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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
AHV
VMware Proxmox Nutanix Hyper-V Harvester OpenStack oVirt HyperCore Comparison Reference Guide | All Platforms | Audience: Infrastructure Architects, Platform Engineers, IT Decision Makers Ten hypervisor and private cloud platforms are covered in this series. Each has a full end-to-end setup article. This guide is the decision layer that sits in front of