Mastering: Hyper-V™ Deployment

Chapter 10

Data Protection and Recovery

Data protection and recovery is a very specialized skill, which is often carried out by dedicated storage experts. This is even more applicable in a virtualized environment because data protection and recovery adds an additional level of complexity into the mix when you're designing your virtualized infrastructure.

When you are considering how you will ultimately protect your environment, you will need to consider a total protection strategy.

Data protection is now required at potentially two levels. The first is at the host level, and this may be because you are solely responsible for the infrastructure and not the applications that run within those virtual machines. The second is that the application-specific ...