeeamShell.log: Timestamp Info ------- Started new session of Veeam Shell...

High guest OS resource utilization

Challenge Performance metrics within a Virtual Machine's Guest OS are different higher or lower than the same metrics reported by Veeam ONE. Cause The process used by vSphere to allocate and distribute system resources differs from the methods used by Windows and other operating systems for a...

Upgrade to version 6.5 fails with the "Unable to connect to SQL Server" error

Challenge When upgrading to Veeam Backup & Replication version 6.5 you receive the error: "Unable to connect to SQL Server servername=:Login failed for user", even though the dbowner account is used. You also experience one of the following symptoms: You receive repeated logon windows You receive...

Jobs missing from Enterprise Manager 6.5

Jobs disappeared from Enterprise Manager after upgrade to version 6.5.0.106...

Failed to parse "-quiescedsnap"

Challenge After you upgrade to VMware vSphere 4.1 Update 3, a new line is added to virtual machine configuration files .vmx. The line makes the VM configuration files invalid. As a result, Veeam Backup & Replication jobs fail. Solution The issue has been resolved in build 6.1.0.205. For details,...

Virtual Infrastructure topology is not available in SCOM console

Challenge Despite the OmTopology.xml being created in the Collector installation folder the Veeam views in SCOM are empty, and the OperationsManager logs on the Collector server contain events 999 with the following message: Error Loading XML document C:\Program Files\Veeam\Veeam Virtualization...

Installing nworks Report Pack for HP Reporter on Windows Server 2008 (64-bit)

Challenge When installing the nworks Report Pack for HP Reporter on Windows 2008 x64, you may get the following error: OpenView Reporter or Reporter Lite not found! while Reporter is actually installed and running. Cause This happens because the nworks installer is unable to locate the registry k...

How to change default historical data collection period for Veeam ONE Server

Purpose By default, Veeam ONE Server collects historical performance data from a newly added virtual server for the last 3 months only. In some cases it is necessary to collect data for more than 3 months. Solution To change the default historical performance data collection period for Veeam ONE...

Exported Report From Veeam ONE Contains Nonfunctional Hyperlinks

Challenge The embedded links in exported Veeam ONE reports are inactive. Cause Embedded links are inactive in all report formats exported directly via Veeam ONE. When SSRS is integrated with Veeam ONE, additional report formats are available, some of which contain active embedded links. Solution...

Retrieving the COM class factory for component with CLSID {xxxxxxxx} failed due to the following error: 800700c1.

Creating or copying folders with Veeam FastSCP 3.0.3 fails with the error: Retrieving the COM class factory for component with CLSID xxxxxxxx failed due to the following error: 800700c1...

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...

Veeam ONE: No Collection Data within Monitor, or Collection Stops Updating.

Challenge Data collection stops within Veeam ONE Monitor, or there is no longer any new data from a certain point. Cause This is due to the following database error involving a lack of space in the primary file group for the database .mdf file. Here is a snippet from the Monitor Logs that you wil...

How to Safely Perform Snapshot Rollback of Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365

Purpose This article provides step-by-step guidance for performing a snapshot rollback of a Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 deployment in the event of a disaster. Critical Warning Rolling back to a snapshot is a complex and highly risky process that should only be performed in rare disaster...

Veeam Backup for Cloud Solutions Potential Data Loss

Challenge Possible data loss in backups created. Affected product versions: Veeam Plug-In for AWS 5.0.0.452 Veeam Plug-In for AWS 5.1.0.39 Veeam Plug-In for Microsoft Azure 4.0.0.679 Veeam Plug-In for Google Cloud 3.0.0.859 Cause While creating backups to object storage, data loss may occur withi...

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 Recovery Orchestrator May Timeout During Execution of a Replica Plan if the Source vCenter Is Offline

Article Applicability The hotfix patch on this article is only intended for use with Veeam Recovery Orchestrator 5.0.0.2768. Challenge When executing a Replica plan, Veeam Recovery Orchestrator may hang as it processes each VM in the plan. This hang will occur if two vCenters are used one...

Unexpected proxy address format - Error After Upgrading to Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 6.0 P20220524

Challenge After upgrading to Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 6.0 P20220524, the mailbox backup for organizations added as Hybrid or Microsoft 365 may fail with the error: Error: Unexpected proxy address format: x500:/o=ExchangeLabs/ou=Exchange Administrative Group...

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 Red Hat Virtualization 1a

Beta Support Support for this Public Beta release will be provided to all customers with a valid support contract for other Veeam products. Requirements Veeam Backup for Red Hat Virtualization 1a may be deployed as a new appliance, or an existing Veeam Backup for Red Hat Virtualization 1.0 versio...

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 Nutanix AHV 3.0

This version is superseded by Veeam Backup for Nutanix AHV 3a Requirements Be sure to review the upgrade checklist section of the User Guide document closely before upgrading, as Veeam Backup for Nutanix AHV 3.0 only supports integration with Veeam Backup & Replication version 11a. You can check...

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...

Veeam Management Pack 9.0 Patch 1 for Microsoft Hyper-V monitoring

This version has been superseded by Veeam Management Pack for Microsoft System Center version 9a. Challenge After upgrading to Veeam Management Pack to version 9.0, Hyper-V hosts disappear partially or entirely from the Hyper-V Servers tab of the Veeam UI. At the same time, Hyper-V infrastructure...

Information about Kasten K10 licensing and Kasten K10 support

Objective This article documents how to retrieve a purchased Kasten K10 license code. Solution How to retrieve a copy of the initial Kasten K10 license code After you purchase a Kasten K10 license code, it is sent to your email. If that license code has been lost or another copy is needed, you mu...

