Top-5 most interesting virtualization blog posts 2011 (reader’s choice)
What are the most popular topics related to virtualization and Veeam Software products among the readers of IT-blogs? To give this question a proper answer we decided to undertake a study of most popular blog posts published on Veeam website for a period of a little more than a year 2010-2011. And here’s what the study showed. According to the survey, in the year 2011 our readers were mostly fascinated with software testing, how-to-guides and calculation of expenses on virtualization. In this post you’ll find the top-5 chart of most-read articles on virtualization that appeared on our site from November 2010 to November 2011.
Nesting Hyper-V with VMware Workstation 8 and ESXi 5 Published: SEP 14th, 2011 Read whole post
Reader’s choice 2011 – a detailed how-to-guide showing in a step-by-step manner how to combine the powers of Hyper-V and VMware within single virtual infrastructure. Virtualization blogger Rick Vanover provides a full-fledged instruction for running Hyper-V virtual machine on VMware Worstation 8 or ESXi 5. For each environment there is specified a detailed step-by-step procedure with graphical illustrations and also a list of useful tips for those who is going to undertake it on their own.
Microsoft Exchange Backup & Recovery Published: NOV 3rd, 2010 Read whole post
Doug Hazelman’s post with 5 most important points on the matter of backup and recovery for MS Exchange. The post shows how Veeam Backup & Recovery can meet the challenges that arise with virtualization of MS Exchanges and formulates the three core rules of backup and recovery of MS Exchange servers. This blog post covers among others such issues as:
Why should MS Exchanged be only backed up through Exchange VSS Writer?
Why can’t any backup but truly reliable unless the backup application has got the completed integrity verification?
Why all restores to original location must be done exclusively by means of Exchange VSS Writer?
Using the iSCSI initiator within Veeam Backup & Replication in a VM Published: APR 12th, 2011 Read whole post
This blog post by Rick Vanover with few hints on configuring Veeam Backup & Replication as a virtual machine with iSCSI storage networks. The post is a practical guide to the subject and offers a detailed overview of the whole procedure as well as provides a detailed review of benefits of such a configuration for the whole process of virtualization management. From the article you will learn how to install Veeam Backup & Replication on a virtual machine with iSCSI storage processor that serves as the production storage for vSphere.
How much should VMware backup cost? Published: NOV 30th, 2010 Read whole post
This blog post by Doug Hazelman puts together two competitive virtualization backup & recovery tools in order to draw a comparison between them. Those tools are Symantec Backup Exec and Veeam Backup & Replication v5. The post provides full range of special features and utilities of both products. The comparison will help a potential customer of this kind of software product clear up the most essential point - what’s the best tool for virtual machines backing up and data recovery? The post also contains some infographics which show the benefits of using Veeam Backup & Replication v5 Enterprise Edition as compared to Symantec Backup Exec 2010. The list of benefits includes also the price that is almost 5 times lower with Veeam Backup & Replication.
Five important points of Virtual Lab networking in Veeam Backup and Replication v5 Published: JAN 25th, 2011 Read whole post
In this blog post Rick Vanover continues to deal with the issue raised in his webinar “5 new ways to use vPower” and considers the opposite side of the Virtual Lab <=> Veeam Backup & Replication networking particularities, viz. the networking capabilities of Virtual Lab . Further in this post you can find 5 tips that you should always take in consideration while working with Virtual Lab – 5 important questions that may arise for each of the virtual machines behind the proxy appliance.