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I’ve had this remote backup in place now for about a month and a half and the results have definitely been “mixed”.  In fact, I have shutdown the remote backup at this point pending moving the customer to a trial of the Enterprise Plus product that enables the WAN acceleration feature of Veeam. I guess …

I’ve managed to get a lot farther with the backup process.  All of the issues with the second VM have been fixed and the remote backup of that VM has been successful.  Throughput for it is the same as that for the first VM so I’m pretty happy overall. A few things learned along the …

As promised, this is the next instalment in my Veeam posts, specifically on Remote Backup (backup to a remote site across the WAN). This has been a learning experience even though I already had one site doing remote backup for almost a year.  The goal with this particular project is to leverage as much goodness …

I have been a committed VMware vSphere and Workstation user for years.  The majority of the infrastructure at itgroove is built on vSphere as is that at many of our customers.  I have used the products since the very early days, even before P2V tools were widely available, and it has been a (mostly) satisfying …

I’ve made a few posts regarding Veeam and, if you have read them, you’ll know I’m a fan.  You’ll also know that we have not yet put Veeam into any real large customer sites (like datacenters) but I think it’s important to know that Veeam’s benefits are as valid for small shops as they are …