How to fix Veeam FLR issues because of Windows Data Deduplication

Introduction Recently I’ve discovered a nifty little issue in one of our environments. This environment consists out of VMware Cloud Director (VCD) in combination with VMware vSphere 6.7 hosts and Veeam v10. In this environment we make use of the VCD Veeam UI Plugin so that customers can use the …

How to increase your Veeam backup performance on VCD by 10+x

Introduction The last two weeks I’ve been working on a big issue on our environment. On this environement a multitude of products are used such as Veeam, VMware Cloud Director (VCD) and vSAN as main products. The issue we had on this environment was that the backup performance hasn’t been …

Veeam 9.5 U4 with VMware Tools 10.3.10 issues on ESXi 6.0

I am not sure if anybody else had this issue recently. But I’ve seen some weird behaviour on one of our Veeam environments that is running Veeam 9.5 U4 and with VM’s that are using VMware Tools 10.3.10 or even 11.0.6. The problems seem to manifest on environments that are …

VMCI Sockets bug and missing MSR partition prevents VSS-aware backup (fixed)

Recently I had to do just that when a customer I recently on-boarded to our vSphere platform was having issues creating a VSS-aware backup. Even a quiesced snapshot command failed with an error. This issue took quite some time to investigate. And I was lucky enough to have a support …