Is Veeam replication compatible with VMware NSX?
Recently I've been asked by a colleague if Veeam Backup & Replication supports VMware NSX. The answer to me was pretty clear, since Veeam works at the vSphere layer and what is sees are "just"...
View ArticleVeeam Availability Console series #6: Publish VAC over Internet
Veeam Availability Console is completely web-based. For this reason, it's extremely easy to consume it, and the idea behind the product is that the console can be used directly by users. To do so, the...
View ArticleTracing Veeam Cloud Connect replica failover in Windows Event Viewer
I recently received this request from one of our service providers: “Is there a way to trace the failover actions in Veeam Cloud Connect, so that I can figure out the consumption of the virtual...
View ArticleVeeam Cloud Connect reference architecture is now an online book!
Veeam Cloud Connect reference architecture, the book that I wrote two years ago, is now available as an online book that you can read or download as pdf, mobi or epub. The original post of this article...
View ArticleDisable direct file restore in Veeam vCloud Self-Service portal
The Veeam vCloud Self-Service portal (from here on, just portal) is a great solution for offereing self-service capabilities to vCloud Director tenants that want to manage by themselves backups and...
View ArticleQuickly configure PhotonOS virtual machines with static IPs
Sometimes, we all need a large group of small virtual machines for our tests in vSphere. I tried in the past several linux distributions that claim to be small and easy to be deployed, but they usually...
View ArticleConfigure Veeam Cloud Connect Replication with more than ten networks
Veeam Cloud Connect Replication does not only manage virtual machine replication, but also offers a complete networking solution to easily publish failed over virtual machines in case of a disaster....
View ArticleReplication in Veeam Cloud Connect with more than 9 networks
In my previous post I explained step by step how a service provider can configure Veeam Cloud Connect Replication to allow for more than 9 internal networks. In this second part of the post, we'll see...
View ArticleInstall Let’s Encrypt SSL certificates in Veeam Availability Console
In a previous post I explained how to publish VAC (Veeam Availability Console) web service over Internet, to allow administrators and tenants to consume it. This time, we'll complete the publishing by...
View ArticleGood old FTP (and cloud!) to protect your vSphere environment
Lately, I had to rebuild my personal lab after a major crash of the storage system I use, and even if I was able to restore everything, the procedure I had to use involved many manual rebuilding of the...
View ArticleAutomated Veeam Cloud Connect deployment: 1 – add all the managed servers
Everytime I receive a new version of Veeam Backup & Replication, with inside also a new Veeam Cloud Connect, I try to install it as soon as possible in my personal lab to test it. My lab is a bit...
View ArticleAutomated Veeam Cloud Connect deployment: 2 – install all the roles
In my previous post, I explained how to automatically add all the different managed server to a Veeam Cloud Connect installation. The servers are now all listed in the Console, but still no role has...
View ArticleAutomated Veeam Cloud Connect deployment: 3 – connect to VMware virtual...
In the previous posts we completed the automatic configuration of the Veeam Cloud Connect environment. In this third post of this short series, we will add additional resources in order to offer...
View ArticleAutomated Veeam Cloud Connect deployment 4: Create new tenants
In the first three posts of this series I've showed you how to automate the building of a Veeam Cloud Connect environment. Now that the environment is ready, today we'll automate also the onboarding of...
View ArticleAutomated Veeam Cloud Connect deployment 5: Replication services for vCloud...
In chapter 3 of this blog series, I showed you how to connect a vCloud Director to Veeam Backup & Replication. Before Veeam Backup & Replication 9.5 Update 4, the main usage of vCloud Director...
View ArticleThe new book about Veeam Cloud Connect 9.5 Update 4
More than two years ago, when we released Veeam Cloud Connect 9.0, I massively reworked my original paper on the topic, and the final result became a book available as a pdf. The book was also printed...
View ArticleAutomate Let’s Encrypt certificate renewals with AWS Route53 DNS records
I wrote already two articles about this topic. I know that managing SSL certificates can be a cumbersome task, so any option to automate the process is a great addition to any IT administrator toolbox....
View ArticleCloud Connect automatic usage reporting
Veeam Cloud Connect allows service providers to charge their costumers on the base of multiple parameters, but together with used space license consumption is surely one of the most common. This script...
View ArticleAutomatic restore of multiple machines from Veeam to AWS
A couple of weeks ago I presented to a customer Veeam's integration with AWS services, specifically the Direct Restore to EC2 feature. He was really interested, but he also immediately thought about...
View ArticleLearning how to use terraform in vCloud Director
Lately, I took the decision to do not have anymore a physical lab, even if it was already hosted and managed at a service provider, but to completely nest it inside a vCloud Director tenancy. But while...
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