Zerto – Challenge Accepted!
Some call it the dark side, others call it the best decision they ever made. For now I’ll just say “Hi, I’m Justin and I’m with Zerto.” I was in the VAR community for over 6 years, I’ve designed or…
Category: Backup and Recovery
Got DR Questions? Zerto and the American Red Cross answer them!
Zerto will be hosting a Tweetchat, with the American Red Cross. The tweet chat will be a live Q&A session, where anyone can get their most pressing questions answered around how to prepare for disaster. They would be happy if you…
Why build two when you can have OneCloud #VFD5
One of the challenges when pitching disaster recovery to customers is the cost. Many times a DR site build out can cost as much if not more than the production site, a cost that some customers just can’t swing. Luckily for…
Testing Veeam Tape features with HP StoreOnce VTL
One of the things that I don’t work with much is tape… in any fashion. However while working on a project I was asked how Veeam did with tape out. I tried to think of where I had used tape…
Configuring Data Domain SMT (Secure Multi-Tenancy)
One of the new features in DDOS 5.5 is SMT or Secure Multi-Tenancy, basically it just allows you to define what users have access to what MTree’s. Getting it working though is a little bit of a mystery though as there…
Veeam & Data Domain: Advanced Setup and Replication
Recently while working with a customer we had to get a little creative with an installation and I thought I would share the experience. Here is a little background info… Datacenter and Hardware Layout: Customer has 2 datacenter: one on…
What’s new with EMC Data Domain
Just a quick note: take all of the stats with a grain of salt until I can get access to the slide deck, as I was taking notes as quickly as possible while they were talking. This week at EMC…
Veeam Cloud Connect Pricing Estimator
So in the process of investigating if I should become a Veeam Cloud Connect partner I have developed some tools that would help estimate both internal costs as well as customer pricing. So I figured I would share the workbooks that…
Hadoop as a Veeam Repository
I was looking at the internet search queries that bring some of the readers to my site the other day when I found one that was rather interesting. It was simply “hadoop as veeam repository”. Now, before I get too far into how…
Veeam Cloud Connect How To
If you are looking for an alternative to purchasing multiple disk to disk backup appliances you may want to pay close attention to this one. When Veeam released version 8 they stashed away a feature called Cloud Connect. Essentially Cloud…