Backup.
- June 25, 2019
SLA-Based Backup Design for VMware Environments
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 …
- November 20, 2018
Veeam vs Rubrik: An Honest Comparison After Running Both
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 …
- June 11, 2018
Rubrik Backup for VMware: Why We Replaced Veeam
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, …
- November 30, 2015
XenServer Snapshot Gotchas: Why Snapshots Aren't Backups
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 …