Veeam Vanguard Summit 2019 Prague – Day 3 Recap

CDP – Continous Data Protection

Anthony Spiteri kicks off the third and last day of the Vanguard Summit in Prague with CDP. It’s all about the filter driver. There are many competitors out which put their CDP solution out, but some of them still have issues sometimes, like pink screens of death when on the ESXi hosts. Veeam worked closely with VMware to get the stuff done right. Because when you’re going into the I/O stack with a data protection solution, you have to be sure what you’re doing.

CDP is a VMware-only available solution, there is no CDP for Hyper-V, at least not currently. That might change, but not soon. In Veeam you can leverage the usage of VMware tags for your data protection. You create backup jobs that will use these tags, and depending on these tags you’re able to protect your workloads with the needed RPO / RTO.

When you set up DCP in Veeam, Veeam will install the filter driver on a cluster base. You can’t install it on the host manually, Veeam does that for you but on a cluster base. With Veeam CDP there is an RPO as low as 15 seconds possible. For a restore, you can go back to either a restore point or go back with a slider to a specific point in time.

Write for us

Ilya Afanasyev is telling us more about the Veeam engagement in regards to a program for writers. It is called “Write for us” and it is not restricted to Vanguards only but all other tech people can take part in it. You chose a topic and apply for the program. Veeam will approve the topic (or maybe not) and then it’s your turn to create a draft. If the draft gets approved, your blog post gets published on the Veeam blog and you’ll get a revenue. A blog post brings you 200$ and a white paper is worth about 1000$.

If you’re interested to write some cool blog posts or even a white paper, then visit the “Write for us” program on the Veeam website for more information.

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Veeam Vanguard Summit 2019 Prague – Day 2 Recap

Containers and Veeam

David Hill introduces us to the topic of containers, and how Veeam can handle that. Containers make it possible to use less different operating systems. Today you’ve got patches and updates to install on your operating system, no matter if it’s Linux or Windows. With containers, it becomes a lot simpler.

It’s all about buzzwords. Being or getting cloud-ready, being cloud-native, and being it now. A few years ago it was the same with the cloud. Cloud did help to solve some problems, but some problems are still the same, just on a bigger scale. The same for containers. They will help to solve some problems, but some problems will still be problems, just on a different scale.

David explained some things about the statefulness of a container. Containers are good when they are used for what they are thought. But having just any kind of application containerized doesn’t work. When an application fails, and the container management spins up a new instance of that application, the application itself doesn’t know what happened. If you click save in WordPress for example, WordPress doesn’t know what you did before when the application crashed in the backend.

Cloud Tier

Andrew Zhelezko and David Hill are talking about the Cloud Tier. In Veeam, you can set up and define multiple types of backup repositories. You can have local disk storage, NAS, deduplication appliances, etc. You can even combine them in a Scale-out Repository. Now with the latest VBR version you’re even able to scale-out to the cloud with the usage of object storage. You’ve got nearly unlimited storage available in the cloud to store your backups. And in Veeam, that’s all policy-driven. Depending on your policy, Veeam does the automatic cloud-tiering to the object storage of your choice. And you can put that object storage also into a Scale-out Repository as a capacity tier.

That means that you might have some backups local, maybe because of compliance reasons or to meet a certain RPO/RTO time. Everything which is older than a specified time will be tiered out to the object storage.

A new feature is the Immutability of your backup files in the object storage. That means that you can lock the backups which are moved out to the cloud. That gives you protection against rogue admins or to have a certain level of compliance. No one can delete your backup files on the cloud storage. You can set the lock for a specific time, and during this time the backup files can’t be deleted. These settings have to be set on a specific S3 bucket.

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Veeam Vanguard Summit 2019 Prague – Day 1 Recap

Welcome Vanguards!

Nikola Pejkova and Rick Vanover welcome all new and renewed Vanguards here at Prague. As we know it from last year, and maybe also from other conferences, there are the famous traffic light signals. In the following days we will see and hear much of green, yellow and red stuff, which means that they are free to publish, embargoed (publish it somewhen) or even under NDA (don’t even think to publish it or talk about it).

