The main thing that you wanted when you installed a server that ran on virtual machines was the ability to simplify all of your structures and to streamline the way that your computer-based infrastructure ran. This is very true of virtual machine based systems, until, that is, you come to figuring out how to run data recovery on your system. Because data recovery systems didn’t advance at the same pace as systems based on virtual machines, you may have had problems coming up with a solution for data recovery that would keep your system streamlined and running smoothly.
Newer VMware ESX data recovery, though, works differently from the old types of recovery based on software and duplicating information onto new hardware. The fact that the data recovery system is also virtual gives it many advantages over your typical backup and recovery system.
For one thing, this type of system doesn’t require any extra hardware. If your goal in installing a virtual machine based server was to cut down on the physical machines you needed in your server room, you probably found that older backup and recovery systems went against that goal because they required that you install more hardware. Now, though, you can use this software-based system for virtual machine backup, which will keep your server room sleek and trim.
This type of system also has built-in tools that allow you to conserve storage space. The VBAs that are used in this system actually de-duplicate information before they send it to storage, which means that you don’t have a lot of copies of backup files just sitting there taking up room that could be better used for other things. Because the files are de-duplicated, both backup and recovery are quicker, and you have more capacity on your network, which you can put to use in other ways besides backing up spare files.