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Zerto Virtual Replication for Hyper-V Announced – First Step towards Mixed Environments and Cloud Fabric

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Zerto announced support for Hyper-V platform. but their long term strategy is to create Zerto Cloud Fabric allowing to replicate VMs between different hypervizors (including the on-the-fly-conversion). The hyper-V announcement was scheduled exactly for TechEd Europe in Barcelona (just started yesterday) and will allow to protect critical workloads on this platform. The cloud fabric announce is pretty […]

Flash VM Boot Feature Available in New Release of Nakivo Backup and Replication 5.0

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Already 5th release by Nakivo. If you never heard about Nakivo I’d invite you to read my detailed post about their Backup and Replication solution for VMware. Nakivo has a virtual appliance approach, but can also be installed in Windows or Linux VM or directly on physical server. This is quite flexible compared to the […]

VDP advanced compared to VDP Standard and Migration Options

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vSphere Data Protection, based on Amavar’s code (EMC), it is packaged as backup appliance which can leverage existing virtual infrastructure to be implemented. No need to buy a new hardware for installation of this backup server. In this post I compare VDP advanced compared to VDP Standard and how to migrate from standard to advanced. […]

DR options of VMware vSphere Data Protection (VDP)

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In the past I have received few questions on VDP resiliency. Users usually like the “appliance” approach when it comes to backup software, but they want to be sure that they can take steps to get back in business if something gets wrong. Many things can happen to a VM don’t you think? In addition, […]

vSphere Replication With Single vCenter – How to configure?

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VMware has recently updated many products after those has been announced during VMworld 2014 in San Francisco. I have reported on that in my detailed post which shows that 30 products parts are the part of the vSphere 5.8 suite, went out GA that day. vSphere Replication 5.0 was one of the announced products as well […]

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

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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 […]

vSphere Replication 5.8 Featuring Cloud Replication

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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 […]

vSphere Data Protection 5.8 – What’s New?

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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 […]

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

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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 […]