Backup Academy, Physical vs Virtual Backups, by Rick Vanover

How a virtual machine backup is different than a physical machine backup? We're going to start with the physical system, how do those work? Then we're going to go to the virtual machine backup, how do those work? What frameworks are available to make these tasks succeed and become a successful effort in our data protection strategy? Then we're going to talk about the restore, probably the most important part of your backup strategy. We're going to talk about some of the business impact that goes along with physical versus virtual machines in your environment, specifically, things like a service catalog. We're going to talk about how a different platform brings different opportunities. Then we're going to round out the content with some of the considerations related to the licensing, management, and administration of a backup solution, both in terms of installing it, maintaining it, as well as making sure you can do what you need to do.