Jan 27th 2012
Recently, we released Veeam End User Training. This is a great resource that can help people new to Veeam understand the details of each of our products’ technical components.
While we’ve had educational content in the past for partners, having this End User Training is our next exciting milestone.
Jan 24th 2012
It is with great excitement that we announce that Chris Henley has joined Veeam! Chris will be working with myself (Doug Hazelman) and Rick Vanover to build relationships within the Microsoft Hyper-V and virtualization community. You can follow Chris on Twitter
Chris comes to Veeam after 9 years of working with Microsoft as an IT Pro Evangelist. He loves technology and has a passion for helping others implement solutions that make their lives work better. Chris is an accomplished public speaker with a fun style that conveys deep technical concepts in ways that are easy to understand. Chris is the co-author of “” as well as a contributing author of “.” He loves to write and says, “It is a great experience writing technical material! People use that book to make their environment better. I love being a part of their solution!”
Chris spends a lot of his time working on emerging technologies and teaching IT Professionals how to take advantage of those opportunities. One of his key areas of focus in the past 2 or 3 years has been on Hyper-V and the virtualization space.
While delivering a series of seminars focused on Cloud design Chris was introduced to Veeam and its Backup and Replication tools.
“I knew right away that this was something I wanted to be involved in! The tools were focused on the future of IT. They were designed with virtualization in mind. They were easy to use and they just worked. As soon as backup and replication v6 came along with support for Hyper V I knew I had to get on board with Veeam! The opportunity here is Amazing!
Chris loves Hyper V and thinks that it will be a key player in the hypervisor marketplace. He is excited to be a part of the growth and development of Veeam!
You may have also noticed that we’ve done some redesign on the blog. All posts will not feature a header that includes a photo of the author, an example including Chris’ picture is below.
Welcome to the Veeam Teeam Chris!
When it comes to architecting jobs for VMware vSphere virtual machines, the Automatic option for the Transport mode proxy configuration is the best option if you are not giving too much thought to the configuration. The Automatic option goes through a number of communications options checks to see what’s available on the proxy and determine the best way to back up the VM. This decision process has a number of factors that go into the mode selection for the active job. Direct SAN access is favored first in all situations, virtual appliance hot-add as the next best thing, and Network Mode as the common denominator to work in most every situation to sum up the process.
The ability to restore files directly to the source virtual machine within the Enterprise Manager Web UI is one of the key new Veeam Backup & Replication v6 features. Best done with Active Directory security groups, 1-Click File Restore allows selected files to be restored directly to a VM’s guest-operating system, without the user requiring access to:
Dec 12th 2011
On Feb. 1, 2012 Veeam Backup & Replication will have new pricing. This is timed loosely with the release of Veeam Backup & Replication v6, which brings 72 new and improved features to our flagship product. The big areas of new features are enterprise scalability, enhanced replication, and support for Hyper-V and 1-Click file restore capabilities, among other things, in the new Enterprise Manager web interface. Did you catch the series of four webinars about the new features of version 6? These webinars as well as their slides are available from our v6 launch page: Extending the lead in VM backup.
This is a special guest post by Veeam SE Mike Beevor from the United Kingdom. Follow mike on Twitter .
Over the last few months, I have found myself being asked more and more about Veeam’s permissions, coming face to face with the ultra-paranoid of the IT world: the Security team. Having promised to send out the Permissions Guide to a customer with a rather unusual set up, I thought that I would blog about some of the more interesting questions I’ve been asked and some of the more useful information I’ve discovered.
Nov 30th 2011
On the back of every Veeam business card is our motto “Listening to you, building the tools you need.”
This is important because today we have released Veeam Backup & Replication v6 after over a year of R&D effort. What makes this release so significant in my view is that it’s your release. When I say it’s your release I mean that if you take a look at all the new features and enhancements, they were almost all driven by direct customer and partner feedback.
Better Scalability? You got it!
Our new proxy/repository architecture allows you to scale out a single Backup & Replication server to thousands of VMs. You can still go with a single server and let it be the proxy and repository but as your environment grows you can now grow with it.
Enhanced Replication? Yep!
If you take a look at the What’s New around replication alone you’ll see that this is one of the areas we focused most of our attention on. Re-IP? Check. Failback? Check. Traffic Throttling? Check. Better seeding? Check.
Support for multiple hypervisors? Yes!
Now I know not everyone asked us to support but a fair number of customers and partners did, as well as a lot of Hyper-V shops that wanted the functionality of Veeam Backup & Replication. The fact that you get support for VMware and Microsoft virtualization all from a single install and interface is huge news.
I'd like to give a big Thank You to all of our customers, partners and prospects who had so much to do with this release. We get our best feedback through our forums so please continue to post great feedback there. We're already working on the next release and we'll have some BIG news to share early next year (again, from YOUR input) so watch for the countdown clock.
For a comprehensive overview of v6, please check out the webinar series that includes product demos:
While completing the beta process before releasing Veeam Backup & Replication v6, we compiled a list of new v6 features and enhancements—a total of 72! Version 6 will be released very soon, officially this quarter; but the excitement is building by the minute!
Although that earlier list is now public in the we wanted to show this in another way. We decided to create a numbered list for a better look at v6 features and enhancements: a 30,000-ft. view from the top.
WOW! What a list!
Here is the list of Veeam Backup & Replication v6 new and improved features (drum roll….):
I’ve been asked by Microsof’ts Central Region Evangelists to participate in a series of blog posts called “30 Days of Cloud”. This is an effort by Microsoft’s Evangelist team to create 30 posts in 30 days all talking about “The Cloud” and of course Microsoft technologies and enabling the private, public and hybrid cloud. The series is created by , , , and and I’m happy to put my own 2 cents in on this series.
As Kevin pointed out in , there are resources to help VMware IT Pros understand how to work with Hyper-V. This is extremely helpful, especially if you need to run a mixed environment of both VMware and Microsoft virtualization technologies. If you end up with a mixed environment, the next question is how do you manage it all? has been able to connect to your VMware environment since the beginning. With , you’ll also be able to connect to a environment. Of course with SCVMM 2012 you’ll have the ability to define your compute “fabric” as detailed in Yung Chou’s post, . This means that once defined, it shouldn’t matter if your hypervisor is , Citrix XenServer or Hyper-V.
Getting all these virtualization platforms defined in SCVMM is a great start but then you have to consider how to keep track of it all. How many times has “virtualization” been blamed for issues in your environment when the real cause is something unrelated? Only through comprehensive monitoring of the virtualization fabric can you get true app-to-metal visibility in your environment. For , Microsoft already has a and Citrix recommends the . On the VMware side, Veeam has been offering a Management Pack for VMware since the MOM days.
I bring up the importance of monitoring because when you have multiple platforms it’s very important from an operational sense to make sure you have solid metrics for each. Thanks to the extensibility of System Center Operations Manager, there are numerous 3rd party management packs available for a wide range of systems and operating systems. Veeam just happens to make a great Management Pack for VMware. For a good overview, check out a recent Webinar we did with Pete Zerger, MVP – OpsMgr, Cameron Fuller, MVP - OpsMgr and Alec King, product manager for the MP.
Author bio:
Doug Hazelman is the Vice President of Product Strategy for Veeam Software. Doug shares his expertise via the Veeam blog, and other social media outlets. Doug has spoken about virtualization management at VMworld 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011, Interop, and other events including regional VMUG meetings.
Nov 2nd 2011
Veeam launched earlier this year. V-index, a free community resource, provides quarterly updates about the virtualization community.
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