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Cyber-Security Researcher, Developer and Infrastructure expert having interests in Automation, DevOps, Networking, Multi-OS based Systems, Python, Golang, Powershell and passionate for Open Source contribution; loves Command Line, FOSS. Mojo: A bad day at the beach is better than any good day at work!

New version of Veeam.Diagrammer v0.6.8

Hola, Today I am going to share the improvements I have made to the Veeam Backup & Replication infrastructure diagramming tool. This tool uses Graphviz as the engine to draw the diagram and the PSGraph module to generate the code from PowerShell. Here is the link to the project on GitHub: https://github.com/rebelinux/Veeam.Diagrammer In version 0.6.8 information about SureBackup was added to the infrastructure diagram. In particular, the ability to diagram Application Groups and Virtual Labs has been added. ...

September 24, 2024 路 1 min 路 Jon Colon

Veeam: Getting information from WAN Accelerators with Powershell

Hello everyone, These last days I have been developing several scripts related to Veeam Backup & Replication where I have had the opportunity to use more the Powershell modules of Veeam. So in this opportunity I will be showing you in a basic way how to get information related to the WAN accelerators configured on the Backup server. As always it is necessary to establish connection with the Backup server using the Connect-VBRServer command. ...

September 22, 2024 路 4 min 路 Jonathan Colon

Diagramming the Veeam Backup & Replication Infrastructure.

Hello, In the latest version of Veeam.Diagrammer I added the ability to diagram the Veeam Backup & Replication infrastructure. Here is the link to the tool: https://github.com/rebelinux/Veeam.Diagrammer Previously, this diagram could only be accessed through the AsbuiltReport.Veeam.VBR report. Now in version v0.6.4 you can generate this infrastructure diagram with Veeam.Diagrammer directly. Here is an example of the diagram: In the following video I attempt to show you how to install and use this tool: ...

September 10, 2024 路 1 min 路 Jon Colon

Veeam.Diagrammer v0.6.1 new version features

Hola, I will be sharing today the improvements I have made to the Veeam Backup & Replication infrastructure diagramming tool. This tool uses Graphviz as the engine to draw the diagram and PSGraph module to generate the code from PowerShell. Here is the link to the project on GitHub. https://github.com/rebelinux/Veeam.Diagrammer This tool is used within the AsbuiltReport.Veeam.VBR report to generate the diagram of the following components: - VMware and Hyper-V Proxy - Tape Infrastructure - Backup Repositories - SOBR repositories - Wan Accelerators - etc.. In version 0.6.1 the NAS type repositories (SMB and NFS) were added to the diagram, which before this version had not been defined in the code. ...

September 2, 2024 路 2 min 路 Jon Colon

New Release of AsBuiltReport.Veeam.VBR v0.8.8

Hola, Last month I added several enhancements to the AsBuiltReport.Veeam.VBR report to improve its content as well as adding more infrastructure objects to the diagram. Here is the link to the report in HTML format: Report In version v0.8.6 the ability to generate a simple diagram of the Veeam Backup & Replication infrastructure was added. In the last version of the diagram only the following components are shown: - Backup Server - Database Server - Enterprise Manager - Proxy Servers - Backup Repositories - Object Storage Repositories - Archive Object Storage Repositories - Scale-Out Backup Repositories - Wan Accelerators In the new version of the report v0.8.8 was added the ability to display objects related to: ...

August 24, 2024 路 1 min 路 Jon Colon

HomeLab: Object First OOTBI VSA update install

Hola a tod@s In this opportunity, I would like to show you how to update the version of the Object First OOTBI VSA appliance. I previously demonstrated how to perform the initial implementation of this product. You can find the article here. Here Starting with the vCenter portal, find the virtual machine instance so that you can access the OOTBI text user interface. After that, we proceed with the following steps: ...

August 23, 2024 路 1 min 路 Jon Colon

HomeLab: Object First OOTBI VSA initial Setup

Hello everyone! In this opportunity I am going to show you the initial implementation of the virtual storage appliance from the company Object First. I will also show you how to access the Web management portal. This OOTBI appliance provides secure storage for the Veeam Backup & Replication backup application. Here is the Object First web link: https://objectfirst.com/object-storage/ According to Object First the OOTBI offers: Ransomware-proof and immutable out-of-the-box storage, OOTBI offers secure, simple and powerful backup storage. ...

August 14, 2024 路 4 min 路 Jon Colon

New version release of the AsBuiltReport.Veeam.VB365 report v0.3.2

Hola, A few months ago, I worked on several changes I made to the AsBuiltReport.Veeam.VB365 report to add support for the Best Practice that was created by the group 4 of the Veeam Community Hackathon 2023 event. Team 4 created several recommendations as best practices on the implementation of Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365, you can watch the video of the event at this link: ...

May 27, 2024 路 2 min 路 Jon Colon

New Release of AsBuiltReport.Veeam.VBR v0.8.6

On this occasion I will be talking about several enhancements I have been making to improve the AsBuiltReport.Veeam.VBR script. Here is the link to the report in HTML format: Sample Report A request made by a user was to add a health check to verify the expiration of the Tenant access account in Cloud Connect. Another aspect that was added to the report was to capture vCloud Director resources within the Service Providers section. ...

April 29, 2024 路 3 min 路 Jon Colon

HomeLab: Veeam VBR Documentation with AsBuiltReport

Hello everyone! I took on the task of developing yet another report, yes yet another one 馃ぃ and it is related to the documentation of Veeam Backup & Replication implementations in specific for version 12+ onwards. This report is based on the AsBuildReport framework which is a project created by Tim Carman . The source code of the report can be found in GitHub here I leave the link so you can see the scope of the project. ...

February 20, 2024 路 9 min 路 Jon Colon