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Yesterday at Nutanix .NEXT in Anaheim, CA Nutanix Mine was announced. “Nutanix Mine provides a single platform for organizations experiencing the benefits of Nutanix Enterprise OS, as these organizations can simply extend their existing integrated data protection to include secondary data backup and archiving all in a turnkey backup solution powered by our platform partners.” One of the benefits here from a Veeam point of view is the benefit to choose where and what you use for your Veeam Availability, choice is very important, the ability to roll your own hardware and storage targets for your backups is great and that works for some butRead More →

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Based on some work myself and Anthony have been doing over the last 12-18 months around terraform, chef and automation of Veeam components I wanted to extend this out further within the Veeam Availability Platform and see what could be done with our Veeam Availability for Nutanix AHV. I have covered lots of deep dive on the capabilities that the product brings even in a v1 state, but I wanted to highlight the ability to automate the deployment of the Veeam Availability for Nutanix Proxy appliance. The idea was also validated when I spoke to a large customer that had heavily invested in Nutanix AHVRead 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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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 →

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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 At this point we have our new Veeam Proxy Appliance deployed within our Nutanix AHV cluster. Now we need to login and run through the configuration of the appliance. At the back of the last post, you were left with a web address. Log back in with the updated credentials and at the IP address configuration you set, if you chose not toRead 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 Carrying on from the previous post of Deployment, this post will touch on the installation and setup of the Nutanix AHV Proxy Appliance and the steps to then start protecting your workloads. By taking that IP Address that we saw in the AHV console of our proxy appliance and copying that to your web browser you will then be greeted by the followingRead 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 Deploy Veeam Availability for Nutanix AHV Download the latest version of Veeam Availability for Nutanix AHV from: www.veeam.com/availability-nutanix-ahv-download.html These steps assume you have already had a Veeam Backup & Replication server configured. Navigate through the site to get the latest version available. Accept the EULA. You will then be prompted for login using your Veeam login credentials. All the above is pretty standard for any downloads from Veeam.com, nowRead More →

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Veeam Availability for Nutanix Enterprise Cloud This post will walk through the areas and demo of the newly released Veeam Availability for Nutanix AHV. It is important to note that the screen shot used in this post are based on the beta versions, there should be very little difference between the GA and beta edition. Basic Overview The Veeam Backup Proxy Appliance for AHV, used to authenticate with a Veeam Backup & Replication server to gain access to Veeam repositories. The appliance will also provide a web interface where full VM restores and disk restores can take place. The Veeam Backup & Replication server isRead More →