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VMware vSphere Data Protection – How to Reattach Data Disks if VDP Appliance Won’t Start

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: March 17, 2015

In case VDP appliance has problem and cannot boot up there is still a way to recover your backups even if your VDP appliance was not backed up (the system) or copied elsewhere. This is because the actual backups are stored at the data disks.   Normally the best practice is to deploy the VDP […]

| Filed Under: Backup Tagged With: vSphere Data Protection

VMware vSphere Data Protection (VDP) is Showing Unlicensed on Cluster Level

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: March 17, 2015

VMware VDP and VDP advanced starts to become more popular. One of the main reasons perhaps is the possibility to leverage existing virtual infrastructure to deploy the product without additional Windows licensing. Often Small businesses do invest into a virtual infrastructure but the real utilization is far from 100% the first years. Admins are creating […]

| Filed Under: Backup Tagged With: VMware vSphere Data Protection (VDP) unlicensed

vSphere Replication 5.8 Featuring Cloud Replication

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: April 26, 2025

vSphere Replication 5.8 announced together with vSphere Data Protection 5.8 during VMworld, brings in an interesting possibility to replicate directly to the cloud service provider. When configuring the replication of your VM, you not only have possibility to replicate to another vCenter server, but also to cloud service provider’s facility. This could be any of […]

| Filed Under: Backup Tagged With: vSphere Replication 5.8

vSphere Data Protection 5.8 – What’s New?

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: April 26, 2025

First of all, both versions of vSphere Data Protection (VDP) gets new update. The latest versions will be vSphere Data Protection 5.8 when they’ll be available for download. For now the latest versions stays 5.5.6, which is already compatible with VSAN. The announce of the new version of VDP is especially interesting for customers who […]

| Filed Under: Backup Tagged With: vSphere Data Protection 5.8

Nakivo Backup and Replication 4.1 Released – Brings automation and orchestration capabilities

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: July 24, 2014

Nakivo Backup and Replication 4.1 has been released yesterday. Nakivo Backup and Replication is pushing another update to their product, this time adding some automation and orchestration capabilities. Those capabilities are based on new HTTP API available for the users. Also new the possibility to add datastore cluster as a replication target or VM recovery. Another […]

| Filed Under: Backup Tagged With: Nakivo Backup and Replication 4.1

How-to use Veeam Backup NFS used for storing ISOs in your VMware vSphere Infrastructure

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: August 22, 2022

If you’re using only block storage in your organization and NFS isn’t your your choice, you might possibly store your Installation ISOs and other files on one of your iSCSI datastore. This always works, but it’s certainly cheaper to store such a files on other than high-end 15000 SAS disks placed in probably very expensive SAN which […]

| Filed Under: Backup Tagged With: How-to use Veeam Backup NFS used for storing ISOs

Unitrends (PHD) Virtual Backup 8.0 Product Review

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: July 6, 2015

I recently tested a beta version of the Unitrends Virtual Backup v 8.0 (previously PHD Virtual) product. While I have reviewed PHD products in the past, I immediately noticed the major interface re-design on this new release. In fact, this virtual backup product now has over 120 new features and enhancements according to Unitrends with […]

| Filed Under: Backup, Reviews Tagged With: PHD Virtual Backup, Unitrends Virtual Backup

Veeam 7 Patch 4 to assure VSAN and SQL 2014 Compatibility

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: July 2, 2014

You may have missed that when it was officially announced by Veem few weeks ago. Veeam has released 4th patch for their flagship datacenter backup software – Veeam Backup and Replication 7.0. It’s a cumulative update, so you don’t have to install the previous 3 patches. The patch assures compatibility with VMware VSAN as previously […]

| Filed Under: Backup Tagged With: Veeam 7 patch 4

VDP Advanced Can Backup Applications Which Aren’t Virtualized Yet – Did You Know?

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: June 24, 2014

I found out about it when browsing the VDP advanced FAQ – check the document from VDP advanced page at VMware. VDP Advanced Can Backup Applications Which Aren’t Virtualized. I have seen many businesses which still keeps some of their workflows on physical servers, like SQL or Exchange. That’s where VDP advanced can be used, […]

| Filed Under: Backup Tagged With: VDP Advanced

Zerto 3.5 Integrates Offsite Backup To The Replication Capabilities

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: November 15, 2017

Zerto Virtual Replication product gets more robust with more features for VMware administrators wanting to protect their workflows by replicating to the DR sites. Zerto 3.5 Integrates Offsite Backup To The Replication Capabilities which shows that it’s possible to protect workflows different ways. The offsite backup feature of Zerto 3.5 is one of many enhancements of Zerto’s product. […]

| Filed Under: Backup Tagged With: Zerto 3.5 Adds Offsite Backup, Zerto 3.5 Brings Offsite backup

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