Well 2017 continues to move at a serious pace, and here we are in October already, with some of the more notable conferences, VMworld and Ms Ignite, having been and gone . In an attempt to push myself a little more from blogging about all things Veeam, I have signed up to Blogtober. http://www.blogtober.net Blogtober overview “What is Blogtober?” I…
Veeam fir Scots
Greeeeeetings ! Aw right troops? Whit uhm gonnae talk aboot tidae is a bit o’ software called Veeam Backup and Replication. Whit is it? Well it’s a piece o’ software that offers data protection and disastery recover fur yir VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V environments. Whit?? It means that if ye have a wee problem wi yir VMs, then…
Upcoming event – VeeamOn Forum – London 2017
VeeamOn – London 2017 , October 12th Park Plaza Riverbank, London October 12th 2017 sees the VeeamOn forum return to London (http://vee.am/nLyvZw) This is a one day, free to attend event where “IT experts and visionaries” can meet to share/learn about Veeam’s existing and upcoming products. The agenda is split into 2 tracks :- Technical Deep Dive Break Out sessions…
Veeam Availability Console API and SquaredUp – API Dashboard
In my 2 previous posts (Post 1, Post2) I went through the process of using Postman and Swagger for running RESTful API queries against 2 Veeam Products (Veeem Enterprise Manager and Veeam Availability console). In this post I’m going to go through a practical application of API query results to list Veeam Backup and Replication job results and repository sizes,…
Veeam Availability Console – API (Swagger and Postman)
In a previous post I walked through the steps of using Postman to query the RESTful APIs for Veeam Enterprise Manager. More recently I have had the opportunity to install and test the Veeam Availability Console (VAC) and was interested to find out what API calls could be made and what useful information could be retrieved from this soon to…
Veeam RESTful API and Postman
Recently I’ve been trying to get to grips with RESTful API on a couple of solutions I use at work, and as a relative newcomer to the whole world of RESTful APIs, I was looking for an simple/easy way to query systems and view the responses. One of my colleagues, Matt Thompson, pointed me in the direction of Postman www.getpostman.com…
Veeam One – Ransomware Monitoring
Between the Wannacry outbreak and the current Petya strain currently doing the rounds, ransomware detection/monitoring is a necessary tool for system administrators. At the recent VeeamOn Tour, in Edinburgh, one of the SEs presented a session on ‘Ransomware Resiliency for the IT Decision Maker‘. Part of the presentation, a couple of the slides discussed the importance of monitoring your environment…
VeeamOn 2017 – New Orleans
As a Veeam Vanguard I was fortunate enough to attend VeeamOn 2017, held in New Orleans at the New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center (http://www.mccno.com/), and boy Veeam didn’t disappoint it was an absolute blast, with the feature/product announcements coming thick and fast. Tuesday 16th May The event started with Partner day for most attendees, but for Veeam Vanguards…
Veeam SuperEdit
Problem? If like me, you’re an admin of a large Veeam infrastructure/estate, then there will come a time where you need to make changes to a setting/settings across the estate. For example, you may want to want to enable Storage Level Corruption Guard on all your VMware backup jobs. The manual steps for carrying these steps out are as follows:-…
Veeam v9.5 – Not just about the headline acts
I’m a little late with my Veeam Backup and Replication v9.5 post, as it was released on 16th November 2016, so diving straight in with some of the ‘headline’ acts :- ‘Headline Acts’ Full Integration with Microsoft 2016 data center technologies Support for the new Hyper-V 2016 framework that is not reliant on volume snapshots by software or hardware VSS…