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Veeam Availability Suite v9, how many Storage Enhancements!

Luca Dell'Oca, July 1, 2015July 1, 2015

The upcoming Veeam Availability Suite v9 has tons of enhancements and new features, but improvements around primary and backup storage will surely be one of the biggest parts of our next release.
We already announced a new addition in our list of supported storage arrays for our storage snapshots integration (EMC VNX/VNXe), but this isn’t the only storage news—on the contrary, there are plenty of them, and I’ll cover some of them in this post.

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Deep Dive: Memory consumption of a Veeam repository

Luca Dell'Oca, May 26, 2015May 27, 2015

Veeam repositories, both Windows and Linux based, are running a software component responsible for receiving and storing data as they are processed by proxies. One of the most important parameter when sizing a repository is its expected memory consumption. Here are some informations for its proper configuration.

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My adventures with Ceph Storage. Part 10: Upgrade the cluster

Luca Dell'Oca, May 19, 2015May 26, 2016

As any existing software, Ceph is subject to minor and major releases. My entire series of posts has been realized using version Giant (0.87), but by the time I completed the series, Hammer (0.94) was released. Note that Ceph, as other linux softwares, uses a major release naming scheme based on the letter of the alphabet, so Giant is the 7th major release. Ceph releases both minor and major versions of the software, so it’s important to know how to upgrade it.

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My adventures with Ceph Storage. Part 8: Veeam clustered repository

Luca Dell'Oca, April 14, 2015May 21, 2015

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 8th part: Veeam clustered repository.

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My adventures with Ceph Storage. Part 7: Add a node and expand the cluster storage

Luca Dell'Oca, April 7, 2015May 21, 2015

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My adventures with Ceph Storage. Part 6: Mount Ceph as a block device on linux machines

Luca Dell'Oca, March 31, 2015May 21, 2015

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My adventures with Ceph Storage. Part 5: install Ceph in the Lab

Luca Dell'Oca, March 24, 2015December 6, 2015

n 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 fifth part: deploy Ceph.

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My adventures with Ceph Storage. Part 4: deploy the nodes in the Lab

Luca Dell'Oca, March 17, 2015May 8, 2016