Veeam® is happy to provide a free NFR license (1 year, 2 sockets) to all VMware vExperts, MVPs, VTEC members, Certified Engineers and Trainers*. This license allows for non-production use of Veeam Availabilty Suite™ 9,5 in your home lab, without any feature limitations. The license works for both VMware andRead More →
Backup is more and more important. That’s why there are several company’s proving great products for this. Nakivo has their Backup & Replication tool for VMware (and Amazon but that will not be covered right now) and in this blogpost you find my experiences. Nakivo backup & Replication (NBR fromRead More →
I’m using Altaro VM Backup for my Hyper-V whitebox environment for a couple of years now. Recently I tested the latest version. Hereby my experiences. Their latest version of VM Backup changed in comparison to previous versions. I noticed several new features/improvements and a slightly improved UI. (Some of) AltaroRead More →
Great news from my sponsor VEEAM. When you are a vExpert, MVP, VTEC Member, Certified Engineer and/or Trainer you have the option to receive a free NFR key (2 sockets) of the VEEAM Availability Suite V9. Click on their banner right of this page!Read More →
Like many other people I use a Synology NAS for back-up purposes. All my backup data and other files is stored on the single device. But what when there is a problem with that device or your house (or office) is burned down to the ground. You won’t be ableRead More →
Veeam has a new product/version of their FastSCP tool and I think it’s amazing! First for this demo I’ve created a Windows 2012 R2 server on Azure : Nothing new here, so let’s move on! Download the beta of FastSCP for Azure here. After a quick install (next-next-next) start theRead More →
A word from my sponsor : Veeam® Backup & Recovery now FULLY supports VMware vSphere 6. Now, you can get Veeam’s largest and most powerful release in history with FULL vSphere 6 support, including support for VMware Virtual Volumes (VVols) and Virtual SAN (VSAN) 2.0, Storage Policy Based Management (SPBM)Read More →
Use the following steps to configure Veeam Backup & Recovery to back-up the VM’s (Hyper-V and VMware) to Azure. You can sign up and use free trial licenses for Veeam (check out the banner on the right) and Azure. You only pay for the storage (3 ct for each GigabyteRead More →
A reader of my blog mentioned that it’s wasn’t possible to backup to a a share while using Windows Server 2008 backup. Indeed, using the GUI it’s not possible but you can use wbadmin to start a backup to a netwerkshare : Use the following command : wbadmin startRead More →
Sometimes you can’t use Hypervisor backup software, for example when using physical machines (huh?) or Xenserver with unavailable storage for creating snapshots. Ofcourse commercial backup software is nice, but sometimes you don’t want to pay for that (whitebox home environment) or the customer doesn’t have the licenses. Why don’t useRead More →