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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).
New whitepaper: Getting the best availability for Microsoft Exchange with Veeam

New whitepaper: Getting the best availability for Microsoft Exchange with Veeam

As a follow-up to a series of webinars based on Exchange 2013 (Get started with Microsoft Exchange 2013), Veeam now published the whitepaper. This whitepaper has a bit more focus on the Veeam part and how to get the best availability for your Exchange infrastructure. This whitepaper is written by my Veeam colleague Johan Huttenga and myself. You can get it here. Any feedback is appreciated! Enjoy!

Veeam Availability Suite v8 released: what’s in it for you?

Veeam Availability Suite v8 released: what’s in it for you?

The Veeam Availability Suite v8 (Veeam Backup & Replication and Veeam One combined) is finally here. We have been giving hints about features for the past months and these are now available for you to use and improve your environment and increase availability! Veeam Backup & Replication v8 also includes a workaround for the recent found CBT bug in VMware vSphere (KB2090639). Another good reason to use SureBackup! Instead of just listing all the what’s new things I decided to…

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How a legacy application can kill your Always-On Business dream

How a legacy application can kill your Always-On Business dream

The title of this blogpost may be a rough choice but it feeds my current thoughts on the current model of the Always-On Business. Lately I have been meeting a lot of people around protecting their business data and helping them to achieve the Always-On Business. Something that I do notice is that a lot of people/companies have the need for (near-)continuous data protection but the applications which they need to have online all the time 24/7 are far from…

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Patch 4 for Veeam Backup & Replication 7 released!

Patch 4 for Veeam Backup & Replication 7 released!

Veeam released the fourth patch for Veeam Backup & Replication 7 (build number: 7.0.0.871). This patch can be obtained via http://www.veeam.com/kb1891.This patch adds support for VMware Virtual SAN (vSAN) and Microsoft SQL 2014! New Features and Enhancements VMware Virtual SAN (VSAN) In addition to adding basic support (as provided by other vendors), the intelligent load-balancing engine was enhanced to account for VSAN specifics. As the result, for each VM the job will pick backup proxy running on VSAN cluster node…

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Book review: Learning Veeam Backup and Replication for VMware vSphere

Book review: Learning Veeam Backup and Replication for VMware vSphere

Christian Mohn wrote a book which will help you get started with Veeam Backup & Replication v7. The book is about 110 pages and contains 5 chapters. Introduction to Veeam Backup & Replication v7 for VMware Configuring Backups Restoring Data Replicating Virtual Machines Other Feature Introduction to Veeam Backup & Replication v7 for VMware This chapter explains the different compononents within a Veeam Backup & Replication infrastructure. It also takes a look on some common backup strategies and terms which…

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