NSX-v 6.4 was released a couple of weeks ago and as I talked about in my launch post, there are a lot of new features and enhancements that make this release significant. A big focus for this release was around enhancing NSX’s ease of use and serviceability. There have been a number of additions to […] Read More
Veeam Powered Network: Azure and Remote Site Configuration
This week we announced the offical GA of Veeam Recovery to Microsoft Azure featuring Veeam Powered Network (Veeam PN). This new product also features Director Restore to Microsoft Azure in combination with Veeam PN to create a solution that allows you to recover VMs into Azure and then have those VMs accessible on the original […] Read More
Cloud Connect and VAC Portal Maintenance Modes
Lately i’ve been digging deeper into the Veeam Availability Console and have been wrapping my head around it’s extended feature set. With that I thought it would be good to start a series of short blog posts pointing out examples of how certain parts are configured and what is happening under the covers. To kick […] Read More
Released: vCloud Director 9.0.0.2 – Important Networking Fixes!
Last week VMware put out a new point release for vCloud Director 9.0 (Build 7553273) for Service Providers. While there is nothing new in this release there are a significant number of resolved issues as listed in the release notes. One thing to mention is that even though this was released during a similar timeframe […] Read More
NSX-v 6.4.0 Released! What’s in it for Service Providers
This week VMware released NSX-v 6.4.0 (Build 7564187) and with it comes a new UI Plug-in for vSphere Client (HTML5) which includes some new dashboards including a new Update Lifecycle Manager built right into the Web Client. Reading through the release notes, for me the biggest improvements seem to be around NSX Edges and Edge […] Read More
A Deeper Look at Insider Protection in 9.5 Update 3
With the release of Backup & Replication 9.5 Update 3 we introduced the concept of a Recycle Bin for customers sending offsite cloud backups to VCSPs using Veeam Cloud Connect. This deleted backup protection…or Insider Protection allows the VCSP to enable the deleted backups protection option for specific tenants and looks to add another level […] Read More
9.5 Update 3 Officially Compatible with VMware Cloud on AWS
At VMworld 2017 Veeam was announced as one of only two foundation Data Protection partners for VMware Cloud on AWS. This functionality was dependant on the release of Veeam Backup & Replication 9.5 Update 3 that contained the enhancements for it to interoperate with VMware Cloud on AWS locked down vCenter. This week 9.5 Update […] Read More
2018
Looking back over the past couple of years I haven’t written a forward looking blog post about the year ahead since 2015 and as I sit here working through my notes on the first workday for 2018 I though that for the good of myself, I should have a think about what I want to […] Read More