Your virtual machines are at the heart of all that your agency does, hosting practically any workload from mission-critical backup applications to dev/test environments. In VMware Backup For Dummies, ...

Managing the backup and restore of virtual machines is an intricate process involving multiple staff and a complex infrastructure. This dependency on these cumbersome, error-prone, multi-tiered ...

This is for my home lab, which is a pair of NUCs running vSphere/vCenter 7, connected via iSCSI to a Synology NAS, backing up over the network to an SMB share on an old Mac mini. There are only ~10 ...

Simply put, a virtual machine snapshot is a state that has been saved. The virtualization program stores the VM’s current state along with all of its data when you take a snapshot. This is very ...

Server virtualisation introduces a radically different approach to backing up data in the enterprise than simply using backup agents installed in the guest operating system and backing up VMs across ...

When is a backup not a backup? When you can't get information out of that backup. Backups are worthless if you can't actually restore from them, a truism that underlies much of the real-world planning ...

Hi,<BR><BR>We have an ESX Infrastructure 3 server (purchased before they went free w/ ESXi) and are slowly rolling out our a few VM's. Thus far, we've used the ESX server for a few smaller, ...

Broadcom’s 2023 acquisition of VMware for US$69bn led to disruptive changes in the virtualisation provider’s pricing. Key here is a move from perpetual licences to a subscription model. This has left ...