The Sound of Tech To Come... A Veeam Podcast

Episode 84 Hyper-V What to back up?

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.

Episode 83 Prioritizing things in a virtual world

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.

Episode 82 Tech blogs we like

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.

Episode 81 End-user computing for the virtual era

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.

Episode 80 Platform wars: Mobile device edition

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.

Episode 79 Troubleshooting things in a virtual world

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.

Episode 78 Windows Server 2012 with Hyper-V chit chat

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."

Episode 77 Creating disaster recovery plans - Down under

In this episode, Simone Bennet (@Simone_AU) co-hosts with Rick Vanover (@RickVanover) and our guest is Hayden McManus (@HJMcManus). Hayden is a leader of the TechHeads AU group as well as an IT professional based in Australia. Hayden, Simone and Rick explain what cricket is as well as how to go about creating a disaster recovery plan for virtualized environments.