Nimble SFA – Creating a Veeam backup job and what to look out for. Following on from part 3 – Volume Creation and Presentation to Veeam , of this blog series, we will take a look at how to create a new Veeam backup job. There are a few considerations […]
Nimble SFA Volume creation and presentation to Veeam Following on from Part 2 – Initial array setup , of this blog series, we will take a look at how to create a new volume on the array and how to present it Veeam for use as a backup repository. There are […]
Nimble SFA Initial Setup Following on from Part 1 of this blog series, we will take a look at the initial setup of the Nimble SFA array. This is from discovery to establishing access to the user interface. If you have configured a Nimble CS or AF array, the process […]
Nimble SFA (Secondary Flash Array) Overview. I have been running a Nimble SFA SF100 device in conjunction with Veeam Backup and Replication for a couple of months now and I thought I would give you some insight into what it is, what it does, initial setup and some of the […]
How to replace SSL certificates on Nimble Storage array. As the title suggests, I will walk you through how to replace the SSL certificates on a Nimble Storage array with a certificate signed by a Microsoft certificate authority. If you look up the instructions in Nimbles documentation you will find […]
Upgrade SQL Express for improved performance with Veeam One of the take away for me from VeeamON was that upgrading the version of SQL backing Veeam to either 2014 or 2016 will yield great improvements in performance. Now even the latest version of Veeam 9.5 only ships with SQL 2012 Express. […]
Runecast – Software Defined Expertise – My take This is blurb statement on Runecasts website over at https://www.runecast.biz/ but what does that actually mean, what’s the message? Runecast is a virtual appliance that hooks into your vSphere environment which then inspects it for issues pertaining to best practice compliance, security hardening and […]
Introduction – VeeamON Wow what a week in sunny New Orleans! VeeamON 2017 was held between the 16th and 18th May at the Ernest N. Morial Convention centre with around 3000+ people in attendance. It was a great opportunity to catch up with old friends, hook up with digital amigos in real life and […]
Problem – Veeam ONE Monitor could not connect to… You try and connect to a supported vCenter server version with Veeam one but it pops up with the following error Veeam ONE Monitor could not connect to xxx . ESX version is no longer supported. Refer to system requirements for […]
Veeam introduced some cool new features for service providers in Veeam 9.5 update 2, namely the Remote Access for Veeam Backup and Replication Console and Remote Desktop. A full breakdown of these features can be found here https://www.veeam.com/blog/msps-remote-access-backup-replication-9-5-update-2.html . Now although this is geared towards service providers to be able to […]