Best Practice Guides
VMware VMbook - A Practical Guide to Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery with VMware Infrastructure
This VMware® VMbook focuses on business continuity and disaster recovery (BCDR) and is intended to guide the reader through the step-by-step process to set-up a multisite VMware Infrastructure that is capable of supporting BCDR services for designated virtual machines at time of test or during an actual event that necessitated the declaration of a disaster, resulting in the activation of services in a designated BCDR site.
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VMware HA: Concepts and Best Practices
This paper describes the use of VMware HA to system and server administrators and IT architects. The paper addresses the important details of the VMware HA architecture and expounds on configuration and implementation topics and how to avoid configuration issues.
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Resource Management with VMware DRS
This white paper provides an architectural and conceptual overview of VMware DRS and describes best practices for using DRS to simplify provisioning of applications, achieve higher levels of resource utilization, and better align use of IT resources with business priorities.
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Using VMware Infrastructure for Backup and Restore
This white paper describes what resources should be backed up on a VMware ESX system and explains the options available for that backup, including advantages and disadvantages of each option.
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Additional Resources
HCL: Backup Software Compatibility for VMware ESX
This Web page describes the specific backup software packages tested by VMware for use with VMware ESX.
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VMware Consolidated Backup: Improvements in Version 3.5
This paper describes the new features of VMware Consolidated Backup that was released for VMware Infrastructure, explaining each feature in depth with discussion on how customers can benefit with those features.
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Take the Next Step
Discover how to implement robust failover and load balancing along with robust backup and recovery, or learn more about using VMware HA and VMware Consolidated Backup for ensuring the availability of critical IT services and applications.
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