Aug 15

HPE Catalyst technology as Veeam Replication source!

Since Veeam B&R v9, there is a support of HPE StoreOnce Catalyst storage. HPE StoreOnce Catalyst integration improves the time it takes to boot a VM from backup file residing on StoreOnce about two times comparing to Instant VM Recovery from backup files on a StoreOnce NAS Share. This post is about using a Catalyst store as a replication source, Veeam ‘s documentation does not mention it in scenarios. Basically, it does not explain the automatic election algorithm of a Gateway server during a replication job (Veeam Help Center).

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Aug 11

Vembu BDR Suite v3.8.0 GA release!

Last week, Vembu BDR v3.8 Suite has been released. Here a post contains the added/enhanced features of the new version. Vembu BDR Suite serves the purpose to be one of the most comprehensive, simple and affordable backup & disaster recovery solutions for the small & medium businesses. Vembu can backup VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V, Physical Servers, Workstations, Exchange Items, SharePoint Items, SQL Items, Office365, G Suite, etc. – and they can back that up on-site, off-site, or even to the cloud – not to mention that most of this is done within a single UI.


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Aug 10

Veeam Backup & Replication v10 – 4 major features

In the upcoming Veeam Availability Suite v10 release (Veeam Backup & Replication 10 and Veeam One v10), Veeam announced some new interesting features. First, based on actual v10 features readiness, Veeam is moving some of them into 9.5 Update 3, so that they don’t have to sit and wait until they are done implementing the last feature. This means we are going to get some of the v10 goodness much sooner. Until awaiting the release, here is a review of Veeam Backup & Replication v10 with the following 4 major features…

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Jul 31

Interviewed by LeMagIT – Veeam v10

Hi,

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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Jul 28

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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