Background I have noticed over the last 12 months or so that ransomware attacks are becoming even more sophisticated in what their attack vector is. The nasty ones will delete common backups files, like Veeam backups, before proceeding to encrypt all other files. This begs the questions, is it enough […]
Background With the release of Veeam Backup for Office 365 in the backend of 2019, Veeam has moved the game on in terms of product functionality. Until now, Veeam lacked any kind of integration with public cloud-based object storage. Many of Veeams competitors have operated in this way for quite […]
Background I wrote about Veeam Instance Licensing and it’s pros and cons back in April this year. The premise was great, the execution of it, not so much. It was confusing to work out how many licenses you needed, what license edition you needed, would perpetual licensing go away, etc, […]
Background I had a requirement to implement Multi-Factor Authentication for external access to a Horizon View environment. External connections are already handled by a VMware Universal Access Gateway so it is a pretty easy task to include and enable the integration with a radius service to enable MFA. This guide […]
Background A company I was working with had a requirement to change the top-level domain of all of their public-facing presence from company.co.uk to company.com. This meant their website, Exchange e-mail and a few other bits. One of the services in the mix is an Office Online Server hooked into […]
Background When Veeam Backup and Replication 9.4 U4 was released in January 2019, it brought with it a new licensing model called Instance licensing. The marketing machine at Veeam would have you believe this is a great thing and possibly a money saver as well as getting better value from […]
Background Following an upgrade to Veeam 9.5 U4, some of my back jobs started to fail with the error, “Error: Failed to find crypto key” Solution There was not much info on the old interwebs about this, but I did stumble across a solution in this Veeam Forum post (Thanks […]
Before we begin If you have not checked out what this series is about then please take a look at the previous parts below. Part 1: Planning Part 2: Ancillary Services Part 3: Management Cluster “Hardware” Part 4: Management Cluster Software Software Defined DataCentre Manager deployment The aim of this […]
Background Whilst deploying bare metal ESXi host workloads on Oracle Ravello, I always thought it odd that you could only specify single core processors per server which results in a 4 CPU system consuming 4 socket license for VMware. When you are limited to 16 socket licenses with vExpert license […]
Before we begin If you have not checked out what this series is about then please take a look at the previous parts below. Part 1: Planning Part 2: Ancillary Services Part 3: Management Cluster “Hardware” Management Cluster Software Management cluster ESXi host install If you made it this far, […]