Backup/recover specific virtual servers

Double-Take Software, Inc. has introduced new virtualized-server protection features to its disaster recovery backup-and-replication software. Double-Take for VMware Infrastructure is designed to safeguard work being done on each virtual server by backing up the data running on that server specifically, as well as on data from other virtuals and from the host. With regular backups, Double-Take can recover and reload a single virtual server with all its most recent data if it or its host machine should crash, the company said.

The enhanced replication software cuts costs by eliminating the need for the software to run inside each guest-server operating system.  It also shrinks restore times for virtual machines, the company said.