Rick and Nikola explained some new things about the Vanguard program to us. Veeam likes to have more engagement with the Vanguards. There will be more recap movies like they did at VeeamON, helping to build up the profile of a Vanguard, not promoting Veeam especially. Rick guides us through the agenda. There are two rooms this year, with even more sessions for all kinds of tastes of technology and interests. For the official Vanguard Dinner on Tuesday we will have our own Veeam shuttles from the hotel to the venue and back. Awesome!

Rick shares some more program updates and priorities. Such an event, and also the Vanguard program is a great opportunity to get more information directly from the source. As a Vanguard, you’re also able to give your feedback directly to the responsible persons, like feedback for beta versions, or the program itself. These persons can push it into the right channels to make it probably happen.

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VeeamON Virtual – The Premier Virtual Conference for Cloud data Management

This year, Veeam is hosting a virtual conference for Cloud Data Management. Well, not just a virtual conference, but the Premier Virtual Conference for Cloud Data Management. The VeeamON Virtual Conference on November 20 this year is fully packed with sessions about the Vision & Strategy, and you can learn some Implementation Best Practices. You’ll get also vital insights about Cloud-Powered stuff like Office365 backup, Backup as a Service and Disaster Recovery as a Service, as well as valuable information about Architecture & Design of the backup solution.

And I’m happy to be part of the expert lounge during this virtual event. Feel free to stop by, say hello and ask your questions! All you have to do is to visit the VeeamON Virtual website here, register and join the conference on November 20, 2019.

VeeamON Virtual – unique online conference on intelligent data management

On the 5th of December 2018 it’s time again when it’s called “VeeamON Virtual”! Sign up today to learn more about intelligent data management!

More than 2,500 industry experts attend this online event each year, showcasing the latest data hyper-availability technologies. The constant growth of data and the constant increase of unstructured data, and the associated dangers in the area of data availability and data security, bring with them a variety of challenges. Join the virtual sessions to learn more about these challenges and how to master them.

Participating in the VeeamON Virtual Event is free-of-charge, and you’re welcome to sit at your desk, whether at the office or home office. Sign up now!

Agenda

Note: the agenda is preliminary and can still change. A definitive version will be sent shortly before the event.

Business Track

10:00 AM CET / 12:00 PM ET Veeam Co-CEO and President, Peter McKay, and Vice President Enterprise Strategy at Veeam, Dave Russel, give an outlook on the forecasts of 2019
10:20 AM CET / 12:20 PM ET Danny Allan, Vice President Product Strategy at Veeam, tells you more about the journey to Intelligent Data Management in a multi-cloud enterprise
10:40 AM CET / 12:40 PM ET Jason Buffington, Field Technical Evangelist at Veeam, Important information on the availability gap
11:00 AM CET / 1:00 PM ET Sponsor session
11:30 AM CET / 1:30 PM ET Sponsor session

Technical Track

12:00 PM CET / 2:00 PM ET Paul Szelesi, Manager Solutions Architect at Veeam, explains what to do during backup and restore, and what not …
12:20 PM CET / 2:20 PM ET Michael Cade, Technologist at Veeam, gives a detailed presentation on what’s new with the NEW Veeam Availability Suite 9.5 Update 4
12:40 PM CET / 2:40 PM ET Michael White, Product Manager at Veeam, shows you how to plan for disaster with automatic tests in the Veeam Availability Orchestrator
1:00 PM CET / 3:00 PM ET Paul Szelesi, Manager Solutions Architect at Veeam, shows you how you can use Veeam Agents to protect your physical business infrastructure
1:10 PM CET / 3:10 PM ET Sponsor session
1:40 PM CET / 3:40 PM ET Rapid Restore for the Hyper Available Enterprise

Cloud Track

2:00 PM CET / 4:00 PM ET Ezra Charm, Vice President, Marketing at N2WS, tells you more about the Expanded AWS data protection with new disaster recovery and serverless options
2:20 PM CET / 4:20 PM ET Niels Engelen, Technical Evangelist at Veeam, gives you great information about Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 2.0 in a Deep Dive
2:40 PM CET / 4:40 PM ET Luca Dell’Oca, EMEA Cloud and Hosting Architect at Veeam, shows you how you Save your data securely off site with Veeam Cloud Connect
3:00 PM CET / 5:00 PM ET Sponsor-Session

The registration is not only worthwhile to get first hand important information and news in the field of intelligent data management. With a bit of luck, you can also win something!

Registration / more information

More information about the agenda, the speakers and also the registration you can find on the VeeamON Virtual website.