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 Backup for Office 365 through HTTP Proxies

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I recently came across the case, to use Veeam Backup for Office 365 with a HTTP Proxy. Due to a corporate security policy there was no way around it. Fortunately there is a Veeam Knowledge Base article for configuring Veeam Backup for Office 365 with a HTTP Proxy. In this …

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How to use Veeam with custom VM attributes

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Introduction Today i’m writing about a Veeam feature which i haven’t seen a lot out in the field. In my opinion, you can use this feature to easily sort and evaluate the backup state of virtual machines backed up with Veeam Backup & Replication. During the creation of a Veeam …

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Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 v2 cumulative patch released

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On the 29th of December a cumulative patch for Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 v2 has been released. This patch intends to deliver optimizations to SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business interactions. It also includes a set of bug fixes regarding SharePoint Online, OneDrive for Business and Exchange Online …

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How to reset the vCenter Server Appliance root password

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I recently had the case, that the VCSA (vCenter Server Appliance) root password was missing and we couldn’t log in to the appliance. VMware published a Knowledge Base article on how to reset the lost or forgotten password in a vCenter Server Appliance. I wanted to share this with you …

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How to patch the vCenter Server Appliance via CLI

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There are several ways for patching your VMware vCenter Server Appliance. In this article i’d like to show how i do it with the CLI. Preparation First of all log in to the vCenter Server Appliance Management Interface to check which updates are available for your VCSA (vCenter Server Appliance). …

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Technical Deployment and Configuration Guide For Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 v2.0 released

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For those of you who have been waiting for a “Best Practice” Guide for Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365, it has been released ! On the 5th of December, the Technical Deployment and Configuration Guide for Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 v2.0 has been released and is available …

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Deploying VMware ESXi on a RAID 1 consisting of SD Cards

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I recently had the chance to deploy a small Cluster consisting of Lenovo System x Servers with the SD Media Adapter built in. Here is a little Overview of the Lenovo SD Media Adapter: https://lenovopress.com/lp0020-sd-media-adapter-video The SD Media Adapter intends to be a boot partition for hypervisors with which you …

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