I was informed earlier this month that I was awarded the title of Veeam Vanguard again, for the 2017 year. This is indeed a great honor and I appreciate all the hard work that the team over at Veeam has…
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…
Now that the VCSA (vCenter Server Appliance) is installed and networking is configured on our hosts, it's time to setup vSAN and go over some of the options.
I was honored today to see the announcement that I was awarded the title vExpert for the 5th year in a row. vExpert is a title that VMware awards to those that have made significant contributions to the VMware community.…
Now that VCSA is installed, it's time to start adding in hosts and configure them, as well as configuring a virtual distributed switch.
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…
Cohesity is a company I had heard of before but really didn't know anything about. Thankfully, this week during Tech Field Day 12, I was able to sit and listen for to what they do, and why they do it. In short, Cohesity…
Who is the middle man? In a lot of circles, the middle man is someone that is a threat. The man in the middle attacker, the one who takes your data in transit and uses it for nefarious purposes.…
On the second day of Discover 2016, I was able to walk the show floor, as well as attend some coffee talk sessions. The major themes of the day were IOT, and the Intelligent Edge. Internet Of Things The Internet…