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Veeam Replication – WAN Accelerator The Veeam WAN Accelerator is an advanced feature but I decided to give it its own spotlight because how powerful it is. Licensing wise it requires Enterprise Plus licensing unless you are leveraging cloud connect to a service provider where Enterprise is sufficient. What is it for? Well it’s for reducing the bandwidth required for transferring either backups or replicas over a WAN. So, when should it be considered? Let’s start by saying it’s not suitable for every environment. In fact, if your environment has some of the things we are going to talk about later then the WAN AcceleratorRead More →

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Veeam Replication – Advanced features and functionality Welcome back, as we move through this series where we have touched on the basic replication configuration, or I should say the easy to use deployment, the walkthrough and some more advance configurations or ways in which to achieve the same outcome from PowerShell commands. This post will hopefully share some of the more advanced features, options or even some of the outcomes you might not be able to find any detail on. Remote replica from backup The clue is in the title, this gives the ability to create a replica VM from a backup that has alreadyRead More →

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Veeam Replication – PowerShell There is a large adoption of people using PowerShell to make their lives easier and reduce time spent on performing lengthy repeatable tasks. Veeam Replication could be one of those where in the last post I showed the simple steps to setup your replication jobs. If you have many different groups or even sites, then to do that a number of times is going to be a pain. What I want to show you in this post is how easy it is to use the Veeam PowerShell Snap-In and the full set of capabilities to run and manage those replication tasks.Read More →

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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 →