Release Information for Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 5c

This update has been superseded by Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 5c cumulative patch KB4187 Requirements Please confirm that you are running one of the following versions of Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 before upgrading to 5c: 3.0 build 3.0.0.422 4.0 build 4.0.0.1345 4a builds 4.0.0.1553,...

Retention type changes after re-adding an object storage repository

Challenge When a repository extended to object storage that was initially created using PowerShell or REST API is removed from Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 and then added back, the retention type changes to item-level. This change in retention type after such a repository has been re-added may...

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...

Veeam Service Provider Console v5 Patch 1

This patch has been superseded by Veeam Service Provider Console v5 Patch 2. Requirements Please confirm you are running version 5.0.0.6726 before installing Patch 1. You can check this by logging in to the backup portal and navigating to the Configuration Support Information tab. After upgrading...

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...

Veeam Agent for Linux install on EOL CentOS fails with a repository error

Challenge When installing Veeam Agent for Linux on a version of CentOS that has reached End of Life, the install fails with messages similar to the following: CentOS 8: Error: Failed to download metadata for repo 'appstream': Cannot prepare internal mirrorlist: No URLs in mirrorlist Copy CentOS 6...

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 Stack Edge

Overview Veeam supports using Veeam Agents for Windows and Linux to backup virtual machines running on Azure Stack Edge Compute. Microsoft Azure Stack Edge brings compute and storage to the edge where data is created. Veeam Support for Azure Stack Edge Compute is separate to the support for Azure...

How to Create Custom Worker Instance IAM Role

The Worker IAM role is used to launch worker instances for backup and restore using S3 repository...

Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 4c cumulative patch KB3194

IMPORTANT This patch is intended only for Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 version 4c build 4.0.1.519. Requirements Please confirm you are running Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 build 4.0.1.519 prior to installing this cumulative patch KB3194. You can check this under Help About in Veeam Backup for...

Release information for Veeam Service Provider Console v4

Requirements Please confirm that you are running version 3 build 3.0.0.2647 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 4.0.0.4877. To upgrade from earlier versions,...

Release Information for Veeam ONE 10

Challenge Release information for Veeam ONE 10. Cause Make sure you are running Veeam ONE version 9.5 updates 3, 4 or 4a builds № 9.5.0.3801, 9.5.4.4566 and 9.5.4.4587 prior to installing this update. You can check this under Help | About in Veeam ONE console. After upgrading, your build will be...

Release Information for Veeam Availability for Nutanix AHV 1.0 Update 2

Challenge Release Notes for Veeam Availability for Nutanix AHV 1.0 Update 2. Solution Veeam Availability for Nutanix AHV 1.0 Update 2 includes fixes for series of bugs and issues. The most critical ones are listed below. Improved backup performance in some cases due to not enough queue depth on...

How to decrease the OpsMgr Health Service load caused by datastore monitoring process

Purpose This article documents how to decrease the OpsMgr Health Service load caused by the datastore monitoring process. Cause Since the datastore monitoring job currently cannot be split among several Veeam VMware Collectors, the amount of processed data may overload the Health Service in large...

Adding Server 2019/Hyper-V 2019 to Veeam Fails

Article Applicability This article is specific to an issue with Server 2019/Hyper-V 2019 build 1809 aka "October 2018 Update". If you are seeing the error documented on this KB and the Windows Server is not running Server 2019 build 1809, please review the following articles: "Invalid Credentials...

Release Information for Veeam ONE 9.5 Update 4

Challenge Release information for Veeam ONE 9.5 Update 4 Cause Please confirm you are running version 9.0.0.2088, 9.5.0.3201, 9.5.0.3254 or 9.5.0.3801 prior to installing this update. You can check this under Help | About in Veeam ONE console. After upgrading, your build will be version 9.5.4.456...

Enterprise Plus license is required error on dashboards and reports

Cause Veeam MP license is synchronized to the Data Warehouse then reports load this information. If license is invalid in the Data Warehouse due to Synchronization server having issue this error will occur. Solution 1. Open SCOM Operations Manager Console. 2. Select Discovered Inventory 3. Filter...

Configuring Cisco HyperFlex Platform Controller for DirectNFS Backups with VMware Snapshots

Related User Guide Page This article provides information about settings that must be changed on the HyperFlex data platform controllers to allow the Direct NFS transport mode to function. For more context, please refer to the Backup from Cisco HyperFlex Snapshots Integration Modes user guide pag...

Replication job to VMware Virtual Volumes (VVols) fails with VDDK error: 7 (A file access error occurred on the host or guest operating system)

Article Applicability The issue documented in this article is caused by a VMware-level issue and as such, affects every version of Veeam Backup & Replication. Challenge A Replication job targeting a VVOL fails with the error: Error: VDDK error: 7 A file access error occurred on the host or guest...

VMware Instant Recovery Times Out

Challenge Instant VM recovery of a VMware VM fails after at least 30 minutes with the error: Failed to publish VM Cause Veeam Backup & Replication implements timeouts for most operations to protect against hangs. However, even when no process is hung, timeouts may occur due to significant...

Failed job is marked as Successful on the Cloud Provider side

Challenge In some cases a SP backup server receives "Success" status of a tenant job even when the job has failed on the Tenant's server. Cause Generally, cloud job sessions are marked failed on the SP backup server in the following cases: All cloud gateways are unavailable There is not enough...

Topology construction failing due to a NullReferenceException

Challenge Management Pack fails to build the environmental topology. The vmspi.log default location: C:\Program Files\Veeam\Veeam Virtualization Extensions for System Center\Collector\Log contains the following entries: + System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of a...