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Integrity Check Failures with VMware Data Recovery 2

Posted on October 25, 2011 by Justin Paul | 12 Comments

In case you have been living under a rock for the last couple years I should first mention that VMware does offer it’s own backup solution for vSphere. This product is called VMware Data Recovery. Think of it as a…

HyperIP WAN Acceleration with Veeam

Posted on October 13, 2011 by Justin Paul | 4 Comments

One thing that hasn’t changed much in IT is the lack of bandwidth. It seems that no matter how fast of a connection you have, there is always wait time because of the large amount of data that you are…

AppAssure Replay 4: A First Look

Posted on September 27, 2011 by Justin Paul | 2 Comments

If you’re in the market for a backup product that not only does virtual servers but also physical servers, you may want to take a look at Replay from AppAssure. The guys at work have been after me to try…

vSphere 5 Redo Log Warnings + Veeam Issues

Posted on September 20, 2011 by Justin Paul | 2 Comments

I found a new error in vSphere 5 today that I haven’t seen in previous versions of vSphere purely by accident. I set up a Veeam Backup and Replication VM to temporarily backup some VM’s and after several failed backup…

Non VSS-Aware Application Backups with Veeam

Posted on August 14, 2011 by Justin Paul | 5 Comments

Most applications that run on Windows these days are VSS aware, sometimes however you run across an older server type application that is not. Combine that with snapshot-based backups and you could wind up with some issues if you ever…

My Exagrid Road Map

Posted on June 28, 2011 by Justin Paul | 2 Comments

I did a post a while ago about things I would like to see Veeam add to their road map, and I don’t think that any of them were added, but it’s always fun to speculate. So I obviously have…

Veeam Storage Best Practices

Posted on June 6, 2011 by Justin Paul | 6 Comments

Note that right now these are mainly based upon my experience with the ExaGrid backup storage appliance. However, as I get the chance to test other appliances I will update this post and add to the list. Disk to Disk…

Exagrid Notes / Support

Posted on May 17, 2011 by Justin Paul | 4 Comments

My Experience with ExaGrid Support Let me start out by saying that the support and customer service from ExaGrid is top notch. I get to work with a lot of different vendors at my job, and I must say that…

Veeam’s Next Big Thing: Hyper-V

Posted on May 16, 2011 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments

So now that Veeam has (in my opinion) conquered the VMware world, they have turned their sights to Hyper-V. While I did not get a chance to view the webinar I did watch the video presentation/demo that Gostev gave, and…

ExaGrid Software Upgrade

Posted on May 10, 2011 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments

If you follow my blog you know that I’ve been working with the ExaGrid backup appliances a lot lately and that I was lucky enough to actually get a couple units to do some further testing with. Well, when I…