Tag: Backup
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How Do RPO and RTO Drive Your VCF 9 Disaster Recovery Design? (VMware Live Recovery for VCF 9, Part 2)
RPO and RTO are the two numbers that drive every VCF 9 disaster recovery decision. How to set them, tier them, and turn them into replication and recovery plan design.
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Disaster Recovery vs Backup in VMware Cloud Foundation 9 (VMware Live Recovery for VCF 9, Part 1)
Backup keeps the data, disaster recovery keeps the service level. What VCF 9 changes for DR, how RPO and RTO drive the design, and a worked bandwidth example.
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Backup, DR and Upgrade of the VCF Automation Instance (VCF Automation 9 Series, Part 29)
An untested backup is a hope, not a recovery plan. Here is how to protect, recover and upgrade the VCF Automation instance in VCF 9: file-based backups through Fleet Management, the Identity Broker trap, the three recovery scenarios, and the upgrade order that actually matters.
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NSX 9 Backup and Restore: Config Protection, SFTP Targets and the Passphrase Trap (NSX Series, Part 19)
How NSX 9 backup and restore actually works in VCF 9: the three backup types, SFTP target design, the exact-version restore requirement, and the passphrase that quietly decides whether your backup is worth anything.
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VKS Day-2 Operations: Backup, Multi-Tenancy and Capacity (VKS Series, Part 16)
Day-2 is where a VKS platform quietly succeeds or rots. Here is the hard line between infrastructure and app backup, the multi-tenancy spectrum, and the capacity math that bites late.
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Dr Pranay Jha
Dr. Pranay Jha is a Cloud and AI Consultant with 18+ years of experience in hybrid cloud, virtualization, and enterprise infrastructure transformation. He specializes in VMware technologies, multi-cloud strategy, and Generative AI solutions. He holds a PhD in Computer Applications with research focused on Cloud and AI, has published multiple research papers, and has been a VMware vExpert since 2016 and a VMUG Community Leader.
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