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July 13, 2010  3:13 AM

Sysinternals Disk2vhd



Posted by: Nathan Simon
convert physical to virtual, ESX, Microsoft's Virtual Machine disk format, starwind v2v, Sysinternals Disk2vhd, VHD, VSS

Recently updated, Disk2vhd is a wonderful tool that when used with Starwind v2v application you can create a pristine Server 2008/Windows 7/Windows Vista ESX Clone, every time.

Disk2vhd is a utility that creates VHD (Virtual Hard Disk - Microsoft's Virtual Machine disk format) versions...

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December 12, 2009  6:46 PM

Exchange 2010 Gotcha



Posted by: Nathan Simon
Exchange 2010, Exchange 2010 backup, Exchange Server 2003, how to backup Exchange 2010 database, VSS, Windows Server 2008 Foundation, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server Backup

There is currently no third party exchange aware backup software, but using Windows Server Backup, you are able to backup the data store and flush the logs. Over at Exchange.org, Henrik explains how to use Windows Server Backup to perform backups and restores using the new Exchange volume snapshot...

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March 3, 2009  3:25 AM

Veeam 3.0 for VMware Infrastructure



Posted by: Nathan Simon
ESX 3.5, ESX backup and restore, ESXi, file level recovery, Microsoft Server 2008, Veeam, VSS

Veeam Backup 3.0 has just recently been released. Below are some of the main features and benefits.

  • Backup and replication combined
  • Support for ESXi and ESXi free
  • File-level recovery...

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