Veeam Cloud Connect is finally announced and on their list of upcoming version 8 features. Personally I am extremely excited about this feature! Here is the deal on Veeam Cloud Connect Currently if you want to use a public cloud or perhaps a local service provider to store your offsite backup copy you need to go […]
How to check Veeam configuration backup version
Today I was teaching the Veeam Certified Engineer course. During the course one of the students asked me how to could check which version of Veeam Backup & Replication was used to create a configuration backup. Full credit for this goes to Ben Milligan of Veeam in this tweet. Step 1. Open location […]
Veeam launches backup from storage snapshots for NetApp
In case you missed it Veeam has announced support for backing up from storage snapshots from NetApp. Until now this has only been available to certain HP storage solutions. In case you are interested in more details there is a webinar scheduled for April 17th – make sure to check it out. In the mean time […]
Win GREAT prizes with Veeam Ultimate New Year’s raffle
We already know Veeam for their great software and fantastic give aways. This contest is no different. Five winners will be found for these amazing prizes: Tablet of your choice: Android, iPad or Surface Class of your choice: Microsoft Training or VMware Education Services course Event of your choice: TechEd or VMworld in your geography […]
Veeam Backup & Replication 7.0 R2 released
Veeam released Backup & Replication 7.0 R2 a few days ago in case you missed it. This is NOT a minor update and you will see good performance improvements by updating! Improvements include VMware vSphere 5.5 support, including support for 62TB virtual disks and virtual hardware v10 virtual machines. vCloud Director 5.5 support. Support for […]
Last chance for FREE upgrade to VEEAM Enterprise Plus
Veeam Enterprise Plus upgrade for FREE is almost at the end! If you are one of the many customers who purchased Veeam Backup & Replication Enterprise before July 1st 2013 and still have an active support agreement, then make sure you do not miss out on the deal Veeam is currently offering: FREE upgrade to […]
Veeam Backup & Replication error Data at the root level is invalid. Line 1, position 1.
Today a customer called me with an issue getting Veeam backup of one VM that had previously worked without issues. His environment was VMware vCenter 5.1 U1 and Veeam Backup & Replication 6.5 patch 3. The error recieved was: Error: Data at the root level is invalid. Line 1, position 1. This is […]
@Veeam is giving away great prizes: VMworld/TechEd/Surface/iPad!
Veeam is holding an on-going raffle from October 2012 trough August 2013 giving away. FANTASTIC prizes such as: Full conference pass to VMware USA 2013 Full conference pass to Tech Ed 2013 Microsoft Surface for Windows RT New iPad 4G Each and every month until August 2013 there will be found a winner. Luckily trying […]
Veeam B&R Error: Client error: VDDK thread terminated
Last week I was onsite with a customer deploying Veeam Backup & Replication 6.5. One of their remote sites had just one VMware vSphere ESXi host running standalone. To simply their setup we decided to add it to the vCenter. We then proceeded to deploy a proxy on a virtual server on the remote site […]
Veeam Backup & Replication Cloud Edition Part 1: Adding Cloud Storage
Veeam recently released an add-on product named Veeam Cloud Backup to their existing Backup & Replication software. I will put together some posts on how to easily get started with Veeam Cloud Backup and send your backups into the cloud 🙂 The concept of Cloud Backup is primarily to provide an alternative to tape backup by […]