Today is the time when virtualization becomes a new paradigm of the modern computing world. The idea of virtualization suddenly opened a way for massive virtual implementations, as if under the motto “Virtualize or Die”. This fast-developing trend inevitably brought data protection issues of its own, just like it was with hardware environments before
Once you have your VMware virtual infrastructure in place, the issue of your data protection would hardly leave the scene with VM backup as its primary element. What are the challenges and choices? There are a lot of things to consider and too little space in this post to discuss them, but our general advice for you is to follow VMware backup best practices to build your own data protection system.