To show you this, I created a small test in my lab, by deploying a Windows 2008 R2 VM with no network connection at all: Veeam has taken advantage of these libraries to allow VSS-based backups, even when the VM cannot be reached via network. Among the several activities you can do, you can copy files, start and stop services, and run programs inside the guest VM.

Basically, they allow for direct interaction between the guest operating system inside a VM using the hypervisor running it, without any need for network connectivity. I found this quite old article, dated 2008, they noentheless explains in an awesome way what those libraries can do. In these situations we can really appreciate VMware VIX libraries, and the way Veeam decided to use them. Usually, this is done by connecting to the target VM via network.īut, what happens when for any reason Veeam is in another network of the one used by the virtual machine, or they cannot communicate to each other? For example an IIS webserver in a DMZ network that cannot be reached from the network where Veeam server is connected to? Veeam can do backups without the help of permanent agents inside the virtual machines, anyway if you want to do a VSS-based backup, Veeam deployes (and removes when the backup is completed) a small agent in the Windows VM in order to cohordinate VSS tasks. Since Microsoft introduced VSS libraries, it’s a smart way of doing backup using them, in order to guarantee a consistent backup of applications supporting them.

Veeam Restore Failed To Install Guest Agent Control Module.

The Install seems to install the DB just fine but fails at the point when it tries to start the EndPoint Service. I am running the install from an account with Administrator permissions. The only Antivirus that was running was Windows Defender but I disabled that. But we have a new Windows 8.1 Laptop that the install fails. Once installation has completed, apply the latest update. An empty database will be created with this name.

If it is not installed: Choose a new database name during installation.

If Veeam Backup & Replication is already installed, apply the latest update.

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