Veeam: Free Virtualization White Papers

Author: Matthias Mehrtens, Solutions Architect, Veeam Software

Most organizations today rely on virtualized IT infrastructures. Veeam® helps them to provide and increase Availability of critical workloads running on their systems. Due to various factors, some physical servers cannot be virtualized, along with endpoints that might not be protectable in their entirety by leveraging back-up solutions built for virtualized systems. Thus, everyday occurrences such as lapses in connectivity, hardware failures, file corruption, ransomware or even theft can leave an organization’s data at risk.
Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows solves these issues by closing the gap that some enterprises face with large, heterogeneous environments and further enabling workload mobility by delivering Availability for cloud-based workloads.
This paper describes:

the main concepts behind Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows
how agents can be managed centrally by integration into Veeam Backup & Replication™
and more!

Read now

This solution is a fully tested and recommended configuration from HPE and Veeam. This document helps you minimize the risk of deployment by defining the hardware and software required to implement this solution, as well as providing configuration guidance, best practices and data regarding expected performance. Read now

Flash storage provides options for both data protection and Availability. Since not all applications are created equal, this is especially important for apps with a need for speed, which can take advantage of all-flash storage for faster protection and restoration. Read this Redmond Tech Talk paper to find expert views shared by industry authorities from Veeam® and Pure Storage on the benefits of using an all-flash data management solution like the joint Veeam/Pure Storage solution. Read now

One of the best ways to avoid data loss is to leverage primary and secondary storage systems to ensure your systems are Always-On™ and available. NEW Veeam Availability Suite™ v9 introduces integration with the EMC VNX and VNXe series of hybrid flash storage. This integration provides data centers with new ways to enhance Availability by unleashing the power of storage snapshots for backup, replication and recovery tasks. In addition to the integration with the EMC VNX and VNXe storage families, Veeam Availability Suite delivers enhanced integration with EMC Data Domain storage devices.

This white paper highlights the features, setup and best practices for using Veeam with EMC VNX/VNXe hybrid flash storage and Data Domain secondary storage, including how to:

Increase Availability for VNX/VNXe storage with Veeam Explorer™ for Storage Snapshots and Backup from Storage Snapshots
Connect Data Domain storage appliances to Veeam
Configure and ensure optimal performance for EMC primary and secondary storage

Read now

Author: Kirsten Stoner, Technical Analyst, Product Strategy

Veeam® Backup & Replication™ Community Edition is the must-have, free solution that provides host-based backups for virtual machines, along with protection for physical endpoints and servers. Community Edition offers a tremendous set of capabilities, allowing users to have an efficient data protection strategy in place. Features such as being able to schedule backup jobs, replicate critical machines and perform application-level restores are requirements that are not allowed to be short-listed in any data protection solution. This white paper describes in detail the different features you can utilize when getting started with Community Edition and how these features can help meet the demands for modern data Availability. Read now

Veeam® customers and partners know that, when combining Cisco and Veeam, performance, reliability and ease of management are always expected results. Together, Cisco and Veeam bring high-performance Availability and reliable data protection to assist customers in the journey to Cloud Data Management™. Read this Cisco + Veeam Customer Reference Book and learn about:

Why today’s businesses require new levels of IT efficiency
How Cisco and Veeam can solve those IT challenges
Eight customers who have found success while using Cisco/Veeam solution

Read now

As production servers are being consolidated with virtual environments at a rapid rate, data protection via backups is as important as ever. Because of this, virtual infrastructures are becoming the standard.

In this white paper learn more on how Veeam’s latest plug-in for FUJITSU Storage AF S2/DX S4 and Veeam Backup & Replication will:

Provide options to perform virtual machine backups which were only possible with Virtual Volumes (VV0L)
Improve performance of business critical applications
Leverage Fujitsu’s storage snapshots between the backup for better Recovery Point Objectives (RPO)

Read now

Author: Adam Bertram, Microsoft Windows PowerShell MVP

IT professionals wear many hats. Whether they are addressing a helpdesk ticket to reset a user's password, installing patches on servers or deploying software to their customers, they are responsible for a lot. Fortunately, with a tool called PowerShell at their disposal, IT pros can automate tasks, potentially reducing the time they spend on these tasks by hundreds of hours a year.
In this white paper, we're going to cover how to get started with PowerShell v6.2 (specifically on Windows) and how it can be applied to an IT pro's daily life to get back her much-needed time Read now

In an era of always wanting to do more with less, many organizations are seeking ways to unlock more incremental value from their IT framework, including their otherwise-dormant protection data and protection infrastructures.
By leveraging well-managed data for secondary purposes with Veeam DataLabs, organizations can gain inordinately better ROI than just the assurance of recoverability alone.
The final piece of this three-part whitepaper series explores alternate use cases for Veeam DataLabs beyond recovery verification in order to drive more value from your protection data. Read now

In an era of always wanting to do more with less, many organizations are seeking ways to unlock more incremental value from their IT framework, including their otherwise-dormant protection data and protection infrastructures.
By leveraging well-managed data for secondary purposes with Veeam DataLabs, organizations can gain inordinately better ROI than just the assurance of recoverability alone.
Part two of this three-part whitepaper series walks through the configuration of Veeam DataLabs from start to finish in order to run our first jobs. Read now