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Using Veeam Agents with Xen Orchestra (Vates XCP-NG and XenServer)

Post author:Derek Loseke
Post published:January 14, 2025
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While I haven't recently ventured into the world of XenServer and XCP-NG, there have been a lot of requests for Veeam support since the Broadcom takeover of VMware, primary on Reddit but also in the Veeam Community Hub for official support. Yesterday Veeam published KB 4703 providing guidance on how to use the Veeam Agent for Windows and Veeam Agent for Linux with XenServer and XCP-NG when using Xen Orchestra. This article documents how to…

Deploying the Veeam Hardened Repository ISO – as a Synology Virtual Machine

Post author:Derek Loseke
Post published:December 20, 2024
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Let's have a quick conversation about a few things you can do -- but probably shouldn't. Eat gas station sushi Leave important tasks for the last minute Believe everything on the internet Date a coworker Get a tattoo of the name of a significant other - at least early in the relationship - especially it it's that coworker Run security-focused VM's like a Veeam Hardened Repository on a NAS Wait, what? Okay, so I've always…

Deploying Data Immutability with the Veeam Hardened Repository ISO (Part 3 of 3)

Post author:Derek Loseke
Post published:November 10, 2024
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In part one we gave some background of the Veeam VHR history and it's transition from utilizing Ubuntu Linux Server LTS to Rocky Linux, as well as the hardware that we'll be utilizing to support our VHR, and then deployed the VHR ISO to our PowerEdge server. Part two of this series consisted of deploying the VHR ISO to our server. Now in our third and final part, we're going to add the new VHR…

Deploying Data Immutability with the Veeam Hardened Repository ISO (Part 2 of 3)

Post author:Derek Loseke
Post published:November 8, 2024
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In part one of this three part series, we gave some background of the Veeam VHR history and it's transition from utilizing Ubuntu Linux Server LTS to Rocky Linux, as well as the hardware that we'll be utilizing to support our VHR. And as a reminder, while the VHR does have support, it's currently classified under Veeam's Experimental Support Statement. Downloading and Deploying the VHR ISO The first step of course is to download the…

Deploying Data Immutability with the Veeam Hardened Repository ISO (Part 1 of 3)

Post author:Derek Loseke
Post published:November 7, 2024
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The History of the Veeam Hardened Repository ISO If you've been in the Veeam game within the past two years, you're probably aware that the Product Development team has been working hard on a turn-key solution that can be used to deploy a Veeam Hardened Repository (VHR) from an ISO. Historically if you wanted to utilize a VHR, you had to deploy a linux server and setup a repository backed by the XFS filesystem to…

Removing References to a Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager Server

Post author:Derek Loseke
Post published:October 8, 2024
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When I try to upgrade Veeam, or when I try to apply a new license, I get a prompt about my server being managed by a Veeam Enterprise Manager server like the prompt below. But I don't have one? How can I fix this? This is a question that comes up from time-to-time in the Veeam Community Hub and Veeam Subreddit. Generally, the subject, me in today's example, has a VBR server in place, and…

VeeamON 2024 – The Remote Version (Day 3)

Post author:Derek Loseke
Post published:June 5, 2024
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Welcome back to my take on VeeamON 2024, the remote version. If you missed it, the review of Day 1&2 is here. As a refresher, I was able to attend VeeamON in person last year in Miami, but this year due to life circumstances, I am attending remotely. So what is my take? Day 3 coming right up! Day 3 Closing Keynote Demofest There were many demo's, and the hour-long session was practically just demo's,…

VeeamON 2024 – The Remote Version (Days 1&2)

Post author:Derek Loseke
Post published:June 5, 2024
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VeeamON 2024 Day 2 is a wrap. And while I had originally planned on attending in-person, work and family commitments changed those plans just over a week ago and I had to make the decision to attend remotely. Last year I was able to attend in-person with "most" expenses paid by Veeam due to my Legends status. The previous 2 or 3 years I attended remotely (as did most due to COVID restrictions), so last…

VeeamON 2024 – Counting Down

Post author:Derek Loseke
Post published:May 28, 2024
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Due to a change in circumstances, I will not be attending VeeamON in person this year. However, if you're planning on attending, the opportunity is dwindling. However, you can still get registered at VeeamON.com and for a limited time use the offer code FINALCALL300 to take $300 off your in-person registration fees. But as a quick reminder, if you can't attend in person, you can also register and attend online and still get access to…

Veeam Service Provider Console Vulnerability ( CVE-2024-29212 )

Post author:Derek Loseke
Post published:May 28, 2024
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For anyone running the Veeam Service Provider Console, v7 or v8, a vulnerability was detected and a patch released a few weeks ago. Today, the patch was rereleased with additional improvements added. If you're running unpatched, or if you applied the original patch, it's recommended to update to the latest release. Note that this vulnerability does not apply to Veeam Backup & Replication, Veeam Agent for Windows or Veeam ONE, and applies only to the…