How to restore to Azure with Veeam 9.5
Background. One of the features that have been available in Veeam for a little while is the ability to recover from any backup taken with Veeam, be that VMware, Hyper-V, Veeam Agent for Windows...
A blog about my adventures in IT
Background Whilst migrating some service roles from Windows server 2008 R2 to Server 2016 I noticed that the Veeam backups of the new servers were failing with the error Failed to check whether snapshot is...
What has prompted this? Now that Stranger Things is out of the way (I know right, have to wait for season 3), I am going to build a plan for learning objectives and goals I...
Microsoft / Office 365 / VMware / VSPP
Background Starting with vCloud usage meter 3.6, there is a hard requirement that the appliance has to send email reports back to VMware. If like me, you run the usage meter in a ringfenced...
Nimble SFA – Putting your backup data to work. Following on from part 5 – a closer look at deduplication of this blog series, we will take a look at how the Nimble SFA helps...
Nimble SFA – A closer look at deduplication. Following on from part 4 – creating a Veeam backup job and what to look out for of this blog series, we will take a look at how...
Nimble SFA – Creating a Veeam backup job and what to look out for. Following on from part 3 – Volume Creation and Presentation to Veeam , of this blog series, we will take...
Nimble SFA Volume creation and presentation to Veeam Following on from Part 2 – Initial array setup , of this blog series, we will take a look at how to create a new volume on...
Nimble SFA Initial Setup Following on from Part 1 of this blog series, we will take a look at the initial setup of the Nimble SFA array. This is from discovery to establishing access...
Nimble SFA (Secondary Flash Array) Overview. I have been running a Nimble SFA SF100 device in conjunction with Veeam Backup and Replication for a couple of months now and I thought I would give...