This time next week we will be well into Veeam Velocity 2019. In previous years, this event acts as our global sales kick off however this year we have incorporated partners into the event and will be using it as a platform to launch the next major version of our Veeam Availability Suite. Specifically we are […] Read More
VCSP Important Notice: 9.5 Update 4 RTM Is Out…With vCloud Director Replication Support and more!
Today, Veeam has made available to our VCSP partners the RTM of Update 4 for Backup & Replication 9.5 (Build 9.5.4.2399). Update 4 is what we term a breaking update, meaning that if a Cloud Connect tenant upgrades from any previous 9.5 version before VCSPs this will break backup or replication functionality. With that in mind the […] Read More
Important Updates for VAC, VBO and Veeam ONE … Update 4 is Coming!
Things are moving here at Veeam with the impending release of Veeam Backup & Replication 9.5 Update 4. In preparation for the release there have been a number of update patches released for our supporting platform products. Importantly for our Veeam Cloud and Service Providers who are expected to receive RTM details any day now, […] Read More
AWS re:Invent 2018 – Veeam and N2WS Recap and Thoughts
There was so much to take away from AWS re:Invent last week. In my opinion, having attended a lot of industry events over the past ten or so years, this years re:Invent has left the industry with a lot to think about it! AWS vigorously defended their position as the number one Public Cloud destination […] Read More
Veeam’s AWS re:Invent 2018 Session Posted
This week, myself and David Hill presented at AWS re:Invent 2018 around what at Veeam is offering by way of providing data protection and availability for native AWS workloads, VMware Cloud on AWS workloads and how we are leveraging AWS technologies to offer new features in the upcoming Update 4 release of Backup & Replication […] Read More
Enhanced Self Service Restore in Backup for Office 365 v2.0
Earlier in the year I gave an overview on the Self Service recovery capability of Veeam Backup for Office 365 which gave Veeam Cloud and Service Providers the ability to offer self service to their tenants for the recovery of Exchange data that’s been backed up on their platforms as a service. As a bit […] Read More
Quick Post – Veeam Backup for Office 365 v2 Important Patch plus Self Service Warning Fix
Last week we snuck out an important cumulative patch for Veeam Backup for Office 365 v2 bring the build number up to 2.0.0.567. The patch is actually fairly significant and I would recommend anyone running VBO to update as soon as possible. It covers Licensing, SharePoint and OneDrive, Group and Shared Mailbox fixes and enhancements as […] Read More
Quick Fix: Specified vCloud Director is not supported when trying to add vCD 9.1 to Veeam ONE
Back in May when VMware released vCloud Director 9.1 they also depreciated support for a number of older API versions: End of Support for Older vCloud API Versions vCloud Director 9.1 no longer supports vCloud API versions 1.5 and 5.1. These API versions were deprecated in a previous release. vCloud Director 9.1 is the last […] Read More
Automated Configuration of Backup & Replication with PowerShell
As part of the Veeam Automation and Orchestration for vSphere project myself and Michael Cade worked on for VMworld 2018, we combined a number of seperate projects to showcase an end to end PowerShell script that called a number of individual modules. Split into three parts, we had a Chef/Terraform module that deployed a server […] Read More
Quick Fix – Backing up vCenter Content Library Content with Veeam
A question came up in the Veeam Forums this week about how you would backup the contents of a Content Library. As a refresher, content libraries are container objects for VM templates, vApp templates, and other types of files. Administrators can use the templates in the library to deploy virtual machines and vApps via vCenter. […] Read More