Corral Virtual Server Backup
by Storage Magazine

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Published on: 10/01/2008
Type of content: White Paper
Format: Adobe Acrobat (.pdf)
Length: 4
Price: FREE

Overview
There are several ways to back up VMware servers depending on whether the servers are running VMware Server or VMware ESX Server. In this excerpt from his new book Backup & Recovery: Inexpensive Backup Solutions for Open Systems, W. Curtis Preston writes about the advantages and disadvantages of the various methods. Preston also tells how to use bare-metal recovery to migrate to VMware, and how he turned 25 very old physical servers into "one very nice VMware server."

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