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…
Category: Backup and Recovery
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…
Excited about Veeam V8 yet? If you’re a Data Domain customer you should be!
Well before you get too excited let me start by saying, I don’t have any screenshots or cool hands on stuff (yet!). But with that said I am pretty excited about the upcoming release and some of the cool new stuff…
Join me, Zerto, and Lumenate for show and tell (and food)!
Later this month I will be presenting at two events, the first is March 18th from 3-6pm in Cincinnati Ohio. We will all meet at the Firehouse Grill for a little vendor kool-aid party and some food and drinks! Of…
Some good Disaster Recovery Planning Templates
Over the weekend I was doing some research and found some pretty cool documents / templates on the subject of disaster recovery planning. One thing I have found is that many companies don’t really have a formal DR plan, sure…