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5 Commonly used terms in Veeam Backup & Replication

No matter what segment of technology we are talking about, unique terms and a never-ending acronym soup seems to follow us. Veeam Backup & Replication has a number of terms that may be used as well. These can be shown in the product itself, discussed in the forums or even in these very blogs. Here is a rundown of five common terms in the product:


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Rick Vanover
Rick Vanover

Senior Director, Product Strategy

How do storage provisioning options impact virtual machine backups?

Storage options for a vSphere virtual machine (VM) can be configured a number of different ways. Each option has pros and cons associated with it, and every situation of course is different. Let’s start with the two main categories of storage resources in vSphere: NFS and SAN. NFS storage has VMDK files residing on an NFS share and is a standard file server protocol.

The vSphere SAN options are where the configuration choices increase and may become confusing. SAN options include VMFS volumes on fibre channel and iSCSI shared storage resources or local disk resources on an ESX(i) server.


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Rick Vanover
Rick Vanover

Senior Director, Product Strategy

RDMs explained for Veeam Backup & Replication

When it comes to designing a vSphere environment, a lot of topics come into play in deciding how to provision storage to a virtual machine (VM). One decision point is whether or not to use Raw Device Mappings or RDMs. RDMs allow a special file in a VMFS volume to act as a proxy for a storage resource. The logical unit number, or LUN, that is a candidate for an RDM is attached to an individual VM; rather than formatted for the entire cluster. The benefits of using an RDM are for clustering support requirements and to allow disk commands to be sent directly to the storage resource from a VM.


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Rick Vanover
Rick Vanover

Senior Director, Product Strategy

Why do VMs running from backups need to redirect virtual disk updates?

In the course of using Veeam Backup & Replication’s vPower capabilities, we may observe that different operations give us different options and default values. Specifically, if we are to run a virtual machine from the most recent backup for a virtual lab or Instant VM Recovery the options are different for where updates to the virtual disks are to be placed.


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Rick Vanover
Rick Vanover

Senior Director, Product Strategy

Using VM attributes to quickly determine status of VM backups

One of the cool features of Veeam Backup & Replication v5 is its ability to document the status of the virtual machine backup within the virtual machine’s annotations by using attributes. This is one of the many notification options for an individual job, which may contain one or more virtual machines. Other notification options are also available, including email and SNMP.


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Rick Vanover
Rick Vanover

Senior Director, Product Strategy

Microsoft Exchange Backup & Recovery

Today Veeam hosted a webinar titled “Running Exchange on VMware”. Most of the focus of course was on backup and recovery of Exchange once it’s been virtualized. As I was preparing for the webinar (with a lot of help from Anton) I realized that the information would also make a good blog post. Below are the main points of backup and recovery for Microsoft Exchange and how Veeam Backup & Replication v5 addresses them.

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Doug Hazelman (VMDoug)
Doug Hazelman (VMDoug)

Former VP, Product Strategy