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Veeam Availability Console series #5: Manage a remote Veeam Backup & Replication Server with Remote Access Console

Luca Dell'Oca, January 23, 2018January 14, 2018

In the previous post of this series, we registered a remote Veeam Backup & Replication and started to monitor it. VAC can do a lot of things, but when monitoring and the operations that can be done via VAC are not enough, it’s time to learn what other options are…

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Quick tip: fix connection errors for Veeam Remote Access Console

Luca Dell'Oca, January 16, 2018January 14, 2018

If you are trying to connect to a remote tenant using Veeam Remote Access Console, and you face the error “”This tenant does not allow managing any of their backup servers remotely”, there are a couple of firewall ports you need to open. Learn here which ones.

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Veeam Availability Console series #4: Monitor a remote Veeam Backup server

Luca Dell'Oca, January 9, 2018January 8, 2018

In the previous posts of this series, we completed the configuration of Veeam Availability Console, and onboarded our first customer. The customer logged into his own account and configured the different services. Now in this fourth part, we are going to connect a remote Veeam Backup server in order to monitor it.

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Permissions for Veeam backup Linux repositories

Luca Dell'Oca, December 5, 2017December 4, 2017

I’ve seen often Veeam users to configure their repositories using administrative permissions. This is a really bad practice as the most precious part of a Veeam environment, the backup files, are then exposed to security risks, in case anyone can obtain those credentials. And with the raise of cryptolockers and ransomware this behavior has become even more dangerous. For Linux repositories, users can configure their servers to use common users.

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Windows 2016 Storage Replica and ReFS Volumes

Luca Dell'Oca, November 7, 2017November 5, 2017

Windows 2016 Storage Replica is a really great technology introduced by Microsoft, and the great thing is that it also replicates ReFS blockcloning savings. This makes it a great option for a Veeam storage repository, completely replicated in two different locations.

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Using AWS Simple Email Service (SES) as an SMTP relay for different software solutions

Luca Dell'Oca, September 19, 2017September 18, 2017

Many software solutions allow for sending reports, warnings, alarms and many other communications via email. This is a great feature to keep track of what’s happening to your installations without having to log into all of them, but having an email server at our disposal these days is not so common anymore. that’s what happened to me last week, and since I was tired to use my personal Gmail account to send myself emails, I decided it was time to find a different solution and to test AWS SES.

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Automatically create Veeam backups using vCenter Moref IDs

Luca Dell'Oca, August 23, 2017August 22, 2017

For a project I’m working on these weeks, I’ve been asked to demonstrate how an external system (a Cloud Management Platform, an Automation tool, else) can automatically create backups for some specific virtual machines without interacting with the Veeam console. This blog post will show you how, using vSphere Moref IDs.

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Veeam Availability Console series #3: access the Console as a customer

Luca Dell'Oca, August 9, 2017August 8, 2017

In the previous posts of this series, we completed the configuration of Veeam Availability Console and on-boarded our first customer. In this third part, we are going to access the Console as a new customer, to so learn what we can do there.