One of the biggest news of Veeam Backup & Replication 7.0 is for sure the support for VMware vCloud Director. Before the 7.0 version, those using vCloud Director were forced to use a “trick” to backup it: since a single Customer vDC in vCloud was mapped as a Resource Pool…
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Veeam Backup & Replication 7 #2: Stored Credentials
One of the most interesting new features of Veeam Backup & Replication 7, among those little enhancements not known as the new big features, is for sure the new credentials management system. The new way to manage credentials is really visible if you install Veeam from scratch and you connect…
Veeam Backup & Replication 7 #1: installation
Finally Veeam Backup & Replication 7 has been officially released, and is available for download. Since I used for some months the Beta version, I had time to prepare a series of articles on how to install and use the main features of it, especially the vCloud support. Only be…
VMware Tools complete install: it’s not always the best choice
The installation of VMware Tools is usually done by choosing the Typical installation type: This type of installation has the vast majority of options enabled, but there are some components that are not installed. For example, if you are creating an infrastructure based on vShield EndPoint and Trend Micro Deep Security,…
Veeam Backup & Replication 7 e BackupCopy: a new way to design the backup storage
Usually, one of the biggest problems when designing a backup infrastructure with Veeam has always been the right sizing of the storage for the backup files. The compromises of a Veeam backup storage Before the upcoming version 7, a typical design usually was made with a single backup storage. This…
VMware vCloud Hybrid Service: an overview of the interface
My quick journey into the new public cloud offer by VMware has obviously started from the interface VMware offers to its customers. vCHS is offered in two different versions: “Dedicated Cloud” and “Virtual Private Cloud”. Without deep diving into the details of the two versions, since you can directly get information…
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Veeam Backup and VIX libraries: howto backup networkless VMs using VSS
Microsoft VSS libraries are a smart way of doing backup, in order to guarantee a consistent backup of applications supporting them.
Veeam can do backups without the help of permanent agents inside the virtual machines, anyway if you want to do a VSS-based backup, Veeam deployes (and removes when the backup is completed) a small agent in the Windows VM in order to cohordinate VSS tasks. Usually, this is done by connecting to the target VM via network.
But, what happens when for any reason Veeam is in another network of the one used by the virtual machine, or they cannot communicate to each other?
In these situations Veeam can leverage VMware VIX libraries, that allow for direct interaction between the guest operating system inside a VM using the hypervisor running it, without any need for network connectivity.
Howto convert a physical RDM into a VMDK disk
I’m working with a customer to refresh his VMware infrastructure. At the moment, the platform is based on ESX 3.5 and vCenter 2.5, so it’s pretty old. The upgrade phase is not going to be a problem, but the customer in the past has followed too much some old reccomendations,…