What’s new in Veeam v6!
While I cannot yet share my experience or any details of the Veeam Backup and Replication v6 Beta that I have been using for over a month now, I would like to share a paper that Veeam released detailing the…
Category: Backup and Recovery
Integrity Check Failures with VMware Data Recovery 2
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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…