Over the past week I’ve posted a couple of articles that should help people new to vSphere with Tanzu. There are some common hurdles that can pop up. I’ve now deployed it in a couple of environments and each one has raised new quirks. There also isn’t a lot of straight forward content out there […] Read More
Veeam Backup & Replication v10 Sneak Peek: Cloud Tier Copy Mode
For 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
Cloud Tier Data Migration between AWS and Azure… or anywhere in between!
At the recent Cloud Field Day 5 (CFD#5) I presented a deep dive on the Veeam Cloud Tier which was released as a feature extension of our Scale Out Backup Repository (SOBR) in Update 4 of Veeam Backup & Replication. Since we went GA we have been able to track the success of this feature […] Read More
Update 4 for Service Providers – Extending Backup Repositories to Object Storage with Cloud Tier
When Veeam Backup & Replication 9.5 Update 4 went Generally Available in late January I posted a What’s in it for Service Providers blog. In that post I briefly outlined all the new features and enhancements in Update 4 as it related to our Veeam Cloud and Service Providers. As mentioned each new major feature […] Read More
Quick Look: Cloud Tier SOBR Offload Job
With the release of Update 4 for Veeam Backup & Replication 9.5 we introduced the Cloud Tier, which is an extension of the Scale Out Backup Repository (SOBR). The Cloud Tier allows for data to be stripped out of Veeam backup files and offloaded as blocks of data to Object Storage leaving a dehydrated Veeam […] Read More
How to Copy Amazon S3 Buckets with AWS CLI
I am doing some work on validated restore scenarios using the new Veeam Cloud Tier that backed by an Object Storage Repository pointing at an Amazon S3 Bucket. So that I am not messing with the live data I wanted a way to copy and access the objects from another bucket or folder. There is […] Read More
More Than Meets the Eye… Veeam Backup Performance
Recently I was sent a link to a video that showed an end user comparing Veeam to a competitors offering covering backup performance, restore capabilities and UI. It mainly focused on the comparison of incremental backup jobs and their completion times. It showed that the Veeam job was taking a significantly longer time to complete […] Read More
Hybrid World… Why IBM buying RedHat makes sense!
As Red October came to a close…at a time when US Tech stocks were taking their biggest battering in a long time the news came out over the weekend that IBM had acquired RedHat for 34 billion dollars! This seems to have taken the tech world by surprise…the all-cash deal represents a massive 63% premium […] Read More
Quick Fix: vSAN Health Reports iSCSI Target Service Stopped
A 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 […] Read More
Released: vSAN 6.7 – HTML5 Goodness, Enhanced Health Checks and More!
VMware 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 […] Read More