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

The End of the Windows Proxy? Performance Scaling on Linux

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

The AI Home Lab: Virtualizing and Protecting Heavy GPU Workloads

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

MFA and 4-Eyes Authorization for the Solo Admin

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

The VSA "Stress Test": Breaking the Pre-Hardened Appliance

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

The DR Provider Conversation Nobody Has Until It Is Too Late

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

Your RTO is Fiction Until You Test It

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.