v101tv – Veeam Availability Orchestrator Install

In this video, follow along as we install Veeam's Availability Orchestrator and walk through the initial configuration wizard.  Stay tuned for more videos on VAO. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6j0YUaGZBus&list=PLhpeOholBnStZvt1pgXY4LQv9UMDYUIED  

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Underwater Computing

I decided to start a new category – Friday Funny! My goal is every Friday to post something related to tech that is humorous (at least to me). To start off this new addition to the blog, I give you…

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Synology in the Homelab – NFS 3 vs 4.1

Recently, I purchased a Synology 1817+ to be used as storage for my homelab. Previously, I was using an older, and much slower Synology, RS812, as well as a running vSAN on my single host. While vSAN performance was great,…

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Veeam Restore To Azure

Now that the Veeam Azure proxy is deployed, and we have some workloads protected, it's time to test a restore. There are a couple ways to initiate a restore within the Veeam console, but all roads lead to the same…

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Veeam Restore To Azure – Proxy Setup

There are many reasons to run virtual machines in the public cloud, and more and more companies are taking advantage of the flexibility and scalability that it offers.  So, in this small series, we are going to look at using Veeam…

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Ravello On Oracle Cloud

Earlier this year, I was invited out to Oracle to hear the Ravello and Oracle Cloud teams present their vision for the future.  As I mentioned in my blog, I was quite surprised about what they had planned, and what…

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VMware Cloud on AWS

It seems like lately, all the buzz had been around the cloud, especially public cloud.  At VMworld 2017, there is certainly no exception to that.  In fact, in the morning keynote, AWS was onstage alongside Pat Gelsinger announcing VMware Cloud…

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vCenter is dead! Long live vCenter!

VMworld 2017 kicks off today at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, NV. Normally there are some major announcements that are made each year during the first general session, and I"m looking forward to those. However, last week VMware dropped some…

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