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
Zoombomb! Security for Zoom Learnt the Hard Way…Again!
The world is a very different place today… in fact it’s a very different place to what it was just two weeks ago. During this forced working from home situation caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, workers, friends and family have been forced to go digital to keep up social interactions. The messaging platform that has […] Read More
Quick Thought – World Backup Day in the Age of Data Displacement
Today is World Backup Day! World Backup Day is a day for people to learn about the increasing role of data in our lives and the importance of regular backups. It’s not only a day for backing up your personal data, but it’s also a day to talk about the enormous task of preserving our […] Read More
v10 Update: On Demand Recovery with Cloud Tier and VMware Cloud on AWS
With the release of v10 of Backup & Replication came significant enhancements to the Cloud Tier. As I wrote about here, we introduced Copy Policy, Immutability and Object Storage Import into v10. This added to the capabilities found in 9.5 Update 4 release. Last year, we released the first version of the On Demand Recovery […] Read More
How to Configure NestedESXi on a Single Host – Part 1
I’ve should have written this article a long long time ago! In fact, i’ve been promising certain people that I would write this up for a number of years. The trigger to actually get this done was the fact I had recently cleaned up my previous NestedESXi infrastructure only leaving the bare essentials. The setup […] Read More
v10 for Service Providers – vCloud Director 10.0 Support and Self Service Portal Enhancements
Veeam Backup & Replication v10 has been Generally Available since mid Feburary and last week I posted a What’s in it for Service Providers overview blog post. In that post I briefly outlined all the new features and enhancements in v10 as it related to our Veeam Cloud and Service Providers. As mentioned each new […] Read More
Backup & Replication v10 – What’s In It For Service Providers
For more than ten years Veeam has supported our service provider partners by delivering industry-leading, innovative features that allows them to build service offerings underpinned by Veeam products and technologies. This extends to the Veeam Platform as a whole. Many of the features and enhancements that we have released over that time have been leveraged […] Read More
vSphere 7 Announcement – Project Pacific is Finally Here!
It didn’t seem that long ago that at VMworld 2019 in San Francisco where VMware announced Project Pacific. At the time I wrote about how I thought that it was a stroke of Kubernetes genius. After going through all the subsequent pre release and NDA materials and having played a little bit with the Project […] Read More
COVID-19 – Impact, Working from Home Tips and some Thoughts on the Mass Hysteria
The world has lost its proverbial you know what! We are living through a historic event, triggered by the fear of the unknown. That unknown is the COVID-19 coronavirus. It’s caused mass hysteria all around the world the likes of which recent generations haven’t really experienced. Societies general reaction to this has been concerning… and […] Read More
Never Deploy Backup Proxies Manually Again With Infrastructure as Code!
My recent obsession with automation and Infrastructure as Code in general has resulted in a lot of efficiencies in my day to day work life. Where I used to deploy Windows Templates manually through vSphere, I now use Terraform to handle repeatable deployments of lab server instances. I use Ansible and Chocolatey to install and […] Read More