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Seeding Veeam Cloud Connect – Part 1: Backup copy jobs

Luca Dell'Oca, September 13, 2016December 4, 2016

Veeam Cloud Connect is a great technology that allows end users to add to a local protection also an offsite location where they can store backup copies or replicated virtual machines. As not every customer has a fast internet connection, Veeam Cloud Connect implements multiple data reduction tecniques to improve data transfer, but especially the initial full backup or full replica can be slow and painful for some customers with really small internet connection. That’s why seeding is such an important option in Veeam Cloud Connect.
In this three series blog posts, you will learn how to use Veeam Cloud Connect. In Part 1, how to seed a regular backup copy job.

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Increase the performance of your Veeam backups in network mode

Luca Dell'Oca, June 28, 2016December 4, 2016

If you ever tried to do any file operation via the management interface of an ESXi host, like uploading an ISO file or running a backup using Network Mode, you may know the management interface is not running at the full speed of the underlying network interface, and the bandwidth you end up using is only a percentage of the total available. This limit is designed to preserve the availability of the management interface, but still there are situations where this limit is a problem, and you would like to increase it. Hopefully, there’s a solution.

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Am I doing backups of all my VMs? 2016 Edition

Luca Dell'Oca, May 31, 2016December 4, 2016

In 2012 I published a post with a Powershell script to be able to check all the available VM’s in a given vSphere environment, and verify which ones were protected by Veeam Backup & Replication. Time to update the script to make it work with the latest versions of the two software.

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Public IP’s or NAT-ed IP’s in Veeam Cloud Connect Replication

Luca Dell'Oca, May 24, 2016December 4, 2016

Is it better to use real public IP’s or NAT-ed IP’s when publishing Veeam Cloud Connect Replication? Here’s why I think real public IP’s are a better choice.

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Run Veeam Powershell from any machine

Luca Dell'Oca, May 3, 2016December 4, 2016

The best part of the new Veeam Standalone Console is the fact that Veeam PowerShell snap-in installs as part of this component, and it includes a new cmd-let: Connect-VBRServer. YES! No more PowerShell remoting to invoke your Veeam PowerShell scripts.

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How can you test 1000 VMs with Veeam SureBackup?

Luca Dell'Oca, December 15, 2015December 4, 2016

If you have a large environment that is constantly changinh, you may want some automation to test VMs every day with Veeam SureBackup. Here’s a solution to do so.

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Image-level backups can be done even without CBT

Luca Dell'Oca, November 17, 2015December 4, 2016

Lately, different bugs involving VMware CBT in vSphere 6 have created some justified concerns among users. But there are ways to guarantee successful backups even in these conditions.

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Create new backup jobs in Veeam via powershell

Luca Dell'Oca, October 6, 2015December 4, 2016

When you have to deal with a large environment and several jobs in Veeam, automation via powershell is the only possible solution.