The VMware Data Recovery is an Agent-less disk based backup and recovery solution that can perform virtual machine or file level restores of Windows or Linux guess OS’s. It performs incremental backups plus data de-duplication and compression to save disk space. Data Recovery supports any disks that are accessible by the Data Recovery appliance. The disks could be in a VMFS volume or on shared disks such as NFS, DAS, iSCSI, Fiber, SMB\CIFS Shares.

All of this makes the solution very appealing for small to medium businesses, since they can now use cheaper storage solutions for the backup of virtual machines. Affordable NAS devices like, DroboPro, Thecus 7700N, etc, can be used for reliable backup devices. This product is not compatible with ESX/ESXi 3.x or vCenter 2.5 and older.

All of this makes the solution very appealing for small to medium businesses, since they can now use cheaper storage solutions for the backup of virtual machines. Affordable NAS devices like, DroboPro, Thecus 7700N, etc, can be used for reliable backup devices. This product is not compatible with ESX/ESXi 3.x or vCenter 2.5 and older.

Unlike VMware Consolidated Backup, which was a CLI or modular driven solution, this new solution is completely wizard driven, which makes it very easy to manage. Take a look at the demonstration below, and see how elegantly this solution works. You can also visit VMware’s Data Recovery page for more detailed information on this new solution.

This is just one of the many gifts that vSphere 4 undoubtedly has to offer. It looks like Santa has come early – over the next few months we’re going to have a lot of unwrapping to do.

VMware Data Recovery

Reference: http://www.punchingclouds.com/2009/04/26/new-virtual-machine-data-recovery-solution/