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Veeam Kasten has significantly simplified the Kasten Disaster Recovery procedure in recent versions. Now you are able to setup and perform Kasten DR through the WebUI and not only the command line. In my first post of the series I walked through Kasten DR setup guide Today we will perform a complete Kasten Recovery to a new Kubernetes Cluster. Prerequisites and Setup Kasten Disaster Recovery Prerequisites A Kubernetes cluster with a vanilla Veeam Kasten instance installed. Your cluster ID and secret passphrase in order to perform this procedure. Access to your Location Profile and your access key and secret key for your bucket Fresh Kasten Instance First our task will be to spin up a new cluster and install a vanilla version of Veeam Kasten. For faster recovery I would recommend having this cluster on standby and ready to go at all times. This would also make it easier to perform regular DR testing…

I love Kubernetes, but I also love Veeam. So when Veeam has such a huge week, there was no way I was going to miss it! Check out this week's highlights.

Kasten Disaster Recovery got a major upgrade! If you're protecting Kubernetes workloads with Veeam Kasten, the new Quick DR modes make Disaster Recovery setup faster and more reliable than ever. Veeam Kasten is never sitting still! While I occasionally have to take a break to perform other duties or rush to finish some new AI course, I inevitably wander back to my old stomping grounds, Kubernetes data protection and Kasten and once again I was not disappointed with the new Kasten Disaster Recovery procedure that I discovered. This is not, however, some nostalgic journey to the past because Kasten is not sitting still. I don't like using cliches, like things just keep getting better, but in this case: Things just keep getting better. Today I will go over the new and improved Kasten Disaster Recovery procedure. Just like Veeam's configuration backup, solid data protection setups need to back themselves up as well. If you…

The Kube Vanguard is back! The new weekly video will focus on Veeam, Kasten and when not in the home office, wild and wonderful travel adventures! Be it Kubernetes, backup or travel fun there is a always a potential disaster that needs to be dealt with!

Veeam Legend Hat in full display at Toronto Pearson Airport VeeamON 2022 is in the history books and what a conference it was! While I did attend an in person conference in October (Kubecon NA, Los Angeles) this was the first one that seemed almost covid free and brought back deja-vu scenes of years gone by. The value of in person events cannot be understated. There is something about human interactions which is simply lost over the phone or on a Zoom meeting. While in Vegas I also did two live presentations for the Kasten Learning site at KubeconEU in Valencia Spain https://learning.kasten.io/ , and it was very nice to see Kasten in full strength at VeeamON as well! Kasten in the House! I have been back only a few days and I am still processing all of the events and information. There were many excellent technical sessions and it seemed like everyone wanted…

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