ESX Virtualization

VMware ESXi, vSphere, VMware Backup, Hyper-V... how-to, videos....

Menu
  • Shop
    • Datacenter
      • vSphere Essentials
      • vSphere Essentials PLUS
      • vSphere Standard
      • vSphere with Operations Management
      • vCenter Server Standard
      • vSphere Remote Office Branch Office
    • Desktop
      • VMware Workstation Pro
      • VMware Fusion Pro
      • VMware Fusion
      • Player Pro
    • Datacenter and Cloud
      • VMware SRM
      • vCenter Server Editions
    • Desktop
      • VMware Mirage
      • VMware Socialcast
      • Horizon Flex
      • VMware Horizon
    • Close
  • Study Guides
      • VCP6.7-DCV
          • VCP6.7-DCV 2019
        • Close
      • VCP6.5-DCV
          • VCP65-DCV-cert
        • Close
      • VCP6-DTM
          • VCP6-DTM
        • Close
      • VMware Mirage
          • mirageVMware Mirage
        • Close
    • Close
  • VMware
    • Configuration Maximums
    • vSphere
      • vSphere 6.7
      • vSphere 6.5
      • vSphere 6.0
      • vSphere 5.5
      • vSphere 5.1
      • Close
    • VMworld
      • VMworld 2019
      • VMworld 2018
      • VMworld 2017
      • VMworld 2016
      • VMworld 2015
      • VMworld 2014
      • VMworld 2013
      • VMworld 2012
      • VMworld 2011
      • Close
    • Close
  • Microsoft
    • Windows Server 2012
    • Windows Server 2016
    • Windows Server 2019
    • Close
  • Categories
    • Tips – VMware, Microsoft and General IT tips and definitions, What is this?, How this works?
    • Server Virtualization – VMware ESXi, ESXi Free Hypervizor, VMware vSphere Server Virtualization, VMware Cloud and Datacenter Virtualization
    • Backup – Virtualization Backup Solutions, VMware vSphere Backup and ESXi backup solutions.
    • Desktop Virtualization – Desktop Virtualization, VMware Workstation, VMware Fusion, VMware Horizon View, tips and tutorials
    • How To – ESXi Tutorials, IT and virtualization tutorials, VMware ESXi 4.x, ESXi 5.x and VMware vSphere. VMware Workstation and other IT tutorials.
    • Free Stuff – Free virtualization utilities, ESXi Free, Monitoring and free backup utilities for ESXi and Hyper-V. Free IT tools.
    • Videos – VMware Virtualization Videos, VMware ESXi Videos, ESXi 4.x, ESXi 5.x tips and videos.
    • Home Lab
    • Reviews – Virtualization Software and reviews, Disaster and backup recovery software reviews. Virtual infrastructure monitoring software review.
    • Close
  • Partners
    • Altaro
    • NAKIVO
    • StarWind
    • Veeam
    • Vembu
    • Zerto
    • Close
  • This Web
    • News
    • ESXi Lab
    • About
    • Advertise
    • Archives
    • Disclaimer
    • IT Books
    • Close
  • Free Tools
  • Books

PHD Virtual 6.2 CloudHook – Product Review

By Vladan SEGET | Last Updated: February 19, 2017

Shares

PHD Virtual Backup 6.2 CloudHookPHD Virtual has updated their backup product PHD Virtual backup & Replication, to enable IT administrators leverage cloud storage directly as backup destination. PHD Virtual CloudHook is the latest update. The newest feature allows to setup cloud storage as a backup destination, directly from within the UI. The product is able to backup VMs directly to the cloud storage from Amazon, Google or Rackspace. With a powerful feature introduced in the 6.1 release, called rollback recovery (restores only changes) there is a possibility to restore a full VM with very fast RTOs directly from the cloud. The GA of the product is scheduled for March 2013

Lab Spped

It will be quite challenging to do a test in my lab, since my internet access at my home lab has quite slow upload speed (download is ok).

While the Cloud is just one of the many backup destinations, the product can backup to usual destinations as virtual disks attached to the backup appliance, NFS or CIFS shares. One could imagine an enterprise setup with two backup appliances:

First appliance creates backups of VMs to a local storage (VMDKs attached to the VM) with job configuration as “Virtual Full” or network storage (NFS, CIFS or target-side deduplication device.) with job configuration as “Full/Incremental”. It depends what the possibility in your environment.

Second appliance creates backups of VMs to cloud storage as a destination with job configured as “Virtual Full” which is recommended for cloud storage.

Note that in both cases, the first time the job runs, its full backup only. Following backups are always incremental.

Both jobs would have to be staggered to prevent running at the same time, but it can be easily done with the job scheduler. Why this is important having backups on both places?

The importance of having backups in both places, if you choose to back up the same VMs by both VBAs, is to have an offsite copy of your data.  You can also choose to have different retention policies to keep longer-term retention in the cloud.

Another great use case is to leverage local storage for critical VM backups – to ensure fast recovery, and to use cloud storage for less critical VM backups – when RTOs are not as strict.  Rollback recovery still gives you fast recovery from the cloud in most circumstances, which allows you to save on local storage.

PHD Virtual CloudHook supports several cloud storage providers as a backup destination:

  • Amazon S3
  • Google Cloud Storage
  • Swift/OpenStack
  • RackSpace CloudFiles

PHD Virtual Backup 6.2 CloudHook Setup

For those of you who do not know PHD Virtual, the product itself is a Virtual Appliance (a virtual machine ), this means that you don't need an additional physical hardware to install and use the product, since the OVF file gets deployed into your virtual infrastructure (or single ESXi host) by using the vSphere Client through File > Deploy OVF Template menu.

