Today, Veeam made available Patch 2 for Veeam Backup & Replication 10 (Build 10.0.0.461 P2). This is the second cumulative patch for v10 and contains a number of important fixes as part of issues reported by our customers since v10 was released in Feburary. For me, It’s great to see that within three months we have been […] 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
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
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
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
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