ExaGrid with Veeam Backup Part 4
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.…
Category: Backup and Recovery
ExaGrid with Veeam Backup Part 3
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
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…
ExaGrid with Veeam Backup Part 1
This month Exagrid released an update for their backup storage appliances that makes them fully compatible with Veeam. For those who have no idea what Exagrid is, check out www.exagrid.com but basically Exagrids are a hardware appliance with several terabytes…
Veeam University Partner Certs
The Veeam Team visited SMSproTech on Wednesday, and also hung out with some of us at the Lima Regional IT Alliance Tech conference on Thursday. While they were here they mentioned that Veeam had started up a Partner University and…
Veeam vPower Instant Recovery
I was talking with some colleagues the other day and we were going through the different ways that one of our customers could avoid the purchase of a SAN, but still have very good RPO and RTO. We have recommended…
Veeam Direct Attached Backups with HP P2000 SAS
I’ve talked about the benefits of “Direct Attached” backups in Veeam before, but normally always in conjunction with an iSCSI type SAN’s. Lately, though, we have had a lot of interest in the HP P2000 G3 SAS attached SAN, mostly…
How much bandwidth for offsite VM replication?
One of the hardest parts of planning a virtualization project for a customer is telling them how much bandwidth they are going to need in order to replicate their data from one site to another. Not only is every case…
Introducing a New Sponsor, Veeam!
This week Veeam Software signed on as my first sponsor. I’m pretty excited to have them as a sponsor because their software is great! Their Backup and Replication product is responsible for backing up the VM that runs this site…
ESXi backup and restore with vMA
The other day I was working on a project where I was migrating HP drives from internal storage, into a P2000 G3 SAS SAN. ( which worked amazingly btw) The catch was that besides being a local datastore they also…