vSphere Data Protection (VDP) is a robust, simple to deploy, disk-based backup and recovery solution. VDP is fully integrated with the VMware vCenter Server and enables centralized and efficient management of backup jobs while storing backups in de duplicated destination storage locations. The benefits of vSphere Data Protection (VDP) are as follows: Provides fast and… Read More »
Symantec NetBackup is my favourite enterprise-level backup software. Why? At first, NetBackup is a heteregenous software supporting Windows, Unix/Linux servers as a client but also a backup server (Master/Media Server). The second, NetBackup features for VMware work good. All NetBackup administrators or consultants know that Catalog is a heart of NetBackup. A NetBackup catalog is… Read More »
As I mentioned in the previous article Netbackup Accelerator is a powerfull feature for VMware backups. In this article I will show how to use the feauture in Netbackup. At first please ensure that CBT is enabled on virtual machines. To check/enable CBT in a virtual machine: Note: Ensure that you power off the virtual… Read More »