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Nakivo Automated VM Failover – How it works?

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Nakivo with their latest release, Nakivo 7.4 brought an interesting feature allowing setup an Automated VM failover. In this post, we’ll have a look what’s necessary to do in order to be able to use this feature, and then how it works. Let’s say your infrastructure have a second, remote site. It’s fairly common not […]

Vembu BDR Suite 3.9.1 Released With New Standard Edition

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Previously we had an only single edition with Vembu BDR Suite. Now things changed as Vembu is targetting more the SMB sector, which is obviously good news for all SMBs. The latest Vembu BDR Suite 3.9.1 for VMware and Hyper-V introduces Standard Edition destined for Small Businesses (SMBs). With this new Standard edition of Vembu BDR Suite, SMBs has […]

P2V, V2V or V2P Migrations with Vembu BDR

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Vembu Backup and Replication product is known to our readers. We have published quite a few articles about this Backup and Recovery suite and its possibilities for today’s IT admins managing VMware, Hyper-V or KVM environments. Today we’ll try to highlight one of the features that we did not talk too much. It is a cross-platform migration, such […]

Nakivo Backup and Replication 7.4 Released

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Nakivo is releasing another big update. Nakivo Backup and Replication 7.4 brings additional features which makes life easier for VMware and Microsoft admins. The product continues to evolve on regular basis and every time we report on that. Recent last release, the 7.3 version has brought backup repository support for deduplication appliances (NEC Hydrastor, EMC Data […]

Nakivo Instant File Recovery – How it Works?

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Nakivo Backup and Replication for VMware and Hyper-V can recover files from backed up VMs fast way. But the main reason why Instant File recovery is an important feature for VMware and Hyper-V environment is the fact that this feature is used very often. It’s no secret for any admin that very often there are user’s […]

Altaro VM Backup 7.6 Released

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A new release of Altaro VM Backup 7.6 has been just released. After several months of beta, the product is now GA. One of the main new features introduced is the Grandfather-Father-Son (GFS) backup for archives and Continuous Data Protection (CDP) allowing to backup every 5 minutes. Altaro Backup and Replication can be used for VMware […]

What is Veeam Availability Orchestrator?

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Veeam has recently released a new product called Veeam Availability Orchestrator (VAO). During a Long time in beta, the product has finally reached the GA stage and has been released. In this post, we’ll have a look what is Veeam Availability Orchestrator (VAO) and how it can be useful for backup administrators. Veeam’s VAO is a DR […]

What Is Nakivo Transporter?

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Our regular readers certainly know what is Nakivo Transporter for, but readers who just discovered our blog might not be so sure. In this post we will detail the role of Nakivo Transporter component and show the specification and configuration options. Nakivo Backup and Replication is a product which can backup VMware vSphere and Microsoft […]

StarWind Virtual Tape Library (VTL) for Veeam and AWS further details

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We have already detailed StarWind’s Virtual Tape Library (VTL) for Veeam and AWS in our detailed post here. But no real lab screenshot was taken. In this post you’ll see part of it. Virtual Tape library (VTL) has an advantage over physical. There is no more the need to look through all your tapes to […]