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When VMware vSphere Data Protection has been launched last year, there is now a way to migrate the backups made with vSphere Data Recovery (VDR). VMware moved forward since then and provides a tool for migrating the VDR restore points into VDP.  The tool is built into the latest version of VDP. The version 5.1.1 of [...]Read the full post How to migrate backups from VDR to VDP at ESX Virtualiz...

Veeam Backup 7 has been announced today, but the GA release is planned for Q3. The countdown to the new version has been floating around since some time at the Veeam’s teaser page, but today all the features has been unveiled. There is many of them which had been added because clients has asked for [...]Read the full post Veeam Backup 7 Announced with WAN Accellerator at ESX Virtualizatio...

VMware vSphere Replication (VR), released in vSphere 5.0 and enhanced in vSphere 5.1, is available as a free product for VMware vSphere Essentials Plus and higher. VR is easy to install and configure, but it lacks some features that Zerto provides out of the box. First, some background information: VMware SRM (Site Recovery Manager) and [...]Read the full post VMware vSphere Replication and Zert...

ReliableDR for VMware vSphere is a product that offers very interesting orchestration, automation and replication capabilities, but most importantly, automation of the whole DR testing and validating process. ReliableDR has been designed especially for VMware vSphere.  The product was acquired just recently by PHD Virtual and further enhanced in the 3.1 release which has just come out. Relia...

VMware Data Protection released recently has fixed several bugs and introduced several new features, like restore rehearsal - a feature that you might know from VDR. Another feature adds is the ability to clone backup jobs, or the possibility to configure some post tasks behavior like for example, automatically power on or reconnect a specific virtual NIC. How to upgrade [...]Read the full ...

Advertise here via BSAVeeam has announced another killer feature for their upcoming product – Veeam Backup & Replication 7. The feature is called Backup to Tape. This was one of the major feature which was missing, compared to traditional backup products for physical environments. As devices, all tape devices (Tape Libraries, Virtual Tape Libraries (VTL), or Standalone Drives) [...]Rea...

Veeam has announced Veeam Sharepoint Explorer feature to be present in the upcoming version 7 of Veeam Backup & Replication. Cool Feature for Sharepoint admins, which will be present in the upcoming V7 of Veeam Backup & Replication. The Sharepoint Explorer brings the possibility to navigate through Sharepoint DB and restore directly documents from there, [...]Read the full post Microsoft...

Nakivo Backup and Replication 3.0 has been released today and brought in an indispensable feature for every viable virtualization backup solution out there – a File Level Recovery (FLR). Without this feature you, IT admin, can’t live. Or will have to have different backup solution (usually in guest) that enables you to recover individual files [...]Read the full post Nakivo Backup &#...

VMware vSphere Data Protection Advanced Version is GA. VDP Advanced is a new product is an enhanced version of VDP and I already reported on that few weeks back during the announcement. The VDPA scales up to 8Tb of deduplication storage as well as 400 VMs per VDP appliance. The product is sold separately with Per Physical CPU [...]Read the full post VMware VDP Advanced Now Available – h...

New PDF report testing VDP  has been conducted by ESG. Recently an enhanced version of VMware vSphere Data Protection has been unveiled by VMware. This Enhanced version of VDP is about 4 times more scalable than the VDP Standard. You can read all the details about VDP advanced in my post here. Very good performance [...]Read the full post VMware vSphere Data Protection (VDP) validation report a...

Veeam 7 has been announced during VMware Partner Exchange this week. As the product evolves, it adds more and more functions for the end users. The version 7 will bring vCloud director support and the ability to backup/replicate vCloud director’s VMs, objects and vApp’s metadatas. Restoring a whole vApp or individual VMs will be possible [...]Read the full post Veeam 7 Announced R...

Zerto announced version 3.0 of their Hypervisor replication software Zerto Virtual Replication 3.0. The latest release adds on several enhancements and new features. One of them is the extension of disaster recovery for Remote Offices or environments manged with single vCenter server. This is quite good news, since many smaller clients only runs single vCenter and [...]Read the full post Zerto ...

I wanted to share some WordPress security tips. Usually, after you first install WordPress, you configure your WP installation and installs some plugins. You should also make sure that your WP blog is secure enough otherwise you might expose yourself for being hacked. 1. Use Simple Login Lockdown This plugin allows you to get protected [...]Read the full post WordPress Security Tips at ESX Virt...

