Navigating The Virtual World
There has been some great new functionality announced with Veeam Backup & Replication 9.5 Update 4 and for this post I wanted to check out the Capacity Tier options for Scale-Out Backup Repositories. I will be walking you through setting up an Amazon S3 Repository along with a new Scale-Out Continue Reading
I have always been a big fan of the Cisco UCS product line so when it came time to dive into the hyper converged world Cisco Hyperflex was the obvious choice! The product just keeps getting better with every new release and the latest version of HX Connect makes upgrading Continue Reading
As promised in my previous post Veeam Enterprise Manager Update 4 here is how you can use the product as a multi-tenant backup portal for vCloud Director. First we need to go to our Veeam Backup & Replication Server and connect to our vCloud Director Instance. You can do this Continue Reading
Enterprise Manager is a great product to help manage multiple Veeam Backup and Replication Deployments from one location. I want to walk through deploying and setting up the latest version of Veeam Enterprise Manager 9.5 Update 4 which will give you a good overview of the interface. Some of the Continue Reading
Veeam Backup and Replication 9.5 Update 4 RTM has finally been released and like most of you I have been hanging out to give the new feature set a trial run. One item in particular has really caught my attention and that is the ability to allow tenants to DR Continue Reading
For those of you out there running a windows based vCenter 6.5 Server I thought I would put together a guide to help you with your migration to the vCenter 6.7 Appliance. The following post will walk you through migrating your Windows based Platform Services Controller and vCenter Server to Continue Reading
I thought I would take it back to basics for this next post. Getting vCenter installed is a must do job for most IT Admins out there so below is a an install guide for the vCenter 6.7 Appliance. This will also help us build a foundation for some future Continue Reading
In a previous post I walked you through how to modify the default theme of Enterprise Manager 9.5 Update 3. Recently I upgraded to Enterprise Manager 9.5 Update 4 and the portal itself looks a whole lot better. The only downside is that it set all of my theme changes Continue Reading
Veeam Cloud Connect is a great way to extend your Company backups to a secondary site hosted by your local Service Provider. You can even do away with rotating tapes and configure backup copy jobs to a Cloud Connect Repository instead. There is no need for a VPN or to Continue Reading
Before you start the migration its a good idea to snapshot the vCloud Director cells and manually backup the SQL database. Next you need to stop the vCloud Director services. You do this by connecting to each cell via SSH and running the following command. Service vmware-vcd stop Next we Continue Reading