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This has been on my product bucket list for a while, in fact this initial feature request went in on the 9th September 2021. My reasons then were not sales orientated, I was seeing the Kubernetes community using the trusty Raspberry PIs as part of a Kubernetes cluster at home. By supporting in my eyes this architecture it would have opened the door to the home users, technologists and community to having a trusted way to protect the learning environment at home. Here we are 3 years on and we got the support. I have a single node k3s cluster running on a single RaspberryRead More →

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Just another dot release at the end of a busy year… the second dot release this year and as I review the 12.3 what’s new document that for Veeam Backup & Replication so minus Veeam ONE we are looking at 14 pages! I want this post to be a quick look at some of the features and hopefully I can get into some of these areas in more dedicated posts. Platform Support (Windows Server 2025) It’s a very standard thing for Veeam to include platform support updates in these releases. Microsoft ignite only happened a few weeks back where Windows Server 2025 was announced andRead More →

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*As the title suggests in this post we are going to be talking about the upstream project KubeVirt, KubeVirt as a standalone project release and the protection of these VMs is not supported. It is only today supported for Red Hat OpenShift Virtualisation (OCP-V) and Harvester from SUSE. This is based on all the varying hardware KubeVirt can be deployed on. With that caveat out of the way in a home lab, we are able to tinker around with whatever we want. I am also clarifying that I am using the 5 nodes that we have available for the community to protect these virtual machines.Read More →

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Yesterday I decided to walk through and record for the first time the upgrade process from the previous version of Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 v4 to v5 to take advantage of all the good stuff in v5 around Microsoft Teams and some proxy enhancements, you can catch that demo here below and also the GA blog post that also went live on the day of GA here. One of the areas that I stumbled upon was having to enable something during the process to take advantage of the new team’s functionality above so wanted to document that also. Firstly, head on over toRead More →

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In a year where the world has been reliant on remote working and collaboration tools like Microsoft Office 365, the emphasis has also grown in this space on how we protect or if we protect that data and how, our roadmap for Veeam Backup for Office 365 was always planned to have a better way to protect Microsoft Teams before the surge of many companies and users switching to remote working during 2020. As well as making things much faster when it comes to backing up the data but more importantly the granular recovery and speed of that recovery back into your Office 365 environment.Read More →

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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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Way back when Veeam Backup & Replication v10 was released, there was a lot of new features and functionalities focused around the Linux ecosystem, this ranged from the ability to now leverage Linux Proxies in hot add mode to protect your VMware virtualised environment, on top of that the ability to use NFS repositories, well this was possible pre v10 but it required a middle man to achieve this, the middle man I mention is where we required a Linux server to write the data to the NFS share, ideal for some smaller NAS devices. VIX for Linux was another important feature for file levelRead More →

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I think it is fair to say, the public cloud is very much in everyone’s mind when looking at an IT refresh or how you approach the constant requirement to innovate on where you enable your business to do more. A constant conversation we are having is around the ability to send workloads to the cloud by using our Direct Restore to Microsoft Azure or AWS, taking care of the conversion process and configuration migration. The most common use case to date has been around performing testing against specific application stacks. Then it comes down to data recovery, for example if you have a failureRead 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 →