VMware Cloud Director 10.6.x - The Definitive MSP Operations Guide
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VeeamMigrating 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
VeeamThe "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
VeeamThe 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
AiThe 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
VeeamMFA 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
VeeamThe 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
DRThe 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
RTOYour 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.
K8The "Free" Tooling Trap in Kubernetes Backup
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
VeeamVSA vs. DIY: The Case for the Hardened Software Appliance
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
VeeamThe Universal Hypervisor API: Life After VMware
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