#1 for VMware Backup and Management


Best Practices: VMware monitoring with Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 and Microsoft Operations Manager 2005new

by Alec King

This document describes an end-to-end solution for monitoring VMware vSphere or Virtual Infrastructure 3 using a full integration with Microsoft Systems Center Operations Manager (Ops Mgr) to produce a comprehensive image of system health with minimal impact on your operations staff.

Tips to a successful Veeam Backup and VCB integration

by Ricky El‐Qasem and Stanislav Simakov

This document highlights some necessary steps required to set up a successful Veeam Backup and VMware Consolidated Backup (VCB) integration. It may also help you understand the underlying technology and make the best choices when implementing a backup strategy.

Virtualization Management Best Practices: Critical Aspects of Virtual System Backup and Recovery

by Andi Mann, Research Director, Enterprise Management Associates

EMA research shows that backup and recovery is a mature and mission-critical discipline, with significant and measurable benefits – but the techniques and tools designed for the physical server environment are not necessarily appropriate for the virtual world.  Read this whitepaper to learn more about best practices for virtual system backup and recovery.

ESX Server Monitoring for HP Software Operations Manager and Microsoft Systems Center Operations Manager

This white paper highlights the aspects of server consolidation using VMware infrastructure and nworks products.

Top Storage Considerations in VMware ESX Environments

by Mike Laverick http://www.rtfm-ed.co.uk

This white paper describes best practices in building storage infrastructure for VMware ESX Environments. Topics covered include: The disk partitioning of an ESX host, VMware snapshots and creating/locating virtual disks, as well as monitoring snapshot files.

VMware and VSS: Application Backup and Recovery

by Anton Gostev

This white paper provides guidance on how to easily test and verify whether your current backup approach is able to correctly handle the backup and restore of mission?critical Windows applications. We strongly encourage all organizations to verify their backup approach using this simple test to ensure that the solution you have chosen is able to back up and correctly restore all your VMs hosting mission?critical Windows applications.

Expanding the virtual disk size in 4 steps

by Alexey Vasiliyev

This white paper explains an effective way to expand the virtual disk size in just four steps. It's easy and doesn't require installing any additional OS or third-party tools. Running out of disk space is a common problem and a very annoying one.  Follow these steps the next time it happens to you.
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