I’m ok admitting that I am still learning as I progress through my career and I’m ok to admit when things go wrong. Learning from mistakes is a crucial part of learning…and I learnt a harsh lesson today! That Infrastructure as Code is as dangerous as it is awesome…and that the public cloud is an unforgiving place! Just learnt a
Read moreI’ve been doing a little more within AWS over the past month or so related to my work with VMware Cloud on AWS and the setting up of EC2 instances to use as Veeam Linux Repositories. When deploying a linux based instance in AWS you set a key pair to the instance at the time of deployment. You then download
Read moreVeeamON has come an gone for another year and it is an exciting time to be in the (hyper) availability industry. There has been a significant shift in the way that backup and recovery is thought about in the IT Industry and Veeam is without question leading the way in this space. We have been the driving force of change
Read moreYesterday I posted an article highlighting my top picks for VeeamON 2018. The one thing I didn’t list in that post was my own sessions for this years event. This year I’m presenting three sessions in the Cloud Powered track and I am lucky enough to be joined by three awesome co-presenters for each session. All three sessions focus on specific
Read moreVeeamON is happening next week and the final push towards the event is in full swing. I can tell you that that this years event is going to be extremely valuable for those who can attend! This is going to be my third VeeamOn, and my second being involved with the preparation of elements of the event. Having been behind the scenes,
Read moreA few weeks ago I wrote about using iSCSI as a backup repository target. While still running this POC in my environment I came across an error in the vSAN Health Checker stating the vSAN iSCSI target service was in a Failed state. Drilling down into the vSAN Health check tree I could see a Service Runtime status of stopped
Read moreVeeam PN is a very cool product that has been GA for about four months now. Initially we combined the free product together with Veeam Direct Restore to Microsoft Azure to create Veeam Recovery to Microsoft Azure. Of late there has been a push to get Veeam PN out in the community as a standalone product that’s capable of simplifying
Read moreA few weeks ago after much anticipation VMware released vSphere 6.7. Like 6.5 before it, this is a lot more than a point release and represents a major upgrade from vSphere 6.5. There is so much packed into this new release that there is an official page with separate blog posts talking about the features and enhancements. As usual, I
Read moreVMware has announced the general availability of vSAN 6.7. As vSAN continues to grow, VMware are very buoyant about how it’s performing in the market. With some 10,000 customers at a run rate of over 600 million they claim to lead the HyperConverged market with a 32% market share. From my point of view it’s great to see vSAN being
Read moreCloud Connect Subtenants have gone under the radar for the most but can play an important role in how Service Provider customers consume Cloud Connect services. In a previous post, I described how subtenants work in the context of Cloud Connect Backup. Subtenants can be configured by either the VCSP or by the tenant consuming a Cloud Connect Backup service. Subtenants are
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