After 15 years of working with various IT consulting companies, or VARs (Value Added Resellers) - I've decided it's time for a change. While I've enjoyed the time, and the opportunity to work with lots of different technology and…
Last week was Veeam's Availability conference, VeeamOn, in New Orleans, LA. I was able to get some time with Nigel Hickey and Matt Crape on the showroom floor and talk about the community that surrounds IT and virtualization. I…
On Tuesday, VeeamOn was kicked off the morning general session. If you aren't familiar, VeeamOn is the premiere availability conference, hosted this year in New Orleans; running for 2 days, with a third day dedicated for partner sessions. Peter…
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…
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…
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…
Part 1 here: Veeam Replication – Installation Part 2 here: Veeam Replication – Configuration Part 3 here: Veeam Replication - VM Replication The last part of the Veeam portion of the Replication Roundup, is VM Failover. While Veeam has failover…
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…