Veeam Software Official Blog » VMworld 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 Thu, 02 Feb 2012 12:26:20 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Veeam Sweeps the Results of the Best Free vSphere Tools Survey http://www.veeam.com/blog/veeam-sweeps-the-results-of-the-best-free-vsphere-tools-survey.html http://www.veeam.com/blog/veeam-sweeps-the-results-of-the-best-free-vsphere-tools-survey.html#comments Thu, 18 Nov 2010 15:00:19 +0000 vmdoug http://www.veeam.com/blog/?p=782 More >]]> Coming after a great Best of VMworld award and other accolades for Veeam Backup & Replication v5, it’s good to see that our free products are getting some awards as well. David Davis from Train Signal along with Kendrick Coleman from Acadia did a popular session (MA8339 “10 Best Free Tools for vSphere Management”) at VMworld 2010 in both San Francisco and Copenhagen. To coincide with these sessions, David Davis setup a poll on his site VMwareVideos.com to ask the community what their favorite free vSphere tools were. The results of this poll were announced on November 16, 2010 during a vChat episode that I was asked to be part of.

Below I have posted the graph showing the top 10 but notice that Veeam took the top 3 spots. Also, Veeam was the only vendor to score over 8, pretty impressive! Veeam FastSCP continues to be the most popular free vSphere tool as chosen by the community. Of course Veeam Monitor Free Edition and Veeam Reporter Free Edition also did extremely well. Thanks to everyone who voted!

]]> http://www.veeam.com/blog/veeam-sweeps-the-results-of-the-best-free-vsphere-tools-survey.html/feed 0 Veeam vPower and VMware vCloud Director http://www.veeam.com/blog/veeam-vpower-and-vmware-vcloud-director.html http://www.veeam.com/blog/veeam-vpower-and-vmware-vcloud-director.html#comments Fri, 10 Sep 2010 15:00:36 +0000 dsiles http://www.veeam.com/blog/?p=643 It has been a whirlwind month for the Veeam Teeam coming off a great showing at VMworld 2010 in San Francisco. While Veeam was collecting more awards for the corporate mantle last week, there was some great knowledge exchange taking place by the Veeam technical team as well.

A good friend of ours, Michael White with VMware let me know about a blog post he had forthcoming following the public announcement of VMware's vCloud Director product general availability. Michael is the Americas Solution Specialist SE for business continuity and disaster recovery for VMware. He contributes to the Uptime (Business Continuity) Blog at vmware.com.

Michael has been doing a good deal of testing with vCloud Director specifically in his domain of expertise. In his latest blog post he describes some of his results. Specifically of interest to me is Michael's testing of Veeam Backup & Replication v4 and the native ability to protect VMs that have been provisioned by vCloud Director.

If you are using agent based backups already in your organization, you can continue to do that. This may not work for you depending on the security that you have enabled in your cloud. If you are using the vStorage API set for the backup it may or may not work for you. Currently, the VMware Data Recovery (vDR) product will not work when backing up vCD provisioned VM's. This should be fixed in the next release of vDR. But generally, your software should work. In my testing I used vDR v1.2 (which didn't work), Backup Exec 2010 R2 13.0 Rev 4164 (agent based and worked) and Veeam 4.1.2.125 (which worked).

So if you want to start testing the new vCloud family of products, know that Veeam Backup & Replication, which is built on a solid architecture using available APIs and best practices, has you covered both today and in future.

A big thank you goes to Michael White for the testing and acknowledgment.

