2. About the speaker 25 year IT industry veteran. vSphere Land blog: http://vmware-land.com/ Author of popular books Contributor to industry publications vExpert nomination
3. Agenda Why backup integrity is critical Traditional backup verification methods How virtualization makes verification easier Quiescing is critical to consistency VMware Tools is important
11. Restoring files is easy, applications or whole VM is complicatedNeed to ensure that VM backups are usable Good backup Non-production environment APP APP
15. Difficult with many server models and generationsEnsuring recoverability with legacy tools unfeasible Non-production environment Same App Backup Same Drivers Restore Same OS
16. Data Restore Levels 3 Different levels to backup and restore Image level File level Application item level Backup SQL record Restore