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I wanted to follow on from my introduction and how to post regarding Chocolatey as a windows package manager and introduce a package that was authored by the community, I want to give a personal shout out to the authors of this package. Ericjaystevens – https://chocolatey.org/profiles/ericjaystevens Sbaerlocher – https://chocolatey.org/profiles/sbaerlocher Simon can also be found on twitter at https://twitter.com/sbaerlocher Veeam Agent for Windows The Veeam agent for Windows package provides the free version of the product which can be upgraded with the appropriate license key. But what this allows for is the streamlined approach of installing the Veeam Agent for Windows to provide a level ofRead More →

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The reason for this very simple walkthrough was because of a prompted question in the Veeam forums this morning but I thought it may come in use for anyone else trying to make use of the Veeam file copy function, this capability within the product (also available in the free version) allows for you to schedule a file or folder copy to another location, it can also be ran ad-hoc. The steps to achieve this involve adding your source and destination servers or SMB shares. Firstly open your Veeam Backup & Replication console and head over to the “Backup Infrastructure” from here you will seeRead More →

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That’s a wrap for day 2 of VMworld, there were two big bits worth mentioning from a Veeam perspective, firstly it is the VMware on AWS marketplace and the addition of Veeam Backup & Replication as an option for automated deployment. This screen has been taken from beta testing. To summarise what this means is, for the Veeam customers that have taken the steps to leverage VMware on AWS by giving those customers the same simple, easy to use and seamlessly easy to get thing protected from a backup and replication point of view, using the same toolset that we know from our on-premises vSphereRead More →

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Our session this year is focusing on the automation and orchestration around Veeam and VMware. But what does that mean? The point of our session to highlight the flexibility of the Veeam Hyper-Availability Platform, some people just want the simple, easy to use wizard driven approach to install their Veeam components within their environments but some will want that little bit more and this is where APIs come in and allow us to drive a more streamlined and automated approach to delivering Veeam components. We also highlighted this by running through everything live, I will get to the nuts and bolts of that shortly. WithRead More →

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In just over 2 weeks I will be making the trip over to Las Vegas for my 3rd VMworld event. That is just the two events from last year both US and Europe, it is still a little crazy to think I have been in this game for a few years now and this is only my third time attending. My first VMworld post from last year. I wanted to put a short post together just highlighting some of the things that Veeam and I will be doing at this year’s event. For the official Veeam at VMworld page you can get that here. VeeamRead 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 →

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HyTrust and their CloudAdvisor product has some great integration with Veeam, in a world where new regulations and rules are upon us but also the vast amount of data we have to manage. One thing we have not really had is visibility into data types within the backup set. When it comes to data within your backups it is important to understand what types of data is being stored within your backup files. Now this can be achieved through indexing and search but take that requirement one step further and think how could we search against a specific type of data, credit card information forRead More →

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I wanted to highlight the integration between Veeam and HyTrust and their CloudAdvisor product, this integration has been around since mid 2017 and has been available to use in your Veeam environments, it wasn’t until the recent GDPR and focus on data regulations though that the use case has really been asked for. What is the integration? The integration gives visibility into your environment of both the virtual infrastructure and backup environment. This post will run through the steps to get the HyTrust Cloud Advisor up and running in your environment. The deployment comes in the form of an OVA to be downloaded from HyTrust,Read More →

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One of the main principles of GDPR is the way in which personal data is processed, this means we must consider things like risk analysis, organisational policies, physical and technical measures. Later in the post I am going to touch on pseudonymisation and encryption and how these can be used to assist the measures to becoming compliant. The measures must ensure “confidentiality, integrity and availability” of systems, services and personal data. My favourite is there must be the ability to restore access and availability to personal data in a timely manner in the event of a physical or a technical incident. Does this mean theRead More →

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I expect everyone has been experiencing the annoying calls and emails asking if you have been involved in an accident or you are entitled to something because of something even though neither has taken place. Well by all means this has not been done by breaking any laws! But these companies have obtained your information through some ways or means. With GDPR this should tighten this action from happening. One of the key points moving forward or after the 25th May 2018, consent must be freely given, specific, informed and unambiguous. It cannot be buried in lengthy terms and conditions. This will make it muchRead More →