Server virtualization brings great benefits, but it also presents significant new challenges to data protection. Backup and storage managers require complete data protection for the virtualized environment―including support for every virtual machine (VM) and all the application data they contain. IT managers are also deploying different hypervisors to suit different business needs. Ideally, these managers would like to handle everything from a single console.

This white paper explores the problems faced by IT administrators when managing the physical and VMware virtual infrastructure, and shows how HP Data Protector simplifies backup and recovery. It also provides a step-by-step overview of how to configure backup and recovery by using Data Protector in VMware vStorage API for Data Protection (VADP) environments.