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Recovering Oracle Databases with Veeam: A Step-by-Step Guide for vSphere Environments

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

3 AM, Ransomware on the Wire, and Why We Didn't Pay a Cent

#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'

IP Blocking Is Broken -- What Zero Trust Actually Replaces It With

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

Veeam Service Provider Console -- Tenant Onboarding, Pulse Licensing, Usage Reporting, and Monitoring at Scale

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

Managing VMware Licensing Costs Under Broadcom -- Core Counts, Tier Selection, Cluster Design, and Renewal Tactics

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

Securing Windows VM Guest Access on Hyper-V -- Least Privilege, Application Aware Backup, Generation 2 Security, and Network Exposure

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

Veeam v13: SureBackup Verification for vSphere

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

Building a Hardened BaaS and DRaaS Stack with Veeam Cloud Connect v13

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

What Would It Actually Take to Replace VCD's Abstraction Layer?

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?"

VMware Cloud Director 10.6.x - The Definitive MSP Operations Guide

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

Migrating Massive VMs: Overcoming Cloud Ingestion Bottlenecks

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

The "Invisible" Repository: Building a Budget Air-Gap for SMB Stacks

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