Archive for 'Backup'

Advanced vDR Configuration

After you’ve spent the time installing VMware Data Recovery (vDR), you may find that some of the defaults do not work well. Some of these, like the retention policies are an easy change. Others, like the behavior of the vDR appliance, however, are a bit more difficult. To that end, you can create a datarecovery.ini [...]

Few, More, Many – vDR Retention Policy Autopilot

I likely should have started with a post or two about vDR (VMware Data Recovery), what it is, and how to install it. Instead, I’ll point you to some of the docs on those: Info & Installing. The installing guide is especially recommended after I spent a few days unsuccessfully installing vDR (Hint: Use the [...]

New VCB Front End – VCB Management Console 1.06 beta

Still cleaning out my feed reader after having slacked for a few days, and came across this gem on Yellow-Bricks:

I’ll have to give this a test shortly to see how well it performs. Woot!

SRM In A Box – Setup Guide

Thomas at Tandem wrote a wonderful PDF on setting up Site Recovery Manager using the Netapp Simulator.
PDF Can be downloaded here

Free ESX and ESXi Backups – Trilead VM Explorer

Trilead VM Explorer is a management tool that eases management, backup and disaster recovery tasks in your VMware ESX Server environment. You get maximum flexibility: backups can be stored to ESX, Windows, Linux and FreeBSD based storage platforms or directly to a SAN. Our newest edition even has beta support for the ESX 3i server.
The [...]

Old News: ESX 3.5 Update 3

So, this is a bit of old news, and you have likely heard it from no fewer than thirty other places so far, but I feel I need to chime in too.

ESX 3.5 update 3 is now available!

The release notes mention a pretty cool feature that’s been added, that will help make life quite a [...]