In the last months, I’ve refreshed my knowledge on Ceph storage, an open source scale out storage entirely made in software. As I’ve walked through my own learning path, I’ve created a series of blog posts explaining the basics, how to deploy and configure it, and my use cases. In this second part: architecture for dummies.
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My adventures with Ceph Storage. Part 1: Introduction
In the last months, I’ve refreshed my knowledge on Ceph storage, an open source scale out storage entirely made in software. As I’ve walked through my own learning path, I’ve created a series of blog posts explaining the basics, how to deploy and configure it, and my use cases. In this first part: introduction.
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Veeam backup repository on CentOS 7
If you want to use CentOS 7 as a Veeam repository, the basic requirements are not enough, and you have to adjust the installation a little bit.
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Your Veeam backups are slow? Check the stripe size!
When dealing with backup repositories, be careful about the stripe size and its impact on performances!
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Two weeks in the USA for the service providers
Want to learn more about Veeam solutions for service providers? Join me and the Veeam VCP team in this two weeks tour in the United States.
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New whitepaper: Designing and planning Veeam backup repository performance
I’ve just published a new Veeam whitepaper “Veeam Backup & Replication v8: Designing and planning backup repository performance”; in it you will learn about all the available backup modes, their I/O profile, and how to properly test a storage system to estimate the expected performances.
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Which VDDK libraries version I’m using in Veeam Backup & Replication?
As a VADP compliant application, Veeam Backup & Replication leverages VDDK libraries to interact with VMware vSphere environments to request VM snapshots, extract data from ESXi, and other operations. Depending on the version you are using, you are effectively running different versions of VDDK. Sometimes it’s important to know which one, to be sure if an unexpected behaviour is a known issues of that version or not.
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8 Gems in Veeam Availability Suite V8. Part 8: Hyper-V
Veeam Backup & Replication v8, part of Veeam Availability Suite v8, has been released and customers and partners are already upgrading their environments and exploring the several new features that have been added to this latest version of the software. There are many enhancements that are not part of the marketing activities, but nonetheless they all contribute to create every time an awesome version of the software.
I’ve created a list of my favorite 8 new technical features, my “gems”. In this series of posts, I will show you them and dive a little bit into their technical details. In this eight episode, we will talk about Hyper-V.