Recorded Webinars

Learn how you can manage your virtual environments in a more efficient manner with Veeam Backup & Replication™ - Modern Data Protection Built for Virtualisation™.

Watch this presentation that Veeam had at IDC event in Ireland.

VMware customers using industry-leading Veeam Backup software can get faster, more reliable backups with ExaGrid's high-performance, scalable disk-based backup appliance while also integrating quickly and easily with their existing infrastructures.

In this episode of Whiteboard Fridays, the Veeam® panel and Mark Polin from ExaGrid will discuss the following:

• Simple, quick and cost-effective disk-based backup
• Veeam Instant VM Recovery directly from your ExaGrid appliance.
• Scalability that meets your business needs
• Address the challenges of backup windows and recovery problems

Managing your Private Cloud goes beyond virtualisation management. Using the right tools to manage from the metal through to the application is essential in supporting the business needs of today and tomorrow.

In this joint-presentation between Microsoft and Veeam, we will explain how you can manage your private cloud with System Center and Veeam.

Join Edward Cook, Partner Technology Advisor, Core IO from Microsoft UK and Mike Resseler, EMEA Microsoft Evangelist from Veeam to learn more about Microsoft System Center, Veeam Backup and Replication, and the new Management Pack for VMware on top of Operations Manager.

Watch this recorded webcast of our Veeam On Tour Event that took place at 23 of April in London

Learn how you can manage your virtual environments in a more efficient manner with Veeam Backup & Replication™ - Modern Data Protection Built for Virtualisation™.

Short agenda:

• Introduction to Modern Data Protection: Powerful, Easy–to–Use, Affordable!
Starting at 00:01:30
• Customer Success Story - What were the challenges Veeam customer faced before implementing Veeam and what are the results after the implementation.
Starting at 00:21:15
• Backup&Replication 6.5 Live Demo and some v7 features announced.
Starting at 00:41:00

Protecting virtualized applications isn′t always an easy task. Apps need special treatment if the data you're capturing is to be restorable. One part of that special treatment comes from choosing a Modern Data Protection™ solution that′s Built for Virtualization™. Another is using best practices to ensure that your data protection solution integrates with Microsoft′s Volume Shadow Copy Service, or VSS -- even with VMware vSphere environments.

Watch this webinar to learn:

• How to protect virtualized applications
• Best practices for data protection integration with VSS
• VSS tips and tricks for VM Admins

Veeam Backup & Replication's item recovery abilities address one of the most common IT problems — it lets you restore individual application items (such as e-mail messages, database records, directory objects), that were accidentally deleted or corrupted, directly from VM backups.

Watch this recorded webinar to learn how you can utilize Veeam power for more advanced goals and allow VMware administrators to:

• Ensure Active Directory domain controllers are backed up correctly
• Recover items from Active Directory such as users, groups or organizational units
• See how networking configuration should be addressed for optimal recovery of Active Directory objects

Watch this recorded session to see all of Veeam Management Pack™ v6’s new capabilities and enhancements. In this episode, we will be joined by Michael Stafford and Mike Resseler, experts in System Center and Veeam MP to share best practices for utilization and deployments.

What’s new in Veeam MP v6?

• New capacity planning reports - Take the guesswork out of VMware capacity planning, and find capacity issues before they cause real problems.
• New System Center 2012 dashboards - Veeam MP v6 has more than 30 new dashboard views that leverage the new System Center 2012 Operations Manager dashboard widgets, giving you real-time performance views for your critical vSphere systems.
• vSphere analysis reports - Veeam MP v6 offers easy-to-use reports, with information about common issues in any virtual infrastructure.
• New model for storage and network - New topology views in Veeam MP v6 map not only the vSphere compute resources, but also the distributed storage and network fabric.

Get the answer in the first webinar of a three-part series, where Steven Duckaert, Veeam System Engineer, explains what a private cloud is, and the benefits of using it, such as:

• Direct control over all aspects of the cloud's implementation including the hardware, networking, the operating system and even specifics of security implementation
• Affordability and ease of use
• Management automation
• Scalability

Watch our recorded webinar to learn how to find and fix problems fast with NEW Veeam Management Pack v6. Find out how Veeam MP v6 extends deep VMware monitoring, management and capacity planning to Microsoft System Center for a unified view of your applications and physical and virtual infrastructures — all from one console! Join Microsoft MVP and System Center expert Mike Resseler to learn about these NEW Veeam MP v6 features:

• Capacity planning reports for VMware to model, forecast and plan for storage, CPU and memory needs
• Correlated performance metrics in alert descriptions to solve problems faster
• Storage and network topology views for deeper VMware visibility, and more!

