VMware vSphere Data Recovery: Overview and Deployment

Overview

One of the new features in vSphere is the Data Back and Recovery feature. It is provisioned as a virtual machine within your vSphere environment and integrates with the vCenter server to give you fully centralized management of your backups.

VMware Data Recovery Offerings

• VMware Data Recovery is included in vSphere Enterprise Plus, Advanced, and Essentials Plus Editions.
• VMware Data Recovery can also be purchased a la carte with vSphere Standard Edition.

There is a great site that I am going to refer to that descibes how to set this up and deply within your VMWare Environment. I am also in the process of evaluating Veeam v5 ( http://www.veeam.com/vmware-esx-backup.html )> I have been very satisfied with the results of previous Veeam installations, but this is not free:)

VMWare vSphere Data Recovery Links
http://www.petri.co.il/vmware-vsphere-data-recovery.htm
http://www.petri.co.il/vmware-data-recovery-backup-and-restore.htm

This is a great site for many areas in Virtualization!!