Protecting Physical Servers with Veeam

Veeam Endpoint Backup will back up workstations, so they are definitely thinking about it, but at the moment I think the short answer is no.

Guys, is there a way to backup a physical server with Veeam? I can see you can carry out a file backup, if a full file backup is created can this be restored to a vm in a DR scenario? Is is mainly because we want to store the data on Cloud Connect too
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High availability for file server and exchange with 2 physical servers

Dear Experts,
I have 2 physical server with local disks only. I want to setup below on same with high availability, please advise best prossible options. We will be using windows 2012 R2 Server..
1. Domain controller
2. Exchange 2013
As of now I am thinking of setting up below:
1. Install Hyper-v on both and create 3 VM on each as
-On Host A- 1 VM for DC, 1 VM for File server with DFS namespace and replication for file server HA and 1 VM for Exchange 2013 with CAS/MBX with DAG and DNS RR for Exchange HA
-On Host B - 1 VM for ADC, 1 VM for File server DFS member for above and 1 VM for Exchange 2013 CAS/MBX with DAG member
I have read on internet about new features called scale out file server (SoFS) in Windows 2012 Server but not sure that will be preferred for file sharing.
Any advise will be highly appreciated..
Thanks for the help in advance..
Best regards,

Dear Experts,
I have 2 physical server with local disks only. I want to setup below on same with high availability, please advise best prossible options. We will be using windows 2012 R2 Server..
1. Domain controller
2. Exchange 2013
As of now I am thinking of setting up below:
1. Install Hyper-v on both and create 3 VM on each as
-On Host A- 1 VM for DC, 1 VM for File server with DFS namespace and replication for file server HA and 1 VM for Exchange 2013 with CAS/MBX with DAG and DNS RR for Exchange HA
-On Host B - 1 VM for ADC, 1 VM for File server DFS member for above and 1 VM for Exchange 2013 CAS/MBX with DAG member
I have read on internet about new features called scale out file server (SoFS) in Windows 2012 Server but not sure that will be preferred for file sharing.
Any advise will be highly appreciated..
Thanks for the help in advance..
Best regards,
DFS is by far the best way to implement any sort of file server. Because a) failover is not fully transparent and does not happen always (say not on copy ) b) DFS cannot replicate open files so if you edit a big file and have node rebooted you're going to
lose ALL transactions/updates you've applied c) actually slows down the config. See:
DFS for failover
http://help.globalscape.com/help/wafs3/using_microsoft_dfs_for_failover.htm
DFS FAQ
http://technet.microsoft.com/library/cc773238(WS.10).aspx
(check "open files" point here)
DFS Performance
http://blogs.technet.com/b/filecab/archive/2009/08/22/windows-server-dfs-namespaces-performance-and-scalability.aspx
SoFS a) requires shared storage to run and you don't have one b) does not support generic workloads
(only Hyper-V and SQL Server) and c) technically makes sense to expand SAS JBOD or existing FC SAN to numerous Hyper-V clients over 10 GbE w/o need to invest money into SAS switches and HBAs and FC HBAs and new licenses FC ports. Making long story short:
SoFS is NOT YOUR CASE.
SoFS Overview
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh831349.aspx
http://www.aidanfinn.com/?p=12786
http://www.aidanfinn.com/?p=12786
For now you need to find some shared storage to be a back end for your hypevisor config (SAS JBOD from supported list, virtual SAN from multiple vendors like for example StarWind see below, make sure you review ALL the vendors) and then you create a failover
SMB 3.0 share for your file server workload. See:
Clustered Storage Spaces over SAS JBOD
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj822937.aspx
Virtual SAN from inexpensive SATA and no SAS or FC
http://www.starwindsoftware.com/native-san-for-hyper-v-free-edition
Failover
SMB File Server in Windows Server 2012 R2
http://www.starwindsoftware.com/configuring-ha-file-server-on-windows-server-2012-for-smb-nas
Fault
tolerant file server on just a pair of nodes
http://www.starwindsoftware.com/ns-configuring-ha-file-server-for-smb-nas
For Exchange you use SMB share from above for a file share witness and use DAG. See:
Exchange DAG
Good luck! Hope this helped :)
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Ewfmgr: Failed getting protected volume configuration with error 1

