Veeam v6: Your New Backup Army!
Backup Army ? Huh you say? Well that is exactly what you can create with Veeam v6. Here is a great quote from one of the head cheese over at Veeam: “v6 backup proxies are like an army of drones.…
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Veeam Backup and Replication 6 Released!
Well It’s official, Veeam has officially released v6 of its Backup and Replication product, what a great start to the Christmas season. I have been beta testing v6 for a few months and have put it to work in a…
What’s new in Veeam v6!
While I cannot yet share my experience or any details of the Veeam Backup and Replication v6 Beta that I have been using for over a month now, I would like to share a paper that Veeam released detailing the…
Non VSS-Aware Application Backups with Veeam
Most applications that run on Windows these days are VSS aware, sometimes however you run across an older server type application that is not. Combine that with snapshot-based backups and you could wind up with some issues if you ever…
Exagrid Notes / Support
My Experience with ExaGrid Support Let me start out by saying that the support and customer service from ExaGrid is top notch. I get to work with a lot of different vendors at my job, and I must say that…
Veeam’s Next Big Thing: Hyper-V
So now that Veeam has (in my opinion) conquered the VMware world, they have turned their sights to Hyper-V. While I did not get a chance to view the webinar I did watch the video presentation/demo that Gostev gave, and…
ExaGrid with Veeam Backup Part 4
So far we have talked about what the ExaGrid is, what it does, and how to setup Veeam Backups so they play nice together. But what does it really get you? … That’s what this post is going to cover.…
ExaGrid with Veeam Backup Part 3
As promised here is the third part of the ExaGrid/Veeam Backup series. This post will show you step by step the best practices for using Veeam with your ExaGrid backup appliance. If you have the time and like reading the…
ExaGrid with Veeam Backup Part 2
So if Veeam = Good, then Veeam + ExaGrid = Better!, I explained why in the first part of this post series here. Now let’s talk about why. So let’s say you bought an ExaGrid, now we have to set…
ExaGrid with Veeam Backup Part 1
This month Exagrid released an update for their backup storage appliances that makes them fully compatible with Veeam. For those who have no idea what Exagrid is, check out www.exagrid.com but basically Exagrids are a hardware appliance with several terabytes…