I received this question a couple of times already and I have found conflicting information about it in forums and documentation. So hopefully we’ll help setting the record straight here about the possibility of using the Direct SAN transport…
How to mount Veeam B&R’s vPower NFS share
As you may probably know, Veeam Backup & Replication provides the Instant VM Recovery feature, that allows you to run one or more VMs directly from the backup file (which is compressed and deduplicated), without having to extract the data and…
My Demo Lab
As most “IT guys” out there, I have a demo lab which I primarily use to run demos for customers/partners, and of course also to play with the technologies I see/use/like the most. Building a healthy/efficient lab is an important…
How to (quickly) match a moRef ID to a name in VMware vSphere
Every object within a vSphere environment is internally tracked, and referred to, by a unique identifier called moRef ID (“Managed Object Reference ID”). Every virtual infrastructure object managed by vSphere (datacenters, clusters, hosts, datastores, VMs, vApps, vSwitches and so on) has…
Configuring LAN-Free backups in Veeam B&R for Microsoft Hyper-V
After my previous post on LAN-Free backups for VMware vSphere, here’s the (somewhat) corresponding post for Microsoft Hyper-V environments. The Background is the same, so you can skip that part if you already read the vSphere post 😉 Background Generally,…