Data Protection: Ensuring Data Availability
In 2013 I undertook the endeavour to revisit some of the topics from my first book, “Enterprise Systems Backup and Recovery: A Corporate…
Tag: Virtualisation
Virtualised servers and storage nodes
A little over 5 years ago now, I wrote an article titled, Things not to virtualise: backup servers and storage nodes. It’s long…
Testing (and debugging) an emergency restore
A few days ago I had some spare time up my sleeve, and I decided to test out the Emergency…
Spy vs Agent
Since VMware entered the server space, a simple problem has plagued backup administrators: Backup via a client installed in the VM? or…
The problem with VADP
Virtualisation. It’s a fantastic blade to wield through a datacentre. Sweeping and scything, whole racks of equipment are reduced to…
Technology is not the solution
Earlier in the year, I wrote a post, “Technology is rarely the issue“. In that post, I said: As techos…
Survey – Virtual Backup Servers
I have to admit, I have great personal reservations towards virtualising backup servers. There’s a simple, fundamental reason for this:…
Virtualisation and testing
Once upon a time, if you said to someone “do you have a test environment?” there was at least a…
What’s missing with thin provisioning?
I’m stepping out of my normal NetWorker zone here to briefly discuss what I think is a fundamental flaw with…
First thoughts – VMware Fusion 3 vs Parallels Desktop v5
As an employee of an EMC partner, I periodically get access to nifty demos as VMs. Unfortunately these are usually…