Backup Exec Feature Pack 5 from a Management Perspective
On August 2nd, Veritas released Feature Pack 5 for Backup Exec introducing a new technology called “Instant Recovery”. This technology allows administrators to stand up a virtual machine directly from a backup taken with Backup Exec. There are quite a lot articles on the Web that describe that feature and its benefits from a technical point of view. But how can it help companies from a financial and/or management perspective? Every company has to save costs and IT budgets are often one of the first to be cut down. Especially when it comes to setting up a test environment, many IT departments are kept on a short leash. Nevertheless, business continuity and disaster recovery possibilities are in everyone’s mind.
Nuts and bolts in NetBackup for VMware: Under the hood view of NetBackup Instant Recovery for VMware
NetBackup Instant Recovery for VMware enables you to boot up and run multiple virtual machines directly from backup image. As far as the end user of the virtual machine is concerned, there is no functional difference between an instance of VM run from production storage or the one run from NetBackup backup storage.Enhancing resiliency for Instant Recovery
Now not just instant, but also resilient. The Enhanced Resiliency for Instant Recovery increases the data and application availability of virtual machines that are instantly recovered. This improves business continuity in case the Backup Exec server or the Hyper-V server must be restarted.
