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How-to Create Virtual Protection Group (VPG) In Zerto and start protecting your VMs

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: August 29, 2016

Zerto Virtual Protection Group

In the previous post, we have successfully Installed Zerto in our VMware vSphere environment. Since we only have a single site we have activated replication to self. Now that all this is nicely up and running, we can start moving forward. Here is coming what’s called VPG (Virtual Protection Group). In this post we’ll get all […]

| Filed Under: Backup Tagged With: How-to Create Virtual Protection Group (VPG) In Zerto

Zerto Virtual Replication Lab Deployment

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: November 15, 2017

Zerto Virtual Replication - Main Screen

Zerto Virtual Replication product has been reviewed while a back on our site. At that time, version 2 of the product announced revolution in technology of replication. We like that technology which do not uses hypervisor’s snapshots. Today we had an opportunity to install Zerto in a lab and see how the v4 of Zerto changed. I know that […]

| Filed Under: Backup Tagged With: Zerto Virtual Replication, Zerto Virtual Replication Lab Deployment

Altaro Full Test Restore in a Sandbox

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 19, 2017

Altaro Verification of Backup by Restore to Sandbox

Verification of backups is important. Sometimes you can have a backup taken, everything seems to correct, but then when you need to boot the restored VM you have a failure. For a variety of reasons like file corruption etc. Altaro allows to restore a backed up VM to a sandbox where the VM is booted up […]

| Filed Under: Backup Tagged With: Altaro Full Test Restore

8 Tb NAS Hard Drives by Seagate

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: November 23, 2023

Huge capacity coming from Seagate! Seagate launching 8Tb hard drives for NAS market as well as for Small Business or Enthusiasts. You can achieve a huge capacity when using in a NAS device at home or for small company, but this large capacity might bring a drawback too – the RAID rebuild time. Imagine having […]

| Filed Under: Backup Tagged With: 8 Tb NAS Hard Drives

Veeam Backup and Replication 9 Released!

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: November 9, 2022

Veeam Backup and Replication 9

Veeam Backup and Replication 9 has been released. Just before X-mass the RTM version was made available to partners and folks being part of the Vanguard program (including me). The product has an easy installer allowing the upgrade process to be a snap. I have detailed the upgrade process in my post here. Get a […]

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How-to Upgrade to Veeam Backup and Replication v9

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: January 12, 2016

Upgrade to Veeam 9

Veeam Backup and Replication 9 went RTM and many folks will be upgrading. In this post I’ll walk you through the upgrade process. There are few requirements and I’ve added few advice in this post concerning backing up your environment so you can roll-back in case of problem. You never know. First of you should run at […]

| Filed Under: Backup Tagged With: How-to Upgrade to Veeam Backup and Replication v9

Linux on a USB Stick – create persistant Linux Distro on bootable USB

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: November 15, 2022

LiveUSB - Install Linux on USB stick

There is this tool which you might find useful in a situation where you want to boot into a Linux. The utility is called LiveUSB Install and allows to install Linux distribution onto an USB stick (not to create installation USB). This might be the case when you’re facing unbootable system or simply want to have […]

| Filed Under: Backup, Free Stuff Tagged With: Linux on a USB Stick

How to Backup to Azure

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: November 23, 2023

How to backup to Azure

In this post we’ll have a look How to Backup to Azure. We’ll test how the Azure backup agent installed on Windows system gets configured and what’s the backup options. In fact the Azure Backup agent is very similar to Windows built-in backup utility, and allows to backup not only Windows server systems, but also […]

| Filed Under: Backup Tagged With: Azure backup agent, How to Backup to Azure

VCP6-DTM Objective 5.3 – Manage Endpoints

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: May 29, 2020

VMware Mirage - Manage collections

VCP6-DTM Study guide continues today with another chapter covering VMware Mirage which is part of the exam. VCP6-DTM Objective 5.3 – Manage Endpoints is today’s topic. Installation of Mirage components as well as their configuration was covered in previous chapter. Then in the follow-up chapter we dived into the management of Mirage layers. Mirage is very powerful product […]

| Filed Under: Backup, Desktop Virtualization Tagged With: VCP6-DTM Objective 5.3 - Manage Endpoints, VMware Mirage Endpoints

Veeam Backup and Replication v9 Guest File Exclusion

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: November 30, 2015

Exclude certain folders in VMs from Veeam

I was playing with the latest beta of Veeam Backup and Replication v9 in the lab, and did the installation, including the separate install for the console. I thought that you might want to check out the video that I recorded. I must say that I like the UI. It’s clean, fast and responsive. But […]

| Filed Under: Backup, Server Virtualization Tagged With: Veeam Backup and Replication v9 Guest File Exclusion

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