If you want to back up virtual machines, the options may seem confusing. Methods used to back up virtual machines have evolved rapidly over the past couple of years, from an analogue of traditional ...

Virtual server backup is top of the to-do list for many IT departments this year. That is because server and desktop virtualisation is sweeping the datacentre and data protection is a key part of such ...

With the advent of virtualization, there are more servers to be backed up than ever in the enterprise. For IT administrators charged with managing this process, the addition of all these virtual ...

Virtualization technology has increased the challenge of backing up server environments. IT administrators have to choose from among a variety of virtual server backup options, including agent-based ...

* Serverless backup or consolidated backup, which offloads backup processing from virtual machines to a separate physical server. * Snapshotting or cloning the virtual machines using software from a ...

One of the tasks I used to neglect in my lab was backing up my vCenter Sever appliance (VCSA). I did so because I always figured the time it took to back it up was greater than the time it would take ...

In addition, CommVault's new software also became one of the first applications to allow deduplication of data that is backed up to tape. Backing up data from virtual servers has become an important ...

Server virtualization offers a host of efficiencies, but storage administrators say it may open a can of worms on the storage side. Resulting headaches can include huge I/O bottlenecks for primary and ...

As the number of servers being virtualized grows, backing up and protecting them becomes more of a problem. It’s not enough for IT administrators to simply back up each virtual server and its data.