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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…

ExaGrid with Veeam Backup Part 4

Posted on May 10, 2011 by Justin Paul | 1 Comment

So far we have talked about what the ExaGrid is, what it does, and how to setup Veeam Backups so they play nice together. But what does it really get you? … That’s what this post is going to cover.…

ExaGrid with Veeam Backup Part 3

Posted on April 30, 2011 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments

As promised here is the third part of the ExaGrid/Veeam Backup series. This post will show you step by step the best practices for using Veeam with your ExaGrid backup appliance. If you have the time and like reading the…

ExaGrid with Veeam Backup Part 2

Posted on April 26, 2011 by Justin Paul | 3 Comments

So if Veeam = Good, then Veeam + ExaGrid = Better!, I explained why in the first part of this post series here. Now let’s talk about why. So let’s say you bought an ExaGrid, now we have to set…