You may be a new Veeam user, or a long time user, but at some time in your Veeam usage, you may find the need to reach out for information and/or help. If your problem is of an import technical nature, then naturally your 1st port of call will be to the excellent Veeam Support. Either via telephone or through…
Continue Reading→2015 – Review events/technologies
As 2016 opens up , I’d like to do a quick review some of events/technologies that have made an impact/difference to my day to day work and career from 2015. Technologies SquaredUp SCOM is one of the main monitoring tools I use in my day to day job, and if you’ve ever used SCOM you’ll know that is does a…
Continue Reading→Veeam – Best Practices Book – VMware
As part of my Veeam Vanguard status, I was fortunate enough to receive a copy of ‘Best Practises – Veeam Backup and Replication for VMware – Version 8.0’. This book of full of real world advice and tips from Veeam Engineers:- Example Sometimes VeeamZIP is used to create the actual backup for seeding. VeeamZIP does not create the needed…
Continue Reading→VeeamOn 2015 – Day 1
While the main VeeamOn 2015 sessions kicked of today , being a Veeam Vanguard meant I got to spend a day “off track” for some exclusives. First up we were given our Vanguard swag/merchandise. I had opted for a t-shirt, long sleeve top, sweatshirt, jacket and rucksack. Also included in our swag were some cool laptop stickers, a Vanguard…
Continue Reading→VeeamOn 2015 – Day 0
My long journey to VeeamOn 2015 started at 03:30am , with a an hours drive to Edinburgh Airport. An hour or so later I was in Gatwick , ready fro my final long haul flight to Las Vegas. Upon landing at Vegas I was greeted by Mario, from Presidential Limousines. Great start to the conference. A quick tour down the strip,…
Continue Reading→Raising your online profile – Sharing the knowledge is the *real power
Social media these days can be perceived in a bad light, the common perception is that it is mainly the hangout of trolls, celebrity stalkers and people who have a fascination with posting selfies. However there is a good use for social media, from a professional perspective. There are so many types of social media e.g. Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram,…
Continue Reading→Cisco UCS Service Profile map
Info Quick blog post , been wanting to post this image of a Cisco UCS Service Profile map for a while. While creating a profile recently, I was curious to map out all the options available, this is the resultant mind map. thankfully most of the settings can be left with the default settings.
Continue Reading→VMware Fling – ESXi Embedded Host Client
If you’re a VMware admin, then you should already know about the excellent Flings from VMware, https://labs.vmware.com For those not in the know, Flings are side projects that VMware engineers work on in their spare time, and offer out to users for feedback etc. One of the recent VMware Fling releases was the ‘ESXi Embedded Host Client’ https://labs.vmware.com/flings/esxi-embedded-host-client This Fling…
Continue Reading→Top Tip – Keep it in your Pocket
Recently I was asked to be a guest on the Veeam Community Podcast http://www.veeam.com/podcast.html with Clint Wyckoff (@ClintWyckoff), and during our conversation we talked about my activity on social media, twitter in particular, and which tools I use. As a Windows Phone user (I know I know), I have tried out a number of Twitter clients , before settling on…
Continue Reading→News – Veeam Vanguard
Today I can announce my inclusion in the inaugural Veeam Vanguard program. It is such an incredible, exciting, and totally unexpected honour to be included into such a small, prestigious group. There are only 31 Vanguards worldwide, 3 in the UK and only 1 in Scotland …ME !! How did this come about ? About 2 months or so, I…
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