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Veeam Replication – Walkthrough Now we have set the scene with our previous posts I wanted to share a complete walkthrough on Veeam Replication and show the simple steps it takes to send your virtual machines from Site A to Site B. This post is aimed for those environments that have a Veeam Backup & Replication server installed and configured. It will also expect that you have deployed an additional Veeam Proxy on that secondary site. When I mention secondary site, this could be considered either onsite or offsite. If it is the same onsite location then the same source proxy can be classed andRead More →

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Veeam Replication – Transport Modes I decided to give this topic its own post. This is probably the most important consideration when it comes to replication and how best to utilise the environment. If you are using Veeam you will most likely know that there are multiple options when it comes to how Veeam will take the backup and send to the repository. This is the same with the replication engine. In this post, I want to outline all available transport modes and how possibly each one will be best in the environment. This post will only reflect VMware estates and not that of Hyper-V.Read More →

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The Workflow & Components In the last post, I covered a 101 of replication in general and mentioned where Veeam has a play in A-Synchronous and will have Near Synchronous Replication in v10 in the form of CDP. In this post, I wanted to walk through the steps taken when Veeam is used for A-Synchronous replication in your virtualised estate. First, I want to touch on the components that are required for any sort of Veeam replication, these can double up for the backup elements also. Veeam Backup Server The “configuration and control center” Coordinates tasks, controls job scheduling and resource allocation Set up andRead More →

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Replication 101 If I had access to some big data at Veeam I am confident that the numbers would state that most people that have bought and use Veeam Backup & Replication for the Backup and maybe secondly replication function, or maybe they don’t use the replication function at all. I want to give some airtime to that replication side of the house, I would have thought it’s got a bit more attention over the last few months because of the CDP (Continuous Data Protection) feature that will be coming in a future version of Veeam Backup & Replication extending those replication capabilities to achieveRead More →

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Smart Home Automation – Round 1 I am in the process of purchasing our new family home. One thing I didn’t get to look into in our last home was the home automation, to be honest I thought it was interesting but it wasn’t really going to make my life easier or faster. It was a lot about coloured light bulbs and asking Alexa to do certain things and then getting bored with it all and moving back to the “traditional” way of doing things. I started looking into more and more smart things and how I could use these devices to potentially make myRead More →

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2018 and a rough idea At the back end of the year, our team moved from Global Marketing to Product Strategy, although one of our responsibilities will still be creating technical content. We will have more involvement from a strategic point of view and enablement. Travel With the above in mind, this might reduce the amount of travel for me in 2018 well at least out of region. But within reason there are a lot of events that take place in the US and they are bigger than the European events so they are great for education purposes as well as reaching the larger audiences.Read More →

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A year in review A lot of people have stated that 2017 was a rubbish year, I don’t have that same feeling. My year was a very exciting one. My first year in a Technical Marketing role and I was learning the ropes, pushing myself out of some comfort zones but enjoying pretty much every minute. Here is a look back at what I said for the 2016 version – https://vzilla.co.uk/vzilla-blog/the-year-of-the-vzilla-2016 This type of post for me has come a little bit of a tradition, a summary of my year from vZilla.co.uk stats to my biggest achievements with some community and travel summary as well.Read More →

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Today Veeam made generally available 4 new updates for 4 of the major components of the Veeam Availability Platform. Veeam Availability Suite that consists of both Veeam Backup & Replication and Veeam ONE both have their 9.5 update 3 update that I will touch on further down in the post. The agents for both Windows and Linux also get an update release. This shortly after the GA of the Veeam Availability Console release a couple of weeks back. Veeam Backup & Replication 9.5 Update 3 Touted as the “biggest release” in Veeam’s history, and it’s just an update release, Built-In Agent Management The much anticipatedRead More →

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I kept a keen eye on AWS re:invent last week from afar, the event was held in Las Vegas and I have seen attendee totals of up to 45,000 that’s and incredible amount of people heading over there. Personally I am really interested in AWS, they seem to have a really exciting cadence on features and product release. I really like the fact that the mammoth amount of announcements they made most of them are available straight away. This is a new thing in our industry normally we have to wait months before we actually see the functionality. I am also really impressed with theRead More →