Now that we have replicated all of our servers and created a failover plan, it is time to test our failover process. There are several items you will want to test and verify before a real disaster strikes, such as network access, application functionality and data integrity. The best way to ensure the DR environment…
Now that we have setup our Veeam replication jobs and created a Veeam Failover Plan, we are now ready to test our failover functionality. A failover can be initiated in two different ways depending on your failover scenario. In the event that the full environment is down, you can conduct a full failover using the…
The Veeam Network Extension Appliance (NEA) is the default template deployed by Veeam on both source and target data centers. When used with a failover plan, this appliance will handle the outbound and inbound communication for the servers you failed over. During a partial failover, the source and target NEA’s create a peer-to-peer connection. This…
In this article, we will walk through the process for creating a Veeam Replication Job to the iland VCC cloud. There are several options when creating a job and this guide should help you understand these settings a bit more. This will be an overall guide for a typical job, however, you may change the…
In this post, we will go over some of the options and considerations when creating a replica job to a Veeam Cloud Service Provider. A replication job’s settings can be changed, and VMs included in a job can be removed or added at any time. However, it is a good idea to have a replication…
There was excitement in the iland offices this week – and amongst our customers and partners – as we spread the news that, for the second year in a row, we’ve been named a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Disaster Recovery as a Service. Read the press release: “Gartner Again Names iland a…
The first step in configuring DRaaS with Veeam Cloud Connect is adding a Service Provider in your Veeam environment. This will be done from your Veeam console under the Backup Infrastructure tab. Connecting to a Veeam Cloud Connect Service Provider To add iland as a Service Provider, you will first need to ensure that port…
While once perceived to be lagging behind their US counterparts in terms of cloud adoption, European businesses are catching up – with IDC forecasting that Western Europe will be the 2nd largest market after the US for public cloud services. While this increase is driven by the usual requirements for increased IT agility and reduced…
Building on some of my previous blogs on Veeam cloud backup, I’d now like to provide an overview of Veeam DRaaS. Increasing cybersecurity threats from hackers, viruses and ransomware are prompting many IT teams to move beyond cloud backup to a cloud-based disaster recovery strategy. DRaaS with Veeam allows customers to use their existing Veeam infrastructure…
In light of the recent ransomware attacks involving WannaCry, I wanted to write a blog article about how iland’s various cloud solutions can help customers recover from such attacks. Indeed, our solutions have protected a number of our customers recently, and they have been able to quickly recover, usually without even involving our support teams.…
