Server virtualisation introduces a radically different approach to backing up data in the enterprise than simply using backup agents installed in the guest operating system and backing up VMs across ...

A virtual machine (VM) snapshot can be a boon when it comes to recovering from a sudden system or VM failure. A virtual machine’s snapshot preserves the state of a VM and all its data. When data is ...

Disk snapshots are one of the best data-protection mechanisms available in the data center today. Whether it’s a SAN-based snapshot technology or one built into your file system or operating system, ...

Looking at people’s VMWare implementations, the most common problem I see is people who run on snapshots for an extended period of time. And by that I mean months. This can cause downtime issues for ...

For the people that use VMware over NFS on a NetApp system, how do you handle consistent snapshots? And at what intervals? We are looking at a consistent snapshot every two hours for DR purposes but ...

Dave Vellante and Stu Miniman of Wikibon.org continue their VMworld 2012 coverage in this spotlight segment on backup and recovery for VMware customers and practitioners. Vellante and Miniman ...

Virtual simulation solutions such as VMware ESXi are required for to improve operations and optimize resource efficiency. However, with such extensive system dependence, effective protection of ...

This is for my home lab, which is a pair of NUCs running vSphere/vCenter 7, connected via iSCSI to a Synology NAS, backing up over the network to an SMB share on an old Mac mini. There are only ~10 ...