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Veeam Backup & Replication – Enterprise Manager

5 January 2012
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Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager is a Web-based management and reporting application that comes with Veeam Backup & Replication (included only in the Enterprise edition). It allows management of multiple instances of Veeam Backup & Replication from a single console. It is also required to delegate restoration permission and to approve application restoration (AD, Exchange and SQL).

The installation file (Veeam_Backup_Enterprise_Manager_Setup_*.exe) is in the same archive of Veeam Backup & Replication. It can be installed on a new Windows machine or in the same machine of the Backup component.

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Requirements

  • Microsoft Internet Information Services 5.1 or later (“IIS 6.0 Management Compatibility” and  “Windows Authentication” components are required for IIS 7.0)
  • Microsoft SQL Server 2005/2008 (SQL 2005 Express Edition is included in the setup)
  • Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 SP1 (included in the setup)

Installation

On a new Windows Server 2008 R2 you can simple add the IIS roles and then start the installation and follow the wizard.

 

Configuration

Logon to the Enterprise Manager https://servername:9443, then choose Configuration, Backup Servers, Add. In the Backup Server settings dialog enter the computer name or IP address of the backup server and provide user credentials.

Note that the the data are collected not in real-time, but periodically (according with the scheduling).

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Veeam Backup & Replication – Understand the backup format

4 January 2012
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Compared to other backup software, Veeam Backup & Replication has several formats to save and handle the backup files. As you can see in the Advanced Settings for each backup jobs there are different formats (or mode) where the files are saved:

  • Reversed incremental: the last file is a full version and past files are re-calculated as delta files.
  • Incremental: the first file is a full one and on each backup jobs is created a new delta file.
  • Incremental with synthetic full: similar to the previous but a new full file is periodically re-calculated.
  • Incremental with a single synthetic full: a mix of the reversed and the incremental, with only one full file.

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Veeam Backup & Replication – SAN Transport Mode

3 January 2012
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The SAN Transport Mode is a way to implement a LAN-free backup solution when the backup server is a physical machine and have a direct access to the VMFS datastores. This method was first provided by the VCB Framework and then ported to the vStorage API related to backup and data protection.

In order to use this method in the proper way, some configurations and considerations are required:

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Predictions and forecasts for 2012

31 December 2011
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I don’t like make predictions, because the future isn’t so clear or simple, and in the IT one year could be lot of time and lot of changes. Also I see a lot of predictions that seems only in a binary state (who is in, who is out)… but the real could be completely different from a simple black and white approach. For example same say that the 2012 will be the year of the VDI (I’ve heard this in the last 3 years), others that will be the big fail of the VDI and the traditional PC approach… IMHO neither of the two sentences are realistic: the end user computing segment is more complicated and actually there isn’t a clear big winner.

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Installing Dell OMSA 6.5 on ESXi 5

30 December 2011
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This is just a recap of some posts:

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VMware View Client – Kindle Fire version

27 December 2011
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Kindle Fire is a tablet from Amazon, based on Android, that may become a competitor of the Apple iPad (considering also the interesting price).

Although this tablet use Android, the recent new View Client for Android wasn’t included in the Amazon Android App Store. This lack as been correct in the last days, and now the new release 1.3 of the View Client, with PCoIP support, is available also for Kindle Fire.

An alternative client (not strictly limited to VMware View solution) could also be the new release of Wyse PocketCloud (but actually still lack of the PCoIP support).

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VMware View Client – Linux version

23 December 2011
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As written some days ago, VMware  announced the new version of the Linux View Client with PCoIP support. Now the binaries are available for the download, actually only for the Ubuntu distribution:

There is also an interesting guide on how build a full client based on a live disto: Building an Ubuntu Live CD for VMware View

Note that previously there wasn’t a public (and free) version of the Linux View Client with the PCoIP: the OpenSource vmware-view-open-client project still lack of this function (and also other functions, like USB redirection). But this does not mean that there can be any thin client Linux based fully compatible with View, because hardware vendor can have the full code from VMware.

Using the binary package from some vendors was possible build a custom version with the missing features of the OpenSource client:

 

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