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Zerto Virtual Replication 5.5 Released

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Zerto releasing a new version of their flagship product Zerto Virtual Replication 5.5 (ZVR). The latest releases add new features and enhancements to already a feature-rich product. One of those new features is about Azure where you have now an option to automatically failback from Azure. Previously when you failed over to Azure, you could not […]

Vembu BDR Suite 3.8 Released

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Vembu BDR Suite 3.8 was released. This version brings new features and enhancements to the already feature-packed product suite. We’ll go into details in a sec, but let me doe recap of what’s interesting about Vembu BDR first. It is basically the fact, that just one year earlier, nobody really knew who they were as they […]

Migration Of Windows 7 To Windows 10 Using VMware Mirage?

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Today’s post is a post detailing the process of migration of Windows 7 to Windows 10 (In-place migrate). VMware Mirage can handle migrations between different Windows OS in two ways. Either you can do an in-place migrate where the user keeps the same hardware, or Mirage will migrate user to W10 and the user will […]

How to backup a Desktop with VMware Mirage

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We have set up our VMware Mirage lab in a series of posts recently. While we could do a simple “All-in-One” box installation, we decided to deploy (almost) full VMware Mirage stack with several management servers, separate Mirage server, and separate File server. You can follow the Mirage series on a dedicated blog page – VMware […]

VM Replication for High Availability with Vembu BDR

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Vembu Backup and Disaster Recovery Suite (BDR) isn’t new to our readers. The product can backup virtual or physical workloads with a possibility for recovery of full VMs or individual files within those VMs, Application objects such as SQL Server, Microsoft AD objects and other. It has also a fast restore via Quick VM Recovery. […]

How To Upgrade Zerto Virtual Replication Appliance (VRA)

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Zerto Virtual Replication 5.0 U3 was released recently and as with every other upgrade, all the Zerto components has to be upgraded. The Zerto Virtual Manager which runs on Windows system upgrades normally with the Update package. However the Zerto Virtual Replication Appliances (VRAs) which runs on every host in the environment has to be […]

What is Veeam Proxy?

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Have you ever wondered what is Veeam backup proxy? Veeam proxy is one of the main components of Veeam Backup and replication. In small environments when installation is “All-In-one” machine, the Veeam Proxy gets installed on the same box as the rest of the components. In larger environments, the backup proxy role is assigned to […]

How to restore Individual Files via Vembu BDR

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Vebmbu Backup and Disaster Recovery Suite ( Vembu BDR) is composed of many software solutions. Backup for VMware vSphere, Hyper-V, physical server backup, network backup, client backup. But today we will focus on How to Restore Individual Files via Vembu BDR for VMware infrastructure. In this post, we won’t go into details on how to […]

Nakivo Backup and Replication 7.1 protects Hyper-V Clusters

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Nakivo quietly released 7.1 version of their flagship product Nakivo Backup And Replication. Nakivo has fast releasing cycle and with each new release there are new features added and bug fixed. We have previously reported about a release which supports Hyper-V but we did not know that the clustering wasn’t supported. Now it is. In […]