On April 5th, VMware announced that they would discontinue VDP, vSphere Data Protection - VMware's integration backup solution. Now, VMware will not have an integrated backup solution but instead will rely (as they should) on partner solutions that utilize official…
Veeam has always been a great product for backup and replication, and in the recent past, they had introduced Cloud Connect, as a way to have integrated offsite backups to a hosted provider. What makes Cloud Connect really special,…
In the previous Veeam Architect post, we talked about the different transport modes available to move our data from the production VMs, into the backup files, which will be stored in a backup repository that we define. But, there…
Veeam, the leader in virtualization backups, has a couple different ways of gathering your production data and transporting it to the Backup Repository. In this post, we will look at all three methods, and show the data path for…
Recently, I was setting up a Veeam SureBackup job for a client and received an error when running the application group for the domain controllers, which will be the cornerstone of all the other SureBackup jobs. The job would run…
One of the sessions I attended at VeeamON was the Veeam Endpoint Backup Free - tips and tricks. I wanted to share some of the thoughts from this session. To start, what is VEB free? Well, it's a great backup…
This week, I'm out at in Las Vegas for the 20125 VeeamON conference. I wasn't sure what to expect, as this is my first time, but let me tell you, Veeam has done a great job. More posts for VeeamON…
In a previous article, I talked about how to setup Veeam to use a linux proxy, to transfer data via NFS to an EMC DataDomain to increase thoughput. Results may vary, but I would see an increase of 50%…
*disclaimer* Veeam is a sponsor of this blog - but has not requested, or had any part in this entry. Working for a consulting firm, I work with many different backup solutions. In this particular case, the client uses…
I've done a fair amount of installs of this combination, Veeam and EMC's DataDomain deduplication device. The solution is a wonderful combination - but the number 1 complaint is that it is slow........slower than it should be. Why is it…