Change all your Veeam backup jobs to the new forward forever-incremental

Posted on November 24, 2014December 4, 2016 by Luca Dell'Oca 3 Comments

When you upgrade Veeam Backup & Replication to V8, you have available the new Forward forever-incremental mode for your backups. This is the default method for all newly created jobs, but the already existing backup jobs are not changed, because we do not want to change the user experience or create issues to I/O profiles, backup windows and such.
This great powershell script will take all your existing forward incremental backup jobs and reconfigure them to use the new forward forever-incremental mode.

Check multiple job settings in Veeam Backup & Replication with Powershell

Posted on September 16, 2013September 20, 2015 by Luca Dell'Oca

In a Veeam Backup & Replication environment with a high number of jobs, being sure the configured settings are all the same can be a tough task. Even if there are defined procedures to create new jobs, and every IT admin has these procedures, an error can always happen.
If you have few jobs to check, you can think about opening all of them one by one anche verify this parameter, but as the number of jobs grows, these checks becomes nearly impossible.
A nice solution is to leverage the complete Powershell support offered by Veeam Backup & Replication.

Verificare le impostazioni dei job di Veeam Backup & Replication via Powershell

Posted on September 16, 2013December 4, 2016 by Luca Dell'Oca

In un ambiente Veeam Backup & Replication che presenta un numero elevato di job, garantire che le loro configurazioni siano omogenee può essere talvolta complicato. Sebbene vengano definite delle procedure di creazione dei vari job e assegnate al personale che gestisce il prodotto, l’errore umano è sempre dietro l’angolo. Prendiamo un esempio. Si utilizzano una […]

CIM monitoring configuration on ESXi via powershell

Posted on September 17, 2012December 4, 2016 by Luca Dell'Oca

As in many datacenters, we use monitoring software to control many parameters of our infrastructure. Thanks to CIM, is it possible to use directly these APIs to monitor hardware and health status of the ESXi servers, rather than using script and agents to accomplish the same results. Nagios has some cool plugins to use CIM […]

Configurare il monitoraggio via CIM su ESXi tramite powershell

Posted on September 17, 2012December 4, 2016 by Luca Dell'Oca

Come in molti datacenter, utilizziamo software di monitoraggio per controllare i numerosi parametri della nostra infrastruttura. Grazie a CIM, è possibile usare direttamente queste APIs per monitorare l’hardware e lo stato di salute dei server ESXi, piuttosto che usare script e agent. Nagios possiede alcuni ottimi plugin per usare CIM e monitorare ESXi, ma il problema […]

Am I doing backups of all my VMs?

Posted on July 23, 2012December 4, 2016 by Luca Dell'Oca 2 Comments

Note: I had a first idea about a way to do these checks and you will still find traces of it in Veeam forums, however the ongoing discussion has lead to this present version, and it’s really different from the original code, and much better. Kudos for Powershell cod e goes to Tom Sightler and in part […]

Sto facendo il backup di tutte le mie VM?

Posted on July 23, 2012December 4, 2016 by Luca Dell'Oca

Nota: ho ideato inizialmente un sistema di controllo che troverete ancora nei forum di Veeam, ma in seguito a molte discussioni sul forum la versione che troverete qui si discosta molto dal codice originario, migliorandolo decisamente. Il merito principale del codice Powershell va a Tom Sightler e in parte Seth Bartlett, si vi è servito lo […]

Storage vMotion of a template

Posted on January 13, 2012December 4, 2016 by Luca Dell'Oca

If you try to run storage vmotion against a template, you will realize it’s not allowed in the GUI. So, you end up with two solutions: – “quick and dirty”: convert template to VM, run Storage vMotion, convert back VM to template – “SysAdmin style”, useful if you have several templates: using PowerCLI run this […]