Remote backups have historically involved replicating data to a remote datacenter or shipping backup tapes to an off-site storage facility. In more recent years, however, public clouds have become a ...

Uploading a Hyper-V virtual machine to Microsoft Azure is surprisingly easy to do, but there is a lot of prep work that must be done in order to get the virtual machine ready to upload. Much of this ...

I recently had a talk with NAKIVO about backing up, recovering and replicating virtual machines (VMs) in a multi-platform environment. The heart of that discussion was version 7 of its software, which ...

Running a bunch of hyper-v virtual machines that matter? You’ll want a high availability cluster. Of course you’ll also want to take backups of those VMs as well. Prior to moving your VMs into the HA ...

Virtual machine backup can be done using a traditional backup product with agents in each virtual server's file store but can also be carried out via snapshot or by backing up the virtual machine and ...

But to really make things hum, you need to know about something called Hyper-V Integration Services. Think of them as the special bits that help your virtual machines talk nicely with the main Hyper-V ...