For the next four days, I will be living and breathing four letters – VADP.
Introduced in vStorage 4 through today's vStorage 5.1 … the VMware-parts of my brain revolve around the VMware APIs for Data Protection (VADP). VADP is a big part of what enables Vmware configurations to be backed up and (hopefully) recovered.
While not new this year, protection of virtualized environments continues to be a challenge. In fact, in ESG’s 2012 IT Spending Intentions Research Report, “Improve Data Backup” and “Increase Server Virtualization” tied as the #1 priority for 2012. Over the course of the week, I will be looking at anything new that happens to mention “VADP.”
But that isn’t all. I am admittedly passionate about private Ccoud – in part because all of the protection and resilience technology in the world can’t assure the reliability of a virtualized infrastructure if the physical building blocks are unreliable (and in part, because I am a somewhat-reformed old-school server and storage guy). My friend and colleague Mark Bowker is ESG’s primary voice on virtualization and he’s done some great stuff on Virtualization Converged Infrastructures (VCI) or what I just call “vBuilding Blocks” – which affect reliability, which makes it interesting to a data protection guy like me.
So, I’ll be living and breathing VADP and VCI topics … and fill in the gaps with ‘cloud’ and hanging out with friends that are at VMworld this week (and I hope to share my perspectives via blog over the week). To get that started:
| As part of VMworld 2012 week, ESG just launched a new microsite that, after a free registration, provides access to quite a bit of cool content across ESG. | ESG microsite | |
| I also just recorded a 4-minute video on “What should IT Pros look for in Virtualization Protection” | what-it-pros-should-look-for-in-virtualization-protection/index.html" target="_blank" title="ESG Video - What IT Pro's should look for in Virtualization Protection">Virtualization Protection (video) | |
| And I wrote an IT Pro brief discussing the difference between “Guest/Agent-Based Backups” and “Host-Based Backups that are Agent-Assisted,” which you can download here. | Host-based Backup Considerations (brief) |
So, lots going on this week, and I hope to share much of it with you.
If you are at VMworld and want to talk backup … ping @JBuff on twitter
As always, thanks for reading.
