Error Failover Control Portal is Not Configured

Encounter an error message when trying to login to Veeam Cloud Connect Portal to perform VM failover.

Error message:

Failover Control Portal is Not Configured

[Resolution]

1. Open Veeam Enterprise Manager Portal
2. Go to Configuration | Backup Server | Click Add to add a Veeam Backup Server (Service Provider)

3. Try login to Veeam Cloud Connect Portal. Now you able to access to perfom VM failover.

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Error- Cannot Open Microsoft Edge Using Built-In Administrator

Well the frustrating part when you would like to use Microsoft Edge (browser) to surf on Windows Server 2016 TP5 is encounter an error message "This app can't open! Microsoft Edge can't be opened using the Built in Administrator account". Currently this virtual machine is not domain join.

[Resolution]

• Open Local Security Policy | Local Policies | Security Options
• On User Account Control Admin Approval Mode for the Built in Administrator Account
• Set to Enabled

• Disable UAC by setting to Never Notify

Lastly reboot and test again. After this, you would able to use Microsoft Edge on workgroup computer.

Recover Linux Workload Using Veeam Agent for Linux

In our previous post, we had talk about backup linux workload using Veean agent for linux. Next step is look into recovery to verify that the product is working as expected.

[ Recover Files ]

On the Veeam console, we are able to view successful backup job. Press R to select recovery and select which backup job that you would like to recover.

Then veeam will mount the backup data to /mnt/backup

Use command line to navigate to /mnt/backup and copy files that you require.

Once completed, you can unmount the backup data.

[Perform bare metal recovery]

How about entire OS/disk corrupted? You can perform bare metal recovery. Just boot the recovery media iso and select "Restore volume"

To perform this scenario, we've remove the existing disk and add a new disk. This will ensure that we took the backup data and perform recovery to empty disk

Restore in progress...

After restore complete, reboot the system. Your system is up and running as expected.

To get a hand on beta , please go to https://go.veeam.com/linux

Backup Linux Workload Using Veeam Agent for Linux

Veeam Agent for Linux is a simple and free backup agent that runs on Linux servers. It’s designed to give you the capabilities you need to ensure the Availability of your individual Linux cloud instances or on-premises physical Linux servers.

We are excited as earlier bird to get a beta bit from Veeam. Without wasting time, we perform backup on our existing Linux workload. 

Supported platform: 64-bit and 32-bit OS with kernel version 2.6.32 or later:

• RedHat and derivatives (CentOS etc.)

• Debian and derivatives (Ubuntu etc.)

Our test scenario:-

• Linux running Centos. 
• Configure Standard Partition
• Using ext3
• Target destination - Local disk

Command to install pre-requisite:-

yum update *

yum -y install epel-release && yum repolist

yum install dkms 

[Installation]

Command to install:-

rpm -ivh veeamsnap-1.0.0.499-noarch.rpm

rpm -ivh veeam-1.0.0.499-1.el6.x86_64.rpm

[Open Veeam Agent for Linux]

Execute command "veeam" to start to configure Veeam Agent for Linux

[End Result]

a) Backup Entire Volume.

With beta version, we only can backup to local disk / shared folder. During beta version, integration with Veeam Backup & Replication is not available at this moment.

Summary of configuration:-

• Backup mode - entire volume
• Destination - Local disk
• Schedule - Daily

b) Backup a file/ Folder

 Configure similar job like previous steps. But this round, select backup mode to "File level backup"
Summary of configuration:-

• Backup mode - File level backup. We selected /tmp and /home path
• Destination - Local disk
• Schedule - Daily

In our next post, we will have a look on recovery options.

To get a hand on beta , please go to https://go.veeam.com/linux 
For more information, please click here