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The first part of this series was aimed at getting a Veeam Backup & Replication Azure VM up and running from the Azure Marketplace using Azure PowerShell. A really quick and easy way to spin the system up. The use case we are talking about is the ability to recover your backups from maybe on premises up into Microsoft Azure. I was asked “what about AWS?” and yes of course if you are using the capacity tier option within Veeam Backup & Replication on premises and you are using the copy mode function to land a copy of your backups on AWS S3 or IBMRead More →

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For those that saw this post and the video demo that walks through the manual steps to get your instance of Veeam Backup & Replication running in Microsoft Azure. I decided although that was still quick to deploy it can always be quicker. Then following on from this post we will then look at the automation of the Veeam configuration as well as the direct restore functionality from in this instance Microsoft Azure Blob Storage into Azure VMs. Installing Azure PowerShell In order for us to start this automated deployment we need to install locally on our machine the Azure PowerShell module. More details ofRead More →

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For those interested in Configuration Management and those that are looking to use these tools to also set established rules from which your infrastructure management software should adhere to including your backup software for creation, deployment, maintenance and deletion. There has been an on going community project happening where the CHEF Cookbook that was released firstly back in 2018 has been maintained mostly by one contributor Jeremy Goodrum and you will find his other contributions over on his GitHub. You can find some further deep dive into why we chose CHEF over other configuration management options at the time and walk you through the keyRead More →

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The ways in which you can deploy Veeam Backup & Replication and all Veeam products for that matter is vast. You could just take the ISO and install on the physical or virtual and click next, next, and you can be protecting your workloads and data within 15 minutes. This is the same software regardless of the size of your environment, no where flexibility in deployment does become a challenge is when you have many sites that require their own Veeam Backup & Replication configuration. This is where automation plays a huge part in this story, the great thing about Veeam is that it isRead More →

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This is probably the first online virtual / digital event I have really attended so far this year, of course apart from VeeamON. I have to say that some of the other talk amongst the community has been about platforms not really being able to offer the experience we expect and I think that has to be true for the most part there really has not been that real need to provide a platform this scenario and this scale before. Hashiconf did not disappoint, not only was the platform lightweight and really quite easy and nice to navigate the content was the reason I cameRead More →

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This post will highlight the capabilities of the Veeam CHEF cookbook and walkthrough getting things going. The first deployment mode is “Simple” this is a single Windows machine that will act as the all in one server, this server will contain all the mandatory components required for Veeam Backup & Replication to function. Next, we have the Advanced Deployment; this breaks up those components and allows us to deploy multiple nodes for different Veeam functions. Orange Lines are request and send cookbooks to and from CHEF Server. Black lines are initiating the bootstrap process for each node / component to be deployed. In advanced deployments,Read More →

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As part of my #SummerProject of exploring deeper into Infrastructure as Code, Public Cloud and Cloud Native it led me back to a session that I delivered last year at VeeamON. The concept of the session was to highlight some of the things we had done from a community point of view with CHEF and Veeam to really show Day 0 operations and getting Veeam up and running in a declarative fashion. Why did we choose to automate Veeam deployments? We wanted to come up with way to consistently deploy Veeam servers. When you look at the difference between simple deployments and more advanced environments,Read More →

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Do you use GitHub? How do you ensure if GitHub was down for a reason that your developers could still gain access to their code but also how many people actually run their code from GitHub directly into their environment? Why do you need to backup GitHub? As mentioned above if something was to happen to access to GitHub and that doesn’t just mean a site failure from that end it could also mean internet connectivity or issues within your environment which stops the ability to gain access to GitHub. What if one of your developers or GitHub administrators brings down an important repository orRead More →

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Terraform As I said above, I wanted to get into some of the examples of actually some of the tools used to provision your infrastructure using code, terraform use the terms “Execution Plans” to describe the way your code is deployed. Terraform was created by a company called Hashicop they have a number of really good tools in this space. The biggest pull factor for me and why I wanted to kick things off with Terraform is because Terraform is cloud agnostic or pretty much any infrastructure agnostic as you can use Terraform with you on premises vSphere environment as well as AWS, Azure andRead More →

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From my first post I wasn’t sure what to expect when diving head first into this newish world of Infrastructure As Code and what it would look like specifically in another world I wasn’t too sure about which is Cloud Computing. I felt that although I believe in the first post, I have grasped the reasons behind and the benefits for Infrastructure As Code I think we need to take a look how things were traditionally managed and still are for the most part in on premises datacentre. But also highlight some of the reasons why things are changing. How was infrastructure traditionally managed TheRead More →