Veeam Community Forums Digest for dandvo [Jul 24 - Jul 30, 2017]

Veeam Community Forums Digest

July 24 - July 30, 2017

THE WORD FROM GOSTEV

vSphere 6.5 Update 1 has been released last week – finally! Many of our users have been waiting for this one before upgrading to 6.5, but the update took VMware well over 8 months this time. Which is by far the longest time ever – curios what was the reason here, hopefully it is all about better QC. While there are not too many new features, the update does solve a heap of issues – here are direct links to the release notes for ESXi, vCenter Server and VMware Tools. Clearly there are a lot of changes, so I don't recommend jumping this new code until our QC had a chance to perform full regression testing against these bits to ensure Veeam compatibility – they are on it already, and we'll keep you updated on the forum. Here's one more nail into the coffin of low end NAS usage > QNAP critical data corruption. Indeed, we had quite a few customers impacted by this issue – we just could not "separate" this particular one from a bunch of other issues causing corrupted backups with this sort of devices. As I keep repeating at my breakout sessions, usage of low end NAS is by far the number one reason of corrupt backups and failed recoveries that we're seeing in support. This is why for cheap backup targets, we've always been recommending using a physical Windows or Linux server with a bunch of disks instead. NetApp users – I am happy to announce that our QC has finished the regression testing of NetApp ONTAP 9.2 with Veeam Backup & Replication 9.5 Update 2, and we're now ready to fully support this new ONTAP release. Our online documentation has also been updated for those looking for the official statement. In other news, Adobe Flash is now officially dead. Not much to add here, except that I expected for this to happen much sooner. But instead, Adobe is planning to keep releasing Flash updates for another 2.5 years, giving everyone plenty of time to migrate. Very nice from them! I don't remember if I shared this here, but a couple of years ago one of our developers found a major security vulnerability in Hyper-V, and even got his name into the list of official acknowledgements from Microsoft. Well, apparently he should have waited disclosing that one, because these days he could have made a quarter of a million dollars > New Microsoft Hyper-V Bounty Program Terms. With that in place, I won't be surprised to see some of our Hyper-V developers driving a Lamborghini soon! It's nice to see Microsoft embracing competing platforms instead of keep hitting heads against the wall > Windows 10 Insider build lets you link an Android phone to your PC. I really liked Windows Phone integration with Windows 10, and kind of missing it now having switched to Android - so seeing Microsoft step on this path makes me really happy. I had a few good laughs reading this post, because of course I had this issue myself > Stack Overflow: Helping One Million Developers Exit Vim. Can you imagine the real magnitude of the issue considering that Stack Overflow is a developer-only community? And we're talking the default text editor in most *nix systems. This issue actually says it all about that mythical "community that will come and fix everything, thanks to the source code available". No, this will never happen for one simple reason – no one in that community cares about the user experience.

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[Feature Request] Proxy and Repository Zoning   [BY: Paul Jones • LIKED: 3 times] One thing I would like to see implemented for large multi-site installs, would be when creating Proxies and Repos you can Zone them off in a logical container. Not only would it make it easier selecting the correct resource for the job but when linking jobs and moving replicas to different sites you would pre-set the Proxy on the source Zone and destination Zone. That way you aren't looking through lists at the point of creating the job. Just link Zone A to Zone B. Also putting the repositories in the Zones you can set what is the main primary fast backup storage for that Zone and what is cold Storage as well. So when creating backup copy jobs, you just select the Zone and it prepopulates with your preferred storage types for primary and secondary. You could also force certain backup types and job configuration at the Zone level to keep consistency. Like the email global setting but this would only apply to that Zone or Zones. Also you could tailor the Zone to use whatever method of transport you are using. Some sites might not have a physical proxy and you can pre-set the transport to Hotadd or NDB, so when adding some VM proxy machines in they are set how you want them. Or it could be you only want to use NBD due to a fast 10GB backbone, one container set to only use NDB and you can just throw your VM's in, no need to go and edit each one. Thoughts? Paul

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Any way to Validate a Backup?   [VIEWS: 216 • REPLIES: 15] Is there really no way to validate an volume-level Agent backup without performing a restore to a spare drive? My Win10 PC decided not to boot today and so I really needed to perform a bare metal restore. more Best way to replicate a primary Domain Controller?   [VIEWS: 210 • REPLIES: 10] Hi guys, We are planning on moving our main DC between 2 hosts and we believe that the best way to do that would be to replicate and then to do a planned failover through Veeam. Any recommendation on what would be the best way to do it without completely breaking my network? more Network mode performance on vSphere 6.5   [VIEWS: 191 • REPLIES: 9] I've learned that vSphere 6.5 now enforces NBDSSL for network mode. From what I've read, on previous versions you could expect at least about 25 MB/s in network mode on gigabit ethernet and maybe more with tuning. more [Feature Request] Fix notification levels   [VIEWS: 160 • REPLIES: 14] One annoyance our clients using Veeam face is the repeat notifications of: "[Success] License key has been auto updated" Every time we add a new client, they have to filter these notifications, and we hear about it. more Is Application-Aware Processing risky?   [VIEWS: 160 • REPLIES: 9] Good morning Veeamers, Question for you all: up until now we've been doing our replications and backups without Application-Aware Processing option checked. I was wondering if checking this option will: more

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