I have been building the data protection software for the datacenter and public cloud and i have explored multiple backup products. I am adding my thoughts based on the challenges i faced, based on my interaction with my customers, based on reading other best practise guides. Data Protection Challenges Backup Sizing Assume you have a…
In my company, one of our prospects is running an on-premise vSphere data center and the storage is backed by HP Nimble I got the access to their environment to integrate Nimesa with Nimble storage, Earlier I integrated Nimesa with multiple storage servers like Nexenta, DDN IntelliFlash, InfiniDat and Pure Storage. Nimble REST API With…
Microsoft SQL Server is one of the most popular enterprise database, a lot of enterprises run MS SQL Server for their mission-critical applications SQL Server database management engine is fast and stable, available on both Linux and Windows platforms and can work on cloud-based servers and local servers simultaneously. It’s owned by Microsoft and is…
Backup rotation/retention scheme is the how long the backup is retained on the media, many techniques have evolved over time to balance the data retention and the restoration costs. Grandfather-father-son is a very common scheme used in the backup retention strategy. In which there are three or more backup cycles such as daily, weekly and…
In recent posts, we have discussed adding your AWS account to Nimesa to do the data protection. In this post, we will discuss application-consistent backups of your MySQL on EC2 instance. To know to install MySQL Server on Amazon Linux 2 on AWS Cloud click here Read here more about consistent, app-consistent, crash-consistent backup Nimesa…
Who uses MongoDB? Based on the online resource* there are 37,658 Companies using MongoDB, MongoDB is most often used by companies with 10-50 employees and 1M-10M dollars in revenue, and the market share is about 5.0% and also many financial services using the MongoDB Data is always critical whether its RDBMS or NoSQL or Flat…
If you have a large datacenter having too many VMs, you may find it difficult to filter the VMs, using the super powerful tool vSphere PowerCLI you can get the VM with filters To get the VM where the tool is not installed, run the below script after connecting with VI-Server