Instantly Available: Backup Exec™ 15 Feature Pack 5
Recover Instantly with Instant Recovery for VMware and Hyper-V Virtual Machines!Backup to Hybrid Cloud with Private, Hosted and Public Cloud Storage options!Protect Microsoft SQL Server 2016, Exchange 2016 CU2 and much more7.7KViews10likes8CommentsEnhancing 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.6.7KViews2likes0CommentsBackup 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.4.2KViews7likes1CommentVMware Instant Recovery - ESXi resolving Media Server
Media Server is also the Backup Host: Windows Server 2008 R2 with NetBackup 8.0 ESXi: vSphere 5.5 Symptom: Instant Recovery for VMware fails with NetBackup Job Status 130 (regular VMware backups & restores were ok). Troubleshooting NFS shows the VMware message: "Operation failed, diagnostics report: Unable to resolve hostname '<MediaServer_hostname>'" associated to the VMware task "Create NAS datastore". Workaround: We added the Media Server name in the /etc/hosts file in the ESXi. Instant Recovery worked immediatly after this. My question: Do the ESXi always need to resolve the NetBackup Servers for Instant Recovery to work? I know the documentation recommends that the ESXi name should be published in the DNS (always a good VMware practice), but I didn't knew the ESXi themselves had to locally resolve the Master/Media/Backup-hosts servers too. I try not to touch the ESXi configuration, if possible.Solved1.6KViews0likes1CommentNuts 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.884Views3likes0Comments