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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...
Empty Folder(s) in Datastore after Replication job runs
Challenge When a replication job is ran, an empty folder is created in one of the datastores listed as the . Cause The cause of this behavior is Veeam getting pointed to write to one datastore, while the replica VM itself is on a different datastore. When the job is pointed to a different locatio...
_VMware vCenter view is empty
Challenge VMware vCenter state view located in the Veeam for VMware\VMware vCenter folder is empty, though monitoring works fine, and Clusters, Hosts, VM's, etc. are populated in SCOM topology. Cause VMware vCenter in that view is monitored as Windows application inside the guest OS. Solution...
Event pre-filtering causes high vCenter Database load
Challenge The vCenter Database utilizes most of the available CPU, impacting vCenter Server performance. Stopping nworks Collectors brings the CPU usage back to normal. The nworks vmspi log shows the following errors: VCEVT+ VC250 retrieveEvents: createFilter failed, System.Net.WebException: The...
Configuring Veeam Backup Cloud Edition with HP Cloud
Challenge Specifying a container in HP Cloud account settings results in the following error: Incorrect HTTP method used in the request 26301 Fault Name: IncorrectHTTPMethod Error Type: MethodValidationFailure Description: Incorrect HTTP method used in the request Service: publiccsservices...
"Object reference not set to an instance of an object" error when connecting a VMware vSphere 5 server
Challenge When you connect a VMware vSphere 5 server in the Connected VMware Servers section of the nworks Enterprise Manager Web UI, the following error occurs: Object reference not set to an instance of an object Cause Support of VMware vSphere 5 was introduced in nworks 5.7. Earlier versions o...
Conflict with SCOM/antivirus software
Challenge After installation, no Veeam Management Pack for Microsoft System Center discoveries take place within 5 hours. The Operations Manager Event Log does not show events 999, 1010, 1012, 1011. Cause Antivirus software can prevent the agent from working properly. Solution Check the following...
Performance metrics are not updated when a virtual machine is powered off
Challenge Sometimes SCOM can be showing irrelevant performance graphs for powered off VMs: Cause This is an expected behavior for the current version of nworks. When a virtual machine is powered off, WMI cache still contains outdated data. That is why graphs in SCOM are updated improperly. The...
How to get the nworksDEMO tool v5.7
Purpose You need to get nworksDEMO tool v5.7 to see nworks MP in action and be able to use it for offline demonstrations and training. Solution Browse to the nworksDEMO tool v5.7 landing page and submit your request using the online form: http://go.veeam.com/nworksdemo More Information If you hav...
Disabling client authorization check on Veeam ONE Monitor Server
Purpose There might be several reasons to disable client authorization check on the Veeam Monitor Server: 1. It is necessary to use Veeam ONE Monitor Client outside the domain to which Veeam ONE Monitor Server belongs. 2. It is necessary to disable or bypass client account authentication to...
BEM Search Server Doesn't Remove Successfully
Challenge When trying to remove a Search Server from BEM by clicking the remove button, the server being removed is stuck in a "Removing" state. Cause Solution Veeam encourages backing up your SQL DB before making any changes. 1. Go to Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio May need to be install...
NFS storage, backup job may fail with rollback file deletion errors.
NFS implementation specifics on certain NFS storage, backup job may fail with "rollback file deletion errors"...
"JavaScript must be enabled in the web browser to view this page" error while logging to Veeam Reporter Web page
Challenge Cause Security restrictions applied in web-browser prevent from running static content or Veeam Reporter website requires the Static Content feature of IIS be installed in order to function properly. Solution At first, try to add Veeam Reporter's web-site into list of Trusted Sites zone...
"Object reference not set to an instance of an object" error while opening nworks UI
Error "Object reference not set to an instance of an object" occurs when opening nworks UI...
Object reference not set to an instance of an object exception on Checking free space on source datastore
Job fails right away with error "Checking free space on source datastore. Object reference not set to an instance of an object."...
Using Rsync to Copy Backup Files Offsite
Challenge When using Rsync as a post job activity to copy backup files to an offsite location one of the problems that is encountered is that after the second backup is using reverse incremental, Rsync copies all the data from the vbk file one more time, and not just the changes from the last...
ESX hardware status change however, the change is not reflected in OpsMgr.
The overall health status of the host can be updated in certain scenarios, but the hardware item health status is not correctly updated in OpsMgr. An important symptom is that the health state of the hardware item may be "Unknown" grey in VMware vSphere client...
SureBackup roles
What do Sure Backup roles mean and what are the differences among them...
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...
Integration with Veeam Backup Repositories for Kasten K10: Considerations and Limitations
Veeam Support Knowledge Base answer to: Integration with Veeam Backup Repositories for Kasten K10: Considerations and Limitations...
Agent for Windows backup session is reports success but backup fails
Challenge In certain rare circumstances, backup jobs for Windows Machines using "Mode: Managed by backup server" may mark a result as Success, although the job fails because of the network interuption. Impacted Configurations: Backup & Replication version 9.5 or 10 Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windo...
Release Information for Veeam Backup & Replication 11a
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 version 9.5 Update 4b build 9.5.4.2866 or later before upgrading. You can check this under Help | About in Veeam Backu...
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 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,...
RMAN Autobackup Failure
Challenge If you use Veeam Plug-in for Oracle RMAN, under certain circumstances the RMAN autobackup process may fail. In this case, you will see the following error in VeeamPluginManager.log: Preparing autobackup backup for file...
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...
