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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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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 →