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In my first two blogs, the discussions have been around using native format for amazing fast restores and for booting VMs remotely, all without actually needing the backup application. In this final post I will explore how native format can provide “future proof flexibility.”

When I hear this term, I am always reminded of the Best Buy commercial where consumers are constantly, and humorously, reminded of the fast pace of technology. If you are like me, having something new and shiny is always nice, however, life gets in the way and we need to spend our finances elsewhere. The same goes for our IT budgets.

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As you may have seen, on Wednesday, we announced that MDOP 2013 is now available and detailed the new updates and features made to Microsoft BitLocker Administration and Monitoring (MBAM). But some of you might be saying, “What about Microsoft User Experience Virtualization (UE-V), and Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V) 5.0? What is updated in these products?”

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If you had the chance to read my first blog in this series, you will remember that vmPRO is the only backup application that writes data in native format, which can guarantee fast restores using vmPRO GUI or a standard file browser with easy drag and drop functionality.

In this post, the second of this three-part series, I will cover how the native backup format can help transform your disaster recover (DR) strategy by booting VMs and restoring files remotely (no matter the target device — disk, tape or cloud) all without actually using the backup application.

I was talking with a customer the other day and he mentioned that he uses Veeam, but finds their restore process for VMs and files to be a bit cumbersome. After all, the beauty of VMs is that they are supposed to simplify our lives, not over complicate them. This whole notion of needing to rehydrate the VM, stage the VM, power on the VM, and then find the file you need to restore is so 2011.

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I love talking to customers about their VM backup challenges. One of the most exciting topics for me is the native file format capability of Quantum’s vmPRO. In this three part series, I’ll talk about three reasons you’re going to love backing up your VMs in native file format.

While proprietary formats have been the norm in the storage industry, as technologies and data access requirements are evolving, customers no longer need to settle for this traditional method.

Think about how native format works when it comes to simple data transfer and storage. For example, when you want to protect your precious digital pictures and store them on a thumb drive or USB hard drive, you simply drag and drop the files to the device. When you want to restore them, you simply plug the device into your computer and drag and drop the files back to your system. vmPRO takes that simplified concept and applies it to the business-class level with virtual data. Why over-complicate things?

3 Reasons to Love vmPRO’s Native File Format

MCA Tips Feed. Using hypervisor-based virtualization and Oracle Solaris Zones with network virtualization plus network resource management enables a whole range of network-based architectures. This article describes what's involved in using network resource management in conjunction with hypervisors, containers, and zones in an internal virtual network.

Direct link: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/articles/servers-storage-admin/network...

MCA Tips Feed. You can use Oracle Solaris Cluster to create high-availability clusters of logical domains in two ways: by simply configuring the logical domains as a cluster, or by setting up Oracle Solaris Cluster inside the control domain of Oracle VM Server for SPARC. The second approach offers significant benefits, as described here.

Direct link: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/articles/servers-storage-admin/howto-c...

MCA Tips Feed. Apache Hadoop helps you process large amounts of data on multiple computers that are clustered together. Oracle Solaris zones are easy to clone and manage as a cluster. Oracle Solaris 11 has great network virtualization capabilities. Orgad walks you through all the steps required to combine these three technologies into an easy to manage big data cluster.

Direct link: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/articles/servers-storage-admin/howto-s...

MCA Tips Feed. You can use Oracle Solaris Cluster to create high-availability clusters of logical domains in two ways: by simply configuring the logical domains as a cluster, or by setting up Oracle Solaris Cluster inside the control domain of Oracle VM Server for SPARC. The second approach offers significant benefits, as described here.

Direct link: http://www-content.oracle.com/technetwork/articles/servers-storage-admin...

MCA Tips Feed. When you have one person in one phone booth, life is simple. But when you fit 25 college students into one phone booth, you have resource management challenges. Not to mention security risks. Same goes for virtualization. Detlef explains how resource management can help.

Direct link: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/articles/servers-storage-admin/resourc...

MCA Tips Feed. If you run out of space in your VirtualBox image, use the VBoxManage command to make it bigger, and tell the host OS partition that it has more space to use. The Fat Bloke explains how.

Direct link: https://blogs.oracle.com/fatbloke/entry/growing_your_virtualbox_virtual_...