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

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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…

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

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…

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

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…

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Removing References to a Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager Server

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…

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VeeamON 2024 – The Remote Version (Day 3)

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,…

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

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…

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Veeam Introduces Support for Proxmox VE

At the request of multiple SMB customers, much of it due to the turbulence in the virtualization industry with Broadcom's acquisition of VMware, Veeam has listened to the requests for support of additional hypervisors. Today, Veeam announced support for Proxmox VE. This will provide support to those SMB clients that are finding VMware vSphere's rising pricings unaffordable. Personally, I'm looking forward to this support as it now makes utilizing Proxmox much more of a viable…

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New Upcoming Series – Object First Ootbi

By now, most folks in the Veeam community should be aware of Object First. But if you've been living under a virtual rock, Object First that is a company that came out of secrecy mode less than two years ago at VeeamON 2022 in Las Vegas. Co-founded by the co-founders of Veeam, Object First has developed the Ootbi, or the "Out of the box immutability" immutability appliance. It's a SuperMicro server running a hardened Ubuntu…

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Service Provider Console Management Agent Access to VBR with MFA Enabled

I have a newer client that I recently deployed VBR for that is managed by our Service Provider Console.  At some point in time I stopped getting reports from VBR in the SPC.  The Management Agent was talking to the SPC, but I was getting no information from VBR.  After opening a case with support and uploading logs (kudo’s to the Veeam team for making it so easy to create cases and upload logs within…

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Veeam releases Veeam Data Platform 23H2 and Veeam Backup & Replication v12.1

Veeam this morning released the newest edition of the Veeam Data Platform, Update 23H2. Included in this release is Veeam Backup & Replication v12.1 which includes a whole host of new features including several wrapped around Cyber Resiliency which includes a new malware detection engine, proactive threat hunting, malware dashboard, and more! Also released is the newest build of the Veeam ONE v12.1 and for all of the Service Providers out there, the Veeam Service…

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