| Just in time to follow up last week's note about the future of VMware vCenter, here's the fresh Veeam white paper that explains how to correctly backup and restore VCSA and PSC in various deployment scenarios - both simple and complex. This is a very welcome white paper, because we found that the information on the Internet is quite spotty and often simply poor – so thanks to Michael White for putting this one together, and our QC for validating > Backup and Recovery of vSphere VCSA and Platform Services Controllers
By the way, one of many reasons to backup vCenter that you don't necessarily realize is its log files. Many of them keep data for a short amount of time only due to being circular, however this data can be essential for troubleshooting. Here's a good example directly from VMware support from a few weeks ago that Rick Vanover has shared with me. There was a data loss related support case with VMware, where storage array vendor said vSphere deleted the data, while VMware engineers where convinced it was storage array deleting the data. After finding out that customer had Veeam, VMware support engineer directed them to do a file-level restore to find the required circular log file state – and bingo, it had the array message saying about the data being deleted captured.
Also on the technical support topic, something new and useful on the Veeam blog that I am definitely looking forward to – the beginning of advanced troubleshooting blog post series by our technical support engineers, and the first blog post covering Linux FLR appliance deployment failures
Here's a curios lawsuit I stumbled upon. Did you know a trademark can be lost if the public comes to think of it as the common word for a product or service (as opposed to identifying the specific one)? For example, now everyday words ASPIRIN, TRAMPOLINE and even ESCALATOR used to be brands. So guess what – Google recently faced a similar challenge where a domain registrant sued to cancel Google's trademark registrations on the basis that the GOOGLE mark had become generic given its widespread common use as a verb for the act of "searching the internet" (Elliott v. Google, Inc). Don't worry, GOOGLE is still a trademark (even though the statement above is really hard to argue)! This also made me recall the fact of widespread common use of VEEAM as a verb for the act of "making a backup", at least within our customers base - I remember phrases like "let me veeam this VM first" started popping up even back in early days of Veeam! So there you go... but we won't give up easily - at least not until after XEROX does!
Last one for today is this genius GDPR meme. I am sure many of you will agree this hits a nail in the head. General Data Protection Regulation by itself is not a joke of course – but rather something all European and global corporations have to take very seriously. Veeam is no exceptions, and we've already made a good progress having started our own preparations almost 1 year ago. In fact, we are planning to share our experience in the form of blog posts and white papers soon to hopefully save some time for those who are still in the beginning of this path ending in May 2018. And needless to say, we're also enhancing our products to help you achieve GPDR compliance – in fact, you will see some functionality delivered as early as the next update! |
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