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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).
Veeam Explorer for Microsoft SharePoint 2013 is now available

Veeam Explorer for Microsoft SharePoint 2013 is now available

Veeam announced the final release for Microsoft SharePoint 2013. Next to support for SharePoint 2010, 2013 is now supported as well. You can download it here. Microsoft SharePoint is traditionally one of the most difficult applications for performing e-discovery and granular recovery. Veeam Explorer for Microsoft SharePoint gives you instant visibility into SharePoint backups with quick search and recovery of individual SharePoint items or lists. You’ll never have to worry about accidental deletions again! System Requirements Veeam Backup & Replication…

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Patch 2 for Veeam Backup & Replication 7 released: vSphere 5.5 and Windows 2012 R2 support!

Patch 2 for Veeam Backup & Replication 7 released: vSphere 5.5 and Windows 2012 R2 support!

Veeam released the second patch for Veeam Backup & Replication 7 (build number: 7.0.0.764). Veeam also likes to call this Veeam Backup & Replication R2. After the initial release about 3 months ago Veeam received a lot of positive feedback and resolved more issues and added some additional features. This is the compatibility patch for vSphere 5.5, vCloud Director 5.5, Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V and Windows 8.1! The KB page can be found at: http://www.veeam.com/kb1831. Besides the long awaited…

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New Fling: VMware Tools for Nested ESXi by VMware Labs

New Fling: VMware Tools for Nested ESXi by VMware Labs

VMware Labs released a new Fling called VMware Tools for Nested ESXi. The download is available as vib and is about 1.8MB. This VIB package provides a VMware Tools service (vmtoolsd) for running inside a nested ESXi virtual machine. The following capabilities are exposed through VMware Tools: Provides guest OS information of the nested ESXi Hypervisor (eg. IP address, configured hostname, etc.). Allows the nested ESXi VM to be cleanly shut down or restarted when performing power operations with the…

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New Fling: PowerCLI Extensions by VMware Labs

New Fling: PowerCLI Extensions by VMware Labs

VMware Labs released a new Fling called PowerCLI Extensions. The download is available as zip and is about 66KB. VMware PowerCLI is one of the most successful command line tools for managing your VMware products. With the many existing cmdlets designed for the system administrator or vSphere Admin, PowerCLI is the easiest and most powerful tool for managing your environment. This fling adds a PowerShell module with PowerCLI cmdlets for managing vSphere Flash Read Cache and VMware Virtual SAN. Screenshot…

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5 December 2013: 20th Belgium VMUG+ Meeting

5 December 2013: 20th Belgium VMUG+ Meeting

Wow, already the 20th VMUG meeting in Belgium and look at the line-up! I will be there, will you? The agenda of this meeting: 9u00 – Welcome (Erik Schils) 9u15 – Keynote (Chad Sakac) 10u00 – Parallel tracks ROOM 1: Stretched Storage Clusters, Best Practices (Lee Dilworth) ROOM 2: User Case: A 4K VDI (Seb Hakiel) 10u45 – Break 11u00 – “Bringing Google-like Infrastructure to the Enterprise” (Dheeraj Pandey) 11u45 – Parallel tracks ROOM 1: Trend Micro ROOM 2: Cisco…

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