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How To Recover a vCenter VM if vCenter Is Down – With Nakivo

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: December 21, 2016

How to recover vCenter VM via Nakivo

Playing with the lab sometimes break things. If you break an ordinary VM, it does not really matter. But what if the VM is a vCenter VM? Recently that has happened to my vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) 6.5. Impossible to connect and dig into the services, to start them up. No VMware snapshot either. But […]

| Filed Under: Backup, Home Lab Tagged With: How To Recover a vCenter VM if vCenter Is Down - With Nakivo

VMware vCSA 6.5 HA Failover Test – Video

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: December 20, 2016

VMware vCenter server (VCSA 6.5) HA advanced configuration

Recently we have tested new features from VMware vSphere 6.5. We have deployed VCSA 6.5 and via Simple or Advanced configuration we have set up a VCSA HA 3-node cluster. The vCSA HA can protect your vCenter server in case of data store failure or host failure. This post will detail the VMware vCSA 6.5 HA […]

| Filed Under: Backup, Home Lab Tagged With: VMware vCSA 6.5 HA Failover Test

Veeam Agent for Linux 1.0 Released – There are 3 different Editions

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 20, 2017

Veeam Agent for Linux

Backup of Linux systems can now be done by Veeam! Yes, Veeam Agent for Linux 1.0 Released yesterday. The product has been in Beta for a long time, to allow more through testing and more time for developers to make sure to be reliable and ready for production environments. The destination of backups can be […]

| Filed Under: Backup, Free Stuff Tagged With: Veeam Agent for Linux 1.0 is Available, Veeam Agent for Linux 1.0 Released

VMware VCSA 6.5 Backup and Restore How-To

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 17, 2017

VMware VCSA 6.5 Backup and Restore How-To

The new vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) 6.5 has a backup feature. Today’s post is about VMware VCSA 6.5 Backup and Restore How-to. Note that it is an “out-of-the-box” feature which does a file level backup. It’s “built-in” within the appliance itself, and it allows users to backup not only the vCenter Server but also Platform […]

| Filed Under: Backup, Server Virtualization Tagged With: VMware VCSA 6.5 Backup and Restore How-To

Single Backup Solution for Multiple Backup Requirements – Vembu BDR Suite

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: November 23, 2016

Vembu Network Backup

Regular readers of our website did perhaps recently noticed Vembu Backup and DR suite articles. Vembu Technologies is a company which was focusing at the service provider level. They exist since 2004. Vembu has over 60000 clients through 4000 service provider network. I have recently reviewed their  Vembu Backup and DR Suite. Today’s post will […]

| Filed Under: Backup Tagged With: Single Backup Solution for Multiple Backup Requirements - Vembu BDR Suite

Nakivo Backup Copy – Why would you use it?

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: May 18, 2018

Nakivo Backup Repository

The whole idea of Backup copy jobs is to provide you with an identical copy of backups in case something is wrong with your hardware at your primary site where you store your backups (for fast restore times), or the whole main site is down. So you can have a synced backup at a remote […]

| Filed Under: Backup Tagged With: Nakivo Backup Copy

Veeam Backup and Replication 9.5 Released – Download Now

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: May 13, 2018

Veeam Availability Platform for the hybrid Cloud

Veeam Backup and replication v 9.5 Released and available for download! Veeam Availability Suite 9.5  is here !!! The 9.5 has been RTM (released to manufacturers) since about 2 weeks, and it means that before the actual release to the general public, service providers have about 2 weeks to upgrade their infrastructures in order to provide Veeam […]

| Filed Under: Backup Tagged With: Veeam Backup and Replication 9.5

Vembu Universal Explorer – Free Tool

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: November 23, 2016

Vembu Technologies Portal

Vembu Universal Explorer is Free Tool which is used for granular recovery of different application objects. You can use this tool for restoring Active Directory (AD), SQL, Sharepoint, Exchange Server objects. The free tool can restore individual items of Microsoft’s products from Image level backups (for physical servers) or from backups from virtual environments (vSphere, Hyper-V). There […]

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Vembu BDR Suite – Back to Business in few minutes with Quick VM Recovery

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: March 8, 2017

Vembu BDR Suite - HIVE File System

Today we’ll focus on Vembu BDR Suite and the possibility to recover a VM(s) – instantly. Yes, Vembu has Quick VM Recovery feature within their BDR suite. Note that Vembu does not only allow to backup VMware VMs but also Hyper-V VMs or Physical servers. You can quickly recover from those backups by using Vembu […]

| Filed Under: Backup Tagged With: Vembu BDR Suite, Vembu Instant Recovery, Vembu Quick Recovery

TOP 5 Backup Software for VMware Infrastructure – Part 2

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: August 18, 2020

Top 5 Backup software for VMware

In my post TOP 5 Backup Software for VMware Infrastructure – Part 1 you could read about some of the backup and replication solutions available for today’s data centers. Things are changing rapidly within the IT space. Backup applications that were here just 4-5 years ago look now old, not up-to-date, or completely obsolete, dead. […]

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