This blog post will wrap up the series and focus on completing the Rolling Cluster OS Upgrade process from the previous post by adding in the necessary details required to upgrade the cluster Functional Level and upgrade the VM Hardware Version. Read more

This Part 2 blog post explains the exact steps you’ll need to take to get your Hyper-V Cluster updated. Keep in mind that within Technical Preview 5, both Hyper-V and Scale-Out File Server Clusters are able to perform Cluster OS Rolling Upgrades. Read more

Throughout the course of this blog series, I will focus on helping you get Windows Server 2016 and Hyper-V 2016 up and running in an environment as quickly as possible. This first post discusses obtaining the installation media and performing a bare-metal, plain operating system installation. Next, I will graduate up to more complex activities such as how to leverage zero downtime and the rolling cluster installation option. The goal of this multi-part blog series is to arm you with the necessary tools and knowledge to take full advantage of Windows Server 2016 when the GA occurs. Read more

At VeeamON 2015, we announced a new solution called Veeam Managed Backup Portal for Service Providers. The feedback we are receiving is overwhelming. In the meantime, we worked hard on releasing a technical preview. All of you who have worked with this preview and gave us feedback, thank you very much!

Today, we are happy to announce that Veeam Managed Backup Portal for Service Providers is generally available and ready for you in the Microsoft Azure Marketplace!

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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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Starting with version 9, Veeam allows service providers to offer true Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) to their customers for both VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V, thanks to Veeam Cloud Connect Replication — a fast, secure and cloud-based disaster recovery (DR) solution.

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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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This is the second part of article by Andrew Zhelezko about “Getting started with Microsoft PowerShell and PowerShell cmdlets” which contains practical examples of using PowerShell scripts with Veeam snap-in for Veeam Backup Free Edition to perform simple and more advanced operations of Microsoft Hyper-V VM backup and restore. You will learn more details about what is Veeam Backup PowerShell snap-in, how to start with it and more! Read more

Veeam® recently announced the Veeam® FastSCP™ for Microsoft Azure beta at Microsoft Ignite. This new release is a standalone tool that lets you copy your files securely onsite to Microsoft Azure VMs (virtual machines) and from Microsoft Azure VMs to your on-site location.

Hybrid cloud models are becoming more and more important and will continue to be important in the coming years. Using cloud resources like Microsoft Azure VMs s, for specific use-cases will give your business additional benefits and enable you to become more competitive in your industry.

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This is a guest post by Vladimir Eremin, a product manager at Veeam. Vladimir is very active on the Veeam Forums, Twitter and in Spiceworks. One of Vladimir’s skills is PowerShell and he walks through this process here in this guest blog post. If you have any question on the PowerShell parts mentioned in this post; use the Veeam Forums to discuss. You an also download the sample script here and discuss this topic in the Veeam Forums.

Our Veeam Backup Free Edition has been the most popular free Veeam tool, mostly thanks to its VeeamZIP ... Read more