I have heard a lot of good things about N2WS Backup & Recovery for AWS and I thought it was about time I tested it out. N2WS leverages native snapshot technology to provide that extra layer of security within your AWS environment. This cloud native backup tool lets you create Continue Reading
VeeamOn 2019 in Miami – May 20-22
VeeamOn 2019 is being held in Miami Florida on May 20-22 and promises to jam packed with content with the recent release of Veeam Backup & Replication 9.5 Update 4. This is going to be one event you don’t want to miss out on attending! There are some really great Continue Reading
vRealize Operations Tenant App 2.1 for vCloud Director – Part 2
In a previous post I went through the base installation of vRealize Operations Manager 7 and also a deployment of RabbitMQ on a separate CentOS 7 VM. Now it’s time to install the Management Pack and the vRealize Tenant App for vCloud Director. To begin the first thing we need Continue Reading
RabbitMQ Installation on CentOS 7
RabbitMQ is a messaging broker service which gives applications a common platform to send and receive messages. The messages themselves land in a queue ready for another application to retrieve. In this post I will be setting up RabbitMQ and connecting it to vCloud Director. This is required if you Continue Reading
vRealize Operations Tenant App 2.1 for vCloud Director – Part 1
vCloud Director is one of the products I really enjoy working with and it has come a long way from when it was first released. I remember trying to work through deploying the early releases of v1 and 1.5 which seems like a life time ago now. In my opinion Continue Reading
Veeam Cloud Connect Portal – How to Modify the Default Theme in 9.5 Update 4
The Veeam Cloud Connect Portal provides a secure method for Cloud Connect Tenants to initiate their cloud failover plans. From the portal tenants are able to perform the following tasks, Initiate a full site failover by a cloud failover plan Retry a full site failover by a cloud failover plan Continue Reading
Veeam Backup & Replication 9.5 Update 4 RTM to GA Upgrade
Like a lot of you out there I have been running the RTM release of Veeam Backup & Replication 9.5 Update 4 and have been waiting for the Day 0 Release. This release allows you to do an in-place upgrade of the RTM deployment which saves you having to reinstall Continue Reading
Capacity Tier in Veeam Backup & Replication 9.5 Update 4
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
Cisco HyperFlex ESXi Upgrade option now in HX Connect UI
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
vCloud Director Tenant Backup Portal using Veeam Enterprise Manager 9.5 Update 4
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