Falko Banaszak

Falko Banaszak is a Principal Field Solutions Architect specializing in "Cyber Resiliency" at Pure Storage and is based in Germany. Over the past decade, he has developed a strong expertise in virtualization, business continuity and disaster recovery / BCDR. Falko leads the technical team at Pure Storage in the solution domain called "Cyber Resiliency" which combines the Pure Storage Platform with Cyber Security & Data Protection vendors. Falko is also a certified Business Continuity Manager, a Veeam Vanguard program member and a founder and leader of the German Veeam Usergroup.

Veeam ON Virtual – The Premier Virtual Conference for Cloud Data Management

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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 …

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My Top 5 Veeam ONE Reports for VMware

My Top 5 Veeam ONE Reports

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 …

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PowerShell File Hash Calculator Script

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 …

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Monitoring Veeam Backup & Replication with Splunk – Part 2 Installing the Plugin and configuring the Firewall

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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 …

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VeeamON 2019 in Miami – my review

VeeamON 2019

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 …

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VeeamON Forum Germany 2019 in Wiesbaden

VeeamON Forum

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 …

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Veeam Backup Validator PowerShell GUI

My Top 5 Veeam ONE Reports

About two weeks ago i remembered a very underestimated feature from Veeam. The Veeam Backup Validator ! So I decided to create a Veeam Backup Validator PowerShell GUI out of it. This command line tool helps you with checking your Veeam Backups. It checks your backup files via CRC at …

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