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How to migrate backups from VDR to VDP

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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 5.1.10 of […]

Veeam Backup 7 Announced with WAN Accellerator

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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 […]

VMware vSphere Replication and Zerto Virtual Replication 2.0 – Products with different features and technologies.

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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 […]

ReliableDR for VMware vSphere – Disaster recovery solution for SMB, Enterprises and Cloud Providers

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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. Reliable […]

How to upgrade VDP – Upgrading vSphere Data Protection with the Upgrade ISO

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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 […]

Veeam 7 Tape Support

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Veeam 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) […]

Microsoft Sharepoint Explorer – Another Cool Feature comming up in V7 of Veeam Backup & Replication

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Veeam has announced Veeam Sharepoint Explorer feature to be present in the upcoming version 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, or […]

Nakivo Backup & Replication 3.0 released – bringing FLR support

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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 […]

VMware VDP Advanced Now Available – how it compares to other backup products?

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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 […]