During a recent Veeam Cloud Connect POC, I was testing the failover of the Cloud Gateway devices to observe how the tenant backup job would handle the failure. My POC setup only had 2 Cloud Gateway devices, GW1 and GW2. I kicked off a test backup, verified which Gateway server was being used , (GW1 in this instance having checked…
Continue Reading→Veeam Cloud Connect – Customer Proxy
While setting up a Veeam Cloud Connect POC, I came across this little gotcha that might catch some customers out. I successfully setup the Cloud Connect on my Veeam B&R console server by:- Importing a relevant SSL certificate Adding a Backup repository to house my Cloud Repositories Created a new user (for my ‘offsite’ test) On my ‘offsite’ test server,…
Continue Reading→Veeam v8 – ‘hidden gem’ – Preferred networks selection
One of the 150+ additional enhancements of Veeam v8 is Preferred networks selection.:- Enables the selection of preferred networks for multi-homed backup proxy and backup repository servers. This helps to ensure the backup and replication traffic is transferred over dedicated backup networks, without impacting the production network. For those of you looking for this little gem of a feature, you…
Continue Reading→Veeam v8 – It’s not just about the Headline acts.
After months of betas and testing, Veeam recently released their highly anticipated Veeam V8 Availability Suite. Such was the demand for the new product the website struggled at first. One of the 1st documents recommended to read is the ‘What’s New in v8?’ http://www.veeam.com/veeam_backup_8_whats_new_en_wn.pdf , where 150+ additions/changes are well documented. Most people may know about one or two of the main ‘headline’…
Continue Reading→All Change – Storage vMotion, CBT and Veeam
Ran into a puzzling issue recently, that had me scratching my head for a wee while. One of our regular Veeam backup jobs took several hours longer to complete than the normal 10 mins or so. 1st stop a quick look at the job reports from the previous night :- …
Continue Reading→Veeam v7 Parallel Processing – post upgrade
Veeam v7 has been out for sometime now, but I have only now managed to get around to starting the upgrades to our existing v6.5 installations. One of the new features available in v7 is Parallel Processing :- One big performance improvement in v7 is parallel processing within a backup job. Previously, all VMs were processed serially. In v7 they’re…
Continue Reading→Veeam Replication : Re-IP Linux VMs
In a series of recent posts (part1, part2 and part3) I discussed the setup of a Veeam replication job to replicate 3 Linux VMs to a remote DR site. The final step, before hand over to was to test the DR failover functionality. Setup Veeam does a great job of automatically applying new IP addresses to Windows VMs, but can’t…
Continue Reading→VMware vCloud Director Lab gotcha
Last week I took part in a VMware vCloud Director workshop, and during the week the group I was working with ran into a little ‘gotcha’ while constructing the lab environment that even had the instructor stumped (for a short period of time). VMware vCloud Director Setup Our lab consisted of a 2 host vSphere 5.1 HA/DRS cluster (resource cluster)…
Continue Reading→Esxtop to the rescue !!
A request came in to investigate the performance of a 16 GB, 4 vCPU database VM , specifically the CPU performance. The usual starting place of the vCenter performance charts showed that actual vCPU utilisation wasn’t unusually high for sustained periods. So off to ESXTOP for a little more of a deep dive. ESXTOP It had been a while since…
Continue Reading→Veeam Error : Client error: NFC storage connection is unavailable
While implementing Veeam Replication recently (see my posts Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3) , I was searching for information about the following error Error: Client error: NFC storage connection is unavailable and I stumbled across this post http://forums.veeam.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=12614&p=57083#p57083 I thought I would share another possible workaround for the above error. I was getting the following error when trying…
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