Really? Ok, so maybe I lured you here with some marketing spin whilst omitting a few key details. However, given the right conditions, this is absolutely true. I was working on a project recently with a requirement to pull some virtual machines out of a managed service environment running Hyper-V […]
Why? I am going to try something a little different here and start with why for the rather than what, after watching this TED video from Simon Sinek. I made an investment in myself by attending this event on my own time to learn more about what Oracle Ravello has to […]
Background. For a long time, I have wanted to build a Nutanix Community Edition (CE) cluster but never had the hardware to be able to do so. Enter Ravello by Oracle. I have covered deploying a VMware VCSA onto Ravello in a previous blog post if you would like to […]
Background. Following on from my previous post about recovering virtual machines to Azure, there was a step I did not cover. Deploying a Veeam Proxy in Azure will improve recovery times as the data can be sent over the internet compressed and then decompressed by the target proxy, rather than just […]
Background. Let’s start with Oracle Ravello, what is it and why am I bothered about it? There is an overview of the service here but let me show you the headline blurb. Enterprise VMware workloads on leading public clouds Seamlessly deploy your existing VMware or KVM based data center workloads […]
Background. The Microsoft Teams Client fails to install on Windows 10 with the error message Installation has failed, Failed to extract installer. A bit of searching on the internet reveals this seems to be a fairly common issue but no fix has been provided. Now I tried the same client on Windows […]
Background. One of the features that have been available in Veeam for a little while is the ability to recover from any backup taken with Veeam, be that VMware, Hyper-V, Veeam Agent for Windows or Veeam Agent for Linux. Veeam takes care of any conversion process that needs to take […]
Background I have previously written a blog post about Veeam Agent for Windows management with Veeam Backup and Replication 9.5 U3. In that post, I mentioned the agent upgrade process was not entirely plane sailing. Initial upgrade results in an Error 53 ERROR_BAD_NETPATH error which is a generic Windows error […]
Managed agents, Veeam, physical workloads, Whats that about then? Well then, Veeam has come full circle from its roots as a virtual infrastructure backup platform, to a full availability suite. Offering backups to the public cloud, Veeam cloud connect and now full management for physical Windows and Linux workloads. The […]
Free is the new free. Let’s get a bit of background to this feature that seems to have slipped under the radar, Veeam Agent for Windows 2.1 was released with Veeam 9.5 U3 to support some of the new agent management functionality in Veeam Backup and Replication console. The free […]