For the people that use VMware over NFS on a NetApp system, how do you handle consistent snapshots? And at what intervals? We are looking at a consistent snapshot every two hours for DR purposes but ...

Disk snapshots are one of the best data-protection mechanisms available in the data center today. Whether it’s a SAN-based snapshot technology or one built into your file system or operating system, ...

Gabrie van Zanten is a virtualization consultant and runs the VMware blog at GabesVirtualWorld.com. Wouldn't it be nice to go back in time when something goes wrong? IT staff in virtual environments ...

Looking at people’s VMWare implementations, the most common problem I see is people who run on snapshots for an extended period of time. And by that I mean months. This can cause downtime issues for ...

I run a ZFS Nas at home and have just bought additional hardware for a KVM hypervisor. The plan is to run VMs on a ZVOL shared to the hypervisor machine. If I want to create snapshots there are a ...

Server virtualisation introduces a radically different approach to backing up data in the enterprise than simply using backup agents installed in the guest operating system and backing up VMs across ...

Snapshots of a desktop virtual machine are good for short-term convenience, but they're not a great tool for long-term desktop backup because they can accrue serious performance issues over time. One ...

Although you shouldn't use snapshots as backups, snapshots do ensure that you can restore to a specific VM state in a short-term scenario. When you use PowerCLI, you can create snapshots for many VMs ...

HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--opvizor just launched a new product called “Snapwatcher” to discover any hidden, invalid or broken snapshots in VMware in order to free up more disk space. “81% of all VMware ...

ANN ARBOR, Mich.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--VergeIO, the Ultraconverged Infrastructure (UCI) company, today announced the launch of IOclone, a new solution that solves the virtualization snapshot problem ...