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.
As Veeam moves forward and starts to become focused two virtualization platforms, I thought to myself now is the time to work out how I’m going to introduce Microsoft Hyper-V in my lab environment. I wanted to know if it could be virtualized running inside a VMware virtual machine of some sorts. Veeam has been very successful in presenting its solutions through the use of portable labs running for example on laptops nested under VMware Workstation. We would often have a nested ESX server, vCenter, DC and Veeam apps running on a single laptop and I wanted to know if Hyper-V could be thrown into the mix.
This post will function as a how-to guide and provide a step-by-step process to run Hyper-V virtual machines on either VMware Workstation 8 or ESXi 5.
In this special guest post, Greg Stuart writes about his favorite vSphere 5 features. This guest post is in Greg’s own words.
By now, you’ve likely heard about VMware’s latest release of its industry-leading vSphere virtualization suite, vSphere 5. If you are a blogger or technical person, I’m sure you have some level of deep dive with the product or were even a beta tester. Either way, it’s an exciting release, and one that has generated plenty of chatter around the globe. So much has already been said about vSphere 5, good and bad, but I want to focus on what I think are the coolest new features of the Cloud Infrastructure Suite release. (I promise this article won’t have anything to do with licensing; I think enough has been said about that.) There are so many top ten and top five lists out there; I thought I would be unconventional and share my two favorite vSphere 5 features. Frankly, there are so many cool features of vSphere 5; it’s hard to pick! Here are my two favorite features of vSphere 5.
In this special guest post, Andrey Konovalov provides a deep-dive of his strategy with Veeam’s SureBackup functionality.
As I was exploring possibilities of Veeam Backup & Replication, I took a close look at SureBackup – the new functionality that lets you automatically verify the recoverability of virtual machine (VM) backups.
So, what does SureBackup actually do? With Veeam Backup & Replication, you can publish and start a VM right from a backup in a Virtual Lab. A virtual lab is a dedicated environment isolated from the rest of your infrastructure. Every virtual lab includes a set of isolated networks, virtual switches and port groups. It is important to note that these objects do not connect to any physical networks. This avoids any contention with production virtual machines[rv1] . [hk2] When you create a virtual lab, you select one or more ESX(I) hosts on which your VMs will run, choose storage that will keep temporary log files, and define network settings.
The other key component to a virtual lab is the Application Group. The Application Group contains VMs you want to verify. In the simplest case, the group can have just one VM; in most cases, however, there are a number of VMs to verify. For example, to check application servers—a web server or a mail server— you may need to deploy infrastructure services (such as DNS, directory service and database servers). When you create the group, you should define in which order the VMs will be started, and what tests will be used to verify each of these VMs.
In this special guest post, VMware vExpert Sean Clark offers his take on a recent Veeam-sponsored whitepaper and webinar that are now available.
If you were like the rest of us in the Midwest and Great Lakes region recently, you got socked by one the worst blizzards. Here in Central Illinois the kids missed 3 days of school, and work was shut down for a day and half. Well, as luck would have it, Veeam had scheduled my webinar, "Essentials of Legacy-Free Data Protection" at noon on Friday of that week. My guess is that many of my Midwestern friends and colleagues were probably digging out from the missed work midweek, and were unable to attend as a result. More >
One of the cornerstones of Veeam is interaction with the virtualization community. As you may have noticed, we’ve branched out into a few new spaces recently. Regarding white papers, we have recently launched a few new ones; written by members of the virtualization community:
In this whitepaper, Sean navigates through the journey we have all experienced in one way or another-from traditional server environments to the virtualized data center. What about data protection? Sean explains howdata protection needs to be changed along the way as well.
VSS has been in use for a number of years and across a number of different applications. However, not until you read Greg’s whitepaper on VSS will your understanding be complete. Greg explains why VSS is important as well as the risks of not using VSS properly as applied to virtualized environments.
Chapters one and two of this e-book are a great resource to identify the key concepts of VMware virtual machine backups, best practices and real world examples of using VMware data protection strategies. More chapters from Eric are on their way, and this series will bring something for everyone.
We need more great content from virtualization experts like you.. If you are interested in writing a whitepaper or other product for Veeam, here are some of the things we are looking for:
Virtualization experience: Above all else, we need community content that is based on real-world experience with virtualization.
Focus on content: Let the Veeam Teeam make the formatting magic happen in the white paper – you just have to bring the unique content.
Timeliness: We need to be able to set a delivery date with you and stick to it.
Good ideas for content: Experience is a great source of content, and if you have experiences related to virtual machine data protection and management that can be presented clearly; we’d like to talk to you.
What is involved with writing a whitepaper for Veeam?
First of all, these are sponsored whitepapers in which a negotiated fee is set to create content that the contributor is interested in writing and Veeam is interested in sponsoring. A delivery date, word count and other big picture content objectives are set; and that is it!
If you are interested in contributing content to Veeam, please email Zorian Rotenberg, Veeam’s VP of Special Projects at zorian@veeam.com.
This post will include information on the VCP VI3 certification offered by VMware.
To become a VCP VI3 you need to do three things:
1. You have to take the VMware authorized course. No if, ands, or buts! The classes are instructor led and will allow you to get your hands dirty with VMware. There's three courses you can take.
VMware Infrastructure 3: Install and Configure V3.5
VMware Infrastructure 3: Deploy, Secure and Analyze V3.5
VMware Infrastructure 3: Fast Track V3.5
2. Get hands on experience with VMware. What's the point of trying to get a VCP without using it!?
3.Sign up and pass the exam: http://www.pearsonvue.com/vmware
Now that doesn't sound too hard, does it? Well, I wouldn't say taking IT exams is easy. (Unless, you're dumping, which I completely do not agree with.) Usually the hard part of getting a VCP is money. $2500-$3000 a course seems a little steep for a lot of people.(Although, Fast Track = $5495 but includes the exam) I see where VMware is coming from, especially due to the current state of IT certification. (i.e. people cheating/dumping exams.) Also, with the course you receive a VMware messenger bag, I mean, that's totally worth $3000, right?
After you have passed your exam, you will receive a complimentary license of VMware workstation, a $175 "savings". Interesting that the course itself costs about the same.
So, why get your VCP? Why does anyone get IT certifications? We all have different reasons, career advancement, your employer requires you to, or you just like to learn. Whatever your reason may be, getting certified in a technology is always beneficial.
Below are some resources you can use to learn more about VMware certifications:
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