Veeam Backup & Replication 9.5 Update 4 RTM to GA Upgrade

Like a lot of you out there I have been running the RTM release of Veeam Backup & Replication 9.5 Update 4 and have been waiting for the Day 0 Release. This release allows you to do an in-place upgrade of the RTM deployment which saves you having to reinstall and point back to the …

Capacity Tier in Veeam Backup & Replication 9.5 Update 4

There has been some great new functionality announced with Veeam Backup & Replication 9.5 Update 4 and for this post I wanted to check out the Capacity Tier options for Scale-Out Backup Repositories. I will be walking you through setting up an Amazon S3 Repository along with a new Scale-Out Repository on your Veeam Backup …

Cisco HyperFlex ESXi Upgrade option now in HX Connect UI

I have always been a big fan of the Cisco UCS product line so when it came time to dive into the hyper converged world Cisco Hyperflex was the obvious choice! The product just keeps getting better with every new release and the latest version of HX Connect makes upgrading your environment even easier. Previous …

vCloud Director Tenant Backup Portal using Veeam Enterprise Manager 9.5 Update 4

As promised in my previous post Veeam Enterprise Manager Update 4 here is how you can use the product as a multi-tenant backup portal for vCloud Director. First we need to go to our Veeam Backup & Replication Server and connect to our vCloud Director Instance. You can do this by selecting Backup Infrastructure from …

Veeam Enterprise Manager 9.5 Update 4

Enterprise Manager is a great product to help manage multiple Veeam Backup and Replication Deployments from one location. I want to walk through deploying and setting up the latest version of Veeam Enterprise Manager 9.5 Update 4 which will give you a good overview of the interface. Some of the great features of Enterprise Manager, …

Veeam Backup & Replication 9.5 Update 4 – Whats New and Cloud Connect Setup Guide

Veeam Backup and Replication 9.5 Update 4 RTM has finally been released and like most of you I have been hanging out to give the new feature set a trial run. One item in particular has really caught my attention and that is the ability to allow tenants to DR workloads directly into vCloud Director. …

vCenter 6.5 Windows Server to vCenter 6.7 Appliance Migration Guide

For those of you out there running a windows based vCenter 6.5 Server I thought I would put together a guide to help you with your migration to the vCenter 6.7 Appliance. The following post will walk you through migrating your Windows based Platform Services Controller and vCenter Server to two separate 6.7 Appliances. Update …

vCenter 6.7 Server Appliance – Install Guide

I thought I would take it back to basics for this next post. Getting vCenter installed is a must do job for most IT Admins out there so below is a an install guide for the vCenter 6.7 Appliance. This will also help us build a foundation for some future posts if your following along …

Veeam Enterprise Manager 9.5 Update 4 – How to modify the default theme

In a previous post I walked you through how to modify the default theme of Enterprise Manager 9.5 Update 3. Recently I upgraded to Enterprise Manager 9.5 Update 4 and the portal itself looks a whole lot better. The only downside is that it set all of my theme changes back to their defaults. Don’t …

Veeam Cloud Connect – Connecting to a Service Provider

Veeam Cloud Connect is a great way to extend your Company backups to a secondary site hosted by your local Service Provider. You can even do away with rotating tapes and configure backup copy jobs to a Cloud Connect Repository instead. There is no need for a VPN or to configure any advanced networking as …