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Using vSphere Changed Block Tracking with EMC Networker Backup

March 3, 2014April 12, 2014Lauren MalhoitBlogsLeave a comment

Changed Block Tracking (CBT) is a feature that has been around for a while within VMware virtual machines. CBT is available if you’re running ESX 4.0 or higher with hardware version 7 or higher on the VM. Basically, VMware can keep track of disk sectors that have changed since the last backup. When that VM is backed…

Install and configure VMware vSphere Data Protection

September 3, 2013April 12, 2014Lauren MalhoitBlogsLeave a comment

VMware has worked on improving its native backup over the past couple of years. VMware now has vSphere Data Protection (VDP), which is very similar to EMC Avamar Virtual Edition. VDP includes both image level and file level recovery. These are several of the features included with VDP as noted in the Administration Guide (PDF): To read more click here.