Virtual server backup and storage

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  • How to reduce storage requirements in virtual data centers

    As virtualization becomes widespread, storage demands have escalated, driving up costs while raising concerns about performance. The good news is that technologies and practices are available today that can help organizations reduce storage use and o...  E-Zine

  • Choosing the best storage network for virtualization

    No virtualization deployment is complete without a careful consideration of storage. Shared storage is often a minimum requirement. The real choice is between network-attached storage and other storage area network architectures such as Fibre Channel...  E-Zine

  • Backup strategies for virtual servers

    With the number of virtual machines increasing in the data center, backing up servers today has become much more than just copying data files. Take a look at how virtualization technologies have changed traditional backup strategies and examine some ...  E-Zine

  • Meeting the challenges of virtual system management

    Tracking and identifying virtual machines on physical hosts or sorting out the source of I/O bottlenecks requires administrators to do a lot of investigative work. Software management tools can help, but well developed business processes are also imp...  E-Zine

  • Rethinking virtual infrastructure network architecture

    New and emerging virtual networking technologies offer better options for deploying and managing virtual infrastructure networking. In the latest edition of Virtual Data Center, learn about the pros and cons of using virtualization as part of your di...  E-Zine

  • Understanding I/O bottlenecks throughout your physical architecture

    In our second installment of Virtual Data Center, Chris Wolf details the various I/O bottlenecks that can occur throughout your physical architecture and walks you through the currently available tools to identify and rectify those chokeholds. Then R...  E-Zine

  • virtual storage appliance (VSA)

    A virtual storage appliance (VSA) is a storage controller that runs on a virtual machine(VM) and turns a server into a data storage system.  Definition

About Virtual server backup and storage

Increasingly, virtual storage has become part of business continuity strategies for virtualized data centers. But should you use direct-attached storage (DAS), network-attached storage, Fibre Channel or iSCSI storage area networks (SANs)? What are the pros and cons of these methods in terms of cost, performance, ease of use and, most important, reliability? And what about the old traditional physical storage methods? In this section, we offer news, case studies, tutorials and step-by-step instruction on using virtual storage and backup. We consider network infrastructure, performance of various virtual storage technologies, hardware factors and networking technologies such as 10 Gigabit Ethernet's impact on virtual storage solutions. We also compare offerings from virtual storage providers to help you determine which virtual storage products are best suited to your virtualized infrastructure.