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Hello, and welcome to episode 214 of the Veeam Community Recap, and I have a special guest, Jay Seeger. Two weeks in a row, Jay. Yeah, I'm not so special anymore, I guess. It seems to become quite regular. No, last week I was with Maddy and Julia, because you didn't have time. And now this week Maddy has another appointment, so she asked me if I could come again. I mean, we teased a little bit already last week that I will do two in a row. But yeah, always happy to be here, and the first time with a big rickertron. I don't know about that. But I will say, last week I was at the Nutanix.next event, and we're going to come back to that here in our topics here today. But actually, technically this week I'm on vacation, but they're paying me anyway, so I'll just come on in. I love doing the recap. Maddy's on vacation as well. She needs some vacation. She's down in Brazil doing her good stuff. But thank you so much, Jay, for joining us here again, two weeks in a row. We were prepping the content, and we got an incredible list of stuff. You ready to jump into it? I am. Go for it. All right. So first up, we actually have, speaking of Nutanix, we have Pete Ybarra up, and he has a post that came up yesterday. We're recording on a Wednesday of performing instant VM recovery to Nutanix AHV. Now, I just went to Nutanix.next last week, Jay, and I'll be honest with you, I knew about our Nutanix capability. I knew about these virtio drivers that need to go into workloads when you move it through. But I think that we're, as an ecosystem, we're just so many organizations are right on the edge of moving workloads to new hypervisors due to, let's just say, reasons, but monetary financial situations. But I think this is really cool how Pete writes up the promised land of getting into moving workloads into Nutanix. I think this is awesome. Yeah, it is. Actually, as you mentioned, HAV, I mean, it is around for quite a long time, and it already has not only a couple of installations, but they are out there. But as you mentioned, due to the reasons we all know about, they get a huge uplift at the moment. But at the same time, because they weren't that big in the last few years, there wasn't much love for them. In the last few versions, you upgraded your product to use the Nutanix workers and so on, which helped a lot. We also have a lot of customers who are running on Nutanix. But so far, I didn't have a lot of contact with them. But this is about to change because one of my biggest customers is about to switch over from vSphere to Nutanix. And we're talking about a couple of tens of thousands of VMs running over to Nutanix. So I guess the next time in my time schedule will consist of a lot of Nutanix. So I have to get up to speed. So it's always nice to see when some new blog posts and some new info is coming up because every piece of information helps. Yeah, I think that all of the market kind of decisions are kind of under assessment right on what platform. And this is well timed. And I got to hang out with Pete a bit last week at the Nutanix event. I'll just say this. I was floored how much energy is around this Nutanix platform. We track in our telemetry, you know, the market share. Nutanix is the number third market share hypervisor. It has been growing as well and having new capabilities come around. We had some in the last release. So stay tuned. And thank you, Pete, because we don't really have a lot of Nutanix content. So good stuff. Yeah, more to come. All right. Now I'm going to go over to Christophe over in I think he's in Belgium. I can't mess that up if you call it Netherlands and it's actually Belgium. It's not a good conversation. I do believe Christophe from Belgium has a cool topic here. And he attended Milder and Andreas's session at VeeamON about the hidden feature hunt. Great session, by the way. Always a great session. And before we even got started, I said, guys, you're going to have to do it twice. You're going to have to repeat it. And one of the key things of their session, and you know a lot about this, Jay, is registry keys that can do some important things. And Christophe's on a journey to share the registry key of the month. I think this is pretty cool. Yeah, I mean, registry keys, it's like fire and water, in my opinion. They can be extremely helpful. They can be extremely dangerous. And they are well, it's always the thing is with registry keys, you have to somehow keep a note of what registry keys did I set? When did I set them? Why did I set them? Because at some point you're going to migrate your VBR server to some new machine. The registry key is gone and you're like wondering, why isn't it working like it was before? So it's always, I mean, it's not part of the normal configuration. So there's another thing you have to keep track of. And just to be sure, be mindful of what registry keys you set and understand what they're doing, or at least use them in a test environment first. Oh, yeah, that's