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 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 […]
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 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 […]
Veeam Backup & Replication v8 Patch 1 released
In case you missed it Veeam has finally released Patch 1 for Backup & Replication v8. You can download Veeam Backup & Replication v8 Patch 1 here. Some highlights from the release notes Virtual Lab proxy appliance was upgraded to virtual hardware version 7 to allow for it to manage more networks out of […]
Veeam Endpoint Backup BETA first look
I was lucky enough to be selected as one of the early beta testers of Veeam Endpoint backup. Instead of writing a long boring blog post, today I thought I would try and produce a video with my first impressions. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxyc_N3UmR8 I will try to make some follow up videos on Veeam Endpoint Backup […]
VeeamON 2014 Diary – Day 3 “New Mayor in town”
Today was the last actual conference day of VeeamON 2014. The reason I write the last actual conference day is because the Veeam Certified Engineer class still continues tomorrow Thursday. As all other days I started with breakfast and once again it was incredible quality! Today it was eggs & bacon among other goodies! […]
VeeamON 2014 Diary – Day 2 “Need for achievement”
VeeamON conference day 2. So for me this was a different day than for most other attendees. First stop of my day was the breakfast buffet. Once again – fantastic food! I can really appreciate that Veeam has been spending cash on this – and it is working. I promised to do a vBrownBag […]
Veeam announces Veeam EndPoint backup
Veeam Endpoint Backup for physical machines announced! Veeam Endpoint Backup was announced today by Veeam during their conference VeeamON. A simple and free standalone tool that enables users to back up Windows laptops/desktops to a hard drive, a NAS share or a Veeam backup repository. This is huge! Now while it is not targeted at Physical […]