Now that we know Veeam Backup and Replication 13 will have its own special WEB UI, a thought crossed my mind: “How can I get visibility into my Veeam environment safely and securely?” One can use some form of traditional VPN, but maybe you don’t want to utilize any traditional VPN, or you don’t want a separate VPN just for Veeam. How about accessing your Veeam Backup and Replication 13 WEB UI with a Cloudflare Tunnel?
Veeam has released a special build for V100 members to give us a first look at Veeam Backup and Replication 13 on Linux. Keep in mind that this is a preview build, and any/all functionality may change upon GA.
Just recently Veeam Backup & Replication version 12.2 was just released offering many new features and some very important security fixes! Here we will walk you through how to install Veeam 12.2. ISO First, download the latest version from Veeam in ISO format from their downloads page. https://www.veeam.com/products/downloads/latest-version.html
Why this article exists I sought to answer a couple of questions for Veeam and Minio buckets: How much space does Veeam backups take up on a Minio-based Object Storage repository? How much does the Block Size setting make on space consumed? What are the object size distributions when the Block Size settings are changed? In an effort to answer these questions, I came across an interesting discovery. When Veeam would delete objects that are no longer required due to retention policy settings, it left behind DeleteMarkers that would never get cleaned up. This amounted to a million DeleteMarkers being created in only two weeks. These expired DeleteMarkers are zero-byte objects that Minio has to deal with. Ouch. Most of the time, these DeleteMarkers are not causing much of a problem. They do not consume a lot of space, nor do they impact the performance of backups or restores.
Introduction Important: Starting with version 4.0, VMware NSX-T Data Center is known as VMware NSX. That’s important to note because when you google anything with NSX these days, you either get NSX-T documentation or NSX-v documentation. This post is about VMware NSX (Specifically NSX 4.1.0.2, but this should work on any NSX 4+ installation).
Introduction Today we are backing up on-premises vSphere VMs with Veeam direct to a Minio S3 bucket, then restoring that VM to a VMware Cloud Director ORG in the cloud. Once complete, we will then back that VM up direct to a Minio S3 bucket and recover it back to the on-premises vSphere deployment.
