Yesterday Veeam and Kasten announced a strategic partnership focused on offering a pathway to achieving a multi-platform backup strategy levering both data protection technologies. For those who have been paying attention to the Kubernetes space, Kasten has quickly established its self as a top technology platform for the protection and data management of Kubernetes infrastructure […] Read More
Google Cloud VMware Engine – VMware’s Holy Trinity Complete
When VMware Cloud on AWS was announced in 2017, it was met with trepidation and caution from the industry. Regardless of how successful the platform has been since GA in 2018 there is no doubt it has changed the way in which some organisations approach hardware refreshes or migrations. VMC adds another option if nothing […] Read More
Released: Backup for Microsoft Azure …Free for up to 10 Instances!
Yesterday we announced the GA Veeam Backup for Azure (Build 1.0.0.253). Available through the Azure Marketplace the product can be deployed within five minutes and be ready to backup Azure VM instances. Exactly like its AWS sister product, this release contains a FREE edition which will backup up to 10 Azure instances out of the […] Read More
Accessing Linux Volumes with the Veeam Data Integration API
The Data Integration API is one of my favourite features that was released in v10. This isn’t only because it builds on existing technologies contained within Veeam Backup & Replication, but also because of what it represents in terms of the way customers think about previously stagnant backup data sitting in repositories. It’s all about […] Read More
Automation is Leading to a Future of AI Powered Backup
With emerging technologies on the rise, data is increasing at an exponential rate, posing a new challenge for today’s data management professionals. Though data volume can be managed, the increasing complexity of data is the real challenge. The sprawl of data, which is now coming from multiple clouds, databases, apps and devices is becomingly progressively […] Read More
vForum Online 2020 – Save The Date!
It shouldn’t come as a surprise that I’m writing about an event that is being held online… especially in this very moment in time. 2020 is the year of the virtual! Though in this case, the VMware vForum Online Spring evet is one of those online events that hasn’t been put together directly in response […] Read More
Innovation… Technical Acceleration has begun!
We are currently experiencing a period of Technical Acceleration. The current situation has forced businesses and people to modify their behaviors and pivot to new ways to do things to cope with the restrictions put in place to help bring things under control, specifically related to the current COVID-19 pandemic. Like other times of global […] Read More
How to Configure NestedESXi on a Single Host – Part 2
Back for part two of this look at how I went about configuring a single host for NestedESXi deployments. In the previous post I looks at the physical configuration of the ESXi Host networking as well as what needed to be configured in the ESXi switching to prepare the top level to correctly have the […] Read More
Released: Veeam Service Provider Console v4 – What’s in it for Service Providers
Last week, Veeam Availability Console v4 (4.0.0.4877) was released. With this major update, The Veeam Availability Console is now the Veeam Service Provider Console (VSPC aka The Console aka Console). This name change reflects the commitment to this platform by Veeam as the central console that provides management and monitoring of Veeam Cloud and Service […] Read More
Quick Fix – No Datastores after ESXi 7.0 Upgrade on SuperMicro with Intel Based SATA Adapters
As usual, I like to jump right into software upgrades to test out new functionality (on none production systems of-course). With the GA of vSphere7 overnight, I went about upgrading my Homelab vCenter and ESXi host. The vCenter upgrade went well, but I ran into an issue after I upgraded the ESXi Host using the […] Read More