I’ve seen recently a fair amount of search about this topic in my blog, so I decided to write a quick post about it. It can happen for several reasons you need to interrupt a job in Veeam Backup & Replication. Veeam initiate the stopping procedure, and for a certain…
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My experience at VMworld US 2013
I’m back since few days from VMworld 2013 in San Francisco, and as usual I’m slowly starting to “digest” the huge amount of news I received. Among the several announcements from VMware itself and those from almost every partner at the event, is hard to choose what to select and what to…
Veeam Backup & Replication 7 #4: Self-service restore for vCloud Director
Another post about the use of the new Veeam Backup & Replication 7.0 in conjunction with vCloud Director. After the configuration of backup jobs with vCloud Director, you can also allow your users/customers to restore files or VMs by themselves, without any need for help from the Veeam Backup operators. First,…
Veeam Backup & Replication 7 #3: support for vCloud Director
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…
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…