When you need to troubleshoot backups in error state, you need to go to see the logs. VMware VDP logs are simple to access and locate. To find the VDP logs, just login to the VDP appliance by going to: https://IP_OF_VDP:8543/vdp-configure/ And from there you can download the logs to your workstation or from where [...]Read the full post VMware VDP logs – locate and troubleshoot at ESX Vir...

vSphere Data protection has a bigger brother called VDP Advanced. This advanced version of VDP scales up to 8Tb of deduplication storage as well as 400 VMs per VDP appliance. That’s rather good news (if you’re not using anything else out there for much less) for medium sized companies willing to use that product, but were kind of [...]Read the full post VMware vSphere Data Protect...

Veeam Backup & Replication Cloud Edition has been announced by Veeam Software.  This cloud edition is actually kind of cloud gateway, which present the end user with number of pre-configured profiles to the cloud storage providers like Amazon, Microsoft etc (about 15 cloud providers is supported out of the box). But other profiles can be added [...]Read the full post Veeam Backup And Repli...

Veeam backup Free edition offers great compression ratio. The free version of Veeam product in fact takes only the blocs that are used for the creation of the compressed .vbk file. The whole VM is actually encapsulated (VMDK disks + VMX configuration file) into single .vbk file. The swap file isn’t backed up either. Veeam [...]Read the full post Veeam Backup Free Edition does some good com...

A file with extension CTK can be found by using the VMware datastore browser, in the same folder as other VMDK file, where the VM stores all its files (VMDK, VMX, VMSD, NVRAM….). What is VMware CTK file for? The CTK file is used by Changed Block Tracking (CBT). It lists the block changes made since last backup. [...]Read the full post What is VMware CTK file format? at ESX Virtualizati...

Nakivo is new company, based in Silicon Valley, California. Nakivo has entered the already crowdy VMware vSphere backup eco-system at the end of October 2012. The company came up from stealth mode since few months, but has already achieved VMware Ready status and has it’s product listed at VMware Exchange. Nakivo is also VMware Technology alliance partner – Elite. Their backup produc...

In this how-to you’ll see How-to reset root password in VDP (vSphere Data Protection). VDP is bundled with vSphere Essentials Plus, so If you’re on this package, you have the possibility to use it and backup your VMs. If you’re on vSphere Essentials, where no backup product is present, I would suggest going with Veeam Backup and Replication, or if you’re really small sho...

Together with the recent release of vCenter 5.1b, there has been new release of VMware Site Recovery Manger (SRM). The SRM 5.1.0.1 is an update for the SRM 5.1 release and the 5.0.2 is an update for the older 5.0.1 release (in case you’re on the release before upgrading to the 5.1.x). SRM 5.0.2 is available in those languages:  English, French, German, Japanese, Simplified Chinese. VMwar...

There is a new update to Trilead VM explorer. The product supports Hyper-V 2012 with file level restore functionality and VHDX virtual disks, plus more. Trilead has been around for a while. The product differentiate itself from it’s unique licencing possibilities – per site licensing. Single license for whole site. The main new features of VM Explorer 4.1 are: Support for Hyper-V 20...

VDP cannot backup Windows 2008 R2. Are you having troubles Backing up Windows 2008R2 with VMware vSphere Data Protection (VDP)? Quiesced snapshots don’t work? It’s probably that you’re using the VMware VSS to quiesce the guest OS.  It’s a known issue which can be easily avoided by using the VSS providers which are part of your backup tool, if of course the tool provides...

Starwind VMware Backup – has been launched. Starwind has released new backup product for VMware vSphere called Starwind Backup for vSphere. Fully compatible with latest vSphere 5.1, the product can do backup and recovery of running VMware vSphere or Hyper-V Virtual Machines. The product has had quite a long beta period, and I already informed you about the preparation, but the compatibilit...

Idera Server Backup 5.0 has been released. Idera is a new actor coming to the enterprise market with different approach, from the pricing point of view, at least.  Usually the backup vendors charge per physical socket and it’s called per CPU model. Then, for smaller virtual environments,  there is a less known, Per site pricing model, where single license can cover entire site and with...