Veeam and Business Continuity - things are changing!

Hello there, In my day job I am an Evangelist - actually think Technical Marketing when you hear that - for one Veeam product - Veeam Availability Orchestrator. And I am very excited about that as I think it can really help our customers with Business Continuity. In our big event I have a session … Continue reading Veeam and Business Continuity - things are changing! →

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How are Veeam backup files written?

Hello all, One of my co-workers at Veeam - a field SE - has written a short article that I quite like, and with his permission I have reprinted it here. You can find his blog here and in fact there are a number of article about the recent Veeam launch you can find. This … Continue reading How are Veeam backup files written? →

vSphere Web Client doesn’t answer instead 503 errors

Hi there, I was getting vSphere Web Client error when I tried to enabled BASH on my vCenter - so I could get the HTML5 client working. So I decided to restart the VCSA. After the restart, and a delay, I see this error message. The C# client works fine. My backups are working fine … Continue reading vSphere Web Client doesn’t answer instead 503 errors →

Newsletter: August 21, 2016

Hi all, It has been quite the week. I brought VSAN into my lab, and spent real money to do it and it was a disaster. You can read about it here, and here. After I was gone for three or four days I find my vC was maybe not working so I restarted it. … Continue reading Newsletter: August 21, 2016 →

Why it is important to listen to the VSAN HCL!

In the past, during my time at VMware, I ran VSAN in my home lab and in fact used a number of versions and it worked great. So lately when I needed more storage in my home lab, and I wanted quiet storage too, I bought a bunch of HD and SSD. So a fair … Continue reading Why it is important to listen to the VSAN HCL! →

Server Crash, then Veeam backups fail

Hi all, This is one of those things that will likely not impact you, but I write it down just in case! I had, late yesterday, a vSphere host die. This was in fact in the middle of a SureBackup job, and the host held my vCenter, and my main View server. The server did … Continue reading Server Crash, then Veeam backups fail →

Newsletter: August 6, 2016

Hi all, I hope everyone has had a great week? Mine was pretty good - but we have some in-laws in the house so it made things a little different! I did an interesting article about how you can use Virtual Labs as part of your backup regime. I think it is most excellent and … Continue reading Newsletter: August 6, 2016 →