Deploying Data Immutability with the Veeam Hardened Repository ISO (Part 3 of 3)

In part one we gave some background of the Veeam VHR history and it's transition from utilizing Ubuntu Linux Server LTS to Rocky Linux, as well as the hardware that we'll be utilizing to support our VHR, and then deployed the VHR ISO to our PowerEdge server. Part two of this series consisted of deploying the VHR ISO to our server. Now in our third and final part, we're going to add the new VHR…

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Deploying Data Immutability with the Veeam Hardened Repository ISO (Part 2 of 3)

In part one of this three part series, we gave some background of the Veeam VHR history and it's transition from utilizing Ubuntu Linux Server LTS to Rocky Linux, as well as the hardware that we'll be utilizing to support our VHR. And as a reminder, while the VHR does have support, it's currently classified under Veeam's Experimental Support Statement. Downloading and Deploying the VHR ISO The first step of course is to download the…

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Deploying Data Immutability with the Veeam Hardened Repository ISO (Part 1 of 3)

The History of the Veeam Hardened Repository ISO If you've been in the Veeam game within the past two years, you're probably aware that the Product Development team has been working hard on a turn-key solution that can be used to deploy a Veeam Hardened Repository (VHR) from an ISO. Historically if you wanted to utilize a VHR, you had to deploy a linux server and setup a repository backed by the XFS filesystem to…

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New Upcoming Series – Object First Ootbi

By now, most folks in the Veeam community should be aware of Object First. But if you've been living under a virtual rock, Object First that is a company that came out of secrecy mode less than two years ago at VeeamON 2022 in Las Vegas. Co-founded by the co-founders of Veeam, Object First has developed the Ootbi, or the "Out of the box immutability" immutability appliance. It's a SuperMicro server running a hardened Ubuntu…

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