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Like in the VMworld US 2015 edition, the #vBrownbag TechTalks are returning also this year at the European edition.

The TechTalks are ten-minute presentations by community members at an industry conference. Most of them (and the original idea of the vBrownBag “unconference” was this) are originated with sessions not being accepted for the main conference catalog. We know we want to learn from the community so we arranged an alternative forum. TechTalks are limited to ten minutes; they deliver the very core of an idea. Keeping presentations short also means we can do a lot of sessions in a day. Most TechTalks use a slide deck, some use a whiteboard and a few brave souls do live demonstrations.

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Veeam has just released Veeam Backup & Replication 8.0 Update 3 with several fix (also the one related to vSphere 6.0 update 1) and add new features.

Please confirm you are running version 8.0.0.807, 8.0.0.817, 8.0.0.831, 8.0.0.917, 8.0.0.2018, 8.0.0.2021, 8.0.0.2029 or 8.0.0.2030 prior to installing this update. You can check this under Help | About in Veeam Backup & Replication console. After upgrading, your build will be version 8.0.0.2084.

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Veeam Endpoint is a powerful (and free) backup tool for physical system that is very easy to install and configure (for more information see this post).

Also if it is quite limited (due to the usability and simplicity approach) it has different backup modes: the entire computer, volume level backup or file level backup:

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Nutanix has release the new version Acropolis Base Software, formerly known as Nutanix Operating System (NOS), version 4.5.

Acropolis is not only the name of the “native” hypervisor (Acropolis Hypervisor or AHV), but is becoming the name of the entire NOS:

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Veeam has released the version 1.1.2 of Veeam Endpoint Backup with few changes: the most important is the ability to run the task from the command line.

In this way you can build your custom job or script to manage your jobs (like appened with the free edition of Veeam Backup & Replication).

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Mastering VMware vSphere Storage book is intented for users who already have some experience with the VMware vSphere platform and want to learn and design VMware vSphere storage solutions and how to troubleshoot vSphere storage issues.

The main purpose of this book is monitor and optimize the storage capabilities of your vSphere environment.

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During the past VMworld US 2015, I’ve also attend at the last Tech Field Day extra day and got the opportunity to know Datto.

Datto is an innovative provider of comprehensive backup, recovery and business continuity solutions used by thousands of managed service providers worldwide. This is the description from their web site, but honestly was not so easy understand what they really during the first part of the presentation.

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