Do we have any Veeam people here yet?
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Oh, and if you are using Veeam Essentials Enterprise (needed for GRT of application items), you also get one of my favorite features. That feature is their isolated lab. One of the things as admins we need to know is whether or not our backups are good. Well, Veeam gives you an awesome way to do that. For each backup I have, after completion, Veeam launches that backup as a full restore in that isolated lab to make sure it boots, can be logged in, can talk to AD, and for special stuff like SQL, Exchange, and SharePoint, will run application specific scripts to test the backup.
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@DenisKelley said:
Oh, and if you are using Veeam Essentials Enterprise (needed for GRT of application items), you also get one of my favorite features. That feature is their isolated lab. One of the things as admins we need to know is whether or not our backups are good. Well, Veeam gives you an awesome way to do that. For each backup I have, after completion, Veeam launches that backup as a full restore in that isolated lab to make sure it boots, can be logged in, can talk to AD, and for special stuff like SQL, Exchange, and SharePoint, will run application specific scripts to test the backup.
Wow.. that sounds pretty cool - but if you're not running AD on the Exchange server, does it also spin up an AD in the lab setting for the SQL and Exchange boxes to talk to?
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@Dashrender said:
Wow.. that sounds pretty cool - but if you're not running AD on the Exchange server, does it also spin up an AD in the lab setting for the SQL and Exchange boxes to talk to?
Yep, you win the boobie prize! For those things, it will first spin up the DC, make sure it is running correctly, then it will spin up that app server.
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It's also a great way to test. I use it when I want to play with new things without breaking my production boxes.
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WOW! now this is pretty cool. Appasure (at leave version 4) would somehow confirm it's backed up image was good - but I don't recall hearing it was anything like this.
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@DenisKelley said:
It's also a great way to test. I use it when I want to play with new things without breaking my production boxes.
Do I assume correctly that you're running Veeam as a guest on a VM host? How much resources do you dedicate to the Veeam instance?
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@Dashrender said:
WOW! now this is pretty cool. Appasure (at leave version 4) would somehow confirm it's backed up image was good - but I don't recall hearing it was anything like this.
Sorry, can't believe I'm geeking out over a backup product. LOL
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@DenisKelley said:
@Dashrender said:
WOW! now this is pretty cool. Appasure (at leave version 4) would somehow confirm it's backed up image was good - but I don't recall hearing it was anything like this.
Sorry, can't believe I'm geeking out over a backup product. LOL
eh.. it's technology, today it's backup products, tomorrow it's the new swatch.
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@Dashrender said:
@DenisKelley said:
It's also a great way to test. I use it when I want to play with new things without breaking my production boxes.
Do I assume correctly that you're running Veeam as a guest on a VM host? How much resources do you dedicate to the Veeam instance?
It can be on a VM guest or on a physical server. Resources given, like everything, depends. I have it on a virtual file server and run it with 2 cores and 4GB. -
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