I finally found some time to install version 6 of Veeam Back-up and replication and I was wondering if the back-up strategy that I used for Exchange 2010 in version 5 ( see part one, part two and part three for backup and recovery )  will change in the new version. Because in the What’s new guide it says that there is a 1 click file restore but there is noting mentioned about exchange! In this post I will describe the settings for exchange 2010 within version 6 of Veeam Back-up and recovery if they are different comparing to version 5.

When Opening the new version I noticed the fist difference: The pull down menu on the left side has changed there is no restore menu this has made placed for History menu. Also the SureBackup part is gone.

                                          
Pull down menu Veeam back-up version 5          Pull down menu Veeam back-up version 6

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For a customer I placed a  SQL server, which has a disk size of about 900 MB, on “cheap” iSCSI SAN with a dual 10 GB link. This was not the only Virtual Machine on the iSCSI hardware there where about 13 LUN defined with each about 6 virtual machines. I “doubted” if”  this machine was a candidate for this particular iSCSI solution but measurements of the environment showed me that it was possible.

It seems to went well but after a few days I got complaining users and i saw this graph (see below) ! It seems that something has changed on January the 17th. From that day the SQL server is bean heavily loaded with import jobs that will run every night. Because the customer want to have the latest production data for testing and training the virtual machine characteristic changed dramatically du to this adjustment!

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When installing ChangeAuditor form Quest (a next, next finish installation) I received an error when I tried to logon with the client but I did not get any error during or after the installation.  I got the following error:

Info","Could not connect to net.tcp://<FQDN>.local:49309/Service. The connection attempt lasted for a time span of 00:00:02.0779654. TCP error code 10061: No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it <IPadress>:49309. "

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During a installation of a POC environment I run in to a problem when we wanted to connect to the ActiveRoles server (Windows 2008 R2)  from a client (Windows 7). We tried to connect with the MMC console of ActiveRoles, which was locally installed, and to the Web console but ending up with error’s.This is the error from the Web console

This error is not readable because of the way the IIS is configured.

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After the installation of the Quest ActiveRoles MMC component I experienced a error:
Connecting to Administration Service on ’127.0.0.1′ as ‘GALLIE\QAR’…
Failed to connect to Administration Service on ’127.0.0.1′. Access is denied.

When I looked in to the system log I also found this error with event ID 10016 and source DistributedCOM:

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While scanning a ESXi 4.1.0 (build 348481) host from the host update manger tab to see if the host is still compliant. I got a error : The host returns esxupdate error code: 10. check the update log file and esxupdate.log files for more details

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When deploying new VMware vSphere Hosts in one of the remote data centre I got an error:  PXE-E55 Proxy DHCP Service did not reply to request on port 4011.

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Today I was at the Dutch preproloog of the dakar 2012 which will start on the 1st of January 2012. It was dry and well visit event with drivers who show there vehicle! The kids where impressed by the size of the trucks and what the will take with them on the "road" at the same time the questioned them self’s how a bike rider will accomplices this when he (or she) is in the middle of nowhere! So Dakar has two new supporter especially Hans Jos Liefhebber because he rides the bike with the company logo where I work for!

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In the Back-up Exchange 2010 sp1 blogs I recover a selection of a exchange environment to make a recovery of mailbox items for a user with Veeam SureBackup. But some times the recovered Exchange environment  is not working properly because the restored mailbox server is not the active node.

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This blog is part three of three on how you can make a back-up and more importantly how you can recover items from a mailbox. In part one I described which setting to set for a exchange 2010 back-up job. In part two I explain how to configure the virtual lab and application group that are necessary for restoring exchange items from a specific mailbox. So finally we have come to the most important part recovery of items from your exchange 2010 mailbox.
While performing a recovery for the first time you will see that the recovery process was made for  enterprise environment where task are divided. Recovery in Veeam Backup exists out of three steps. Step one asking for a recovery to take place. Step two control and approve of the recovery wish. And step three is the actual recovery . For the new back-up version I have heard that this process has been adjust but i did not find the time to play with the new product version. 

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