The problems associated with the backup and restore of vCloud
You have probably been thinking of how to back up and restore your vCloud content; here are some thoughts on this.
How it works...
Surprisingly, it actually doesn't work well at all (at the time of writing this book). Most backup vendors can currently back up VMs from the vCloud quite well; however, they don't have a clear concept about restores yet.
For backups there are basically two methods. The first is to use a backup agent inside the VMs that transfers the data to be backed up via the network. Software examples would be Symantec NetBackup and IBM Tivoli. The second method is to integrate the backup with the storage backend. A software example would be CommVault. What happens here ...
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