vee Afterthoughts I recently attended VeeamON Forum London which was a one day event put on by Veeam. The idea behind the event was for Veeam to update its audience on upcoming features and to provide some tips and tricks around improving the Veeam experience. I am looking at this […]
Background. I recently returned from Tech Field Day 15 where Scale Computing was giving the delegates an overview of their very recently announced HC3 Cloud Unity with Google Cloud Platform. I will be honest, up until setting foot in the fabulous Scale Computing office in San Francisco, all I knew […]
Background. I recently returned from Tech Field Day 15 where DataCore was giving the delegates an overview of their MaxParallel solution for SQL server. DataCore has a long established history in dealing with getting more performance from less with such products as SANSymphony and Hyperconverged Virtual SAN by leveraging Parallel […]
Background Starting with vCloud usage meter 3.6, there is a hard requirement that the appliance has to send email reports back to VMware. If like me, you run the usage meter in a ringfenced environment, you may consider routing the mail via the internet to Office 365. During my setup […]
What is Tech Field Day? Let’s not re-invent the wheel, here is a direct excerpt from the Tech Field Day website; Our Field Day events bring together innovative IT product vendors and independent thought leaders to share information and opinions in a presentation and discussion format. Independent bloggers, speakers, freelance writers, and podcasters have […]
Background A recent project I was working on involved deploying five physical servers for use and Veeam repository servers. The problem however is the operating system was pre-instaled on a different RAID set to the one I was expecting it to be on. I could have rebuilt the servers, but […]
Why attend? Yeah that’s me in the middle above, looking daft, but I am sat next to some very smart folk. Former Veeam Vanguards and now Veeam employees Anthony Spiteri and Tim Smith. The point is though it’s not just the vendors who are at the event, it’s the other […]
Nimble SFA – Putting your backup data to work. Following on from part 5 – a closer look at deduplication of this blog series, we will take a look at how the Nimble SFA helps to put your backup data to work. What on earth am I talking about? For me […]
Nimble SFA – A closer look at deduplication. Following on from part 4 – creating a Veeam backup job and what to look out for of this blog series, we will take a look at how the Nimble deduplication works and some of the gotchas that I came across whilst evaluating the […]
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 […]