Recently, Citrix announced the availability of their latest patch release for XenServer, 5.6 SP2. Today, PHD Virtual announced that the recently released PHD Virtual Backup version 5.2 (released on 5/20/11) fully supports XenServer 5.6 SP2. Full regression testing has been completed. If you are running XenServer 5.6 SP2 or thinking of upgrading, you will need [...]
On May 20th, 2011 PHD Virtual released PHD Virtual Backup version 5.2. The v5.2 update patch was made available for both hypervisors PHD Virtual supports, VMware vSphere and Citrix XenServer. The update patches are available on the Updates page of the PHD Virtual web site. Each update patch consists of two main components: A new [...]
***Update 11/21/11: Note that in PHD Virtual Backup v5.3, there is new functionality called the Exporter for additional tape integration options. The Exporter is a separate Windows application that will rehydrate PHD backups to compressed OVF files to be stored anywhere a user chooses, to allow for vaulting off-site or to tape. Because the process [...]
One of the challenges with Virtual Backups today is how to handle application level consistency from within an imaged based backup. In the days of agent level backups, the agent was running inside the machine, so it could initiate activities like shutting down a database or rotating a transaction log. With virtual backup solutions like [...]
***Update 11/21/11: Note that in PHD Virtual Backup v5.3, there is new functionality called the Exporter for additional tape integration options. The Exporter is a separate Windows application that will rehydrate PHD backups to compressed OVF files to be stored anywhere a user chooses, to allow for vaulting off-site or to tape. Because the process [...]
PHD Virtual 5.1 offers File Level Restore ability in a unique way compared to other virtual backup offerings. It does this by presenting an iSCSI target that then can be mounted by any like operating server to browse through the folders and files of that particular backup. In a prior blog post we discussed doing [...]
In December of 2010 PHD Virtual released its next generation virtual backup solution for VMware vSphere and Citrix XenServer, PHD Virtual Backup 5.1. With this product release PHD Virtual has brought to the market a number of key benefits for a virtual backups and it also continues oure strategy of being cross hypervisor solution. Some [...]
On March 2th, 2001 PHD Virtual released the next patch release (5.1.4) for PHD Virtual Backup (PHDVB) 5.1. An updated patch was made available for both the VMware and XenServer versions. Both version patches are available on the Updates page of the PHD Virtual web site. Patch Download To apply the patch you will need [...]
PHD Virtual Backup (PHDVB) 5.1 for both VMware vSphere and Citrix XenServer offers File Level Recovery options directly from its virtual backups. This provides an ability to not only have a complete image level backup of your Virtual Machine but to also be able to restore individual files from within that VM. PHD Virtual 5.1 [...]
Cloud computing is a topic a lot of companies minds recently as they try to leverage the resources a cloud solution can offer. Within these arena the topic of backup and recovery in the cloud for Managed Service Providers (MSPs) is paramount. PHD Virtual’s solution offers specific capabilities that service providers can take advantage of [...]