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I created a Windows 7-64 image for an Ivy-Bridge VME card. The image contains EWF with RAM-REG.
The disk was divided into 2 partitions with the windows installer and the image was successfully installed.
As I'm using RAM-REG, all
the disk was allocated.
After the image was installed I tried to run "ewfmgr c:" and got the current status.
Then I created a GHOST image and wrote the image on a new card with a clean disk.
After Windows booted, running "ewfmgr c:" gave:
Failed getting protected volume configuration with error 1
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Sysprep creates new bcd for the System. - Therefore it's recommended to use sysprep (and SID and so on..) but if you're lazy or don't have Domain Controller and so on or always use physical seperated (better not Internet connected) machines you would be
totaly fine with non-syspreped Images. You only Need updated/new bcd.
Captured wim has 'old' bcd (if there is no seperated MSR Partition) you can update this 3 entries within winpe and your Image will boot:
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bcdedit /store c:\boot\BCD /set {DEFAULT} device PARTITION=C:
bcdedit /store c:\boot\BCD /set {DEFAULT} osdevice PARTITION=C:
(boot could also be Partition=c: or all entries could be boot - and /store is not needed as in winpe bcdedit automatically Redirects the commands into the other/System (found) bcd. But i always recommand to specify the bcd store you want to edit, like in
this lines)
The definition of "C:" in this Parameter is 'translated' into volumeid/diskid. - So in the bcd is not "C:" it's some DiskID.
Instead of the 3 entries you can just create a whole new bcd with updated volumeid/diskids. --> It would be enough to run bcdboot /s C:\ (or whatever the current boot (c:\) Partition is.
EWF needs to be reconfigured as it also works with Volume/Diskids. So it needs additional command while running (online).
ewfcfg /install-configuration for win7
rundll32 ewfdll.dll,ConfigureEwf for win xpe/wes2009.
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Physical Servers Cloning

I'm sure Clonezilla should work by the way. I've just never had cause to set up more than a few machines at a time, so have never used it.
RobT.

Hey Spiceworkers, i hope someone can help me with this one. I have to Clone more than 20 physical server with one already installed and configured image. All the servers have two 500GB raid 1 disks, and tried to use the good old "CloneZilla" to clone the drive, buen it didnt work to clone the whole drive. I also tried just to copy the windows OS partition, but same results, i cant make the servers to boot. Does anyone have any other tool or idea that can help me?
thx
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Using VCM to compare hardware metrics on physical servers

Hi,
I have a large physical server estate (mix of Win, RHEL and Solaris) which all have had the latest VCM agent installed.
What I want to do with VCM is to select one physical machine and make it a baseline, then compare other physical servers to that baseline. Physical servers will be grouped into clusters (per application) and then into tiers (e.g. Test). I want to be able to check compliance of a clustered application against a single baseline physical server, then other application clusters within a tier, then tiers against other tiers.
Can anyone give me a started for 10 on creating a compliance template from an existing physical machine?
Note: I'm interested in hardware only at this point (driver metrics, BIOS etc) - OS comparison will come down the line.
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Jeremy.

If you want to keep the data from the baseline machine(s), even if the machines themselves change, or are removed, later, you should create VCM Snapshots for them.
These are managed under Administration\Machines Manager\VCM Snapshots. The Help for this node provides more detail about this feature. Basically, you first need to collect all the data you will be interested in including in the baseline, and then create a Snapshot to make a static copy of the data in the VCM database that will act like another machine entry.
To compare machines to a baseline machine, or to a baseline VCM Snapshot, use the Compare Machines action from Compliance\Machine Group Compliance\Templates node. Again, the Help provides a lot more information about this feature.

