Last November, Altaro released a new version – version 8, of their solution to backup virtual machines. Eight versions in nine years prove Altaro’s continuous effort to offer a mature product used by more than 40,000 clients and globally recognized. In two of my previous posts, I emphasized main features… Continue reading
Some time ago we reviewed Altaro backup 6.0. It was first edition to support VMware, a flexible architecture, easy to install and use. Considering its affordable price, these were good reasons to choose Altaro over other solutions. Altaro developers worked hard meanwhile; the product has reached version 7.6 and its… Continue reading
Situation: we are in a cloud environment using bare metal servers installed with VMware vSphere, VMware vSAN and VMware NSX. Cloud Backup is a topic of this article and architecture decision was made in a way to have a possibility to restore servers immediately in case of VMware vSAN failure.… Continue reading
Altaro, a small company offering backup solutions targeted towards SMBs and focused primarily on Microsoft Hyper-V Server, just made a step forward and added VMware support. I had an opportunity to test the beta version of the new VMware backup solution and here are my 5 reasons why I like Altaro solution… Continue reading
New issue was discovered which may result in corrupted backups leveraging vSphere CBT (Change Block Tracking) for incremental backups. Basically all backup products which use VMware API for Backups ( Virtual Disk Development Kit (VDDK) )are affected. This issue occurs when you expand a virtual disk vmdk file which has… Continue reading
