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I wanted to touch base again on what is happening in the new house. I mentioned in this post that I went on a spending spree around smart devices for the new houses. Well now we are a good month into the new house and I wanted to share a few more things that we have done. Firstly, it’s what we did about the home network. You might have seen me moaning about BT in a few tweets recently. And anyone in the UK will have probably experienced something similar to me. The issue being that BT own the majority of the infrastructure, so theyRead More →

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As the clock struck midnight last night on the 9th February 2018 taking us into 2019 a lot of people were given the news of their vExpert status for 2018. This for me wraps up the applied for programs for another year. Veeam Vanguards Firstly, probably a week ago we announced the new class of 2018 Veeam Vanguards, I am very lucky with this group as I get to speak to these people every day and help shape this program, we have a great bunch of guys and gals in the program and looking forward to seeing what they bring in 2018. Congrats to allRead More →

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How to install the Inifinidat plug-in Veeam backup and replication 9.5 update 3 was released just before Christmas, this updated included a major feature in the Universal Storage API, this would allow Veeam to support a much wider range of storage vendors for integration into the product. A closed process led by Veeam and storage vendor the private SDK is provided to the storage vendor to develop against, at completion the storage vendor will then provide the Veeam QC team with the new plug-in where it can be tested in the system for any bugs or configuration issues. At this point it can then beRead More →

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A new feature in Veeam Backup & Replication & ONE 9.5 update 3 this is location tagging; location tagging is going to give some additional information to our infrastructure and our backup data. With the year 2018 being branded not only the year of data but also the year of GDPR. These location tags are going to help not only from a reporting point of view on where your data is residing but also when it comes to restores especially out of location restores. Veeam ONE will also be able to report on these tags ensuring you know where the data is and if itRead More →

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Following on from the post I shared on Word to WordPress, I wanted to share another post that makes my life much easier when it comes to work and that’s having the ability to receive notifications in one place. I seem to have become a big user of Slack, which the email side of my life has really calmed down the instant messaging, always on nature of Slack has rocketed I think at last count I had 9 Slack teams including the one that I am using for this notification piece. We all read blogs, and we all consume information from various sources this canRead More →

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Word to WordPress Sometimes the simplest things can make your life easier but are also the most overlooked. This is why I wanted to make people aware to this amazing feature in Microsoft Word. I am completely bought into the mac operating system, performance and applications have made it my default, however this little feature I am going to cover is only available in Windows Microsoft Word. Even with the latest January 2018 major update. First up let’s find a windows box with Word installed. I normally use Word to pre create my blogs and then upload, the process is pretty straight forward but havingRead More →

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Veeam Replication – Storage Snapshot Orchestration So far in this series I have shown you hopefully how powerful the Replication side of the house is within Veeam Backup & Replication. It is by no means the whole topic covered, we will have CDP as mentioned as a feature, Veeam also have the Veeam Availability Orchestrator which I consider the next level Veeam Replication on Steroids and that alone deserves its own series. There is another form of replication though that in some environments can be driven by Veeam to allow for data to reside in that secondary location. This comes in the form of theRead More →

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Veeam Replication – Sandbox Environments In this day and age, we want to be able to do more with less, seems to be everywhere, or we want to be able to do something additional with what we have already got. Get more ROI out of an asset. Leveraging data is no difference, for years as technical customers we have been backing up our data to some form of media, this could be classed as dumb storage. We send our backups there then we update again at the next iteration. We only come back to that backup or replicated data if we need something in theRead More →

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Veeam Replication – SureReplica What if I told you that the same tool that you purchased for Backup & Replication could also perform a level of verification against your replication jobs. Oh and did I mention that this test would automatically test the verification of Virtual Machine, Operating System and Application. SureReplica gives you the ability to spin up an isolated network in your secondary location to confirm that the restore point is in a good state should you require to actually recover from it, rather than waiting for a failure scenario to occur and then you are sat there with crossed fingers hoping theRead More →

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Veeam Replication – Failover & Failback We are into the home stretch on this series now, this post will cover the failover and failback of our replicated virtual machines. In the previous posts, we setup our replication jobs and got our data going from one site to another, so this one will cover how easy it is to failover for a reason I will let you imagine, for the story though let’s use power outage but we only need to failover our SQL VM for a few hours whilst this host power issue is resolved. For the purposes of this post lets expect that allRead More →