Zarafa Collaboration Platform (ZCP) is an open source e-mail and collaboration platform. It's a popular alternative to Microsoft Exchange.

As with a lot of Microsoft or Windows-based applications, Exchange Server integrates with the Microsoft VSS-framework to provide consistent backups within Veeam Backup & Replication. Unfortunately, Zarafa does not integrate with this VSS-framework.

In this recorded webinar, Joep Piscaer will explain the options available to you, the Zarafa ZCP administrator, to backup this application:

• What is backup application consistency and why is it so important?
• Evaluating Zarafa ZCP components and relevance to application consistency
• What options to backup Zarafa ZCP are available within Veeam Backup & Replication?
• Integrating application consistency into SureBackup

Learn how "Veeam Speed" can help rev up your virtual environment with comprehensive data protection and virtualization management that's powerful, easy-to-use and affordable!

In this recorded session we will cover:

• SAN infrastructure
• File-level recovery options: Veeam Explorer™ for Microsoft Exchange™, SAN Snapshots and SharePoint
• Management and monitoring options

Hyper-V replica is an inexpensive way of putting a new layer in your Disaster Recovery plan. Learn the pro’s and con’s of this feature and see what added value Veeam Backup and Replication can give you in these scenario’s.

Learn how "Veeam Speed" can help rev up your virtual environment with comprehensive data protection and virtualization management that's powerful, easy-to-use and affordable!

In this recorded session we will cover:

• Leveraging SureBackup® for audit and verification purposes
• Understanding U-AIR® (Universal Application-Item Recovery) and application-item recovery wizards for Microsoft Active Directory, Exchange and SQL Server
• Creating your own On-Demand Sandbox for testing and development

Learn how "Veeam Speed" can help rev up your virtual environment with comprehensive data protection and virtualization management that's powerful, easy-to-use and affordable!

In this recorded session we will cover:

• Understanding replication proxies and their roles
• Managing replicas on different subnets and domains—RE-IP on the fly
• Replicating and managing bandwidth across your WAN—bandwidth throttling

Using Windows Server 2012 Data Deduplication with Veeam Backup & Replication

Backing up your entire virtual infrastructure will keep your mind at ease, but it comes at the cost of used disk space. The amount of data you have on backup repositories can grow quickly. Using Data Deduplication in Microsoft Windows Server 2012, however, will save a significant amount of storage space without the use of complex or expensive tools.

In this recorded webinar, Joep Piscaer will guide you through a typical implementation of Data Deduplication, and show you how you can save up to 70% on your storage needs.

You'll also learn about:

• Use cases when to use it and when not to
• Configuration of Windows Server 2012, Storage Spaces and Data Deduplication
• How to optimize backup jobs for deduplication
• How to leverage per-pool (or Storage Space) Data Deduplication to dedupe across multiple Veeam backup jobs

Watch this recorded webinar where Hans De Leenheer from Veeam will demonstrate how you can copy your VMware or Hyper-V backups to Amazon, Azure or any one of 15 cloud storage providers with Veeam Backup & Replication™ Cloud Edition!

This webinar will explain how Veeam backups are moved to the cloud and also give you some tips for ultimate efficiency along the way.

Other topics include:

• Backup job configuration, including how to copy backups to the cloud
• Setup encryption, compression, and bandwidth scheduling
• Recovery scenario considerations for cloud storage

Learn how "Veeam Speed" can help rev up your virtual environment with comprehensive data protection and virtualization management that's powerful, easy-to-use and affordable!

In this recorded session we will cover:

• Distributed architecture configuration of proxies and backup repositories
• Remote Office/Branch Office (ROBO) configuration and design
• Offsite backup configuration to improve security and recovery

Learn how "Veeam Speed" can help rev up your virtual environment with comprehensive data protection and virtualization management that's powerful, easy-to-use and affordable!

In this recorded session we will cover:

• Guided live installation of Veeam Backup Management Suite
• Backup and replication job stats and info panes.

Are you looking for better ways to backup your virtual machines? Fast backups and fast restores are important things to look for, but how do you get there? There are many options for VM backups, yet which are the must-have features? In this recorded webinar, vExpert Rick Vanover from Veeam discusses:

• How disk systems can be part of your VM backup strategy
• Differences between image-based and file-based backups for VMs
• Different application backup and restore scenarios for VMs

Veeam Backup & Replication Cloud Edition adds new functionality to Veeam Backup & Replication that allows administrators to transmit backups to a public cloud of their choice. In this episode, we introduce the Cloud Edition and its new capabilities that allow you to seamlessly archive your Veeam backups to the cloud.

