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If you have been following my blog over the last little while you will know that I have faced a few challenges with Veeam in terms of setting up remote jobs (backups across the WAN).  Well, I think I finally have some good news. I was originally trying to do full Veeam backups of ESXi …

After installing Veeam Enterprise Plus and enabling the WAN Acceleration feature the size of the backups did start to drop but not enough to overcome the limitations of the single Shaw “pipes” at either end of the installation.  My customer was seeing Internet performance “crawl” at each location while backups were running and, because we …

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 …

Before I get rolling on this post let me just say this … I am unapologetic about it, I think Veeam is one of the best applications to come down the pike in a long, long time.  And, no, I’m not a Veeam employee, just a very enthusiastic user of the product!  OK, now for …

Well, Dear Reader, I have a confession to make.  I’m in love!  There, I’ve said it.  It’s out in the open.  And the object of my affections is Veeam. I did promise sometime back that I would write on our experiences with Veeam and I have to say that they have been overwhelmingly positive.  For …

I had promised more articles on Veeam but have been slow with the posts.  We’ve been waiting on the arrival of gear in our office to support our own Veeam installation (hard drive shortage sure playing havoc with server supply) so my articles have also been “on hold”.  Well, the real world jumped in and …

As promised, here’s the first in a series of posts on Veeam Backup & Replication 6. We recently installed Veeam Backup & Replication 6 at one of our customers.  Most of our VMware customer base use VMware Essentials licensing so it’s no surprise that our first Veeam install is also of the “Essentials” variety.  I’ll …

We have a number of customers that have virtualized environments (ESX/ESXi) that are starting to hit issues with backups using “traditional” backup tools.  We also have the same issues in our own virtual environment.  To solve some of these issues we are working with customers to implement Veeam Backup and replication within their environments and …