Posts by Rick Vanover

First of all, did you even know that there’s a Veeam Cloud Provider program? A Veeam Cloud Provider is a type of Veeam partner that functions in a service provider model. This can exist in a number of ways for a number of different service models. For example, a hosting provider or telco using Veeam to protect hosted VMs, an Application Service Provider leveraging Veeam to protect customer data, or a Cloud Service Provider offering Veeam-powered backup and disaster recovery services, and more. In fact, there are scores of ways Veeam products can be used to protect applications and data. Here are 5 things you likely didn’t know about the Veeam Cloud ... Read more

I get this question a lot, so much so that it’s time I blogged it! In particular, if someone has used other backup products which may take different approaches there can be questions on how Veeam gets the job done. While there are a lot of scenarios that Hyper-V can be used and deployed, I thought I’d take the time in this blog post to give a quick breakdown of the sequence of events for a Hyper-V backup job. Let’s break them down into several simple steps.

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In the virtualization and larger IT communities; one thing we all expect is change. That’s the case with 2013 here at Veeam. 2013 was an incredible year, with so much going on; it is very easy to have missed something along the way. Let’s take a look at the year in review here at Veeam.

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Last year, we wrote about a free tool for backing up virtual machines (VMs) in VMware and Hyper-V environments – Veeam Backup Free Edition. Veeam recently released v7, an updated version that delivers important new features and capabilities. In this article, I’ll point out some powerful features you’ll find in the new version of Veeam Backup Free Edition.

When I wrote the Infographic, Veeam Backup & Replication v7: By the Numbers; I made a distinct effort to ensure that Backup Free Edition was well represented. In fact, I counted 12 powerful features by Backup Free Edition:

VeeamZIP BackupVeeam Explorer for ExchangeVeeam Explorer for Storage SnapshotsVeeam Explorer ... Read more

In my role here at Veeam, I talk to a lot of people across different industries throughout the world. Virtualization is a great community in a sense where we can do that, and we can quickly gravitate to discussing similar topics. Luckily, Veeam helps solve problems for people when it comes to backing up VMs!

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One of the best (or most challenging!) aspects of virtualization technologies is that it never stands still. I’d go so far as to say that it moves a lot faster than other technologies, and in a way pushes other technologies to advance as well. Read more

The Hyper-V component exists in three ways, and in fact this very situation was discussed at length with Hyper-V MVP Aidan Finn on a recent episode of the Veeam Community Podcast. The important thing to note is that Hyper-V can exist in three principle ways, described... Read more

Sometimes the easy things in life come along and make your day so much better. Recently I found a very easy way to edit .VMX files with Veeam Backup Free Edition. This technique was used before with FastSCP (now replaced by Veeam Backup Free Edition) with the FastSCP Editor. This editor is still available in Veeam Backup Free Edition (as well as the paid versions, of course) and makes editing .VMX files very easy!

While there are a number of reasons why you may want to edit the .VMX file, and because of such there are a few guidelines. First, don’t do this on a powered-on virtual machine, because it may cause unexpected behavior. Granular options like ... Read more

If you have been following some of the Veeam promotional activity recently, it’s pretty clear that Veeam and Drobo have been hard at work with some joint solutions for their common customers. Drobo, makers of flexible, easy-to-use storage systems, have now teamed up with Veeam for to provide an additional resource for customers who make new Veeam and Drobo purchases. Drobo recently blogged about these promotions and now it’s our turn!

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When it comes to architecting jobs for VMware vSphere virtual machines, the Automatic option for the Transport mode proxy configuration is the best option if you are not giving too much thought to the configuration. The Automatic option goes through a number of communications options checks to see what’s available on the proxy and determine the best way to back up the VM. This decision process has a number of factors that go into the mode selection for the active job. Direct SAN access is favored first in all situations, virtual appliance hot-add as the next best thing, and Network Mode as the common denominator to work in most every situation to sum up the ... Read more