The portability of systems provided by virtualization opens up new and innovative ways to protect application workloads. Quest takes advantage of these modern mechanisms to provide enhanced levels of backup and disaster recovery for VMware Infrastructure 3. Quest provides a two-tier approach to protecting virtualization workloads. First, regular checkpoints of virtual machines may be taken to provide point-in-time recovery points of entire virtual systems. Using advanced functionality such as enhanced compression and differential technology, backup archives are captured as fast as possible and require the minimal amount of secondary storage. The second approach is to perform regular differential copies to an alternate ESX Server at a remote location to provide regular recovery points that a virtual system may fail over to in the worst case scenario. The two business continuity approaches compliment each other by protecting workloads against both corruption and failure. For more details about Quest’s business continuity solutions please visit http://www.vizioncore.com/vRangerPro.html. |