Among the new features we have added to Veeam Availability Suite v9, there is one we’re especially proud of: Scale-out Backup Repository. This one gets a lot of questions in communities and I’ve decided to address them by issuing the ultimate FAQ. This should answer the most common questions (if not, let me know) and help describe how Veeam’s Scale-out Backup Repository works. Read more

The public cloud is gaining momentum, and many businesses are considering using cloud resources in their own environment. The hybrid model in particular, where you have workloads and services running both on premises and in a public cloud, is becoming more and more popular.

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Every time I view the latest download statistics, read through the product reviews on communities such as Reddit or Spiceworks and others, or just watch demo videos on YouTube, I am amazed with the tremendous success of Veeam Endpoint Backup FREE. To tell the truth, we are very proud of getting so much feedback from you, since it keeps us busy delivering the most-demanded functionality to your Windows-based devices.

Today, I would like to introduce our next update, Veeam Endpoint Backup FREE 1.5, and shed a little light on its new features.

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In today’s data center-powered world, we’ve come a long way from simple, legacy backup for data protection. The new IT business objective is Availability. Companies need to be able to recover from the loss of data, applications, systems or location with minimal or zero downtime, and that is vastly different from backup solutions of yesterday.

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The NetApp integration added in Veeam Availability Suite v8 is a great set of capabilities to ensure higher levels of Availability in the data center. In NEW Veeam Availability Suite v9, Veeam improved the functionality, adding — among other considerations — the NetApp E-Series range as a viable and high-performing backup repository SAN appliance for Veeam backup jobs. The E-Series offers a high-performance backup repository to store Veeam backup files. This, coupled with the high density of storage and the performance of recovery from an enterprise level storage array, makes the E-Series is a great fit for a SAN-based Veeam repository.

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Nano Server is a new, headless, 64-bit only, deployment option for Windows Server 2016 that’s been specifically created with some key scenarios in mind... Read more

In the classic model, firewall rules were called endpoints, and they needed to be created per VM. In the ARM model, you can create a security group that you can use to create firewall rules for all VMs in that resource group.

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Many times, customers feel like their infrastructures are slow, and they don’t know where to start troubleshooting. In this post, we’ll discuss the key Microsoft Hyper-V performance metrics and how Veeam can help determine and solve the problems with advanced monitoring and reporting capabilities Veeam ONE.

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When you need to back up large amounts of data, you try to use up as little space as possible in order to minimize backup storage costs. During backup analysis using Veeam ONE, for example, you might notice that virtual machine (VM) backups are much larger than the actual data. This phenomenon is common with file servers or with systems in which lots of data are deleted or held only for a short time.

Another requirement, however, might be not having to back up certain data or directories in the first place, since those data are only needed temporarily and there’s no need to hold them in backup storage.

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When it comes down to Hyper-V resource management, you’d better be sure about utilization in your own environment. There is some specific monitoring software, allowing you to get an overview of system consumption but, on the other hand, built-in Hyper-V features, that let you care about the future right at the configuration stage. Hyper-V dynamic memory is one of these technologies, and inside is a short guide how you can manage your Hyper-V VMs better with it. Read more