Recarta and Veeam – backing-up a perfect combination for eMag : 3rd May 2010

Recarta and Veeam – backing-up a perfect combination for eMag.

The Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) Department at Intertrust Guernsey was an early adopter of VMware technology. It manages approximately 100 virtual machines (VMs) on 12 hosts in two datacentres.

When Mark Duddy, ICT Manager, and his colleagues began the server virtualization project, there were limited options available for performing virtual machine backup and recovery. “We chose a product that fulfilled our basic backup and restore needs, but updates to the product were few and far between,” he explained. “We decided to investigate other options.”

Since Mark had been using two free products from Veeam Software (FastSCP to manage files and bulk copy VMs, and RootAccess to enable or disable remote root access or create a regular non-root user account that is not allowed by default on the ESX Server), he decided to test Veeam Backup & Replication.

Mark obtained a trial version from Recarta IT, one of the UK’s fastest growing IT solution specialists. Recarta IT had already helped Mark build a strong and secure IT infrastructure, so a reliable VMware backup and replication solution was a logical next step.