Veeam V12 is finally released on Feb 2023 with brunch of new features. YAY! I haven’t digested all the new features, however, one hidden feature I am interested in this release is the Veeam integration with HPE StoreOnce Cloud Bank.
I am going to write a little bit about this basic concept in storage: Gigabyte (GB) and Gibibyte (GiB). This is all because of the annoyance between standard and reality.
I can still remember 15 years ago, when I first got in touch with enterprise storage system, the first concept introduced is about the differences between physical disk labelled size and reported size in storage system. No need to calculate, even today, I can still clearly remember a 73GB SAS disk will report 66GB usable capacity in EMC CLARiiON, a large part of this difference is contributed by the difference between GB and GiB.
Continue readingVeeam SOBR Offload job is a storage management job to offload the backup from performance tier to capacity tier in SOBR. By default, this job will be kicked off every 4 hour by Veeam server.
There is a “Hidden” feature to manually kick off the offload job as below.
Continue readingIn Veeam backup management, it is supported to offload the GFS backup copy from performance tier repository to capacity tier repository. Normally the capaticyt tier will be configured on object storage (Azure Blob, AWS S3 and etc.) to reduce the storage cost.
However, when retrieve(download) the backup from capacity tier repository, there is only one option to download the backup for entire backup job which mighy includes multiple virtual machines. This short powershell script is crafted to download the monthly GFS bakcup for selected VM.
Continue readingThis is short post to document the command lines used to create a NetApp SVM and enable CIFS/NFS protocols.
When GCVE is provisioned, one of the initial configurations is to allow administrators to access the GCVE component management interfaces, including vCenter, NSX-T, HCX etc. This post is to summarize a few options to perform the connections.
This post is a quick glance of GCVE private cloud provision. Based on the hand-on experience, the provisioning and configuration is very simple and easy to follow.
Continue readingGoogle Cloud VMware Engine (GCVE) has been in market for a while, but this is the first time I get chance to take a closer look into the GCVE solution. For VMware enthusiast, Google did provide an impressive solution (same as AWS and Azure) to allow the existing on-premise VMware virtual machines to be transparently lift-and-shifted into public cloud environment.
I recently have a task to review the DNS settings for more than 100 Windows servers in the same domain. I drafted a simple PowerShell script to perform the Windows DNS checking and export all the server DNS configuration into a CSV file.
Continue readingHPE StoreOnce is a deduplication storage system providing efficient data compression and deduplication capability and suitable for data backup and long-term retention. HPE StoreOnce can be also be integrated with major backup vendors as the backup target storage.
This post is a quick introduction and demonstration of the HPE StoreOnce Catalyst Store for quick reference.
