Thoughts on Virtualization & Virtualization Management as well as Veeam in general - Veeam Software Official Blog » Microsoft http://www.veeam.com/blog News, thoughts & updates about Veeam VMware management solutions, virtualization technologies. Discussions about VMware ESX / ESXi, Hyper-V, vSphere and VI Tue, 17 Aug 2010 12:12:09 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 We’ve Moved! http://www.veeam.com/blog/weve-moved.html http://www.veeam.com/blog/weve-moved.html#comments Tue, 03 Aug 2010 17:15:28 +0000 vmdoug http://www.veeam.com/blog/?p=466 Some of you may have noticed that it’s been a while since there was a post on VeeamMeUp.com. The reason for that (besides the fact that I’ve been busy) is that we’re moved the “un-official” VeeamMeUp blog to a new home, Veeam.com/blog. What started out for me 3 years ago as an experiment and play on words has now grown into a full fledged corporate blog.

The move was necessary for several reasons, most of which have to do with the fact that Veeam recognizes the value of blogging and rather than starting from scratch we decided to move VeeamMeUp. We’ve imported all of the content over and have redirected the traffic from VeeamMeUp to this new address so (hopefully) any incoming links will be preserved as well as any internal links. Of course with any migration there’s always the chance for an issue so if you notice something, please comment or let me know at VMDoug at Veeam dot com.

I will still be providing much of the content as VMDoug but you’ll also see some other contributors here as well. Our goal is to open up the blog to the smart people we have here at Veeam so that they can contribute as well. Who knows, we might even see a post or two from Ratmir.

For now, here’s a quick list of what’s been going on the past month…

-doug

]]> http://www.veeam.com/blog/weve-moved.html/feed 2 Veeam and Microsoft Tech·Ed 2010 http://www.veeam.com/blog/veeam-and-microsoft-teched-2010.html http://www.veeam.com/blog/veeam-and-microsoft-teched-2010.html#comments Thu, 03 Jun 2010 21:07:24 +0000 vmdoug http://veeammeup.com/2010/06/veeam-and-microsoft-teched-2010.html More >]]> It’s always fun trying to pick themes for Tradeshows. With VMworld we can pretty much pick any theme since everyone there is part of our target audience. With Microsoft Tech·Ed the decision is a bit more difficult…how do we appeal just to select audience members that manage VMware?

gotvmware_final

OK, maybe that wasn’t so difficult after all.

If you’re going to be in New Orleans June 7-10, please stop by the Veeam booth and learn all about how you can manage VMware with Microsoft System Center. We’re going to have a good size booth and plenty of engineers on hand to demo our Veeam nworks Management Pack 5.5, including our new PRO Pack for SCVMM that we announced back at the Microsoft Management Summit.

Besides product demos we’re also going to be giving away “Got VMware” t-shirts and we’ll also have raffle drawings during the show where we’re giving away a free copy of Train Signal’s System Center Operations Manager Training. We’d like to thank our friends at Train Signal for working with us on this raffle. The drawing times for the raffle are below, make sure you’re at the Veeam booth for your chance to win.

  • Monday 8 p.m.
  • Tuesday 4:30
  • Wednesday 4:30
  • Thursday 2:45

The Veeam Team looks forward to seeing everyone in New Orleans!

]]> http://www.veeam.com/blog/veeam-and-microsoft-teched-2010.html/feed 1 Veeam and Microsoft Management Summit 2010 http://www.veeam.com/blog/veeam-and-microsoft-management-summit-2010.html http://www.veeam.com/blog/veeam-and-microsoft-management-summit-2010.html#comments Mon, 12 Apr 2010 14:47:32 +0000 vmdoug http://veeammeup.com/?p=381 I’m really looking forward to my first MMS experience next week in Las Vegas. Veeam is a gold sponsor at MMS this year and with good reason, we have some exciting announcements to make. If you listen to my Chinwag with Mike Laverick, you’ll get an idea of what those announcements are (around 28 minutes in). I’m not going to write about those announcements yet, I’ll do a post after MMS and share my thoughts on what I learned as well as the reaction we get regarding our Microsoft System Center strategy moving forward.

The giveaways!

Of course people want to know what kind of swag they can expect from Veeam when they visit our booth #111. We will have our popular “blinky luggage tags” as well as some fine branded USB drives (loaded with Veeam goodness), but what about the “big giveaway”? I’m happy to announce that we’ll also be giving away copies of the latest and greatest book on Microsoft System Center Operations Manager: System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 Unleashed by Kerrie Meyler, Cameron Fuller, John Joyner, Andy Dominey. We will have a limited number of copies available and as always it will be first-come-first-served so make sure to make you way to booth #111 quickly. We’re also happy to have the authors of the book on-hand in our booth to do book signings, the schedule is below. If you’d like to get an idea of the type of content in the book, check out a recent post on System Center Central where the authors talk about the Veeam nworks MP for VMware.

MMS Book Signing Schedule

The following times are when the authors of System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 Unleashed will be at Veeam Booth #111 for book signings:

Tuesday: 1:00 – 2:00 PM

Wednesday: 1:00 – 2:00 and 5:00 – 6:00 PM

Thursday: 1:30 – 2:30 PM

]]> http://www.veeam.com/blog/veeam-and-microsoft-management-summit-2010.html/feed 1 Veeam announces commitment to Hyper-V http://www.veeam.com/blog/veeam-announces-commitment-to-hyper-v.html http://www.veeam.com/blog/veeam-announces-commitment-to-hyper-v.html#comments Fri, 24 Jul 2009 07:09:11 +0000 vmdoug http://veeammeup.com/?p=86 Several weeks ago Microsoft approached Veeam asking us if we would be supporting Hyper-V, especially their R2 release which RTM’ed just the other day. Of course Veeam’s strategy is to support Hyper-V, we just hadn’t announced it publicly yet. Micosoft was kind enough to allow me a guest blog spot on their virtualization blog to make the announcement. Veeam will be making additional announcements on this blog discussing our Hyper-V strategy in more detail in the coming weeks, we’re very excited to be entering this new era of virtualization.

Check out the full post here, below is an exerpt.

R2 Veeam Too

Veeam’s tagline is “listening to you, building the tools you need.” We’ve heard your requests and we’d like to announce now that Veeam is committed to fully supporting Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V and Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2. While Veeam has continued to build some of the best software for data protection and management of VMware infrastructures, we realize that customers are now faced with more virtualization choices. By fully supporting Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware vSphere, Veeam can help you manage heterogeneous hypervisor deployments and clouds with the innovative solutions you’ve come to expect from Veeam. The management and R&D teams at Veeam have a long history of working with Microsoft going back to the Aelita days, and we’re all excited to be working with Microsoft again.

Update July 30, 2009

Check out VMETC’s post on the laws of vMotion

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