Zetta.net is an award-winning provider of enterprise-grade cloud and local backup, disaster recovery, and archiving. http://www.zetta.net/
It’s often assumed that you need an appliance for enterprise-level cloud backup & DR. How does Zetta.net work without one?
When backing up server images, how does using VHD increase your restore options – and how does it give you a better BMR?
Senior Analyst George Crump of Storage Switzerland recently caught up with Zetta.net VP of Products Chris Schin to ask those questions and more.
The Highlights
1. Zetta.net’s core product principle is to ensure our solutions require no onsite appliance at the customer premise, either physical or virtual. This allows us to eliminate the cost, complexity and scalability issues that come along with appliances. We’re able to do this because we’ve focused our resources on developing WAN optimization technology to rapidly move large files over the Internet without special hardware.
2. Our new server image backup function makes use of standard Windows technology to create an adaptable solution not tied to any specific system or deployment platform. Using the native Windows VHD format makes restores simple, and offers a wide range of options for physical and virtual recovery –including mounting the image as a drive and reading it, booting it into Hyper-V, converting it to VMDK and putting it in a Hyper-V farm or using standard recovery tech to burn it back on to a physical box.
3. Using VHD to restore to a physical box also avoids the pitfalls of proprietary, process-intensive traditional BMR. Since VHD is native to Windows, using it to restore a Windows machine is much simpler and less error-prone than past BMR.
Chris Schin and Storage Switzerland at VMworld 2014
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