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Seeding Veeam Cloud Connect – Part 1: Backup copy jobs

Luca Dell'Oca, September 13, 2016December 4, 2016

Veeam Cloud Connect is a great technology that allows end users to add to a local protection also an offsite location where they can store backup copies or replicated virtual machines. As not every customer has a fast internet connection, Veeam Cloud Connect implements multiple data reduction tecniques to improve data transfer, but especially the initial full backup or full replica can be slow and painful for some customers with really small internet connection. That’s why seeding is such an important option in Veeam Cloud Connect.
In this three series blog posts, you will learn how to use Veeam Cloud Connect. In Part 1, how to seed a regular backup copy job.

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Share your Veeam code on VeeamHub!

Luca Dell'Oca, August 22, 2016August 21, 2016

VeeamHub is a new github repository for the Veeam community, curated by Veeam engineers and architects. Here you can find scripts and other useful code.

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I wrote a book! (and It’s about Veeam Cloud Connect)

Luca Dell'Oca, August 9, 2016August 5, 2016

After many years thinking about writing one, and many years never being able to do so, I was finally able to write a technical book. Topic? Veeam Cloud Connect.

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My VMworld 2016 session, all about Veeam and vCloud Director

Luca Dell'Oca, July 26, 2016July 24, 2016

This August I will present together with my colleague Clint Wyckoff at VMworld 2016 in Las Vegas. Our session is going to be a technical deep dive in one of the upcoming features of Veeam Backup & Replication 9.5, dedicated to service providers using vCloud Director.

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Load balancing services with AWS Route53 DNS health checks

Luca Dell'Oca, July 19, 2016July 13, 2016

DNS is a great technology that everyone uses over internet. How would you reach a given website if you weren’t able to solve its name to the IP address? Would you memorize the public IP addresses of any website you want to reach? No, and with IPv6 coming in the future, DNS will become even more important for internet consumption. But DNS has one drawback: its records are usually static, and if a platform is dynamic and spawn/removes instances on the fly, it needs to have a way to modify the DNS records that are published, so that a non-reachable instances is not even listed.

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Back to my technical roots

Luca Dell'Oca, July 5, 2016July 2, 2016

I’m moving internally in Veeam from Evangelist in the Technical Product Marketing to the EMEA Pre-Sales team as a Cloud Architect.

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Increase the performance of your Veeam backups in network mode

Luca Dell'Oca, June 28, 2016December 4, 2016

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

Luca Dell'Oca, June 21, 2016June 6, 2016

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.