Today general availability for Veeam Backup for Office 365 was released. As a Veeam Cloud Service Provider, today marks an exciting day to extend our Veeam Backup capabilities into Office 365. First things first, lets try clear up an old but very common misconception: Why do i need backup for Office 365? Microsoft do that... Continue Reading →
Today I finally managed to get around to starting my Nutanix journey, by getting Nutanix Community Edition installed on our VMware lab. Nutanix has been a technology I've been closely following for the last 12 months. I've heard some great things from both customers and fellow techies about this technology, but never managed to take... Continue Reading →
My Day two at #MSTechSummit was focused around Office 365, in particularly the security aspects of the service. Security and compliance of these services are quickly become and equal to availability, people are not just interested in whether the service is going to be up 99.999% of the time, but how they deal with security... Continue Reading →
Today we kicked off the MS Tech Summit in Birmingham. I attended the same event last year, and heard loads on the Microsoft vision for #Azure and Microsoft 365. This year was no different, we kicked off the event with a back to back key note on Microsoft 365 and Azure: Microsoft 365 Keynote: Microsoft... Continue Reading →
KRACK Attack – WI-FI vulnerability – What does it mean to you? You may have seen in the press that a vulnerability has been identified against the WPA2 Wireless encryption protocol. So what is this vulnerability and what does it mean to you? Security researchers have discovered a number of vulnerabilities in the WPA2... Continue Reading →
Today Veeam released the beta of v1.5 for Veeam Backup for Office 365. Here is a quick look at Veeam's new Office 365 protection software There appears to be no ability to in place upgrade from Veeam Backup for Office 365 V1.0 After uninstalling this version, i then re-attempted the installation. I had intended to... Continue Reading →
Whilst attempting to upgrade a series of VMware ESXi hosts i ran into a small issues with regards to the VIB version installed. Below is our scenario VMware vSphere ESXi 5.0 upgrading to ESXi 6.0 Cisco Nexus 1010v VDS The error i was receiving was: 'the upgrade contains the following set of conflicting vibs cisco... Continue Reading →
I've been privileged enough to get my hands on the RC version of Veeam Availability Console, or VAC as its more commonly known. The build number of this version is 2.0.1.983. What is Veeam Availability Console? VAC is the new iteration of Veeam Managed Backup Portal which is available to Veeam Certified Service Providers. VAC provides the following features:... Continue Reading →
After installing a new NetApp FAS2650 recently, a bug was observed which was causing one of the nodes to panic, and restart to the LOADER A prompt. After engaging with NetApp support, the following bug was found A PCI NMI error triggers from QLogic 16Gb FC or 10 GbE Converged Network Adapter (CNA) ports on... Continue Reading →
