Data Protection for Virtual Data Centers

Essential information on how to protect data in virtual environments!

Virtualization is changing the data center architecture and as a result, data protection is is quickly evolving as well. This unique book, written by an industry expert with over eighteen years of data storage/backup experience, shows you how to approach, protect, and manage data in a virtualized environment. You’ll get up to speed on data protection problems, explore the data protection technologies available today, see how to adapt to virtualization, and more. The book uses a “good, better, best” approach, exploring best practices for backup, high availability, disaster recovery, business continuity, and more.

• Covers best practices and essential information on protecting data in virtualized enterprise environments
• Shows you how to approach, protect, and manage data while also meeting such challenges as return on investment, existing service level agreements (SLAs), and more
• Helps system and design architects understand data protection issues and technologies in advance, so they can design systems to meet the challenges
• Explains how to make absolutely critical services such as file services and e-mail more available without sacrificing protection
• Offers best practices and solutions for backup, availability, disaster recovery, and others

This is a must-have guide for any Windows server and application administrator who is charged with data recovery and maintaining higher uptimes.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: What Kind of Protection Do You Need?
Chapter 2: Data Protection by the Numbers
Chapter 3: The Layers of Data Protection
Chapter 4: Better Backups
Chapter 5: File Services
Chapter 6: Windows Clustering
Chapter 7: Microsoft Exchange
Chapter 8: Microsoft SQL Server
Chapter 9: Virtualization
Chapter 10: Management and Deployment
Chapter 11: Monitoring Systems
Chapter 12: Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery

Appendix: Links and Resources