Veeam Backup & Replication v7– 2 new features

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Today Veeam announced 2 more features in flagship Backup & Replication v7.0. The new version now contains 9 new awesome features: Enhanced Backup & Recovery for vCloud Director Using the vCD API, Veeam will display the vCD infrastructure directly in Veeam Backup & Replication™, backup all vApp metadata and attributes, restore vApps and VMs directly to vCD, and support restore of fast-provisioned VMs. vSphere Web Client Monitor backups and backup … [Read more...]

Newcomer Nakivo Backup & Replication to the Cloud

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Nakivo Backup & Replication is in it’s final stages of releasing version 2.0, with the general release due Jan 16, 2013. With this VM-only backup product, Nakivo is looking to make a space in a market where competitors such as Veeam Software, PHD, UniTrends Enterprise Backup and Trilead already have gained a lot of name for themselves. Today I had a good chat with them and I must say it looks impressive. They offer a great deal of features for half the industry price (I think they mean … [Read more...]

Veeam Backup & Replication v6.5 is now available

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What’s New in 6.5? E-discovery and item recovery for Exchange Version 6.5 introduces Veeam Explorer™ for Microsoft Exchange, which provides instant visibility into backups of Exchange Server 2010 virtual machines (VMs). Browse, search and selectively restore items (emails, notes, contacts, etc.) directly from Veeam backups, replicas, and HP StoreVirtual VSA and LeftHand snapshots. Restore from SAN snapshots Version 6.5 also introduces Veeam Explorer for SAN Snapshots, which … [Read more...]

in the test: Trilead VM Explorer 4.0

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Trilead VM Explorer 4 has been released and I have been asked to do a product review. Since the new version 4.0 the product has Hyper-V support. Top Features Easy to install and use Simple pricing Multi hypervisor support Job Scheduler Full and Incremental Backups Replication Trilead VM Explorer comes in one file (size 14Mb). My installation took only a few seconds (the setup requires .NET 4.0 and was already installed in my case).  The default screen provides you … [Read more...]

In the test: PHD Virtual Backup for VMware v5.4

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I was asked to review the new release of PHD Virtual Backup for VMware. PHD Virtual is not a new company to me. I evaluated their backup solution back when it was called esXpress in the ESX3.x days. My Environment My lab environment consist of 2 HP XW9400 Workstations each equipped with both 2 AMD CPU’s and 16 GB of RAM. Both servers connect with 2x 1Gb Ethernet to my QNAP 4 SATA disks running shared iSCSI storage . Obviously things would perform a bit nicer in a production environment but … [Read more...]

Veeam released Backup & Replication v6.1

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Today Veeam released the 6.1 version of their flagship product Backup & Replication. Download here New key Features of 6.1: There is a FREE Edition! – Capable of doing Full Backups of running VMs, restore whole VM/VM File/Guest File, compression, NO incrementals. VeeamZIP Version 6.1 includes a new capability for performing ad-hoc backups. In many ways, it functions like a zip utility for VMs. For this reason, it’s called VeeamZIP™. Instant VM Recovery for Hyper-V. New … [Read more...]