Encryption is widely used for security purposes because it prevents unauthorized third parties from accessing and disseminating private data. Backups are no exception and are often a target of data breaches. As part of a data protection strategy, you can implement encryption as an additional layer of security for your backups.

Data backup is critical to data loss prevention and swift recovery. A part of a secure and resilient data protection strategy is backup encryption to prevent breaches and access to data by unauthorized persons. This blog post covers encryption types based on where data is encrypted and explains how a specific approach can be used for an effective backup encryption strategy. Say no to ransoms with NAKIVO Use backups for fast data recovery after ransomware attacks.

Virtualization offers several advantages for backup and recovery operations, which are the backbone of data protection, operational continuity, and availability. Most importantly, virtualization makes agentless and image-based, host-level backups possible. These types of backups can capture the full VM, including VM configuration as well as VM data. However, it’s important to protect hosts too, as healthy ESXi hosts are important for VMs to run properly.

Microsoft Hyper-V is a type 1 hypervisor that you can install on Windows – including on Windows 10 and Windows Server 2019. In some scenarios, you may need to uninstall Hyper-V on your Windows machine. For example, VMware Workstation and Hyper-V are not compatible when installed on the same machine. The same issues occur with other type 2 hypervisors like VirtualBox.

Nutanix is a hyper-converged virtualization platform for running virtual machines. It can be used as an additional infrastructure or an alternative to VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V. For more information, you can read this VMware vs Nutanix comparison. You can migrate VMware virtual machines (VMs) from ESXi hosts and clusters to a Nutanix cluster. Read this VMware to Nutanix migration guide to learn how to configure the migration properly.

VM migration from VMware to Proxmox can be necessary whether an organization is diversifying its infrastructure or completely moving its production workloads to a new platform. There are two main methods to migrate virtual machines from VMware ESXi hosts to Proxmox VE hosts: manually and with special tools. This blog post provides a detailed step-by-step tutorial for the successful migration of virtual machines to Proxmox VE using the 2 methods.

Snapshots are usually used to create image-based VM backups. Storage snapshots are an alternative to the usual VM snapshots used, and they have certain advantages in terms of backup performance and impact on production environments. In this blog post, we explain VMware virtual machine backup from HPE snapshots to achieve high efficiency in environments with heavily loaded storage, including the working principle and configuration basics.

ESXi is usually provided with the default configuration that includes a set of standard drivers and software tools for a specific version. This set of tools and drivers differs from one ESXi version to another. When running ESXi hosts, you may need to install additional drivers for the installed hardware, install software, or update software components or drivers. In this case, installing VIB files on ESXi is what you need.