Tag: VMware

Lift and shift on-premises workloads to Microsoft Azure

The “lift and shift” is the procedure of moving on-premises workloads from e.g. VMware and Hyper-V to public clouds such as Azure, AWS, and GCP. This is a high-level overview guide.

Full control over your VMware and Hyper-V with Altaro VM Backup

Altaro VM Backup is a natural choice, a one-stop-shop for all your backup and recovery needs, providing backup and restore of your Hyper-V and VMware standalone or clustered virtual environments.

Backup and Restore Options in Altaro VM Backup

Altaro VM Backup supports you with the backup and restores strategy of your VMware and Hyper-V. You can backup your VM to an onsite and offsite location. It supports several restore options addressed in this article.

Convert VMDK to VHD(X) and run it on Hyper-V

Learn how to migrate VM from VMware to Hyper-V by converting VMDK to VHD(X) virtual disk. For that purpose, I use the tool Vmdk2Vhd.

Boot VM From Backup with Altaro VM Backup

Altaro VM Backup provides you with a feature called Boot from Backup. It allows you to instantly boot a backed up virtual machine for verification or for recovery purposes. The Boot from Backup drastically reduces RTOs (Recovery Time Objectives).

Restore VM as Clone with Altaro VM Backup

By using Altaro VM Backup you can restore your Hyper-V and VMware ESXi VM as a clone and run it side by side with the original VM on the same host. The original guest VM will not be overwritten.

Exchange Granular Restore with Altaro VM Backup

Did you ever experience a case where you only need to restore the Exchange mailbox database from a non-bootable Exchange server and not an entire VM? By using the Exchange Granular Restore feature within Altaro VM Backup, you can do it in a just few minutes.

File Granular Restore with Altaro VM Backup

Did you ever experience a case where you only need to restore files from a non-bootable Hyper-V or VMware VM and not an entire VM? By using the File Granular Restore feature within Altaro VM Backup, you can restore your data in a just few minutes. Learn how to do it.

Delivering cloud to your data center with VMware Cloud on Dell EMC

VMware and Dell jointly engineer the second generation of VMware Cloud on Dell EMC. It´s fully racked and preconfigured SDDC delivered and installed at your data center or edge location. You focus on your VMs, and VMware takes care of your underlying hardware and software layer.

Backup VMware VMs to Synology and Amazon S3

Altaro VM Backup can backup your VMware VMs to Synology NAS and Amazon S3 in just a few steps. It provides Augmented Inline Deduplication which dramatically reduces storage requirements for your backup repository by creating the smallest backup size.

PowerCLI: An Aspiring Automator’s Guide

Automating vSphere is particularly useful for countless applications and the best way is through PowerCLI – a version of PowerShell developed specifically for VMware. Learn how to develop your own PowerCLI scripts with this free 100+ page eBook from Altaro.