I just published a new whitepaper: Veeam Backup & Replication V12 enhanced security and scalability with object storage Secure Mode. Check it out!
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Create a S3 Bucket with Object Lock in Scality Artesca for Veeam
Veeam Backup & Replication v12 is capable of writing backups directly to a Object storage. In my lab I use Scality Artesca as my S3-compatible object storage, so I created some new buckets to be used with Veeam. Let’s see how this can be done. The procedure can be useful also for people using different products.
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Back to blogging, with a new object-ive!
After two years since my last article, I’m back blogging as at the beginning of 2023 I found a new topic that I like a lot: Object storage.
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Monitor a Ceph cluster with Ceph Dash
Ceph Storage can be completely managed and monitored via its command line tools. But, wouldn’t it be better to have a nice interface to see it running, checking its status, and have some performance statistics? Well, yes, and here’s a way to have it, thanks to Ceph Dash.
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Quickly build a new Ceph cluster with ceph-deploy on CentOS 7
One year ago, i published a series of 10 blog posts called My adventures with Ceph Storage. As I had recently to rebuild my Ceph cluster from scratch, I decided it was time to create a quick guide to build the cluster as fast as possible.
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My adventures with Ceph Storage. Part 9: failover scenarios during Veeam backups
In the last months, I’ve refreshed my knowledge on Ceph storage, an open source scale out storage entirely made in software. As I’ve walked through my own learning path, I’ve created a series of blog posts explaining the basics, how to deploy and configure it, and my use cases. In this 9th part: failover scenarios during Veeam backups.
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Test Veeam Storage Snapshots in your lab
In a previous post, I described how you can configure a virtual proxy to access an iSCSI storage, in order to test DirectSAN backups. Veeam has an additional functionality, called Storage Snapshots, that improves even more DirectSAN backups performances when you have a supported storage. I’m going to show you in this post how you can configure it in your lab.
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Solidfire: uno storage “di qualità”
Da quando è uscita dallo stealth mode nel 2009 ho sempre osservato con interesse Solidfire, perchè hanno un prodotto storage veramente particolare, differente da tutti gli altri produttori, e di sicuro interesse per chi come me lavora nell’ambito dei service providers. Alcune settimane fa ho avuto una piacevole chiaccherata con alcuni loro rappresentanti, ed ho potuto finalmente approfondire la mia conoscenza sul loro prodotto.