Many Physical Servers

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Server 1 has 8GB RAM, Server 2 has 4GB RAM...... i need to install 2 SAP Instances (2 VM Instances) with 6GB RAM each...
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> the 8 & 4 GB was just an examples... the real situation is that we have many SAP systems & i need to be able to allocate resources & adjust them when required... since we don't have identical hardware i really need to be able to consolidate them before allocating.... i also want to do this @ OS level (VMWare) & not @ SAP level (by having distributed systems).....
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2 Hyper-V Servers with Failover Cluster and a single File Server and .VHDs stored on a SMB 3 Share

I have 2 X M600 Dell Blades (100 GB local storage and 2 NICs) and a Single R720 File Server (2.5 TB local SAS storage and 6 NICs). I´m planning a Lab/developer enrironment using 2 Hyper-V Servers with Failover Cluster and a single File Server putting
all .VHDs stored on a SMB 3 Share on the File Server.
The ideia is to have a HA solution, live migration, etc, storing the .VHDs onm a SMB 3 share
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It is possible? How Cluster will understand the
\\fileserver\shareforVHDs as a cluster disk and offer HA on it?
Or i´ll have to "re-think" and forget about VHDs on SMb 3 Share and deploy using iSCSI?
Storage Spaces makes difference in this case?
All based on wind2012 R2 STD English version

I have 2 X M600 Dell Blades (100 GB local storage and 2 NICs) and a Single R720 File Server (2.5 TB local SAS storage and 6 NICs). I´m planning a Lab/developer enrironment using 2 Hyper-V Servers with Failover Cluster and a single File Server putting
all .VHDs stored on a SMB 3 Share on the File Server.
The ideia is to have a HA solution, live migration, etc, storing the .VHDs onm a SMB 3 share
\\fileserver\shareforVHDs
It is possible? How Cluster will understand the
\\fileserver\shareforVHDs as a cluster disk and offer HA on it?
Or i´ll have to "re-think" and forget about VHDs on SMb 3 Share and deploy using iSCSI?
Storage Spaces makes difference in this case?
All based on wind2012 R2 STD English version
You can do what you want to do just fine. Hyper-V / Windows Server 2012 R2 can use SMB 3.0 share instead of a block storage (iSCSI/FC/etc). See:
Deploy Hyper-V over SMB
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj134187.aspx
There would be no shared disk and no CSV just SMB 3.0 folder both hypervisor hosts would have access to. Much simplier to use. See:
Hyper-V recommends SMB or CSV ?
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/d6e06d59-bef3-42ba-82f1-5043713b5552/hyperv-recommends-smb-or-csv-
You'll have however a limited solution as your single physical server being a file server would be a single point of failure.
You can use Storage Spaces just fine but you cannot use Clustered Storage Spaces as in this case you'll have to take away your SAS spindles from your R720 box and mount them into SAS JBOD (make sure it's certified). So you get rid of an active components
(CPU, RAM) and keep more robust all-passive SAS JBOD as your physical shared storage. Better then a single Windows-running server but for a true fault tolerance you'll have to have 3 SAS JBODs. Not exactly cheap :) See:
Deploy Clustered Storage Spaces
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj822937.aspx
Storage Spaces,
JBODs, and Failover Clustering – A Recipe for Cost-Effective, Highly Available Storage
http://blogs.technet.com/b/storageserver/archive/2013/10/19/storage-spaces-jbods-and-failover-clustering-a-recipe-for-cost-effective-highly-available-storage.aspx
Using
Storage Spaces for Storage Subsystem Performance
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/dn567634.aspx#enclosure
Storage
Spaces FAQ
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/11382.storage-spaces-frequently-asked-questions-faq.aspx
Alternative way would be using Virtual SAN similar to VMware VSAN in this case you can get rid of a physical shared storage @ all and use cheap high capacity SATA spindles (and SATA SSDs!) instead of an expensive SAS.
Hope this helped :)
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Excuse me ! Can a virtual machine run on the more physical servers ?

If a physical server has two CPUs , I have two physical servers for OracleVM group.
Can Oracle VM create a virtual machine which have 4 CPUs ?
This is a kind of HPC (High Performance Computing ) .
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Unless this is some trick question then yes you can.
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