]]> http://www.veeam.com/blog/veeam-vpower-and-vmware-vcloud-director.html/feed 0 Veeam and vPower at VMworld US 2010 http://www.veeam.com/blog/veeam-and-vpower-at-vmworld-us-2010.html http://www.veeam.com/blog/veeam-and-vpower-at-vmworld-us-2010.html#comments Wed, 08 Sep 2010 23:07:35 +0000 vmdoug http://www.veeam.com/blog/?p=628 More >]]> To say VMworld was a success for Veeam this year would be an understatement. We had record traffic to our booth, record attendance at our party and to top it all off we took home a record 4 Best of VMworld awards from TechTarget’s SearchServerVirtualization.com, including Best of Show. At the booth we were doing live demos of our upcoming Veeam Backup & Replication v5 as well as our Veeam ONE Solution. Below is a collection of pictures and videos, thanks to everyone who helped make VMworld a huge success for Veeam! Of course we look forward to seeing even more people at VMworld Europe 2010 in Copenhagen.

Be sure to check our FaceBook page for a complete collection of pictures from the show floor as well as the Veeam party.

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Our CEO, Ratmir Timashev, with our Best of Show award
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]]> http://www.veeam.com/blog/veeam-and-vpower-at-vmworld-us-2010.html/feed 0 Christmas in August: Veeam’s Totally Transparent Blogger Contest http://www.veeam.com/blog/christmas-in-august-veeamrsquos-totally-transparent-blogger-contest.html http://www.veeam.com/blog/christmas-in-august-veeamrsquos-totally-transparent-blogger-contest.html#comments Fri, 06 Aug 2010 12:00:00 +0000 vmdoug http://www.veeam.com/blog/?p=473 More >]]>

For more information about Veeam Reporter Free Edition, click here

What: Shameless promotion to drive downloads for the new FREE product for VMware: Veeam Reporter Free Edition and also do some good at the same time via charitable donations

How: Bloggers who participate each get a special download link that tracks how many unique downloads each blogger sends.

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]]> http://www.veeam.com/blog/christmas-in-august-veeamrsquos-totally-transparent-blogger-contest.html/feed 0 Put us in the lab! http://www.veeam.com/blog/put-us-in-the-lab.html http://www.veeam.com/blog/put-us-in-the-lab.html#comments Mon, 21 Sep 2009 15:22:39 +0000 vmdoug http://veeammeup.com/?p=149 If you're on the Veeam distribution list you'll be getting some of the text below today as part of an ecard. I wanted to go ahead and blog it here as well because I think it's an important message from Veeam. Sorry if this seems to be a bit of a marketing message (but it's important to me):

"We've received numerous questions from our partners and customers on why a competing product won the Gold award in the Business Continuity & Data Protection category. We know that judges are put in a difficult position when they have to choose from almost 200 products in a short period of time. For this award, the judges cannot, and do not, install, test or evaluate the products in a lab. Instead, they mostly rely on vendor statements in their judging process. We encourage all customers to "Put Veeam in the Lab" for a head-to-head comparison with competitive products, and make the right decision for your environment. We are confident you will find out why Veeam Backup & Replication is #1 for VMware backup."

So, if you're interested in seeing why Veeam is #1, fill out the form here and we'll send you some information as well as help you get started on evaluating Veeam Backup & Replication in YOUR environment so you can makeup your own mind on who the winner really is.

]]> http://www.veeam.com/blog/put-us-in-the-lab.html/feed 3 The videos are in (VOTE) http://www.veeam.com/blog/the-videos-are-in.html http://www.veeam.com/blog/the-videos-are-in.html#comments Tue, 16 Jun 2009 17:58:43 +0000 vmdoug http://veeammeup.com/?p=69 More >]]> Just a quick update to let everyone know that the Veeam videos for the VMworld contest are in and have been posted to the forums for voting. I can't endorse any of them here but of course I'm sure we all have favorites. Do you? Well then vote!

We've heard that some people are having issues registering on our forums. We do apologize for that but in an effort to keep out spam we have to dis-allow certain email domains (gmail, hotmail) and we also have a CAPTCHA that has been made a bit more user friendly (black and white instead of color). I didn't realize until just the other day that some color CAPTCHA's are very difficult for people who are color blind.

Anyway, vote for your favorite and be sure to leave a comment. There's a bonus prize of a Flip going to the person with the best comment.

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