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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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Veeam Datalabs as an overarching term for what we have for leveraging data or making use of all of that backup or replicated data is in my opinion not shouted about enough, we do a fantastic job of speaking about Backup & Replication and even monitoring to a degree. Although I think Veeam ONE should also grab some highlights as well. DataLabs is a really strong and included feature set included for the most part in all versions of Veeam Backup and Replication and plays a huge part in the Veeam Availability Orchestrator product. It serves so many purposes: Automated Backup and Replica verification usingRead More →

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COVID-19 the formal name for the flu-like disease that originated from the Wuhan area of China, and to date this has affected north of 80,000 people and killed almost 3,000 globally! The virus continues to spread around the world with fears rising it’s causing some major disruptions in all areas of industry; supply chain is going to be affected as the majority of parts come from the China regions. Also, people are cutting back their travel either personal holiday travel or business travels, the amount of people out there that have received the corporate email saying don’t travel due to COVID-19. H1N1 Was The LastRead 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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We seem to be heading fast toward VeeamON 2019, this year our conference heads to Miami and none other than the famous Fontainebleau Miami Beach luxury hotel and resort. I have never been to Miami, so I am really looking forward to being there but also there is nothing quite like the VeeamON feeling and that of your own conference. The conference officially runs from May 20th to May 22nd all in the same resort. But the fun actually starts on the Saturday for the die-hard techies heading out to Miami they will be starting their VMCE course that runs from Saturday to Monday beforeRead 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 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 →