I’m moving internally in Veeam from Evangelist in the Technical Product Marketing to the EMEA Pre-Sales team as a Cloud Architect.
Author: Luca Dell'Oca
Luca Dell’Oca, 2011/2012/2013 VMware vExpert,works in IT since 2000.
Since 2006, he’s working as a virtualization consultant and architect, specialized in the design and management of VMware infrastructures.
He is also a co-founder and board member of the Italian VMware User Group, and author of the blog www.virtualtothecore.com, where he regularly publishes articles on everything related to virtualization.
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Increase the performance of your Veeam backups in network mode
If you ever tried to do any file operation via the management interface of an ESXi host, like uploading an ISO file or running a backup using Network Mode, you may know the management interface is not running at the full speed of the underlying network interface, and the bandwidth you end up using is only a percentage of the total available. This limit is designed to preserve the availability of the management interface, but still there are situations where this limit is a problem, and you would like to increase it. Hopefully, there’s a solution.
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Build a Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct cluster using VMware virtual machines
I’ve always been a fan of scale-out storage architecture, I’ve always said that The future of storage is Scale Out, and I’ve spent a fair amount of time studying software-only solutions like Ceph. The new solution from Microsoft, Storage Spaces Direct, seems like another great solution that will be soon available to us, so I decided to test it in my lab.
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Monitor a Ceph cluster with Ceph Dash
Ceph Storage can be completely managed and monitored via its command line tools. But, wouldn’t it be better to have a nice interface to see it running, checking its status, and have some performance statistics? Well, yes, and here’s a way to have it, thanks to Ceph Dash.
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Quickly build a new Ceph cluster with ceph-deploy on CentOS 7
One year ago, i published a series of 10 blog posts called My adventures with Ceph Storage. As I had recently to rebuild my Ceph cluster from scratch, I decided it was time to create a quick guide to build the cluster as fast as possible.
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Am I doing backups of all my VMs? 2016 Edition
In 2012 I published a post with a Powershell script to be able to check all the available VM’s in a given vSphere environment, and verify which ones were protected by Veeam Backup & Replication. Time to update the script to make it work with the latest versions of the two software.
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Public IP’s or NAT-ed IP’s in Veeam Cloud Connect Replication
Is it better to use real public IP’s or NAT-ed IP’s when publishing Veeam Cloud Connect Replication? Here’s why I think real public IP’s are a better choice.
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Run Veeam Powershell from any machine
The best part of the new Veeam Standalone Console is the fact that Veeam PowerShell snap-in installs as part of this component, and it includes a new cmd-let: Connect-VBRServer. YES! No more PowerShell remoting to invoke your Veeam PowerShell scripts.