One of the things that you need to remember to have when moving to the public cloud is to do backup of your stateful virtual machines since this is not something that is included as part of the basic service that cloud platforms provide (Azure, Google and Amazon) for instance. NB: Azure has an Backup …
Creating Azure ARM template with Veeam Agent unattended setup Read More »
When moving to public cloud I often find that people I talk with misunderstands what services they actually get when they buy a service in for instance Azure, AWS or GCP for that matter. That is of course something I often find doing myself and not actually reading the different service descriptions. One common misconception …
What is your backup strategy for Cloud based IaaS deployments? Read More »
So a couple of days back I publised that a lot has been going on in Veeam latelcy, and among the news that was published was support for Office365 Exchange backup! and as a Vangard Ive been lucky enough to been given access to the beta of the tool NOTE: This represents a beta and …
Backing up Offic365 email with Veeam Backup for Office365 Read More »
So Veeam has been busy lately and today they showed us what they have been working on with their platform! With the upcoming release of Veeam availabilty suite 9.5 (Which I’ve blogged about previously here –> http://msandbu.org/veeam-backup-and-replication-9-5-with-azure-and-windows-server-2016-support/ Veeam B&R (or Availbility suites) has always been aimed against virtualized enviroments, in order to become more agile …
The next big thing from Veeam! Veeam Availability Platform Read More »
So with the upcoming release of Veeam Backup and Replication 9.5 there are alot of new enhancements announced coming this way! Restore workloads directly to Azure (This is a feature which I’ve blogged about previosly, but has gained alot of enhancements in this build! first of, no need to deploy an appliance in Azure this …
Veeam Backup and Replication 9.5 With Azure and Windows Server 2016 support! Read More »
So what did backup with v8 used to look like? A backup-job was attached to a file repository, the problem was that if the repository was getting low on space, which might happen from time to time. We could either clean up, try to expand the space or do even more damage. Even thou we …
Some questions that come up again and again are advanced backup features in Hyper-V using Veeam. How does Veeam take backup from a Hyper-V host? in a simple day to day virtual machine life, the read & writes consist of I/O traffic from a virtual machines to a VHD/VHDX. Residing on a network share. SAN/SMB …
Advanced backup options for Hyper-V 2012 R2 on Veeam Read More »
Veeam now has available a new managed backup portal in the Azure marketplace, which will make it easier to do on-boarding / monitoring and multi-tenancy. Integrated with Veeam Cloud Connect for Service Providers and available in the Microsoft Azure Marketplace, Veeam Managed Backup Portal for Service Providers makes it easy to acquire new customers and …
So the last couple of days I have tried to wrap my head around Direct NFS support which is coming in Veeam v9. The cool thing about this feature is that Veeam has a custom built NFS agent, which will go directly to the NFS share (only needs READ access) and export the snapshot data …
Setting up NFS Direct Veeam against Nutanix cluster Read More »
A while back I blogged about Veeam Endpoint https://msandbu.wordpress.com/2014/12/01/veeam-endpoint-backup-a-new-free-backup-solution-for-computers-and-physical-servers/ while it is aimed at Physical computers / servers it has another purpose that I just discovered. In Azure, Microsoft has currently a preview feature called Azure VM backup, which in essence is a image based backup of virtual machines in Azure. Now since this currently …
Virtual Machine backup in Azure using Veeam Endpoint Read More »
