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At this point we have our new Veeam Proxy Appliance deployed within our Nutanix AHV cluster. Now we need to login and run through the configuration of the appliance. At the back of the last post, you were left with a web address. Log back in with the updated credentials and at the IP address configuration you set, if you chose not to change then your screen will be back at the login prompt. The first message you will receive is regarding licensing The initial dashboard view will look like the below. The dashboard is the default view when you log in to the proxyRead More →

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Carrying on from the previous post of Deployment, this post will touch on the installation and setup of the Nutanix AHV Proxy Appliance and the steps to then start protecting your workloads. By taking that IP Address that we saw in the AHV console of our proxy appliance and copying that to your web browser you will then be greeted by the following landing page. Select advanced and proceed to the site. You will then see the welcome and login screen. In the opened welcome screen, enter the default credentials and click the arrow button. Default username = admin Default password = admin The openingRead More →

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This series is to highlight the steps to deploy, install, configuration and then how to start protecting workloads and then the recovery options that we have within Veeam Availability for Nutanix AHV. Everything You Need to Deploy Veeam Availability for Nutanix AHV Download the latest version of Veeam Availability for Nutanix AHV from: www.veeam.com/availability-nutanix-ahv-download.html These steps assume you have already had a Veeam Backup & Replication server configured. Navigate through the site to get the latest version available. Accept the EULA. You will then be prompted for login using your Veeam login credentials. All the above is pretty standard for any downloads from Veeam.com, nowRead More →

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I wanted to follow on from my introduction and how to post regarding Chocolatey as a windows package manager and introduce a package that was authored by the community, I want to give a personal shout out to the authors of this package. Ericjaystevens – https://chocolatey.org/profiles/ericjaystevens Sbaerlocher – https://chocolatey.org/profiles/sbaerlocher Simon can also be found on twitter at https://twitter.com/sbaerlocher Veeam Agent for Windows The Veeam agent for Windows package provides the free version of the product which can be upgraded with the appropriate license key. But what this allows for is the streamlined approach of installing the Veeam Agent for Windows to provide a level ofRead More →

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One thing I have been meaning to write for a while now is around what I use to build out my templates from a software point of view, this could be the windows workstation or my windows server templates. From a Mac-OS perspective I use HomeBrew but I wanted to focus this on the windows side of things because there is not a great deal of options when it comes to Windows Packet Management. My go to has been Chocolatey. For those in the Linux world you can skip this one from the opening introduction, you guys have had yum for a while… The firstRead More →

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This is my final post in a series based on an event I attended back in June this year, the event was held in London and it was http://www.techforbritain.co.uk/ It caught our eye to attend based on some of the speakers and topics that were being discussed. Building a sustainable workforce strategy – Jyoti Sharma @JyotiSharma20 The concept of this talk was based on some key factors when building a team or a workforce to achieve something. These consist of: What Challenges What is sustainable How to measure Decipher the what Explore the how   During this session I was furiosly taking notes so IRead More →

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This is a continued series based on an event I attended back in June this year, the event was held in London and it was http://www.techforbritain.co.uk/ It caught our eye to attend based on some of the speakers and topics that were being discussed. If it isn’t easy, I won’t use it – Nick King – AutoTrader This session I was really interested in, I knew Nick coming from AutoTrader was probably going to be talking about how making a simple easy to use website would be the key to success but I wanted to hear the terminology used here because one of the thingsRead More →

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It’s taken me a while to get back round to my notes from a different event that I attended back in June this year, the event was held in London and it was http://www.techforbritain.co.uk/ It caught our eye to attend based on some of the speakers and topics that were being discussed. The reason for sharing this in the form of a blog post is really to refresh my memory but also for anyone that is looking outside the box from our day to day IT worlds, The next 3 posts are going to touch on various different aspects with this one looking at theRead More →

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The reason for this very simple walkthrough was because of a prompted question in the Veeam forums this morning but I thought it may come in use for anyone else trying to make use of the Veeam file copy function, this capability within the product (also available in the free version) allows for you to schedule a file or folder copy to another location, it can also be ran ad-hoc. The steps to achieve this involve adding your source and destination servers or SMB shares. Firstly open your Veeam Backup & Replication console and head over to the “Backup Infrastructure” from here you will seeRead More →

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It’s the end of another busy conference week, VMworld US is probably on par with our own conference VeeamON in terms of how busy we are. It was my first ever VMworld last year and this one well and truly topped it. Announcements The opening keynote was really exciting to hear, the aquisition of CloudHealth was great. I have been following these guys for a while and the tech they bring or will bring to the VMware portfolio is really exciting. With CloudHealth, you gain visibility into cost, usage and performance across your physical infrastructure and virtual machines. The second exciting announcement was around AmazonRead More →