Veeam Enhances VMWare Virtual Machine Recovery

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Veeam, a third-party supplier to the VMware environment, will be demonstrating this week at the VMworld show how virtual machine backup files can be used to quickly restore a failed VM. That may seem like what a backup file is supposed to do. But in fact, the slow and painstaking recovery process normally takes an hour or several hours to complete for a complicated server, such as a database system or Microsoft Exchange server. That's because backup files are placed on lower cost disks far removed from daily operations. The running VM depends on more expensive, higher speed storage area networks (SAN) or network-attached storage (NAS), tied directly to a virtualized host. Backup files are also stored in a different format from the original virtual machine, and for that reason, they are usually not a source of quick restoration.

Veeam Enhances VMWare Virtual Machine Recovery - InformationWeek