This PowerShell / PowerCLI script lets you create a new vCenter server role with all the cumulative privileges and permissions to use them with Veeam Backup & Replication V11. In the next window, specify the credentials of the user that you have added in vCenter previously. Since I was tired to click roles together in vCenter server, I wrote a simple script on creating a vCenter role for Veeam with PowerCLI. For this example, I specify the vCenter FQDN. Next, specify the vCenter or ESXi IP address or DNS Name. This is normally some kind of headroll that has a mix of uppercase, lowercase, numbers and special characters. In Veeam, navigate to Backup Infrastructure and Managed Servers.
#Veeam backup vcenter install#
The organisation I did the install for requires the use of a seperate AD account for services, with their own secure passwords. Read on for the solution that worked for me! You may see a duplicate entry that relates to a previous version of VMware, if so right click the row and delete it. Search out any duplicates (in my case there was one entry for each ESX host, one for the vCenter server and one for ‘This Server’ so no duplicates)ħ. Right click and choose ‘edit top 200 rows’Ħ. Expand Databases, VeeamBackup, Tables and locate the dbo.Hosts tableĥ. Open SQL Server Management Studio (I did this from a different server that already had it installed)ģ.Connect to the SQL Express instance, in my case: SERVERNAME\VEEAMSQL2008R2Ĥ. Restore vCenter Server Appliance 6.5 Restore process is the straight forward process and it needs to be performed from the VCSA 6.5 installation media. With that compatibility, we can now imagine a possibility to use Veeam 9.5 U1 to protect our vCenter server appliance. Once the backup of is completed, you may browse the location for the backup file and validate files are stored on the defined backup location.
#Veeam backup vcenter update#
If this is the case, the following solution seems to have worked for a lot of people.Ģ. Veeam Backup and replication 9.5 released a few months back wasn't compatible with vSphere 6.5 so far, but recent Update 1 made the product compatible with vSphere 6.5. Playbook to add and remove new credentials to the Veeam.
#Veeam backup vcenter windows#
Test / Dev Environment: Ansible 2.8 CentOS 7 Windows Server 2019 Veeam Backup & Replication 9.5 Update 4a VMware vCenter 6.7 Update 1 Playbook - Veeamaddcred.yml. If you do a bit of googling as I did, you may believe this to be due to a duplicate entry on the dbo.Hosts table in the Veeam DB (not so in my case). Playbook to add a new VMware vCenter Server to the Veeam Backup & Replication server. Part 2 is not required, however, but beware that restoring. Part 2:Database backup via VMware Best Practice. Instead, it’s optimal to perform backup in 2 parts: Part 1: Image Level Backup with Veeam. “Cannot complete login due to an incorrect user name or password” To backup the VCSA with Veeam, it’s important to understand that Veeam does not directly support Postgres SQL (VMware’s embedded DB). After a clean install of Veeam 6.5 and connecting to a vCenter server, the backups repeatedly failed and I kept getting the following error:
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