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Veeam v13 Edge Branch Office Remote Sites WAN Cloud Connect Limited Bandwidth Veeam v13 Series | Component: VBR v13 | Audience: Infrastructure Architects, MSP Engineers Branch offices are where backup architecture gets complicated in ways the central datacenter model doesn't prepare you for. The workloads are smaller but they'
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Veeam v13 Licensing VUL Socket VCSP Rental MSP Veeam v13 Series | Component: Veeam Licensing | Audience: Architects, MSP Operators, Procurement Leads Most people have a working understanding of their own Veeam licensing situation and a fuzzy understanding of everything else. They know they're on socket or VUL, they know
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Veeam v13 Microsoft 365 Exchange Online SharePoint Teams OneDrive VBM365 Veeam v13 Series | Component: Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 v8 | Audience: Sysadmins, MSP Engineers Every MSP has this conversation multiple times a year: "Why do I need to back up Microsoft 365? Microsoft handles that." They don'
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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
worldbackupday
#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