Archive for the ‘Veeam’ Category

Ok I read an article from one of our competitors that basically slated inline dedupe, saying it was not worth having over speed of backup. I feel they only said this coz in terms of their development cycle it would be years before they could introduce dedupe in their own technology. Now I knew what they were saying wasn’t the case as I’d seen fist hand how efficient our Backup solution could be with dedupe turned on, and the time penalty was low. So I set about researching the possibilities.
I did some extensive testing and with a little help from @MikeBeevor we created a whitepaper from my findings.
Below is graph demonstrating the effects of just compression, just dedupe and what happens when both are turned on.

As you can see you get massive disk savings with our technology. For example if allocated VM disk space equated to 100Gb then Veeam Backup could potentially only need about 17GB. A saving of 83% on allocated disk space.
I don’t want to give the game away too much so if you want to read on download the whitepaper from here > http://www.veeam.com/whitepapers.html

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Our buddy at TrainSignal Dave Davies has released some free vidoes demostrating Veeam product use. To view these videos click on the video play buttons below:

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This morning I received an email announcing that I had been awarded the vExpert 2010 award from VMware. Last year I missed the deadline for nominations due changes in my circumstances, but this year I made it and very proud.

So I’d like to thank anyone who nominated for me and make a pledge to keep up the value I provide with this blog site. The features I have planned for the near future are as follows:

• New look for the website to celebrate my vExpert award.
• PowerCLI lessons will continue.
• I have a new version of Vdisk Waste Finder planned but it’s going to take some time to develop

 Once again thank you if you nominated me

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