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With the recent GA release of Veeam Backup & Replication 9.5 Update 4, the next storage integration also arrived, leveraging the Universal Storage API that was released late 2017 the list continues to grow. Here is an overview of the integration points previously I wrote about. Functionality is covered in the post linked above, I wanted to take this time to highlight the simple process of getting your NetApp HCI or SolidFire storage added within your Veeam Backup & Replication console. Before you begin you need to make sure you have added your vSphere environment this will unlock the Storage Infrastructure tab. This week someRead More →

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Object storage doesn’t need to be in the public cloud it can also be on-premises. But there is a strong use case for why people want to be putting their long-term retention backups into object storage. On-Premises Object Storage Introduction Since the release of Veeam Availability Suite 9.5 Update 4 and the introduction of the Cloud Tier feature, more can be read here on what the premise is here. I have been looking at other options and specifically around on-premises customers a lot of the verticals I am speaking to cannot for various reasons leverage the power of the big hyperscale public cloud providers, butRead More →

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After having a super busy week last week and not having much chance to share some of the top stuff Veeam have released with this monster release, I am now back home and can get some content out the door. I wanted this post to touch on some of them top features that are worth taking a deeper look into. External Repository Lots of people are going to be jumping into the new Veeam Backup & Replication console and they are going to see several new “repositories” that can be added to their Veeam Backup Infrastructure. One of them, is the new External Repository. TheRead More →

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The usual last blog of the year, highlighting things that have happened, travel, website and twitter stuff. I really do this to highlight to myself how things looked when I get to this point next year and we see some progression in some or all areas. If anyone else finds it interesting, then great stuff. 2017 – Year in Review 2016 – Year in Review 2015 – Year in Review 2014 – Year in Review I also tend to write some sort of predictions for the year ahead in another post, but I did one at the beginning of this year. This is something IRead More →

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Closing out my own events season with the final event being NetApp Insight in Barcelona, this blog is something I put together live during the general session. This is a pretty special year for me and NetApp as this marks my 5 years anniversary of being a member of the NetApp A Team. I was lucky enough during the keynote and general session yesterday to have the chance to have my colleague Adam Bergh and fellow 5-year members be interviewed as people were taking their seats during the session. The final general session is normally packed full of technical detail and announcements I am goingRead More →

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The portability and flexibility of the Veeam Backup file (.vbk) that is created with the Veeam Agents for Windows and Linux as well as the VMware and Hyper-V backups is also the same format that we see with the Veeam Availability for Nutanix AHV. This allows us to extend your availability options when we look at where we can store copies of our data offsite. The 3-2-1 rule is a methodology that Veeam has been advocating for many years now, 3 copies of your data on 2 different media types and 1 of those being offsite. This protects your business against many different failure scenarios.Read More →

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Ok, so I thought I would let the dust settle from a very hectic week in Las Vegas last week. It was the annual conference from NetApp, NetApp Insight and it was the US edition and later in the year we will be heading down to Barcelona for the European event. This Insight was a special one for me as it marked the 5-year anniversary of becoming a member of the NetApp A Team. I have been working with NetApp technologies for the most part of my career, probably around 11 years or so now, I wrote this last year to mark the 10 yearsRead 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 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 →