Series: Building Resilient SAP Infrastructure on VCF In Part 1, I laid out the four-site, four-layer architecture. In Part 2, I built the floor: two stretched domains across Site A and Site B, vSAN ESA under the management plane, NetApp MetroCluster NFS under the SAP workloads, and three referees at Site C. Everything in those … Read more
Every backup storage vendor says their product is immutable. The word is on every datasheet in the category, which means it no longer tells you anything useful on its own. So the question is narrower. Put an Ootbi next to the other appliances you would consider for the same rack slot, and what is actually … Read more
Second post in the Veeam Fix Series, where I take real issues I had to fix in customer environments and go through what the problem was and what the fix was. Names, IPs, and job names are dummy. The command output, error messages, and numbers are real. This one is about two tenants that reported … Read more
In the last few weeks I had to fix several issues for some of our customers. Some of them are good examples to share, so I will pick a few and write a few simple, short blog posts for each one about what the issue was and what the fix was. This is the first … Read more
Series: Building Resilient SAP Infrastructure on VCF In Part 1, I laid out the overall architecture: four sites, four layers of high availability, and a separate recovery site built on Veeam and Object First Ootbi. That post was the map. This blog post Building Resilient SAP Infrastructure on VCF — Part 2: Compute and Storage … Read more
Part 1: The Architecture Series: Building Resilient SAP Infrastructure on VCF If you’ve been reading my blog, you know my background is in VMware, virtualization infrastructure, and backup. That is where I have spent most of my career. SAP is not my primary area, and I will not pretend it is. Years ago, though, I … Read more
How ransomware, regulation, and operational complexity are reshaping enterprise data protection This week marks World Backup Day 2026. Every March 31, the industry reminds us to back up our data. For home users, that might mean copying photos to an external drive. For enterprises, the conversation has moved far beyond that. Backup is no longer … Read more
This week, I attempted to upgrade my Veeam server from version 12.3.0.310 to 12.3.2.3617 and encountered several issues. I saw other admins report the same problem, and some solved it by uninstalling and reinstalling Veeam Server. I did not want to rebuild a working server. My first blocker was PostgreSQL refusing the connection on localhost:5432 … Read more
Choosing between block storage and object storage is one of the most important design decisions in any backup environment. It affects not only your primary backup repository but also your archive tier and your off-site protection strategy. Each option brings advantages but also strict limitations that can change how your backups behave once immutability and … Read more
After vacations, it’s time to start writing some blog posts, and today I will begin updating some of the features from Object First(Ootbi) and Veeam. Suppose you need a primer on Ootbi (Out-of-the-Box Immutability) architecture. Why object storage fits backups, and immutability basics, read this first: Object First Ootbi: The Ultimate On-Premises Backup Storage Appliance … Read more
