Newsletter: February 1, 2020

Hello all I hope everyone had a good week? Mine was good. I have been home for a month so I am quite happy to spend next week out with customers. I want to specifically say hello to all of the VMware people let go the other day. I know some of you and you … Continue reading Newsletter: February 1, 2020 →

Newsletter: April 6, 2019

Hello all, I hope this finds everyone who reads it as doing well. Things good here. A nice week at home and lots done on working towards a very good release of my VAO product. I have another week at home before on the road again. I am really enjoying reading a very interesting and … Continue reading Newsletter: April 6, 2019 →

Newsletter: March 16, 2019

Hello all, A week on the road, but not with as many customer meetings as I hoped, but with a few and they were outstanding. I love helping people with the ability to not only survive IT outages, but to also change IT operations in positive ways like testing tier 1 app updates in test … Continue reading Newsletter: March 16, 2019 →

Want a Visio of your lab? Veeam ONE can do it for you!

Hi all, I mentioned, when talking with a customer, about how I had to update my Visio of my home lab with the changes I had done recently. There were groans and I asked why. The amount of work to update Visio diagrams. I said there was very little work as I had a tool … Continue reading Want a Visio of your lab? Veeam ONE can do it for you! →

Veeam ONE Monitor doesn’t answer any longer

I recently went to demo something to someone in Veeam ONE and it sort of said no. I had to think about it, and I realized I had changed the service account password for Veeam. It was easy to deal with in Veeam Backup & Replication by reconnecting with vCenter. But ONE is different. Here … Continue reading Veeam ONE Monitor doesn’t answer any longer →

Veeam ONE Report – Custom – host firmware info

I recently showed a customer how to do a Veeam ONE report that showed the firmware of the VMware hosts, and the version / build of the VMware software. It was an interesting use of the custom reporting in ONE and I have since shown other people and since they liked it too I thought … Continue reading Veeam ONE Report – Custom – host firmware info →

Avoiding privacy clicks with Veeam ONE

Hello all, When you access the Veeam ONE web UI, for example when you want to get into Reporter you are likely used to seeing the prompts about privacy? And when you click ADVANCED you see: And once you select Proceed, you are delivered to ONE Reporter. So I was going to write an article … Continue reading Avoiding privacy clicks with Veeam ONE →

This site can’t be reached, when I click on a Veeam report

Hi all, I recently clicked on the View Latest Backup Job Status Report link. You can see the link for that below in the screenshot from my Veeam Plug-in of the vSphere Web Client. You can see the two nice links above. The error I got when I clicked on the View Latest link is … Continue reading This site can’t be reached, when I click on a Veeam report →

Host Info Report – thanks to Veeam ONE

I was talking with a Veeam customer recently and I mentioned I used a PowerShell tool to get inventory reports - we were talking about Spectre / Meltdown remediation. The customer was not into PowerShell but they had Veeam ONE. So I had an idea - could we do this with ONE? I was sort … Continue reading Host Info Report – thanks to Veeam ONE →