Cameron Fuller and I (Clint Wyckoff) are teaming up with Jose Mendoza and Shawn Lieu for “Veeam, Microsoft Hyper-V and System Center Are Better Together” on December 2nd (Wednesday) at 11:00 am (UTC -06:00). This should be a pretty awesome episode of VEEAM LIVE as Cam and I have been working on a whitepaper together focusing on this exact topic: Making Operations Manager Actionable! Highlights fro... »
For those folks that have upgraded their environments to the latest release of vSphere ESXi (Version 6.0) critical issues are becoming to become quite the norm. For years VMware was known for their solid QC processes and their releasing of Production ready hypervisor releases…UNTIL vSphere 6. The latest issue was announced this past week and is contained within vSphere 6.0 Update 1a. VMware ... »
Earlier this past year in Chicago, Microsoft launched and held their inaugural event where many announcements were made regarding the future of Windows Server and Hyper-V Technologies. There’s many posts out there that list out the features in great depth, so I am not going to re-create the wheel – My favorite is from Thomas Maurer, Hyper-V MVP. One of the great resources available is ... »
VeeamOn 2015 kicked off yesterday with a “Pre-conference Education Day” of breakout sessions, Veeam partner sessions, and Veeam Certified Engineer (VMCE) training workshops. I was fortunate enough to attend the Veeam User Group session hosted by: Emcee – Sterling Wilson, Senior Engineer, Veeam Partner Channel – @Sterling_122 Panelist – Ari Saperstein, Senior Engineer ... »
One of the most impressive things about Veeam is they do not rest on their laurels. They continue to advance their offerings and V9 is no exception. EMC VNX / VNXe snapshot integration and Veeam Explorer for snapshot integration Cloud Connect with Replication – support 600 service providers, SSL encryption and fully integrate Primary storage integration Direct NFS access – Veea... »
I arrived at work today and noticed 2 VM’s had a warning indicating “Virtual Machine Disk Consolidation is needed”. If you following the usual steps and right click the VM in the vSphere Client and click “Snapshot” and then “Consolidate”, the VM will try to consolidate and the I received an error “Unable to access file since it is locked”. I ... »
We had a nice turn out last night for the vBrisket Disaster Recovery Presentation/Discussion. The interaction of everyone in attendance was like nothing I have ever been a part of, it was awesome. Here is the link to the vBrisket DR Discussion and keep an eye out for the invitation to the May 1st vBrisket, it’s a a special one. »
I know everyone out there has heard Veeam’s tag line “It Just Works!” (they even patented the phrase), how can anyone disagree with that statement. Install Veeam Backup and Replication using all of the defaults, including Microsoft SQL Server Express and you can backup your virtual environment pretty easily. But that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t look at the overall des... »