Today I went through and upgraded our Veeam Backup and Replication Platform from v7 to v8. Overall the in place upgrade was painless, quick and efficient…however I came across an error when going through test runs of existing jobs that I had not seen in previous Veeam B&R Versions. So after what looks like a […] Read More
January vCenter and ESXi 5.5 Patch Releases: Critical CBT Bug Fixed
VMware released new builds for vCenter and ESXi 5.5 today. The builds contain mostly bug fixes, but I wanted to point out one fix that had affected those who use CBT as part of their VM backup strategy. Veeam users where initially affected by the bug…though Veeam released a work around in subsequent Veeam 8 builds this […] Read More
Veeam 8: Zero Day Patch to Address VMware CBT Bug
Received an email this morning from Veeam letting me know that a zero day patch was available that addresses the CBT Bug mentioned in my previous New Feature Post and highlighted by Luca here: You are receiving this because our records indicate that you have downloaded Veeam Backup & Replication v8 RTM build. VMware disclosed a Changed Block […] Read More
New Feature Review: Veeam 8 Backup & Replication
Last Friday Veeam released version 8 of their Backup and Replication product and like the previous releases the features keep on coming with improvements to an already rock solid backup platform continuing. Most exciting from my point of view is the debut of Veeam Cloud Connect which I have been lucky enough to be beta testing […] Read More
Veeam Cloud Connect
I’ve written a couple of posts around the pain of backup products and I’ve talked about a world where we backup independent of the Application. Storage platforms like AWS S3 offer a place where objects can be stored for safe keeping and accessed upon request. There is a catch to that kind of storage in […] Read More
Online Storage Wars – What’s in it for Service Providers?
Last weekend I signed up for an account at MEGA. This is @KimDotCom‘s new venture attempting to send a big F-U to the regulatory forces that are accusing him of copyright infringement and extradition to the US (for more info, head to the Wikipedia page) …off the bat you get a free 50GB account to basically so whatever you […] Read More