WHITE PAPER - This paper provides general information for using Data Domain deduplication storage systems to backup virtual machines deployed with VMware Infrastructure 3 (VI3). Topics include an overview of VI3 components and various methods of backing up data in VMDK images and Guest OS files for discrete recovery - either locally or remotely in a DR site.
Posted: March 14, 2009 | Published: January 1, 2008


Topics:  Data Recovery | Data Replication | Disaster Recovery | SAN | Server Virtualization | Storage Best Practices | Storage Consolidation | Storage Virtualization | VMware

WHITE PAPER - VMware offers benefits, but it can cost you extra storage, backup resources and administrative challenges. This paper reviews the best practices for architecting a backup/recovery/DR approach for VMware using Data Domain storage.
Posted: June 19, 2008 | Published: January 1, 2008


Topics:  Data Recovery | Data Replication | Disaster Recovery | SAN | Server Virtualization | Storage Best Practices | Storage Consolidation | Storage Virtualization | VMware

WHITE PAPER - This whitepaper explores the limitations of tape and traditional disk-based approaches to disaster recovery. It highlights the advantages of deduplication technology in disk-to-disk backup and wide area network (WAN) replication. It also discusses the positive implications of deduplication for remote office backup and tape consolidation.
Posted: August 30, 2007 | Published: September 29, 2008


Topics:  Capacity Planning | Content Archiving | Continuous Data Protection | Disaster Recovery | Disk-to-Disk Backup | Storage Best Practices | Storage Capacity | Storage Consolidation | Tape Backups | WAN