Server virtualisation introduces a radically different approach to backing up data in the enterprise than simply using backup agents installed in the guest operating system and backing up VMs across ...

For the people that use VMware over NFS on a NetApp system, how do you handle consistent snapshots? And at what intervals? We are looking at a consistent snapshot every two hours for DR purposes but ...

I believe that a snapshot of a vmware virtual machine on esxi 5.x (and probably 4.x as well) can only grow as big as the original virtual machine, whereas my colleagues think they can grow bigger.