a great idea. I didn't even think about migrating the BNR server and how you centrally store them. Like in my head, when you said that, I'm thinking, maybe make a folder in your default backup repository that has the reg keys or something like that. But I don't even know if that's central enough for multiple backup servers. So that's really, really good, really good advice. But I think that gets environment specific. Love this idea, Christoph. And he puts this over on his personal blog, which I was jumping over to just there to show it. But great idea. I think Honest, you know, the Honest feature. That's kind of funny. But the one that he shared is automatically dismounting some of the temporary data stores. That's just a great way to clean up. So that's a really good one to start with. Yeah. I got on Honest's nerves, I think, for now two or three years for that feature because I have a lot of customers who complain, and actually with reason, that the NFS data store stays mounted. I mean, the reason why you guys did it is, of course, I mean, it's logical because the next VStore will be faster when the data store is already mounted. But on the other hand, it screwed up a whole lot of automations when a data store is only mounted to one ESXi host. And at some point, then a problem when you do the vSphere HA, when you want to, it always screws stuff up when vSphere sees that there's a data store which is only wanted to one host and not the complete cluster. And also the administrators always see a weird data store, which they don't know about because the backup guys mounted it. And I always pushed Honest and the team that we need an option to be able to unmount the data store after the instant recovery. I actually know we finally have it. I have a better idea. We should have one persistent data store called VeeamIR and then folders for every VeeamVNR server underneath. That's probably the solution, honestly. Yeah, that could be even better. Yeah. So Honest, if you're listening, that's what's up. That's Rikotron's on vacation product enhancement idea. So we'll see how that goes. Awesome. Thank you, Christoph. Great stuff. All right, everyone buckle your seatbelts. We're going to talk about something really cool here. Now, Michael Cade brought this one to my attention, and I'm like, whoa. Local AI via Kubernetes exposing a GPU dev environment. Holy buckets. This is wild. And I'll be honest with you, Jay. I was a little bit having to read this one, two or three times. I don't do anything with Kubernetes. I barely spell, I can't even spell AI. And I'm joking. But when I look at like these types of use cases, I'm putting these two things together where some of these really dynamic AI use cases on something like Kubernetes, that's actually pretty interesting technology, even if I'm not an expert at these things. I think this is a pretty cool thing here. And then, and by the way, this Abhi Wot, I apologize if I pronounce that wrong. This is the first time I believe I've called the name. So welcome. With four comments in, you're relatively new. So thank you for this. This is some pretty heavy stuff. I mean, but I think the idea here, it's pretty well explained. And I think this is just kind of cool stuff. Any thoughts on your side, Jay? Basically the same as you said. I think the problem here is like, it's the same when two Veeam guys talk about the Veeam software and somebody stands next to them, he has no idea what they are talking about. And like, this is the same for us too. Let's say when it comes to Kubernetes, to AI, to all of this fancy stuff, if you're in this game or if you're in this space, I'm sure this is extremely helpful for you. I mean, it's an interesting read, but I do not claim to understand two words in a row from that. I love it. And I'll be very much in the same bucket, but I do think in this area, this is very well described and very, very interesting kind of idea. So, you know, just, hey, people are talking about cool stuff on the Veeam community hub about this. And here's Cade, he's kind of the adult in the room. Love to see more content from you. He's motivating for this. This is awesome. And, you know, Joe says he did something like this with Docker and Windows subsystem for Linux and GPO pass through for a workshop. Cool. So it's like some others are kind of getting down this path as well. So even the notorious KGG jumped in, so that's awesome. He's always jumping somewhere. So Obi Wot, or Obi Wot, I don't know how to pronounce that. Thank you. This is fantastic. Love these advanced tech use cases. Keep them coming. Great write up. Yeah. Thank you. All right. So we're going to go to some special department news and I'm actually going to start nice and close to you, Jay, but you can't make this one, but it looks like in Frankfurt, there's a local user group going on. Yeah. Unfortunately, unfortunately, because I know that almost all of the Veeam vanguards will be there, but unfortunately me and Peter, like Peter Stephan, he's