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  • CommVault V11 SP15 vmWare VM Snapshot Status

    May 5, 2019

    April-2019: Service Pack 15 for CommVault Version 11 has been released. Here's one of our favourite features.

    CommVault Create Snapshot Duration and Delete Snapshot Duration.. !


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    CommVault Create Snapshot Duration and Delete Snapshot Duration.

    We'd often trawl the CommVault logs for this information - or access it via the vSphere console.

    Its now part of the CommVault VMware backup status! -

    I hope you find it as useful as we have.

        QUESTIONS TO ASK YOUR VEEAM CLOUD CONNECT PROVIDER
    WHO IS LOOKING AFTER MY DATA?
    1.    Are you running your own infrastructure, network, network security & server infrastructure to deliver this backup service

    2.    Can I visit the datacentre where my data will be stored, and see the systems/hardware being used

    3.    Will  your own company staff provides this tour and can you discuss in depth how your systems function

    4.    Will it always be your own staff managing this function or will you subcontract / outsource the critical handling of my data

    5.    If you are reselling a Cloud Service, how many layers are there between you and the party running the actual Veeam Cloud Connect service

    6.    Who will my contract be with
    LOCATION
    7.    Will my data be stored in the UK?(England, Scotland, Wales, or Other)

    8.    Will my data be sent outside of the UK

    9.    Can I have the address of the Datacentre location facility?

    RECOVERY
    10.    If I need to recover 5TB how will that work?
    a.    My systems are down and I can’t wait 5 days to recover the data across the WAN. How will you recover my data quickly?  
    b.    What are your charges to help me in this scenario?

    11.    When I need to restore, how much bandwidth can you make available to me
    SECURITY
    12.    Who within your company has access to the datacentre?
    a.    What roles do they perform?
    b.    How do you log their activity?

    13.    Describe the firewall technology you use to protect your points of entry into your datacentre

    14.    We will be sending our Data Encrypted to you?
    a.    How will this affect your back end storage growth?
    b.    What implications will it have for the data we restore?
    c.    Are there any implications for recovery?
    MONITORING & PROCESSES
    15.    What’s your process for monitoring the health of the underlying disks holding the backups?
    a.    How can I be sure
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  • Questions to Ask a Veeam Cloud Connect Provider

    December 1, 2017

    December-2017: There are dozens of questions to ask a Veeam Cloud Connect provider before you entrust them with your...

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  • Backup – The safety net supporting Smaller UK Businesses

    October 22, 2017

    Sep-2017: A recent conversation with one of our Customers refocussed my attention on the business side of backup. It's s...

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  • The SAN Storage Trinity

    October 13, 2017

    ​With Storage, the same design challenge always applies – balancingPoint 1: Terabyte CapacityPoint 2: IOP’s Performance – meaning true...

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  • When 50 Terabytes was considered a lot of Storage

    August 27, 2016

    Parallel file systems have long been the domain of the HPC/Supercomputer set, characterised by applications running at academic and...

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  • Disaster Recovery and SAN Storage

    June 4, 2016

    Your Blackberry/iPhone flashes up a message from your staff:   ‘The SAN’s down..water leakage from ducting in ceiling’ This is...

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  • Large Exchange Inboxes – Email Archiving

    October 30, 2014

    I previously had a 3GB mailbox – and for the last 12 months spent more time deleting & shuffling...

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  • Understanding your Disk Storage IOPS

    July 17, 2013

    We wrote an article a while back for one of our favourite technical forums. Here’s a reposting of the...

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  • Veeam – Finally a Virtual only backup Product in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Backup

    June 12, 2013

    Gartner have strict definitions of which technology types could enter their Backup Magic Quadrant. But never had Gartner allowed...

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  • Do I need a SAN or a NAS for Vmotion – the VMware VSA Virtual Storage Array

    March 3, 2013

    Or – How can I do shared storage at low cost for my VMware Virtualisation setup!! SAN’s and NAS...

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  • Backup DeDuplication Ratio’s

    November 13, 2012

    Backup DeDuplication Ratio’s One of the largest DeDupes that can be achieved comes from DeDuping the c: drive (or...

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