about 4 months ago - 4 comments
In the quiet days between Christmas and New Year, I had some time to research how DPM2012 SP1 performed with protecting guests on a Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V cluster using CSV v2.0. According to the SP1 release notes we can expect improved backup performance of Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V over CSV deployments with the following…
about 8 months ago - No comments
Altaro just launched Altaro Hyper-V Backup 3.5 with the following support: Windows Server 2012 Support, including support for VHDX files. Windows 2012: support for backup and restore of VMs located on SMB 3.0 network paths. Windows 2012: support for Volume Shadow Copies of SMB 3.0 network paths. Windows 2012: support for CSV 2.0 and scale-out…
about 9 months ago - 4 comments
Review of Altaro Hyper-V Backup 3.5 notice: Altaro are giving away two Nexus 7’s to testers of their Hyper-V backup for Windows Server 2012 beta. Check out all the details at the bottom of this blog Background The crew at Hyper-V.nu were offered a first glance of Altaro Hyper-V Backup back in May 2011. We…
about 1 year ago - No comments
I can recommend an interesting 2-part series of blogs which helps you get a better understanding of the theory behind successful backups. In the first blog on Altaro’s Hyper-V blog, VSS Crash-Consistent Backups are compared to Application-Consistent VSS Backups. When designing any IT solution, many administrators often consider “Backup” to be little more than another…
about 1 year ago - No comments
New Hyper-V Blog Altaro who introduced an easy to use backup product for Hyper-V in 2011, informed us they have just launched a new Hyper-V blog. Their first article goes into good detail about Hyper-V Dynamic Memory and can be found here: http://www.altaro.com/blog/hyper-v-dynamic-memory-explanation-and-recommendations-2/ Version 3 of Altaro Hyper-V Backup We can also announce that version…
about 1 year ago - No comments
UPDATE October 20th 2011: Here is a link to the video: http://t.co/v1xAMV6x On Tuesday, October 4th Technical Evangelists Symon Perriman and Rick Claus are hosting an online conference on Virtualization Career Training with Microsoft Learning. This half day virtual event (8am – 11am PST) will offer a Level 100 to 200 introduction for anyone who…
about 1 year ago - 1 comment
The beta of DPM 2012 is ready and available to the general public. Related to Hyper-V it is nice to know that DPM 2012 is fully supported in a Hyper-V virtual machine and that Item Level Recovery is now possible without having to add the Hyper-V Role to the DPM server as we had to…
about 1 year ago - No comments
Thanks to everyone who participated in the Altaro contest. I selected @zetacipher as the winner of the unlimited license for Altaro Hyper-V Backup. I will send the license as soon as I receive it from Altaro. Congratulations @zetacipher.
about 1 year ago - 10 comments
Back in May, Femi Adegoke reviewed an early beta version of Altaro Hyper-V Backup which was geared to easily backup & recover Hyper-V guests using the Hyper-V VSS Writer. Now Femi submitted his second guest blog focusing on how to protect guests in a clustered Hyper-V environment. By Femi Adegoke This is a follow up…
about 1 year ago - 1 comment
Today Sanbolic announced the availability of its latest version of its distributed clustered file system Melio version 3.5, which is currently the best available alternative for Hyper-V Cluster Shared Volumes. I have helped Sanbolic test and improve some of its earlier versions and was very impressed. Co-founder and CEO of Sanbolic, Momchil Michailov just informed…
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