the Sky is the Limit
On December 5th you can join VeeamOnVirtual 2018 right from your desktop. Between 10 AM an 3 PM (CET) there will be several sessions in three main tracks: Business Track, Technical Track and Cloud Track. You’ll find details about speakers and sessions in the agenda.
Don’t hesitate and register for free.
In this post I will show how to use Veeam Migration Utility in cases when you have to migrate a whole cluster to a new vCenter, but you can’t afford to cut existing backup chains.
Upgrading a vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) has become a commodity in recent times. All you have to do is to run an upgrade wizard and point to the old VCSA. Thanks to VMware developers it’s one of these “Next-Next-Finish” deployments. At the end you’ll have an upgraded vCenter with same settings, name, IP, and (if you like) historic data. This is great! I can remember vCenter on Windows upgrades that were a PITA.
In some rare (but ugly) occasions you simply can’t use the wizard and you have to migrate your hosts to a completely new VCSA without data migration. You’ll have to rebuild every setting, datacenter, cluster, folder, pool, group, rule, etc from scratch to match your old environment. Continue reading “vCenter Appliance Migration Upgrade”
The importance of backup and recovery solutions today is beyond any discussion. Going back 10 years this was a rather neglected topic. But today no-one can afford data loss or services being unavailable. So the importance of backup solutions leveled up with that of production systems. Time windows for RPO and RTO have become smaller and smaller and the effort and cost to achieve that have become higher. If you’re planning a backup strategy, you need to find a good balance between speed, reliability and cost. Low cost NAS boxes are slow and not very reliable. Running an instant recovery from them can turn into a pain. Premium storages are fast and reliable, but also quite expensive. Backup data is in most cases very redundant, which means there’s a high capacity and cost saving potential in deduplication and compression. Continue reading “Exagrid Backup Appliance”
Those of you who couldn’t attend VeeamON 2018 in Chicago can now get an extract of news and announcements at VeeamON Forum in Hanau Germany (and many other places all over the world).
In late April I’ve already written an article about details of the event. I will be on site as media partner and post news on this blog an on Twitter.
Registration is free and surely priceless.
Continue reading “Just one week until VeeamON Forum in Hanau Germany”