Nick Zhao

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• How to Backup HPE SimpliVity to Protect VM Data?

  HPE SimpliVity simplifies data protection for VMware environments with its optimized features for virtualization. By integrating compute, storage and backup into a single platform, it makes companies easy deploy and manage virtual environments.

  Nov 15 2024

• How to Convert Raw Image to Vmdk for Data Migration?

  When IT administrators need to move data to another virtualization platform, the virtual hard disk format needs to be converted. In this post, you will know how to convert the raw image to vmdk for data migration.

  Nov 10 2024

• How to Easily Backup VMware vSAN to Protect VMs?

  vSAN is a popular storage solution used by companies to store important data in virtual environment. This post will help you better understand it and know how to backup vSAN to protect the workloads running on it.

  Nov 08 2024

• How to Convert Qcow2 to OVA for VMware?

  Both VMware and KVM are popular virtualization solutions. When you are using both platforms in IT environment, it is necessary to know the method of data migration between different platforms. In this post, you will know the way to convert qcow2 to OVA to migrate from KVM to VMware.

  Nov 07 2024

• How to Use OVF Tool to Export VM to OVF/OVA with Commands?

  OVF Tool is used to help IT administrator easily export large VM into OVF or OVA with commands. If you have a OVF or OVA template, OVF Tool can also help you convert it into OVA or OVF template. See how it works.

  Nov 07 2024

• 7 Tiers of Disaster Recovery | What Level Suits You?

  As more information systems are used in companies, disaster recovery becomes more and more important. You can refer to the 7 tiers of disaster recovery in this post to decide which level you need and how to protect your workloads.

  Nov 04 2024

• How to Easily Move Hyper-V VM to Another Host in 5 Ways?

  With VM migrated to another host, the server workload could be reduced and you could safely power it off for upgrade or maintenance. There are many ways to move Hyper-V VM to another host. See how to migrate Hyper-V VM in different ways.

  Oct 31 2024

• How to Easily Backup VMDK and Copy It to Another VM?

  The goal of making VM backup is to save the important data on VM. Is there any simple way to backup only data like copying files on physical machine? Virtual machine also has its virtual disk, VMDK file. See how to locate VMDK file of virtual machine and how to backup or copy VMDK file to another datastore.

  Oct 28 2024

• How to Easily Backup Hyper-V VMs and Hosts in 4 Ways?

  Hyper-V is one of the mainstream virtualization solution which works in the IT environment of many companies. You will know multiple ways to backup Hyper-V VMs including using Windows Server Backup, Hyper-V Manager, and other tools.

  Oct 21 2024

• How to Convert OVA to Qcow2 Format for KVM?

  VMware and KVM the popular virtualization solutions. When it is needed to perform data migration, IT administrators need to learn the way to export and import data. In this post, the method of exporting OVA from VMware and converting OVA image to qcow2 format is introduced.

  Oct 09 2024

• How to Convert OVA/OVF to Import VM to Hyper-V?

  Learning to manage different virtualization platforms are necessary for IT administrator. VMware and Hyper-V are often used by companies and you will learn the way to manage both platforms and use VMware OVA/OVF template to import VM to Hyper-V.

  Oct 08 2024

• How to Convert Qcow2 to Vmdk for VMware ESXi?

  There are many kinds of server virtualization solutions in the world and they use different formats for virtual hard disks. When IT administrators manage the heterogeneous virtual environment, it is necessary to know the virtual disk formats and the ways to convert virtual disks for VM data migration.

  Sep 24 2024