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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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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 →