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’…
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 :- …
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…
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…
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)…
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…
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…
Veeam Replication to DR site – Part 3: Replication
Previously in Part 1 and Part 2 I went over the design and Veeam configuration respectively. In this final part I will run through the set up of the replication job. Replication Job Set Up 1. Within the Veeam console click ‘Home’ and then select Replication Job 2. Give the job a suitable name 3. The next…
Veeam Replication to DR site – Part 2: Configuration
Part 2 In part 1 I gave a brief overview of the requirements and design, now I’ll go through Veeam configuration. Veeam Configuration The first step to be tackled was to add the Production cluster (PRD-CLUSTER), DR host (DR-HOST) and both proxies (PRD-VPXY1 & DR-VPXY1) to the Backup Infrastructure within Veeam. While the DR host is only a single VMware vSphere 5.0…
Veeam Replication to DR site – Part 1 : Design
Intro A recent implementation of an infrastructure had a requirement for replicating, utilising Veeam Replication, 3 Production Linux virtual machines to an off site DR location at a remote site. While relatively comfortable with the backup portion of Veeam Backup & Replication (6.5), I had never set up replication job before, but as with most things Veeam related, it wasn’t…