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New release by Veeam: Veeam Backup Cloud Edition

New release by Veeam: Veeam Backup Cloud Edition

Today Veeam announced a new feature for Backup and Replication: Veeam Backup Cloud Edition. Veeam Backup Cloud Edition turns every leading public storage cloud into an easy-to-use data repository for backups, providing a powerful and affordable alternative to tape and traditional offsite backup storage. This means you can backup your data to different public storage providers such as Windows Azure, Amazon S3, Amazon Glacier, Rackspace,… By default they support 15 different storage providers. You can also add your own (for…

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Veeam webinar: building bi-directional DR and backup

Veeam webinar: building bi-directional DR and backup

Veeam has a nice upcoming webinar on december 18th called “building bi-directional DR and backup for the business”. This is a case study with VCDX and vExpert Joep Piscaer. Virtualization adds some challenges when it comes to disaster recovery (DR). DR procedures just aren’t the same in a virtualized environment as they are in a physical one and they require a different approach. Join VMware VCDX and vExpert, Joep Piscaer, during this one-hour webinar as he highlights the most important…

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vSphere Data Recovery (VDR) is dead! Welcome vSphere Data Protection (VDP)!

vSphere Data Recovery (VDR) is dead! Welcome vSphere Data Protection (VDP)!

With the new release on vSphere 5.1 VMware also released a new backup tool called vSphere Data Protection (VDP). This will replace the previous tool called vSphere Data Recovery. With this tool VMware will compete with other third-party software vendors like Veeam and PHD. What is it? vSphere Data Protection (VDP) is a new disk-based backup and recovery solution which is released as an appliance (again based on SuSE Linux 11). This solution is fully integrated with VMware vCenter Server…

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Combining Veeam and PowerCLI

Combining Veeam and PowerCLI

Veeam Backup & Replication is a great tool for backing up your virtual environment. U can use it to backup certain virtual machines or your whole environment by simply creating backup jobs in which u add virtual machines. Veeam has the option which sends an e-mail if a backup was successful or failed. Sadly there is one thing I couldn’t find and it’s an option to check which virtual machines are being backed up and which are not in a…

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