One of the tasks I used to neglect in my lab was backing up my vCenter Sever appliance (VCSA). I did so because I always figured the time it took to back it up was greater than the time it would take ...

I'm testing backup and restore of VCSA 6.7 (build 15505668 - the latest version). I successfully performed a file-based backup from the VAMI interface to an FTP server. Next task was to test the ...

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 ...

Avamar Technologies, provider of enterprise data protection software, announced that it was adding support for VMware. They hope to offer a solution to eliminate the challenges that customers face ...

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 ...