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Veeam Licensing Explained -- VUL vs Socket vs VCSP Rental and How to Count What You Actually Need

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

Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 -- Exchange Online, SharePoint, Teams, OneDrive, and Why Microsoft Doesn't Back It Up for You

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

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

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

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?"