Good afternoon! Yesterday I took and thankfully passed, the Veeam VMCE-ADO exam. As I’ve done with other exams, including the VMCE last year, I thought I’d do a write-up of my experience and share my opinions of the exam prep process, all within Veeam’s NDA. Also at the end of this write-up, you’ll find a […]
Veeam VMCE 9.5 Study Guide
<Guest Blog> Good morning! I recently studied for, and thankfully passed, the Veeam VMCE exam. Thought I’d do a write-up of my experience and share my opinions of the exam prep process, all within Veeam VMCE NDA, as well as post a Study Guide I created during my studies. If you wanna skip the ‘mumbo-jumbo’ […]
Veeam > HPE Nimble Integration, A Case Study
(Guest Post) This is a continuation of my experience testing, and now putting into production, integrating Veeam Backup & Replication with HPE Nimble Storage. While testing, I came across a few bugs (post here), but once I worked through them, I was able to go full steam ahead in implementing my storage into Veeam to […]
Veeam > Nimble Integration Bug to Be Aware Of
(Guest Post) Since the announcement of Nimble Storage integration by both Nimble Storage (now a part of Hewlett-Packard Enterprise) and Veeam, I’ve been anxious to test out the functionality. The opportunity to perform all my Availability tasks (snapshotting, backup, replication, recovery) in a central management location, the Veeam Backup & Replication (VB&R) Console, is highly […]
Veeam Certified Engineer v9 guide
Veeam released the updated version 9 of their course Veeam Certified Engineer on February 1st. Since then many Education Centers have already been teaching it and the feedback I have heard is great! Around 400 attendees at Veeam’s availability conference, VeeamON, in October 2015 had a chance to attend an early access version of VMCE […]
The start of a new role
For the past two and a half years, I have been on a fantastic journey working as a system engineer/instructor for Arrow ECS in Denmark. Introduced to the job by vCommunity superstar Frank Brix, who most of you know from Twitter or his excellent blog on vFrank.org. Frank took me under his wings in Arrow and […]
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You can read more about the Top vBlog here and vote here. I try to contribute as many efforts as possible towards my blog. While in some periods that may mean less blog posts in other periods in may mean lots of blog posts 🙂 This year one of my larger projects on this […]
Veeam VSS error: VSS_E_UNEXPECTED_PROVIDER_ERROR. Code:0x8004230f
This week I had a customer ask for help in resolving an issue with backing up a server that was previously P2V’d. Previously the customer had been using Symantec BackupExec but they had recently changed it over to Veeam Backup & Replication v8. So lets jump right into the situation: Failed to prepare guest […]
Veeam User Group Denmark first meeting
I am very proud to announce that Mads Fog and I have formed Veeam User Group Denmark. The first meeting will be on Friday the 13th March 2015 and you can find the full agenda here. We are also very VERY proud to announce a special guest: Mr. Rick Vanover aka Rickatron, Product Strategy […]
Veeam Error: Cannot assign available PCI slot to ethernet5
Some time ago I was on-site with a customer going through their Veeam Backup & Replication deployment. One topic was to get the customer setup with SureBackup for automated recovery testing. The Proxy Appliance deployed deployed by Veeam by default is Virtual Hardware Version 4 (so it could support older ESX/ESXi 3.X hosts). That limits […]