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Excited about Veeam V8 yet? If you’re a Data Domain customer you should be!

Posted on June 23, 2014 by Justin Paul | 1 Comment

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)!

Posted on March 6, 2014 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments

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

Posted on March 3, 2014 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments

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…

How to Seed VMDK’s for Zerto Replication

Posted on February 28, 2014 by Justin Paul | 7 Comments

Update: I have posted a newer article describing how to do preseeding in Zerto Virtual Replication 4.5. Check it out here http://www.jpaul.me/2016/05/zerto-preseeding-howto-4-5u1/ In January I talked about how to use SilverPeak WAN acceleration to boost Zerto Replication so that you could…

Boosting DR Replication with SilverPeak

Posted on January 17, 2014 by Justin Paul | 3 Comments

It’s always an anxious day for me when I have to take a customer’s DR hardware to their DR site… not because I’m carrying anywhere from $100-400k dollars worth of customer equipment in my SUV (that’s the insurance guy’s problem)……

Building a Windows 2012 + Veeam 7 Backup Appliance Part 1

Posted on December 11, 2013 by Justin Paul | 18 Comments

No one can deny the advantages of a dedupe appliance, the space and bandwidth savings that they provide are astounding no matter what the brand. While being fairly affordable in all market segments, sometimes the budget just isn’t there… so…

Veeam 7 with Dedupe Appliances

Posted on December 5, 2013 by Justin Paul | 8 Comments

I’ve wrote about Veeam in combination with a few different types of deduplication appliances, both Exagrid and Data Domain. One thing that I always hear… no matter which dedupe appliance brand … is the concern about Sure Backup jobs, restore…

Veeam Support for vSphere 5.5 Arrives!

Posted on November 14, 2013 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments

Veeam has officially released 7.0 R2 … which includes support for VMware vSphere 5.5 and Microsoft Server 2012. I was able to apply the patch and start backups for a customer running vSphere 5.5 this morning, so it does seem…

Zerto: The Missing Manual

Posted on October 23, 2013 by Justin Paul | 8 Comments

If you are a follower of my blog you might remember the Veeam Missing Manuals I put together a long time ago, they were pretty popular and seemed to help a bunch of people. With that said I thought, why…

Finally, vSphere 5.1 and Win2012 Support for Backup Exec

Posted on July 26, 2013 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments

If you are a Backup Exec shop and also a vSphere 5.1 or Windows 2012 shop, you are going to want to get your Backup Exec updated today. It’s hard to believe that its taken Symantec almost a year to…