Veeam Community Forums Digest for dandvo [Feb 19 - Feb 25, 2018]

Veeam Community Forums Digest

February 19 - February 25, 2018

 

THE WORD FROM GOSTEV

Exciting news – the end of ReFS issues era is near! I'm super happy to announce that Microsoft has finally released the ReFS stability patch we've been waiting for so long > KB4077525 In the change log, there are just a couple of modest lines about ReFS performance improvements – which actually made me smile, because while I guess you can say that - some of the affected users will see performance improve from zero (due to file server lockups) to nominal. I mean, I can't argue this is an improvement – but it just does not translate a real magnitude of the issue, and the complexity of bugs behind. The ReFS development team at Microsoft did an outstanding job discovering and nailing down each and every cause of the resulting behavior, and these two lines just don't do justice to their effort. So, I sincerely want to thank them for many months of this hard work! A couple of important notes before you apply the update. First, if you are running a pre-release driver from Microsoft support, it MUST be uninstalled before you install the patch (ReFS team has stressed to me that this is essential). Second, I'm sure every one of you will wonder about the referenced KB4090104 and whether you should create those values. I asked Microsoft folks the same question, and the answer is NO – just installing the patch is sufficient for most. Tweaking these values are for corner cases only, for example reducing memory pressure with large ReFS volumes when your file server does not have enough RAM. Overall, I feel pretty confident about this patch knowing how many users had success with the pre-release driver – and am ready to celebrate the second birth of ReFS backup repositories! But of course, not until I get confirmations from all the affected customers that the patch solved their issues. So please, do deploy this patch at your convenience - and let everyone know your experience in the biggest forum thread ever (thread that I cannot wait to close!) I like to leave you all with a smile on your face by ending with something funny, but I had to share this video knowing that it will make you shiver instead. Partly because all of us geeks realize that all the required tech has already been developed... kudos to Stuart Russel for so clearly demonstrating an issue to the world – and do pass it along.

 

VEEAM CLOUD & SERVICE PROVIDER CORNER

Veeam products RESTful APIs were briefly covered in the previous digest, and that has triggered a great interest among you! So, I decided to share some more useful info on our APIs. First of all, Timo has created a follow up post with the detailed instructions on how he created an Android App using RESTful APIs. In this new post, you will learn how to query the list of configured backup jobs, as well as how to run some actions from almost any 3rd party application. Secondly, here is another quite engaging blog post from one of our Vanguards, Craig Dalrymple (aka Cragdoo!). In his post, Craig demonstrates how you can leverage Postman collections in your day-to-day work with Veeam Availability Console (VAC) RESTful APIs. Some good news for VCSPs who've been waiting for VAC appliance in the Microsoft Azure Marketplace. This appliance went live last week and includes Veeam Cloud Connect 9.5 Update 3 as well as VAC GA build with all our recent hotfixes. Start using it, if you don't have your own infrastructure to provide managed services to your Veeam clients. For those of you who never tried to deploy Azure appliance, here is a step-by-step guide created by our Technologist from the Product Strategy team, Anthony Spiteri. Lastly, our Creative Team responsible for Veeam product UI styles would like to get a quick feedback on the usability of VAC user interface. Please find 2-3 minutes to complete in this survey and let us know what you think on our refreshed UI concepts. -Vitaliy

 

BEST POST OF THE WEEK

Re: REFS issues (server lockups, high CPU, high RAM)   [BY: Gostev • LIKED: 4 times] I checked with Microsoft folks and it appears that the KB has been delayed by a few days because of some internal issues with the update. I guess we have to wait a few more days!

 

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