Server Virtualization is one of the most disruptive technologies that has hit the industry the past 20 years. Arguably, the only thing that comes to it, is the transition from Mainframes to Open Systems.
That said, server virtualization also presents some challenges that require customers to re-think their infrastructures because some things tend to become challenging. Backup and Recovery is an example of that.
Server Virtualization challenges that I/O limitations of Physical servers and can introduce new bottlenecks which can make it rather difficult to backup the large amounts of data now residing on the physical. Although traditional backup methods have served us well for years, unfortunately, in server virtualization environments don't scale particularly well, never mind that in some cases, they contradict the most basic values of server virtualization technology.
Continuing our integration theme with various server virtualization technologies, today i'm going to show you what we're doing in order to accelerate Backup and Recovery of Virtual Machines in Microsoft Hyper-V R2 environments and do so in manner where we do not impact the performance of the VM, the physical server host itself or the array.
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