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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Run your small DNS server with MaraDNS

Luca Dell'Oca, March 3, 2021March 3, 2021

For a new project I started last week I needed a DNS server in my home office. Usually, my router is my dns resolver, but it doesn’t allow to create authoritative zones. Windows 10 running on my laptop doesn’t have a DNS server either, and I don’t have an hypervisor in my home office to build a virtual machine; and it wouldn’t even be useful to spend so much time doing it for then using the DNS just a couple of hours.
So, I looked around and I found this tiny cool project called MaraDNS, that was perfect for my use case.

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Veeam Backup for GCP and Multi-tenancy

Luca Dell'Oca, February 17, 2021February 16, 2021

Since we released Veeam Backup for Google Cloud Platform (can we call it VB4GCP from now on, do you mind?) a few weeks ago, many users have immediately started to use it. The use case of a single user protecting his resources is very easy to understand and configure, but today I’ve been asked by one of our service providers how could we configure the software to protect different customers from the same installation. Let’s test this in the lab!

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My first backups with Veeam Backup for Google Cloud Platform

Luca Dell'Oca, February 4, 2021

In yesterday’s article we have installed and configured Veeam Backup for Google Cloud Platform. In this article, we will run the first backup and restore operations.

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Installing Veeam Backup for Google Cloud Platform

Luca Dell'Oca, February 3, 2021

I received a few weeks ago a preview of this software from my colleagues that are developing it, and I wanted to try it out and show it to other people.

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Test your jekyll website locally on Windows 10

Luca Dell'Oca, December 1, 2020November 30, 2020

Learn how to install Jekyll on your Windows 10 computer, so you can see how your markdown websites will look like without the need to publish them.

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Sizing Veeam Cloud Connect using Big Data

Luca Dell'Oca, November 10, 2020November 10, 2020

One of the most common question I receive in regard to Veeam Cloud Connect, is “What’s the size I should configure for my Veeam server”? Usually, we answered this question using our sizing tools and our best practices, but lately I found a different and probably even better answer, thanks to our big data.

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Quick fix: install manually the Veeam Service Provider Console agent on Cloud Connect server

Luca Dell'Oca, April 21, 2020April 20, 2020

Learn how to install manually the Veeam Service Provider Console managementagent on a Veeam Cloud Connect server.

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Upgrading Veeam Availability Console to the new Veeam Service Provider Console v4

Luca Dell'Oca, April 7, 2020April 14, 2020

Last week, Veeam released the new Veeam Service Provider Console v4, the latest version of what was previously called Veeam Availability Console. I run my own VAC (now VSPC) environment, so I decided to take the opportunity to upgrade my lab to the latest version to learn the upgrade process.