Backing up and restoring virtualized systems
In this chapter, we discuss backing up, restoring, and reusing a virtualized system’s data. IBM Spectrum Protect Plus supports VMware, Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisors, and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2).
For VMware and Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisors, backups are snapshots that are based in a block-level incremental forever model: one base full backup is followed by many always incremental backups. Each backup is a Synthetic Full backup, which means that only one restore activity must be started whether ...