Recently I have received some questions about supporting VMware by backup solutions such Veritas NetBackup, EMC Networker etc. so I decided to write a short post to answer. Almost backups solutions use VDDK to protect VMs on VMware. What is VDDK? The Virtual Disk Development Kit (VDDK) is a collection of C/C++ libraries, code samples, utilities, and documentation… Read More »
Symantec has just released the newest version of NetBackup - 7.6.1. There are some new features for VMware backups: NetBackup Plug-in for VMware vSphere Web Client The plug-in allows virtualization administrators to access the following functionality directly from within the vSphere Web Client administration console: Monitoring and reporting of VM backups Self-service restores of VMs To deploy and… Read More »
As described here, NetBackup provides nice features to protect VMware. In the previous article here, I showed how to create a VMware policy in NetBackup. Therefore, in this article we discuss how to restore VMs because NetBackup provides an powerfull interface/tool to perform restores. NetBackup supports the following scenarios: Restore the full VMware virtual machine Restore individual files… Read More »
