The Free vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi) is a frequently chosen tool for SMB virtualization projects. But formerly, due to API limitations, it was a challenge to implement DR scenarios for this version of ...

Users of the free version of ESXi, VMware's hypervisor meant for smaller installations, now have a similarly free way to back up and recover their virtual machines (VMs). Unitrends announced at ...

I have a machine running ESXi 5.0, it runs a single VM that I have nearly zero internal access to (Aerohive Hivemanager, supplied as an OVA, and the CLI login just gives you a shitty menu rather than ...

Barracuda Networks has released version 4.2 of its Barracuda Backup Service, which now includes VMware host support. According to Guy Suter, general manager of the Barracuda Backup Service, VMware ...

VMware takes a bigger step into the backup and restore market for virtual machines with the latest release of VMware Data Recovery 1.1 (VDR) VMware administrators may be interested and happy to know ...

NAKIVO Inc. announced the general availability of NAKIVO Backup & Replication v11.2, focused on fast, reliable, and proactive ...

A bit of background: I work for a small financial institution which is just starting to try out virtualization. ESXi becoming free couldn't have better timing. High-availability doesn't matter too ...

Traditional backup of virtualization machines can be costly, slow, and complicated. IDrive accelerates savings and backup times with incremental backups, simple restores, and disaster recovery for ...

In a previous article on virtualisation and disaster recovery, Computer Weekly looked at some of the aspects that enable disaster recovery (DR) in a virtual server environment. As a brief reminder, ...

VMware made a long-anticipated move July 22 when it announced that its ESXi hypervisor would be free. That doesn’t mean VMware customers can avoid pricey fees for support and management tools, though.