This is more or less a follow up post to the one I wrote back in 2015 about the state of containers in the IT World as I saw it at the time. I started off that post talking about the freight train that was containerization along with a cheeky meme… fast forward four years and the narrative around containers
Read moreSince version 7 of Backup & Replication, Veeam has lead the way in regard to the protection of workloads running in vCloud Director. With version 7 Veeam first released deep integration into vCD that talked directly to the vCD APIs to facilitate the backup and recovery of vCD workloads and their constructs. More recently in version 9.5, the vCD Self Service
Read moreSince Veeam Cloud Tier was released as part of Backup & Replication 9.5 Update 4, i’ve written a lot about how it works and what it offers in terms of offloading data from more expensive local storage to what is fundamentally cheaper remote Object Storage. As with most innovative technologies, if you dig a little deeper… different use cases start
Read moreI’ve just had a mild scare in that I was unable to log into this WordPress site even after trying a number of different ways to gain access by resetting the password via the methods listed on a number of WordPress help sites. The standard reset my password via email option was also not working. I have access directly to
Read moreToday, a new patch was released for Veeam Availability Console v3 which brings the build to 3.0.0.2725. Contained in this patch is a number of fixes that covers reporting and licensing, server fixes, agent fixes and there are also a number of other resolved issues including some RESTful API fixes as well as for those using the ConnectWise Plugin. The
Read moreFor a look sneak peek at the highly anticipated Cloud Tier Copy mode… head here to veeam.com https://www.veeam.com/blog/v10-sneak-peek-cloud-tier-copy-mode.html
Read moreThat is probably the longest title i’ve ever had on this blog, however I wanted to highlight everything that is contained in this solution. Everything above works together to get the job done. The job in this case, is to configure an NSX Edge automatically using the vCloud Director Terraform provider to allow network connectivity for VMs that have been
Read moreAs recent events have shown, outages and disasters are a fact of life in this modern world. Given the number of different platforms that data sits on today, we know that disasters can equally come in many shapes and sizes and lead to data loss and impact business continuity. Because major wide scale disasters occur way less often than smaller
Read moreLast month Veeam PN v2 went GA and was available for download and install from the veeam.com download page. As an update to that, we published v2 to the Azure Marketplace which is now available for deployment. As a quick refresher, Veeam PN was initially released as part of Direct Recovery to Azure and was marketed through the Azure Marketplace.
Read moreLast week at VeeamON 2019, Dustin Albertson and myself delivered a two part deep dive session on Cloud Tier, which was released in Update 4 of Veeam Backup & Replication 9.5 in January. I’ve blogged about how Cloud Tier is one of the most innovative features i’ve seen in recent times and I have been able to dig under the
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