"Reprotect storage volumes after failover" operation fails during storage plan execution
Challenge If you enable the "Trigger reverse replication to reprotect the failed-over volumes" option when running a storage plan, Veeam Recovery Orchestrator triggers the operation of resynchronizing the SnapMirror relationship in the reverse direction. In a reverse resynchronization operation,...
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...
Release notes for Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 4a
Challenge Release Notes for Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 4a. Cause Please confirm you are running Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 version 2.0, 3.0 or 4.0 prior to installing the new version 4a 4.0.0.1553. You can check the product version under Help About in the Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365...
License Auto Update fails after applying Update 4
Challenge License Auto Update fails Cause Any licenses obtained prior to U4 are now known as 'Legacy Licenses'. Auto Update functionality cannot migrate a Legacy License to the new Veeam Instance License. The message most likely received is: Error Server message: License key type is not supported...
Veeam Backup for Office 365 No E-Mail Notification After Job Run
Challenge When the backup job completes the Job notification is never received. Cause 1. Error: Unable to connect to the remote server 2. Job completes with no Error, but you do not receive a notification email. This can be caused by: Email relay server blocking emails that exceed 512KB size The...
Veeam Backup & Replication does not start after Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager upgrade to 9.5 U4
Challenge Both Veeam Backup & Replication and Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager are installed on the same server. Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager is updated to Update 4 with instance license, while Veeam Backup & Replication is still running an older version. After Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager...
“Unauthorized” error is thrown by SharePoint Online and/or OneDrive for business backup jobs
Challenge Backup jobs for SharePoint Online and/or OneDrive items fail with any of the following errors: 07-08-2018 11:11:39 3 6640 Error: The request failed with HTTP status 401: Unauthorized. 07-08-2018 11:11:39 3 6640 Type: System.Net.WebException 07-08-2018 11:11:39 3 6640 Stack: 07-08-2018...
Granular permissions for Microsoft Azure user
Challenge When adding an Azure account to Veeam Backup & Replication, you would use the Add Microsoft Azure compute account... then, on the Subscription tab of the wizard that opens, select the "Create a new account" option. Doing this will register a new Azure AD Application. The account used to...
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...
Moving Cloud replicas to another datastore
Purpose A Service Provider may need to migrate replicated cloud VMs to a different datastore using Storage vMotion. This article describes which changes should be made on the Provider's Veeam Server to ensure non-disruptive migration. Solution Having performed svMotion, a SP should do the...
Veeam Cloud Service Provider Per-VM Licensing Exceeded
Challenge Tenant-side Error A Veeam Cloud Service Provider's Tenant receives the error message Service Provider has exceeded the licensed VM count Tenant job-level error: Error: Cannot backup this VM because your service provider has reached licensed VM limit. Service Provider-side Error Veeam...
Repeated snapshot consolidation requests on VM by Snapshot Hunter
Article Applicability This article specifically applies to a situation where a VM was created using a third-party VDI, fast-provisioning application, or PowerCLI with the -LinkedClone parameter. Challenge Shortly after a backup or replication job runs, multiple Consolidate Snapshot operations are...
How to Install Cloud Connect Portal Manually
Cloud Connect Portal is not installed by default during Enterprise Manager upgrade going from version 8.x to 9.x...
Difference Between Typical and Advanced Scalability Modes
Challenge Understanding the difference between Typical and Advanced scalability modes. Cause Depending on the size of the managed virtual environment, you can choose of the following Veeam ONE installation types: Typical -- this type of installation is recommended for small to medium environments...
Veeam ONE 8.0 Patch 1 Release Notes
Challenge Release Notes for Veeam ONE 8.0 Patch 1. Cause Please confirm you are running Veeam ONE 8 prior to installing this update. You can check this under Help | About in Veeam ONE Monitor Client, the build number should be 8.0.0.xxx. After upgrading, your version build will be 8.0.0.1615. Thi...
Guest Files Restore Missing Drive Using Storage Spaces
Veeam Explorer Appliancation Item Restores Some Application Item Restores use Guest Files Restore on the backend to mount the VM's Guest OS disks and access their contents to perform the application item restore. If the files needed to perform the application item restore are located on a Storage...
Data loss risk with Backup Copy to Data Domain via DDBoost
Challenge Backup Copy job retention processing overlapping with the DD Clean process garbage collection may result in data loss. Cause Backup Copy job retention processing overlapping with the DD Clean process garbage collection may result in data loss due to Data Domain erroneously processing fi...
Enterprise Manager Install fails with Patched Database Error
Purpose If the Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager software is moved, or needs to be reinstalled and it was previously patched it errors out with the following error: Cause The SQL database that is being reused contains table entries that mark it as having been used with a newer version the version o...
VMware CBT Data Corruption
This KB explains and details how to detect/prevent the VMware bug that exists in VMware ESXi 4.x and 5.x...
Health Service dropped data
Challenge The following alerts can be seen in SCOM: Veeam Collector: Health Service dropped data Veeam Collector: Health Service workflows failed The settings of SCOM agent are correct please see KB1026, and clearing OpsMgr cache may help for a short amount of time. The OperationsManager log on...
Hot-Add/Virtual Appliance Failures for Restored or Cloned Backup Proxy
Challenge A backup or replication job fails with the following error when using a VMware Backup Proxy when that proxy is attempting to use Virtual Appliance transport mode hotadd: BackupDiskTrad failed Client error: Failed to open VDDK disk MyDatastore VMName/Disk1.vmdk is read-only mode - true...
Physical and virtual machines with identical names
Challenge When a physical and a virtual object with identical names are present in SCOM and in the SCOM database they tend to get mixed up by the application. Cause Unfortunately, nworks currently does not support machines having the same name within one environment. nworks uses VM Name as a uniq...