This year is all about community! For the first time, I had the opportunity to deliver my own presentation on a self-chosen topic at the Veeam User Group (VUG) Germany. The second VUG Germany meeting this year was hosted in Munich by Pure Storage GmbH, who kindly provided us with catering and their facilities. It…
This year, I participated in the Veeam Community Hackathon for the first time. It was the second hackathon organized by the community, and there were several weeks between registration and the actual start, during which the teams were formed behind the scenes. What worked particularly well was that Veeam took participant preferences into account, so…
Veeam has announced the backup for Entra ID, and I had the chance to explore it before the General Availability (GA) release. I installed and tested a beta version in my lab environment. For this setup, I continue to use a Microsoft Azure VM for the installation and deployment of Veeam (manually installed), utilizing a…
In addition to my previous blog post, I have explored further innovations in the new Veeam Backup for M365 v8 Technical Preview 2. The environment remains unchanged, I am using a CDX tenant as the source data and a lab environment hosted in Azure. Configuration of a Proxy Pool: In total, I am adding four…
Veeam announced Veeam Backup for M365 v8 at VeeamON 2024. I had the opportunity to explore the Technical Preview beforehand and would like to provide an initial overview here. Environment: I set up a demo environment within Microsoft Azure (dedicated tenant) and deployed a Microsoft CDX tenant with a duration of 90 days as the…
I recently received an unusual customer inquiry. One of my clients operates an M365 environment with Exchange Online and is concerned about the availability of email communication in the event of an Azure and/or M365 outage. Preface: In my opinion, Microsoft does an excellent job ensuring the availability of services within the Microsoft Cloud globally….
After months of anticipation, it finally happened – my first VeeamON! Following a roughly 9.5-hour flight from Frankfurt to Miami, I headed to the event venue, the Diplomat Beach Resort in Fort Lauderdale. Day one was Partner Day, where we gathered with all Veeam partners to get exclusive insights on upcoming features and directions from…
Many smaller customers with older infrastructures or those operating demo environments, among others, may still not have a consistent 10Gbit infrastructure even in the year 2024. Due to the “historical growth” of environments, including Veeam environments, many customers primarily utilize NBD, thereby sending backup data over the network. This results in the network stack in…
Eine größere Herausforderung bei Disaster-Szenarien ist, dass Backup-Lösungen wie Veeam häufig nicht redundant ausgelegt sind. Dies hat zur Folge, dass beispielsweise Hardwarefehler oder auch fehlerhafte Updates Backup-Systeme lahmlegen und somit auch Wiederherstellungen in einem gewissen Zeitraum unmöglich machen. Neben Patchmanagement und entsprechenden Hardware-Carepacks sollte die Architektur an aktuelle Anforderungen angepasst werden. Hierfür muss die RTO…
A significant challenge in disaster scenarios is that backup solutions like Veeam often lack redundancy. This leads to situations where hardware failures or corrupt updates can incapacitate backup systems, leading to the impossibility to perform recovery operations within a certain timeframe. To mitigate this, along with patch management and appropriate hardware care packages, the architecture…
