Introduction

System Center Operations Manager is a great component of the system center suite. It’s a framework that helps you monitor and manage all of your components in your infrastructure. From the hardware like compute, storage, network to the virtualization layer, VMs, OS and applications. It can be your single pane of glass to view & manage your infrastructure in a single glass of pane.

And it gets better, in combination with the other system center components such as Service Manager, Orchestrator and more it is your window to manage the entire lifecycle of your infrastructure.

But as always in infrastructure management, life isn’t always as shiny as you hope. Operations Manager is actually a rather “dumb” framework. With “dumb” I don’t mean ... Read more

Recently TechTarget’s Storage Magazine published a report that named Veeam as one of the TOP backup applications of Storage Magazine’s Quality Awards. 

The award was a result of Storage Magazine surveying 450+ qualified readers, who gave 1,000+ product evaluations and picked the most reliable data protection products from existing products that are currently on the market, regardless of brand, vendor reputation and vendor size. 

Veeam Backup & Replication got the top score in the overall ranking for midrange backup applications, and ALL categories, including Sales-force competence, Initial product quality, Product features, Product reliability, and Technical support categories.

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Read these helpful tips on Windows Server 2012 R2 licensing and installation from Maria Levkina, co-author of the popular show "Introduction to Virtualization". Read more

To back up, or not to back up? That is the question. What do you back up on your Hyper-V hosts, if anything? This came to me from a discussion on Spiceworks recently. The original topic was a different matter, but the challenge I raised was that the Hyper-V host itself doesn’t need to be backed up, if you do Hyper-V well. As an important side note, definitely back up the VMs! You can use Veeam for that, it just works!

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How often do you feel that there are too many things to do? This week, this feeling hasn’t left me And I bet that’s the same case with the majority of Veeam employees these days.

As you know, we’re actively preparing for VeeamON, one of the most important IT events in 2014, which will take place in Las Vegas on October 6-8. Our celebrities (Veeam experts who will present at VeeamON) are under a lot of pressure. And the cool thing is that they keep surprising me!

This week, Mike Resseler, one of the best ... Read more

Watch this video where Mike and Maria represent a small company with a tiny budget that decided to virtualize its physical workloads and chose Hyper-V. Read more

They say there are always three sides to every story, and this one is no exception.

The first one is personal. If you ever worked for a software company, you know there is no better reward than seeing a new solution going into the market, after you were involved in its creation, at any level. Even if you are not a programmer, like I am not, there are many ways you can contribute to the creation process. One year ago I was still working for a Veeam partner and customer, and I suggested on the Veeam forums a new idea. It was August 2013, so I was invited by Veeam to meet and talk about it during the upcoming VMworld.

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When it comes to a major release, we focus a lot on new features that solve real problems that customers have today. One of the features I’m personally excited about with v8 is support for EMC Data Domain Boost. There are a number of benefits when using EMC Data Domain Boost with Veeam Availability Suite™ v8, let’s take a tour through those benefits.

Faster backups!

By integrating EMC Data Domain Boost with backup jobs in v8, we can leverage advanced source side deduplication to avoid sending data already stored on Data Domain storage, as well as create new full backup files without physically moving data into the file, but rather by synthesizing them from the ... Read more

Virtualization technologies have become a part of our life. Surprisingly, not many people are familiar with them. In this article, I’m going to give a detailed explanation on what virtualization is. I will take a look at Microsoft Hyper-V technology and examine it by performing the initial steps of configuration: Installation and virtual machine deployment. Read more

In the previous post, How-to: Free Exchange discovery tool helps admin, I described how to make a quick, easy and free e-discovery in a Microsoft Exchange database. In a similar way, you can recover any deleted email or item from the .EDB.

Let’s take a closer look. There is a market for paid Exchange recovery tools where it is possible to restore single mailbox items from the raw Exchange database (.EDB); however their price is very high. You can get similar granular recovery with Veeam for free.

If you’ve got a problem with your Exchange Server, Veeam Explorer for Microsoft Exchange can help recover mailboxes, messages, contacts, folders, tasks and ... Read more