backup academy podcast

In this Backup Academy podcast David Hill (vExpert) covers the following topics:

• Business Requirements
• VMware vCloud Director Architecture
• Virtual Data Centers
• Allocation Models
• Networking
• And much more!

Watch this session and learn more at http://www.backupacademy.com/vmware-vcloud-director-how-it-works.html

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In this new session Rick Vanover tells whow to do your VM backup wrong and describing the top mistakes in the the following areas:

• backup types
• consistency levels
• capacity calculations
• restore expectations
• and more!

Learn more and watch this session at http://www.backupacademy.com/how-to-do-vm-backup-wrong-top-mistakes.html

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In this new session Brien Posey explains what are the new features and updates in Hyper-V R3, including:

PowerShell Management

• Memory Balooning
• Live Migrations (beyond the cluster, shared nothing Live Migration)
• Failover Clustering
• Storage Migrations
• Hyper-V Replica
• Virtual Fibre Channel
• NIC Teaming
• Offload datacenter and more!

Learn more and watch this session at http://www.backupacademy.com/hyper-v-3-0-whats-new-windows-server-2012.html

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In this Backup Academy podcast Chris Henley talks about:

• Hyper-V VM architecture
• VSS process
• Changed Block Tracking
• Forward incremental backup
• Increment injection
• Synthetic backup
• Reversed incremental backup
• How replication works

Learn more and watch this session at http://www.backupacademy.com/backup-strategies-for-hyper-v.html

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In this Backup Academy podcast Andrea Mauro (vExpert) covers the following topics:

• What is a backup policy
• Design a backup plan
• What defines a backup policy
• Where do backups go
• How will backups be performed

Watch this session and alearn more at http://www.backupacademy.com/basic-principles-backup-policies.html

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In this Backup Academy podcast Marc Crespi from Exagrid covers Deduplication topic from A to Z:

• What is Deduplication?
• Why Use Deduplication in Backup and Recovery?
• Challenges of Deduplication in Virtualized Environments
• Deduplication approaches (two camps)
• Deduplication’s Role in Data Protection and Disaster Recovery

Learn more and watch this session at http://www.backupacademy.com/data-deduplication-virtualized-environments.html

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In this Backup Academy podcast Greg Shields (vExpert) covers the following topics:

• What, how, from where and with what to backup
• VSS idiosyncrasies
• Disk Types Impact Backups
• Windows Server Backup

Learn more and watch this session at http://www.backupacademy.com/best-practices-hyper-v-backups.html

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In this Backup Academy podscast Greg Shields (vExpert) explains:

• What makes a disaster
• Multi-Site Hyper-V vs Single-Site Hyper-V
• Constructing Site-Proof Hyper-V
• Replication Processing Location
• Target Servers and a Cluster
• Multi-Site Cluster and Quorums
• Multi-Site Cluster Tips/Tricks

Get more details and watch more sessions by Greg at http://www.backupacademy.com/multi-site-clustering-hyper-v-disaster-recovery.html

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In this Backup Academy podcast Rick Vanover (vExpert) covers the following topics:

• How backups for physical systems work
• How backups for virtual machines work
• What frameworks are available for backups
• How restore situations are impacted
• Service catalogs and virtualization’s impact
• Opportunities by platform
• Considerations for licensing, management and administration

Watch this session and get more details at http://www.backupacademy.com/physical-vs-virtual-backups.html

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In this Backup Academy podcast Rick Vanover (vExpert)  talks about:

• VMware vSphere 5
• Major changes in scale
• Virtual machine hardware version 8
• Major changes in storage
• Storage DRS
• VDDK 5
• VMFS-5
• New version of HA
• How backups are impacted with vSphere 5

Watch this session and more session by Rick Vanover at http://www.backupacademy.com/vsphere-5-changes-backup-and-administration.html

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In this Backup Academy podcast Rick Vanover (vExpert) covers the follwoing topics:

• Backup requirements and how-to
• Difference-making technologies
• Considerations of image-based backups
• Virtual machine design and provisioning
• Organization of backups
• Ensuring application consistency
• Testing recoverability
• Considerations for multiple OSes and applications
• Retention, availability and integrity

Get more details on this topiс and watch video at http://www.backupacademy.com/best-practices-vmware-backups.html

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In this Backup Academy podcast David Davis (vExpert) talks about:

• Preparing for Disaster
• Types of Disasters
• RTO vs. RPO
• VMware High Availability (VMHA)
• VMware Fault Tolerance (FT)
• VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM)
• SRM Requirements

Watch this session and learn more at http://www.backupacademy.com/disaster-recovery-vmware-workloads.html

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In this Backup Academy podcast presented by David Davis (vExpert) you will hear about:

• Hardware Independence
• Image Level vs. File Level Backups
• Change Block Tracking (CBT)
• New Possibilities With VM Backups – Fast Restore, Replication, Virtual Lab, and more
• Traditional Backup Doesn’t Understand Virtualization

Learn more about this session at http://www.backupacademy.com/why-virtual-machine-backups-different.html

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In this Backup Academy podcast Eric Siebert covers the following topics:

• Why backup integrity is critical
• Traditional backup verification methods
• How virtualization makes verification easier
• Quiescing is critical to consistency
• VMware Tools is important

Learn more about this session at http://www.backupacademy.com/vmware-backup-integrity-tools.html

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In this Backup Academy podcast you will hear Eric Siebert (vExpert) talking about:

• Virtual Environment Backup Methods
• Virtual Machine Snapshots
• Disk-to-Disk Backups
• Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS)
• vStorage APIs
• Data Deduplication
• Data Compression

Lear more about this topic and wahtch video at http://www.backupacademy.com/core-technologies-vm-backups.html

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In this Backup Academy Podcast Elias Khnaser (vEpxert) is talking about:

• What Is Volume Shadow Copy Services (VSS)?
• Why VSS?
• VSS Components
• Native Operating System VSS Backup
• VMware vSphere 4.x Backups
• Agent Assisted VSS Aware Backups
• How Volume Shadow Copies Are Created
• Agent Assisted VSS Aware Restore

You can watch this video (transcription available) at http://www.backupacademy.com/backing-up-enterprise-applications-transaction-consistency.html

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In this Backup Academy podcast  Eric Siebert (vExpert) covers:

• Data restore levels
• Bare-metal restores
• File-level restores
• Application-level restores

Watch this session and learn more at http://www.backupacademy.com/restore-capabilities-vmware-backups.html

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In this episode Rick Vanover, most frequent contributor and one of the creators of Backup Academy explains why Backup Academy is a great community resourse for both getting started with virtualization and those who are already familiar with  virtualization technology.

Backup Academy’s goal is to help you become a virtual machine backup expert, so you can better meet the challenges of this changing environment. Backup Academy’s educational content is brought to you by renowned virtualization industry experts.

Explore all the videos, professors and free certification at http://www.backupacademy.com/.

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