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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'
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veeam v13 - immutability - smb infrastructure - air gap What you will get out of this A production-viable architecture for a disconnected, immutable Veeam repository using commodity hardware. You will see exactly why one path is lab-only and the other is legitimate production, and you will walk away with
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Veeam v13 - Proxy Architecture and Security For most of Veeam's history, a Windows server was the default choice for a backup proxy - familiar, well-documented, easy to justify. v13 changes that calculus. The Veeam Infrastructure Appliance delivers a fully Linux-based proxy on hardened JeOS, speaking gRPC instead
Ai
vmware vsphere - gpu passthrough - amd rocm - local ai - veeam backup What this covers How to architect a virtualized home server that runs AMD MI50 GPUs for local LLM inference and image generation, with real configuration details on DirectPath I/O passthrough, ROCm driver constraints, NUMA topology,
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Veeam Security - Access Control Four-Eyes Authorization exists to prevent a single compromised account from deleting your backups. Most teams skip it because it sounds like an enterprise feature that requires a dedicated security team. It does not. A solo admin can implement it today - the second approver can
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Veeam v13 - Security Architecture Deep Dive The Veeam Software Appliance ships pre-hardened. Most people take that at face value and move on. This article does not. We walk through what the VSA actually does under the hood - the OS baseline, the role separation model, the SSH gate, the
DR
recovery point - disaster recovery - onshore support - draas I spend a lot of time on this blog writing about tools and architecture. Today I want to write about something different: the company I work for, why I joined, and why I am still there almost five years later.
RTO
Disaster Recovery - Testing and Validation Every DR plan has an RTO. Most of them were written in a spreadsheet, approved in a meeting, and never tested against reality. The first time many organizations discover their actual recovery time is during an incident - which is the worst possible moment
K8
Kubernetes - Backup and DR Strategy The "Free" Tooling Trap in Kubernetes Backup Backing up Kubernetes is easy. Velero is free, well-documented, and handles the common case well. The trap is not in the backup. It is in the recovery - specifically, recovering to a different cluster during
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Veeam v13 - Security Architecture VSA vs. DIY: The Case for the Hardened Software Appliance Veeam's Hardened Linux Repository has been the gold standard for immutable backup storage since v11. In v13, Veeam ships a pre-hardened alternative: the Veeam Software Appliance. The question is whether you build it
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Veeam v13 Platform Roadmap - Hypervisor Strategy The Universal Hypervisor Integration API: Veeam's Bet on Hypervisor Agnosticism Veeam announced the Universal Hypervisor Integration API alongside the v13 launch in November 2025. It is a 2026 roadmap item - it does not ship with v13 GA. But the design
Kasten
Veeam Kasten OpenShift 4.18 Operator Helm NFS FileStore CSI Snapshots k10tools DR Export Veeam Kasten Series | Component: Veeam Kasten 8.x on OpenShift 4.16 through 4.18+ | Audience: Platform Engineers, OpenShift Administrators, Kubernetes Backup Architects This article targets OCP 4.18.25 specifically and covers everything you need