Introducing VMware Kubernetes Academy VMware recently introduced their own Kubernetes Academy, which is a free, product-agnostic Kubernetes and cloud native technology education and learning platform ! The Kubernetes Academy provides an accessible learning path regardless of where you are on your Kubernetes skill ! All of the courses are composed …

Why attend the Veeam ON Virtual Conference ? On the 20th of November the Veeam ON Virtual conference will take place. This event is focusing on the latest and greatest topics around data protection, security management and cloud data management. There will be 20 + Speakers 5000 + Attendees 1000 …

Introduction With this blog post I would like to introduce my top 5 Veeam ONE Reports for VMware, which I use in various projects regarding VMware and backup infrastructure planning. Veeam ONE is designed for documenting and reporting on the Veeam Backup & Replication infrastructure, VMware vSphere, vCloud Director and …

File Hash Calculator in PowerShell This File Hash Calculator Script in PowerShell lets you calculate a hash of a given file and compares it with the original hash/checksum the user provides. The Get-FileHash cmdlet computes the hash value for a file by using a specified hash algorithm. A hash value …

This final part of the series now covers on how to set up the universal forwader on the Veeam server and how to establish a connection to our Splunk server. The Veeam technology addon for Splunk will be covered in this article aswell, as it is responsible for pushing data …

Now that we have installed our Splunk server, we need to do some more installation and configuration. This part covers the installation of the “Veeam Backup Monitor for Splunk” plugin and the firewall configuration on the Veeam Backup and Replication server and the Splunk Server for future communication. Downloading the …

I recently talked to one of our Big Data / Analytics guys about overarching themes in our subject areas. Since I’m a guy who is familiar with virtualization, backup and cloud subjects i always search for topics which have a relation to each other. That is how we managed to …

The surprise… First of all i have to start with the 24th of April. I just came home from work in the evening and was eating for dinner. After that i rechecked my E-Mails to find an e-mail from Veeam where i have been chosen to win the complimentary full …

After the awesome VeeamON conference in Miami my next event I’m going to attend is the VeeamON Forum at the 5th of June in Wiesbaden. I’m happy to be there again, as it is always a great place to speak with the german Veeam employees and representatives. Furthermore, it is …

Introduction to Modern Authentication Since the release of version 3 of Veeam Backup for Office 365, you are now able to use the so called “modern authentication”. This means using service accounts enabled for multi-factor authentication. Therfore you will need an Azure Active Directory custom application and a service account …