the new vanguard from this year, he's my direct colleague. We have a internal meeting, which is mandatory on this day. So unfortunately we cannot make it, but I know from Marcus and Lucas Klosterman and so on and so on, they are all going to meet up there. Yeah. It's sad that I'm going to miss it, but I'm sure Falco and the crew will rock it. Oh yeah. We've got Hannes in there twice. I love Hannes taking the agenda and, you know, Falco always brings good stuff to the equation. And then this is also kind of an interesting angle when you just have the users talking, right. Kind of an open thing. So if I look at the agenda, that's all cool, but I'll be honest with you, Jay, my favorite part right here, the beer garden, that is the best. I love it. So if you're in Frankfurt, which, oh, quiz me now, quiz me. Frankfurt is North, West, Central Germany? Yeah, Central. Dang it. Okay. Central Germany. I know Munich's in the South and, you know, Berlin is North and West. So yes, Berlin is North West, but beer garden would be, I mean, when they come to Munich, there's where the nice beer gardens are because yeah, it's Bavaria. It's all, but a beer garden is a beer garden. You cannot go wrong with it. Yeah. It's still a beer garden, so it makes me happy. So that's good stuff. But anyways, thank you Falco and the others and Hannes and the others that will be organizing this event. Make a blog post, a meeting, tweeting, write it up, you know, as the day goes. And thank you, looks like object first for sponsoring. So good stuff. Always good to have a user group. The Germany team is, nobody does it better. So rock on. All right, next up. Now I've translated this one to English, but this is Veeam user group, Africa, French speaking, this one will be delivered in French and this is Fortuna and Camille going to deliver the content here. And I love it because it's about Veeam One. I'll be honest with your friends. Veeam One doesn't get enough love. So I wanted to highlight this one. Really cool stuff. And Fortuna, good to see you kind of driving that. Our very first and only member from Cameroon. So yeah, exactly. He was at our summit and really nice to meet him. He's he's doing good things and, you know, especially in French speaking Africa. So rock on. And thank you Camille for joining. All right. Last up on special department. No, not last. I got one more. This one is from VUG, Argentina and Esteban and Pablo are going to talk about OpenShift and Castin protection. Now, Jay, I don't know if you've done anything in this world, but this is also much like the Nutanix conversation, a new platform that people are considering as well. There's even with Kubefert, you can move workloads from Veeam to OpenShift. And honestly, just seeing this 18 registrants for an Argentina user group online, that's actually pretty good. This is pretty interesting. Actually, the the customer I was talking before I was talking about before he he like it's not in play right now, but they're also thinking about not putting all of the eggs in one basket again like they did with VMware. They're thinking about running two hypervisors, one being HAV, one being maybe something in this area. We'll see. Time will tell. But I mean, they they got now all of those problems because of those monetary reasons, which we which we all know about. And they're like kind of cautious right now to now only set everything on one hypervisor platform. The the biggest customer that I've spoken to that is moving, they kind of ended up in a different situation where similar that they decided they're going to have two platforms. They decided their central three biggest data centers would stay VMware. Everything else, which was as little as an edge location of two hosts and as big as, you know, a 10 host cluster, everything else would be hyper V. And I thought that was interesting. And I like hyper V. Right. So that was pretty well aligned to me. But it's like you're not what you saw. There's not inconsistent when they're just they're deciding to have two platforms now. So yeah, all right. Well, thank you, Pablo. And thank you, Esteban on a path to greatness there. Love it. And one more special department thing. So I got to share a secret when we're talking about this. Jay mentioned one of the sessions we did at Veeamon with Hannes and probably the hardened repository deeper dive session. And Jay's like, how do you do that? The draw with the lines and sometimes the text and make it change colors and stuff like that. And I said, I use Zoomit. And Zoomit is a Sysinternals tool. Now, if you're in the business of showing and telling stuff, this is a really cool. Now, it only runs in Windows, but it really makes a difference to kind of bring into focus, highlight something, and then also put in notes if you wanted to. Really easy to use. It runs like as a SysTray element in Windows and it doesn't get updated much. But Mark Russinovich himself does it. And it is, I tell you, it makes a difference, I think. You can be a little bit too