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…
Category: Backup and Recovery
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…
How to Seed VMDK’s for Zerto Replication
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
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
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…