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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) is a package that simplifies disaster recovery (DR) in an organisation’s virtual guest operating systems and improves the success of DR processes. It also manages ...

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 ...

JetStream Software Inc. today debuted a continuous replication platform for the VMware Inc. vSphere virtualization environment, saying it’s the first data protection product of its kind to be endorsed ...

The message from VMware Inc. these days is clear -- it plans an ever-bigger role in knitting together datacenter infrastructure and offering key platforms to build and manage clouds. Enterprises ...

I'm always struggling with gold master images for my linked clone VDI pools. One little mistake or corrupted file during a gold image update and the whole thing is screwed up. Doesn't help that it's ...

It’s time to reign in the virtual machine revolution taking over your network. In the first part of a series of testing-based articles looking at the various virtual machine management tools available ...