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Using VMware ESX Server System and VMware Virtual Infrastructure for Backup, Restoration, and Disaster Recovery

Overview Backup, restoration, and disaster recovery are among the most crucial elements of datacenter management. VMware ESX Server System and VMware Virtual Infrastructure provides many different capabilities to improve these processes each with its own advantages and disadvantages. Different environments favor different solutions. The flexibility provided by Virtual Infrastructure, allows ESX Server backup and restore procedures into the existing methodologies and procedures. Given the unique nature of VMware technology, though, new and more advantageous ways of approaching these critical tasks may present themselves. This paper describes what resources should be backed up on an ESX server and explains all the options available for that backup, including advantages and disadvantages of each option.

Further White Paper Details
Publisher	EMC	File Format	PDF
Date Published	November 2005	Downloads	120
Format	White Papers
Topics	Back-up, Disaster Recovery, Server Consolidation

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