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SQL Server recovery in Veeam is one of those areas where you really need to know which backup path you are on before you start. Veeam gives you two completely different backup engines for SQL Server, and they do not behave the same way at restore time -- different cmdlets,
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Oracle recovery in Veeam is one of those things that looks straightforward until you are actually doing it at 2am. The Veeam Plug-in for Oracle RMAN workflow is not the same as a standard VM restore, and if you go in expecting it to behave like one, you are going
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#veeam #WorldBackupDay #VeeamDataPlatform #CyberResilience Working in the managed services space teaches you pretty quickly that good architecture isn't about optimizing IOPS or storage densities. It's about keeping a business alive when things go wrong. That mindset proved its worth late last year during one of the
IP
A thread in r/sysadmin this week surfaced something a lot of practitioners already know but have not fully acted on: IP-based blocking as a primary security control is broken, and it has been for a while. Not partially broken. Not mostly fine with some edge cases. Broken in a
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Veeam v13 VSPC MSP Tenant Onboarding Pulse Billing VCSP Veeam v13 Series | Component: Veeam Service Provider Console 9 | Audience: MSP Engineers, VCSP Operators VSPC is free. Worth saying up front, because a lot of MSPs running Cloud Connect have either never deployed it or set it up years ago and
VMware
VMware Broadcom vSphere VCF VVF Core Licensing Cost Optimization PowerCLI VMware vSphere | Licensing | Audience: Infrastructure Architects, IT Directors, Procurement Broadcom's acquisition of VMware in late 2023 produced the most disruptive licensing change the virtualization market has seen in a long time. Perpetual licenses are gone entirely. The product
Hyper-V
Hyper-V Windows VMs Guest Security Least Privilege Application Aware Generation 2 Secure Boot Microsoft Hyper-V | Security | Audience: Hyper-V Administrators, Infrastructure Engineers This one came directly from a conversation I had with someone in the community. They were doing what a lot of people do: creating a domain account, adding it
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Veeam v13 SureBackup Virtual Lab Application Group vSphere Recovery Verification Veeam v13 Series | Component: VBR v13, vSphere | Audience: Hands-on Sysadmins, Enterprise Architects SureBackup is Veeam's answer to the question that every backup administrator eventually gets asked: how do you know your backups actually work? The answer "because
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Veeam Cloud Connect v13 - Service Provider Architecture Veeam v13 BaaS DRaaS VSPC v9 Hardened Repository S3 Object Lock Greenfield Building a Veeam Cloud Connect BaaS and DRaaS stack from scratch in 2026 means making architecture decisions that will be very expensive to undo later. Hardened repository placement, S3 object
VMware
Cloud Architecture - MSP Strategy VMware Cloud Director MSP Strategy Platform9 CloudStack Nutanix Open Question The question MSPs keep asking is the wrong question. "What replaces VCD?" assumes VCD is a product. It is not - it is a role. Three specific jobs that, taken together, define what
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Enterprise & Service Provider Engineering | VMware Cloud Director VCD 10.6.x Veeam Cloud Connect Zerto MSP / Service Provider / Enterprise Gotcha Catalog VMware Cloud Director 10.6.x is the current release and it is not forgiving of misconfiguration. Broadcom dropped VCD 10.6 GA in June 2024 and it
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veeam - cloud migration - aws - azure - oci - rto - ingestion What this covers The real friction in large VM migrations to AWS, Azure, and OCI is rarely the tool. It is the pipe. This article covers the physics of the bottleneck, how each cloud provider'