by Joe Gleinser
25. January 2010 21:39
Petri reviews the new VMWare vSphere Data Recovery feature in a recent post. Most important to note is that there is added support for VSS for Windows VMs, no tape drive support and no agent/plugin support for SQL, Exchange, etc. This highlights one of the advantages Microsoft's Hyper-V has in comparison to VMWare, Microsoft's Data Protection Manager (DPM). DPM is a mature, reliable backup software that offers tape support, VSS support, Exchange/SQL/Sharepoint agents and DPM-to-DPM replication. Now DPM Server is not included in Microsoft's System Center Server Management Suite Enterprise or Datacenter. However all agents for DPM are included. For another $600 you get a complete backup application.