shifty with it, though. That's my only concern. Yeah, I mean, the software is one thing, but what always amazes me and you don't, you didn't even, I didn't even only notice it at Veeamon, but also I think at almost any of your presentations or your recaps, I always see like when you're presenting the zooming, the underlining, the squares and so on and so on. And I mean, the software is one thing, but doing it so seamlessly and doing it in the flow of talking about the subject and highlighting the correct stuff and so on. So hats off to you. You use it like a real pro. Well, but like, look at all these commands. I'm like, I'm freaking out here because there's so many I don't know. It's like a VI cheat sheet. Oh, my gosh. I got to up my game. I mean, I can go to colors, lines, boxes, but let's just see here. Let's do this. I saw ellipse, this one right here. Draw an ellipse and an arrow. That I didn't know you could do it. Hold control shift, control shift. No control shift. Or maybe it's control shift. Oh, look at that. Look at that. Those are so cute. I love it. Oh my goodness. Okay. I need to like work on my aim a little bit, but I'm really, I'm going to, I'm going to challenge myself. So that's cool. All right. Kirsten also on our team. She's learned. So yeah, I think I saw one presentation of Kirsten where she always started to use it. And I was like, and now she's doing it. What are they using and why are they good at it? Yeah. You know, it's funny because now my use case is a little bit different than others, but I was, I never did it, but I was going to make a blog post on the community hub of what do you put on a virtual machine template? Which kind of things do you put on there? I put in there, zoom it. That's one of the things I put on my templates, but Oh, only me. All right. If there's at any point, there's a zoom certification process. You can Microsoft MVP for zoom it. I want to do it. Yes. Yes. Do it. All right. A big thank you to Sophia. We processed 506 new users. That's what happens when you don't do it since before Veeam on, but we just have the number. It just would have not fit on so many pages, but number of cool usernames here. Spoofer 3000. That's cool. Greenwall, Texas Ellie, Mickey Mac, Bugsy, DRZ office, chaos head and DR love cool names. The Alfred's pick is cheese head. Chris, you have a badge coming your way. These are funny names. It's just, it's just amazing to see some of these usernames that come through. So big welcome everyone. And Jay, thank you so much for joining us here on the recap. Always nice to be here. Maddie's back next week. I got to go to Europe. So I don't know what's going to happen. I think what I'm going to do is just get really early on Thursday. I know she doesn't like it on Thursday cause it's close to the end of the week, but we'll see what we can do. But, uh, thanks for joining. Uh, what's up next for you, Jay? Just, uh, this big migration you mentioned, maybe that's one big migration will be the next few years. Um, but at the moment I have like, yeah, three to four customer things going on. I also have due to my, uh, technical team lead role. I have two new colleagues, which are, um, like new, newer to the enterprise it game that quite young than 21 and 26. Um, and they require quite a bit of my attention. And I, I do start, I do like small teachings with them. Uh, we play a fictional customer for them where they can practice their presentation skills and their, their ability to be, um, to write up concepts and so on. So that takes quite a bit of my time at the moment. I'll tell you, having worked with young people, or at least people new to the role, not necessarily young. What I can tell you is that's an investment. If you can like see that that pays off and then it can build and then it can be autonomous work on that. That's, that's cool. That's one of my favorite things is bringing people up to a level and then they'll get to a point where they're kind of beyond and that's even better. So, but they all don't, you know, not everybody can take it and grow and thrive, but it is an investment. So that's fun. And other than that, I mean, just before our recording, I mean, for me, it's, uh, it's later afternoon for you. It's not what time is it with you? I'm coming up on 10 a.m. So 9 51. All right. I'm close to 4 p.m. At the moment. So I was with a customer before, uh, who is using Linux on power PCs or Linux PPC, and I didn't have a lot of experience with that, uh, so far, but we had some, some interesting little finds. Um, and yeah, I think I'm going to, I'm going to put some of this in the community. Yeah, exactly. Shit show and tell man. That's the way to go. I mean, I know it's tricky. You gotta be careful about, you know, sometimes even bringing a screenshot. It's the client's infrastructure. I understand that, but, uh, yeah, just definitely bring the expertise. That's for sure. But, uh, thank you so much for joining me here today, Jay. We will see you all next week on two one. Have a good.
