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Author: Niels Engelen

Working as a Principal Analyst in Product Management for Veeam Software with an interest in anything virtual and cloud with a strong focus on AWS, Azure and Microsoft 365. He is also a VMware Certified Professional, a Veeam Certified Architect and gained the VMware vExpert award (2012-2022).
PernixData FVP 3.0 is now available

PernixData FVP 3.0 is now available

PernixData finally released PernixData FVP 3.0 which includes 3 new features. What is PernixData FVP? PernixData FVP software puts storage intelligence into high speed server media, establishing a control point for optimizing application performance and managing data center operations with true scale-out growth. With FVP, customers can leverage any storage platform for capacity, creating a decoupled storage architecture that maximizes design flexibility while minimizing storage costs. vSphere 6.0 support This is a long awaited feature and all you need to…

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Update 2 for the Veeam Availability Suite v8 released!

Update 2 for the Veeam Availability Suite v8 released!

Today Veeam announced Update 2 (notice the name change from patch to update) for the Veeam Avaiability Suite v8. This means updates are available for both products in the Availability Suite: Release Notes for Veeam Backup & Replication 8.0 Update 2 Release Notes for Veeam ONE v8 Update 2 vSphere 6 FULL support The most important new feature is the FULL vSphere 6 support. This includes all new additional features such as backing up VVols, VSAN 2.0, Fault Tolerant VM’s…

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Announcing an additional VMCE practice exam

Announcing an additional VMCE practice exam

Ever since the release of the VMCE certificate I have been receiving questions related to Veeam products. More often I received questions if Veeam has a full practice exam and besides the VMCE 7 to VMCE 8 practice exam there is no official practice exam. However there is a practice exam created by Rasmus Haslund. He is a Veeam Certified Engineer trainer who created 50 questions when VMCE 7 came out and this has recently been updated to version 8….

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My personal VMCE 8 experience

My personal VMCE 8 experience

This blogpost is a bit overdue but I still wanted to share my experience with the Veeam Certified Engineer exam. The Veeam Certified Engineer (VMCE) course is a technical deep-dive that provides extensive information on Veeam solutions. This 3 day course will go further then the Veeam Sales Technical Professional as this course also adds lab time with an overview on Veeam Backup & Replication and Veeam One. Currently there is no Management Pack module but I am sure this…

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Preview: Veeam Endpoint Backup integration with Veeam Backup & Replication

Preview: Veeam Endpoint Backup integration with Veeam Backup & Replication

Last friday Veeam announced the RC for Veeam Endpoint Backup and with it also the integration towards Veeam Backup & Replication v8. The video below demonstrates how easy it is to backup any endpoint computer towards the Veeam Backup repository and afterwards export the backup to a VMDK and use it with a virtual machine. To test this there are 2 requirements: Veeam Endpoint Backup FREE RC has to be installed on an endpoint device Veeam Backup & Replication v8…

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