Deduplication and VMware Backup Sprawlnew

Ву Mike Beevor and Ricky El-Qasem

 From this whitepaper you can learn how Veeam Deduplication and Compression engine solves VMware Backup Sprawl problem and makes a positive impact on the storage environment of the company.
Butler Group Technology Auditnew

VMware monitoring with Microsoft SCOM and HP Operations Manager

 Recently Ovum/Butler Group conducted a technology audit of the Veeam nworks solution for VMware monitoring and management within Microsoft SCOM07/MOM05 and HP Operations Manager. Ovum is the ICT advisory brand of the Datamonitor Group, with a 25 year history of advising both enterprises and their suppliers on the business value of Information and communication technologies.
The False Promises of Virtualization - The Data Center of the Futurenew

By Mike Bowker and Lauren Whitehouse, Enterprise Strategy Group

 The whitepaper covers common pitfalls and false promises of virtualization that companies should avoid. Download now to learn how to efficiently address top virtualization challenges.
Independent Test: Veeam Backup & Replication vs. Symantec NetBackupnew

By Jack Fegreus Managing Director openBench Labs.

 In this independent lab review completed by a recognized industry expert Jack Fegreus Veeam Backup & Replication 4.1 is compared with Symantec NetBackup 6.5.4. Veeam Backup & Replication demonstrated 4 times faster backup speed and required 3 times less backup storage space than Symantec NetBackup. Different configurations with VCB and vStorage APIs with or without Compression and Deduplication are tested.
5 Ways VMware vSphere Improves Backup and Recoverynew

by Eric Siebert, Senior systems administrator at Boston Market

 This white paper focuses on how organizations can benefit from new various storage technologies in vSphere (VI4), how they relate to data backup and recovery, and how the new vStorage advanced programming interfaces (APIs) allow for better storage integration with third-party backup applications.
How Virtualization Cuts CDP Costs by 80%new

By David Davis Director of Infrastructure at TrainSignal.com

 This white paper compares 3 different options of implementing CDP and shows how virtualization-enabled CDP—or Near-CDP—becomes the most affordable and most logical disaster recovery choice for businesses of all sizes.
Best Practices: VMware monitoring with Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 and Microsoft Operations Manager 2005

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.
VMware Monitoring with HP Operations Manager

by Alec King, Veeam Senior Product Manager

 This paper examines how to select the best solution to bring VMware to the HP Ops Manager console. Providing readers with a simple but highly relevant set of criteria for choosing the best possible solution in order to leverage the management infrastructure that’s already in place, reduce the amount of training operators need, shorten problem resolution time, and protects the integrity of the HP Operations Manager.
VMware and Microsoft VSS: How to correctly back up and recover Microsoft SQL, Exchange, Active Directory and SharePoint in VMware environment

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.
Hot backup of MySQL on a Linux VM

by Ricky El-Qasem,
Senior Systems Engineer
at Veeam Software

 This document describes the process required to take a consistent backup of MySQL running in a Linux virtual machine guest.
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.
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.
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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