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Basic principles of backup policiesNew!
by Andrea Mauro (vExpert, MCITP, VCDX)
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  • What is a backup policy
  • Design a backup plan
  • What defines a backup policy
  • Where do backups go
  • How will backups be performed
Physical vs Virtual BackupsNew!
by Rick Vanover (MCITP, vExpert, VCP)
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  • 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
Best practices for Hyper-V backups
by Greg Shields (MVP, vExpert)
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  • What, how, from where and with what to backup
  • VSS idiosyncrasies
  • Disk Types Impact Backups
  • Windows Server Backup
Data deduplication in virtualized environments
by Marc Crespi (Backup Academy contributor)
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  • What is Deduplication?
  • Why Use Deduplication in Backup and Recovery?
  • Challenges of Deduplication in Virtualized Environments
  • Deduplication approaches (two camps)
  • Summary ‒ Deduplication’s Role in Data Protection and Disaster Recovery
vSphere 5 Changes for Backups and Administration
by Rick Vanover (MCITP, vExpert, VCP)
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  • 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
Multi-site clustering for Hyper-V disaster recovery
by Greg Shields (MVP, vExpert)
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  • 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
Disaster recovery of VMware workloads
by David Davis (vExpert, CCIE, VCAP)
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  • Preparing for Disaster
  • Types of Disasters
  • RTO vs. RPO
  • VMware High Availability (VMHA)
  • VMware Fault Tolerance (FT)
  • VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM)
  • SRM Requirements
Best practices for VMware backups
by Rick Vanover (MCITP, vExpert, VCP)
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  • 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
VMware backup integrity tools
by Eric Siebert (vExpert)
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  • Why backup integrity is critical
  • Traditional backup verification methods
  • How virtualization makes verification easier
  • Quiescing is critical to consistency
  • VMware Tools is important
Restore capabilities of VMware backups
by Eric Siebert (vExpert)
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  • Data restore levels
  • Bare-metal restores
  • File-level restores
  • Application-level restores
Core technologies used for virtual machine backup
by Eric Siebert (vExpert)
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  • Virtual Environment Backup Methods
  • Virtual Machine Snapshots
  • Disk-to-Disk Backups
  • Volume Shadow Copy Service (VS
  • vStorage APIs
  • Data Deduplication
  • Data Compression
Why virtual machine backups are different
by David Davis (vExpert, CCIE, VCAP)
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  • 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
  • What is the Right Tool for the Job?
Backing up enterprise applications: Transaction consistency is key
by Elias Khnaser (vExpert)
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  • 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