Veeam Community Podcast

In this episode, Rick Vanover welcomes Patrick Kremer. Patrick is a Senior Consulting Engineer in Chicago, and blogs at PatrickKremer.com. Patrick is also on Twitter at: @KremerPatrick. Rick and Patrick talk at length about the testing and certification process, including recent test center errors in the process that Patrick blogged about, and how this impacts the virtualization professionals career path. Rick also reminds everyone to check out Backup Academy, free training and certification for IT pros.

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In this episode, Rick Vanover once again hosts Greg Stuart. Greg blogs at vDestination.com and also organizes the annual VMworld giveaway, which sends one lucky winner to VMworld for a trip to the popular conference that includes airfare, hotel and conference registration. Rick and Greg talk about vSphere 5.1 new features and the upgrade process in this podcast episode.

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In this episode, Rick Vanover once again welcomes Simone Bennett (On Twitter at @Simone_AU). Rick and Simone (attempt) to tackle a tough topic: What to backup for a Hyper-V cluster? Not the VMs, but the infrastructure itself. What in Failover Cluster Manager needs protection, and what is the best way to do it?

This in fact was a tough question, and we had to pull in an expert. Microsoft expert Joachim Nässlander gave some insight to the situation on using node eviction as well as the how-to on Failover Cluster Backup. Joachim gave some good insight, featured in this Backup Academy blogpost.

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In this episode, Rick Vanover hosts Lauren Malhoit. Lauren is a systems engineer at Network Storage, Inc. based in Indianapolis. Lauren is a blogger at TechRepublic and the host of the Adapting IT Podcast. Lauren and Rick talk about some of the challenges associated with virtualization, chances are everyone wants it all: entirely virtualized, lowest cost, highest performance.

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In this episode, Rick Vanover hosts with Simone Bennett as co-host. Our guest today is Paul Cunningham. Paul is an Exchange Server MVP based in Australia and blogs at the Microsoft Exchange Server Pro blog. Paul also is on Twitter at @ExchServPro. Rick, Simone and Paul talk at length about what blogs provide to virtualization and IT pros in general.

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In this episode, Rick Vanover hosts Simon Bramfitt. Simon blogs at http://blog.simonbramfitt.com/and also is a partner at Entelechy Associates. Simon is based in Northern California, but is originally from the United Kingdom. Rick and Simon talk at length about technologies for computing experiences and how virtualization has impacted these practices over time.

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In this episode, Rick Vanover once again hosts Jason Perlow. Jason is a writer and editor for the Tech Broiler blog at ZDNet. Rick and Jason also had a record number of issues on Skype for this call! Jason also has taken on a new role at Microsoft, which is explained in this episode. Rick and Jason talk at length about Android, BlackBerry, Windows phone and Apple products and their impact in the larger technology landscape.

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In this episode, Rick Vanover once again welcomes Derek Schauland. Derek is a Microsoft MVP and an IT pro based in Wisconsin. Derek writes the Technically Speaking blog at: http://techhelp.cybercreations.net/. Derek also blogs at sites such as TechRepublic.

Derek and Rick talk about specific techniques when it comes to troubleshooting issues in a virtual world. This includes connectivity, performance, applications and the people side of the equation.

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In this episode, Rick Vanover hosts the one and only Aidan Finn! Aidan is a Hyper-V MVP based in Ireland and is one of the foremost Hyper-V experts in the world. Aidan also writes the AidanFinn.com blog. The topic of this podcast include features related to Hyper-V and a great discussion on how to install Hyper-V (Windows Core or not, Hyper-V Server or Windows Role, etc.).

This is Aidan's first appearance on the podcast and he is in the hotseat for "Three Views from You."

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In this episode, Simone Bennet and Rick Vanover host James Bannan. James is System Center Configuration Manager MVP and is based in Melbourne, Australia. James also blogs at: http://www.jamesbannanit.com/. Rick, James and Simone talk at length about TechEd Australia, Hyper-V and Windows Server 2012.

This is the first visit on the podcast for James, and he is in the hot seat for "Three Views from You."

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