We'l focus on:

• How Veeam Backup & Replication Cloud Edition is a superior alternative to other data archiving solutions.
• A Whiteboard demonstration on how to leverage Cloud Edition in your current virtual infrastructure. We will also discuss the differences between cloud and hosting service models.
• A live demonstration on how to install Veeam Backup & Replication Cloud Edition, and configure a cloud provider of your choice.

Watch this recorded webinar to learn how HP and Veeam deliver end-to-end storage and data-protection architecture that is optimized for VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V environments. Charles and Paul will discuss:

• What are the new challenges and new requirement for modern data protection and storage
• Why VM Backup is the new normal
• Why multi-tier recovery has become an integral part of modern data protection strategy
• Why is "legacy storage" failing virtualised workloads and what to expect from modern virtualised storage

You’ll learn why the new 3PAR from HP sets the gold standard for Tier 1 storage in virtual environments, and we’ll also show you how Veeam Explorer for SAN Snapshots enables IT administrators to recover VM’s and their data directly from HP LeftHand and HP StoreVirtual VSA snapshots, and how Veeam & HP StoreOnce provide best in class deduplication.

The Veeam MP for VMware is THE way to provide deep monitoring into System Center for your vSphere investment. In this webinar, Veeam Product Strategy Specialist and vExpert Rick Vanover together with System Center MVP Marnix Wolf will discuss the following topics:

• Why monitoring vSphere at a deep level is important
• Specific points where rich data makes the difference in effective monitoring
• How to connect the dots between applications and the vSphere infrastructure
• And more!

Check out the 13-point review of your VMware environment. Rick Vanover shares real-world "best practices" and common mistakes, including:

• Resource reservations: Uncovering a hidden source of inefficiency
• Permissions: Choosing the best approach to minimize your exposure
• vCenter: Knowing when it’s time to reconfigure the server or move the database
• Templates: When to use them, and how to use them correctly and more!

Windows Server 2012 has a lot of new storage features. Hear Prabu Rambadran of Microsoft and Chris Henley of Veeam Software explain how using these features will help you:

• Keep up with data growth with built-in deduplication
• Create an affordable shared storage solution built on Server 2012
• Improved file sharing performance with new SMB protocol enhancements
• And more!

These improvements will help drive down the cost of storage and data protection in Windows environments.

Join us as we talk about how to upgrade your existing hypervisor environment to contain the great new functionality available in Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V.

In this webcast you will learn...

• VHDX is the powerful, new Hyper-V file type.
• How to migrate Virtual Machines using Veeam Backup & Replication.
• The differences between Hyper-V in Windows 2008 and Hyper-V in Windows 2012.
• The "right" way to get to Windows Server 2012.

Dedicated SANs and storage appliances just to store backups can be cost-prohibitive.

Join Prabu Rambadran from Microsoft, and Chris Henley from Veeam Software to learn how storage enhancements in Windows Server 2012 allow you to deploy scalable redundant backup storage that costs less!

• Use Storage Spaces to define redundant pools of storage spanning multiple storage mediums
• Use scale-out SMB file sharing clusters to ensure high-performance and availability of the storage

Chris will demonstrate how Veeam Backup & Replication can use a Windows Server 2012 file share cluster as a backup repository that takes full advantage of deduplication built into Veeam and Windows Server 2012.

Hyper-V has come of age, and now it’s part of Windows 8! Join us as we talk about 8 ways that Windows 8 and Hyper-V will change the way we work and play!

• Learn how to use Hyper-V in Windows 8
• Understand the impact of cool interface enhancements
• See some cool demos of Windows 8 in action

Watch this recorded expert round table discussion dedicated to virtual environment management and protection, with a special focus on Microsoft technology and tools. Some very techy and submitted in advance questions were discussed as well as some other open questions:

• How can we manage and monitor our cloud infrastructure?
• What is cloud architecture and how can it help my business?
• What do I need to implement to move my current infrastructure to the cloud?
• How to secure my cloud infrastructure?

Veeam Backup & Replication comes with PowerShell extension — a snap-in to Microsoft Windows PowerShell 2.0. Windows PowerShell is a powerful command-line tool that allows administrators to automate some Veeam Backup & Replication activities. Watch this recorded webinar and learn how to accomplish the following by using PowerShell:

• Create and export tables, mail reports
• Set post job activities
• Run pre-script
• VSS password update
• Create jobs for VMs

From enhanced storage protocols to a new file system, Windows Server 2012 introduces a range of amazing storage features. Watch this recorded webinar to learn how to take advantage of these features to increase the availability, performance and efficiency of your environment.