Interviewed by LeMagIT – Veeam v10

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I was interviewed by @LeMagIT about Veeam Availability Suite v10 during VeeamON New Orleans. This is a french IT website intended for IT Manager and CIO. The topic is “Veeam: Cloud Backup &nd Business Continuity Plan”. Basically, the article is written in French but it’s a good way to learn a beautiful language.

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Hyper-V upgrade from Windows 2012 R2 to 2016

Hyper-V is the Microsoft’s virtualization platform that allows creating virtual infrastructures under Windows and/or Linux. Virtualization makes it possible to cohabit in isolation several operating systems on the same physical server (Hypervisor). Virtualization takes place on the same hardware platform after installing specific software – hypervisor. The hypervisor is an additional layer between physical and virtual scopes, it manages the system’s hardware resources so they are distributed efficiently among virtual machines (VMs). Here’s the post to introduce Hyper-V upgrade from Windows 2012 R2 to Windows Server 2016.

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Veeam Availability Suite 10 – Veeam CDP Overview

Veeam CDP (Continuous Data Protection) is one of my best new feature in Veeam Availability Suite 10 (Veeam Backup & Replication v10), it provides better SLAs for end-users by using new VMware technology. Veeam CDP (without snapshots) – VMware continuous data protection to reduce RPOs from minutes to seconds. It leverages VMware’s VAIO framework to reliably intercept and redirect VM I/O to the replica without a need to create standard VM snapshots.

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Introducing a New Partner, Vembu Technologies!

Yesterday, Vembu signed on as my second partner!


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Step by Step Guide Veeam B&R 9.5 U2 Upgrade

Veeam released Veeam Backup and Replication 9.5 Update 2, which contains some significant improvements: Cisco HyperFlex Systems (formerly HX-Series/SpringPath) support for Backup from Storage Snapshots functionality, HPE 3PAR StoreServ 3.3.1 support and improved scalability by migrating some API calls from SSH to RESTful API, Microsoft Hyper-V BigEndian platform support, Microsoft Exchange 2016 CU5 support for mailbox item recovery with Veeam Explorer for Microsoft Exchange, NetApp ONTAP 9.1 support, Oracle 12.2 support for all Oracle database backup and restore functionality, Veeam Agent for Linux 1.0 Update 1 (build 1.0.1.364) support, including new 1-Click FLR via Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager, Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows 2.0 (build 2.0.0.700) support, including application-item recovery support from agent backups, VMware vCloud Director 8.20 support and VMware vSAN 6.6 support.

You can learn more about Veeam Backup & Replication 9.5 U2 new features here.

This technical article provides a step by step guide to upgrade Veeam B&R 9.5 Update 1 (version 9.5.0.580, 9.5.0.711, 9.5.0.802 or 9.5.0.823) to Veeam B&R 9.5 Update 2 build be version 9.5.0.1038 (Veeam Backup and Replication 9.5 2 Upgrade). If you need to upgrade your Veeam Backup Server (v8 or v9) you can follow this article.

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