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
Quick Post – Executing PowerShell through Guest Customizations with Terraform
Bootstrapping Windows during automated deployments is one of the more frustrating aspects of working with templates that are being deployed by Infrastructure as Code toolsets. When I say bootstrapping, i’m talking about executing post deployment actions on templates such as configuring WinRM or setting Windows Firewall settings to allow for future operations after deployment. VMware […] Read More