When finished, close the vSphere client and install the PHD Virtual Client software – it's located in the zip file download. The client file is the PHDVirtualBackup_Client_Install.exe. Then start the VMware vSphere Client (the Windows client) and open a console of the PHD Virtual CloudHook.

I strongly recommend setting up fixed IP address. Just make sure that before you do it, you create proper DNS records in your Forward and reverse DNS zones. Then when you first start the appliance, go to the console and hit Ctrl-N to enter the Network Configuration menu. Select Static and enter the IP address, netmask, GW, primary and secondary DNS. Note that both DNS servers has to be entered. In my case I had only one on my network, so I entered both the same DNS.

phd4

Then restart the appliance. The next thing we need is to set up is a Write Space, which is a kind of cache for cloud backups and also for storing the Instant VM recovery changes. First Add an additional virtual hard dist to the VM – through VMware vSphere Client by going to the menu VM > Edit Settings > Add > hard disk. When done, select Configuration > Write Space, and select the Attached Virtual Disk drop down menu. Then click the Configure button. You can click to see high-res image.

PHD Virtual Backup 6.2 CloudHook

When validated, you're asked to restart the appliance.

Continue reading on next page –>

Shares
Pages: 1 2 3

| Filed Under: Featured, Reviews Tagged With: PHD Virtual CloudHook Leave a Comment

About Vladan SEGET

This website is maintained by Vladan SEGET. Vladan is as an Independent consultant, professional blogger, vExpert x11, Veeam Vanguard x5, VCAP-DCA/DCD, VCP, ESX Virtualization site has started as a simple bookmarking site, but quickly found a large following of readers and subscribers.

Connect on: Facebook. Feel free to network via Twitter @vladan.

Trackbacks

  1. PHD Virtual 6.2 + CloudHook is Now GA! | Virtualization Spotlight says:
    March 11, 2013 at 4:14 pm

    […] Seget: http://www.vladan.fr/phdvirtual-cloudhook-6-2/ Bilal Hasmi: […]

    Reply

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Nakivo Backup and Replication
Zerto 7Vembu Backup and Replication
Click to Become a Sponsor

Featured

  • Free Backup for VMware and Hyper-V - NAKIVO Backup & Replication
  • FREE Forever—Back up VMware with Altaro VM Backup. Grab your Free copy now!
  • WinX DVD Ripper Platinum Giveaway - 1:1 Copy DVD to ISO,MP4

Most Recent

  • Veeam Backup for AWS Free Version Released
  • Cheapest way of going virtual with StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN)
  • Physical Server Backup, Workstation or Laptop with Nakivo Backup and Replication
  • Download Free Load Balancer for VMware vSphere
  • Fight Ransomware with Veeam 10 Immutability Feature
  • StarWind VSAN Graceful Shutdown and PowerChute Configuration
  • Are You Aware of the Most Common Phishing Attacks?
  • Altaro Office 365 Backup New Features Added
  • Zerto 7.5 With Elastic Journal and long term retention – Restore a VM 20 Years old?
  • StarWind Virtual SAN Best Practices

Most Liked

  • VCP6.7-DCV Study Guide - VCP-DCV 2019 certification
  • VCP6.5-DCV Study Guide
  • vSphere 6.5
  • VCP6.5-DCV Objective 4.3 - Perform vCenter Server migration to VCSA
  • What Is VMware ESXi Lockdown Mode?

Fast NVMe Storage


Virtualization Software From VMware

  • VMware vSphere 6.7 U3 Essentials PLUS - vMotion, vSphere Replication...Included
  • VMware vSphere 6.7 U3 Essentials - 3 hosts, vCenter
  • vSphere Hypervisor Per Incident Support Click Here.
  • VMware Workstation 15.5 Pro and Upgrades - Best Desktop Virtualization Software
  • VMware Fusion 11.5 - Run Windows on MAC, and Upgrades
  • VMware Fusion 11 Professional - Restricted VMs, Virtualized VT-X/EPT... and Upgrades
**************************************************************************
  • Upgrade to vSphere Editions
  • Upgrade to vSphere Enterprise Plus
  • Upgrade to vSphere with vSOM Enterprise Plus
  • Upgrade to vSphere with Operations Management Editions
  • Upgrade to vSphere with Operations Management Enterprise Plus

Free Software

Altaro VM Backup – Protect your VMware and Hyper-V VMs for Free with Altaro VM Backup. 2 VM for Free, forever. Grab your copy now!
Veeam ONE Community (FREE) Edition 9.5 U4B – Download Now. monitor up to 10 instances of VMware, Hyper-V, Veeam Backup & Replication and Windows and Linux workloads!
Veeam Backup And Replication Community (FREE) Edition 9.5 U4B – protects up to 10 instances (VMs or Computers, laptops for Free.

Free Trials

Veeam Backup and Replication 9.5 Trial DownloadVeeam Backup & Replication 9.5 U4B Full Version Download (30 Days Trial – Get Your Copy !

YouTube

Find us on Facebook

ESX Virtualization

Copyright © 2019 ·Dynamik-Gen · Genesis Framework · Hosted with HostColor.com

X
Veeam Backup 9.5 U4B Community Edition
Download NOW
We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. If you continue to use this site we will assume that you are happy with it.Ok