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The Missing Manual Part 2: When Snapshots Go Wrong

Posted on February 22, 2011 by Justin Paul | 3 Comments

One thing you are probably going to run into if you have virtualized your servers and are using a snapshot based based backup product are orphaned snapshots. I don’t think that is an official term, but it’s the one I’m…

Veeam Backup and IP Changes

Posted on February 15, 2011 by Justin Paul | 4 Comments

Today I brought a backup server back from one of our customer’s so that I could seed some replica’s. In order to do this I needed to change the IP to something on our network so that it could communicate…

Updated: Things That Are Missing/My Wish List

Posted on October 29, 2010 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments

Over the last couple of weeks I have noticed some things that I think are missing in several of my favorite products. Lets start with VMware vSphere. The feature I’m going to talk about first isnt really “needed” as there…

How Veeam Saved My Blog!

Posted on August 14, 2010 by Justin Paul | 3 Comments

Lately I have been tweaking some things to make my blog respond a little faster. I was optimizing MySQL and Apache, but this morning things required a reboot the VM. A little more history…. this blog, as well as some other…

The Missing Manual Part 1: Veeam B & R Direct SAN Backups

Posted on August 12, 2010 by Justin Paul | 41 Comments

One thing that I had problems with the first time I installed Veeam was the ability to backup Virtual Machines directly from the SAN. Meaning that instead of proxying the data through an ESXi host, the data would flow from…

VMWare Converter for PC Backup

Posted on June 7, 2010 by Justin Paul | 4 Comments

Standard Disclaimer: I do not issue any guarantee that this will work for you! I encourage you to use other backup methods in conjunction with this method so that your data is 100% secure. This method is strictly for supplementing…

VMware SMB Designs

Posted on May 1, 2010 by Justin Paul | 3 Comments

My first “real” post! So my job day to day is to design out solutions for customers, one of the biggest things I run into are small business’s who have heard the good word of virtualization or attended a show…