Most VMware backup configurations I inherit were built by someone who configured jobs, set a retention period, and moved on. There’s no formal connection between what the backup policy does and what the business actually requires. SLA-based backup design makes that connection explicit — and it makes conversations about backup adequate or inadequate into evidence-based … Read more
I’ve deployed Veeam Backup & Replication and Rubrik for different clients over the past several years, sometimes migrating from one to the other for the same organization. The comparison isn’t as simple as “Rubrik is newer so it must be better” — it genuinely depends on your environment’s characteristics. Veeam’s Strengths Veeam is software you … Read more
Rubrik entered the backup market around 2014-2015 with a fundamentally different architecture than traditional backup software: a purpose-built hardware/software appliance with a policy-driven, SLA-based management model. When I first deployed it for a client in 2017, it solved problems I’d been working around in Veeam for years. It also introduced some new operational considerations. The … Read more
Snapshots are the most misunderstood feature in virtualization. On XenServer, the confusion is compounded by the fact that snapshots look useful for backup purposes and are easy to take. Let me save you from the mistake. What a XenServer Snapshot Actually Is A snapshot in XenServer freezes the state of a VM’s virtual disk at … Read more