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Update – It is all gone, thanks to all for jumping on it, will keep you updated on my trials and tribulations when walking down the Pi Cluster route.  It has been a trusty home lab for the past few years but since moving to the new house although it has prime position in the garage it is not being used as I have other resources available to me now. Maybe there is a home for it somewhere. This post will outline the hardware specs for each part I will be parting with. What do I want and this is me being completely honest, IRead More →

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This post came about from a tweet from Matt Watts and got me thinking And here we are! NetApp in particular have offerings in both PaaS and IaaS for offering storage services out to their customers, they have Cloud Volumes ONTAP which gives the customer the ability to manage an IaaS approach to Cloud Storage, this is available in the 3 major public cloud offerings (AWS, Microsoft Azure and GCP) This means the underlining infrastructure is managed but you are in complete control of the storage operating systems. There are many others out there that would offer a similar function. On the PaaS side ofRead More →

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This post is in no way affiliated to or sponsored by RaspberryPi. I am using this an example in this post to show you the possibility of using this tiny compute module as a desktop computer. Over the past 8,9,10 weeks I have lost count of weeks now its just “day X ” and I probably should have highlighted this out already across further than the IT community, I mean we know about these little computer boards, we likely all have them in our drawers or serving some sort of function within our houses. Ok, so I have been hearing many people struggling in manyRead More →

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For those that stuck around and watched some of the YouTube videos on the home office setup and read the specs and the story so far. Then we are now almost a month in, and I wanted to share some of the thoughts on the kit I chose and give you the lowdown on how its working out so far. Over the last few months we spoke about the fact I was working on a project to refresh my office setup, little did I know that the world would go into lockdown and everyone would be searching high and low for components to make theirRead More →

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To follow on from the last post around being able to take an application consistent snapshot without the requirement of taking a VMware snapshot which can be found here. The premise of this post is to highlight another cool feature that also came in Veeam Backup & Replication v10 but this time focused on Microsoft SQL and Oracle logfile backups. In previous versions we could take application consistent snapshots and backups with the requirement of taking a VMware snapshot but from a storage snapshot perspective we were able to truncate the database logs after a successful snapshot or we can choose not to truncate theRead More →

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Do you have High IO workloads that you cannot afford to have a VMware snapshot take place? This was a nice feature that was sneaked into V10 without many people realising. A common challenge with High IO workloads with VMware snapshots is that it would or could kill performance of likely this mission critical system when a VMware snapshot takes place, which either means you take that risk and manage to get a backup to happen during a relevant window, you leverage crash consistent storage snapshots which also do not require a VMware snapshot or GASP! You just do not do anything and hope thatRead More →

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What if I told you, you could take any Veeam image based backup and convert / restore that to an Azure virtual machine without the requirement of any additional storage or file system within Azure other than the disks and resources required to run that virtual machine or virtual machines. And what if I told you, this has been around for years with Veeam Backup & Replication. Veeam have had this capability for a while now since 2016 in fact. Primary use cases that we have seen have been, Test and development When you have the public cloud at your fingertips why not take advantageRead More →

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Last week Veeam released its version 1 of Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure. What is Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure? This new product focuses in on the Azure IaaS workloads you have running in the public cloud, much like the Veeam Backup for AWS edition that was released early this year, this product provides you the ability to protect those Azure VMs without having to install and agent on each one. It is a policy driven approach allowing for both snapshots and backups to be part of your data management plan when it comes to Microsoft Azure. The product is a standalone solution that isRead More →

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The last post I did on this was outlining everything I had chosen and some of the reasons for that. Now fast forward a little bit of time and make sure everything arrives given the circumstances we now have the setup 98% complete. The Before & Kit List After the last post where I discussed the reasons for making the move from Apple to Windows and why… I decided to put together a short video clip of what the office kind of looked like before and then also some of the kit list that I went for based on a lot of research. This postRead More →

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No matter where you are in the world you are probably working from home and if you are anything like me probably busier than normal! But it is important to stay on top of things and one of them things should be learning. Normally it’s a privilege to get training access whilst on the job. But I think if you are now working from home you likely need something like a project or some form of education. Over the last 6 months I have been taking advantage of my Pluralsight account that I get through being part of the VMware vExpert Program. I have beenRead More →