I was just looking into that. I can't say it is free...but BackupExec has a solution for that, an agent. So if you already have BE you can just get the agent. Our edu discount makes it pretty darn nice which I would assume you can get too.
-----Original Message----- From: Matthew W. Ross [mailto:mr...@ephrataschools.org] Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2010 11:33 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: VMWare vs Hyper-V Anybody have a free/inexpensive backup solution that will backup a live Hyper-V VM? I have a server offsite where I want to do a weekly VM image backup for disasters that my file level backup cannot handle. --Matt Ross Ephrata School District ----- Original Message ----- From: Kennedy, Jim [mailto:kennedy...@elyriaschools.org] To: NT System Admin Issues [mailto:ntsysad...@lyris.sunbelt-software.com] Sent: Tue, 26 Oct 2010 06:47:39 -0700 Subject: VMWare vs Hyper-V > Probably a can of worms here but we have not done much virtualization > but are about to get into it more. It will be pretty simple > virtualization, a couple of big boxes running 4 or 5 virtualized > servers each. No cluster failovers or anything like that. We dabbled > in VMWare before Hyper-V became mature but now I need to pick one and > run with it. I am leaning towards Hyper-V because it is included with > our license and so far has been pretty painless in testing. I found > VMWare to be confusing with all the different packages, > licensing...upgrades and all that. I suspect it provides far more flexibility > but not knowing what that flexibility really is concerns me. > > So thought I would ask the knowledgeable masses here if I am missing > anything important. > > TIA > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ > <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
