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: ...
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. ...
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: ...
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: ...
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. ...
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: ...
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. ...
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. ...
This time I am going to talk about how to use HashiCorp packer to create a VM master image that can be used as a template to publish a Pool in VMware Horizon. Although there are many How-to鈥檚 on how to automatically create a template with packer, all the ones I have seen are oriented to Windows 10/11 and not for Linux. It is for this reason, that I gave myself the task of creating this post. ...
This time I am going to talk about a method to perform audits of the contents of the Active Directory database (NTDS.dit). The tool called NtdsAudit was created by Dionach, here I leave the link so you can see the functionality of the application: https://github.com/dionach/NtdsAudit As explained on the tool鈥檚 web page NtdsAudit is an application that helps to audit Active Directory databases. It provides some useful statistics related to accounts and passwords. It can also be used to extract password hashes for later cracking. ...