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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 for Veeam Availability for Nutanix AHV I wanted to wrap up this series with some reference to some solid documentation and resources. Technical Documentation References If you have questions about Veeam Availability for Nutanix AHV you may use the following resources: For the initial overview of what the product can do the best place to start is with the product page. Product Web Page – www.veeam.com/availability-nutanix-ahv.html By far theRead 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 for Veeam Availability for Nutanix AHV Now that we have the Veeam Availability for Nutanix AHV all up and running and protecting our workloads, it’s now time to look at how we can accomplish the recovery scenarios. Today in the product and between Veeam Backup & Replication we can perform the following recovery scenarios: Entire VM restore (Proxy Appliance) VM disks restore (Proxy Appliance) File-level restore Application item restoreRead 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 for Veeam Availability for Nutanix AHV Now that we have our Veeam Proxy Appliance deployed, installed and configured, the next step is to start protecting some of the workloads we have sitting in our Nutanix AHV Cluster. Navigate to the backup jobs tab on the top ribbon. Here we can add a new backup job, a simple wizard driven approach to start protecting those workloads. Next, we need toRead 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 for Veeam Availability for Nutanix AHV 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 toRead 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 for Veeam Availability for Nutanix AHV 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 followingRead 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 →