I’ll be sharing interesting and handy Windows Registry keys related to Veeam products. Whether it’s a hidden tweak, a performance optimization, or a useful troubleshooting tip, each month will bring a new Registry key that can help you get the most out of your Veeam environment.
Stay tuned for more keys, it might just save you some time or solve a tricky issue!
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Unmount SureBackup NFS datastores automatically.
We all have seen it. Inaccessible datastores. You immediately think somethings wrong, but after a second look you find out it's the NFS mount for your SureBackup. Nothing wrong there, but for some people quite annoying.
This is normal behavior, by default the datastore remains mounted. Why ? This saves time when mounting it again when you fire up the next vPowered task.
But leaving them can cause false alarms, misinterpretation on capacity planning calculations (eg. VeeamOne reports) since these datastores are seen as disconnected.
But as from VBR version 12.3.1 you can get rid of these inaccessible datastores with a red sign using a regkey.
To unmount SureBackup NFS datastores automatically, us the following registry keys.
The first key is to enable the automatic unmount
vPowerNFSUnmountDatastore (DWORD)
Key Location: HKLM\SOFTWARE\Veeam\Veeam Backup and Replication\
Value Name: vPowerNFSUnmountDatastore
Value Type: DWORD (32-bit) Value
Value Data: 1
The second key defines a timeout in minutes to perform the unmount.
vPowerNFSUnmountDatastoreRetryTimeoutMinutes (DWORD)
Key Location: HKLM\SOFTWARE\Veeam\Veeam Backup and Replication\
Value Name: vPowerNFSUnmountDatastoreRetryTimeoutMinutes
Value Type: DWORD (32-bit) Value
Value Data: 5 (example)
Fun fact:
Internally within Veeam, this is called 'The Hannes Feature" named to Hannes Kasparick, part of the Veeam product management and an advocate to implement this feature.
