VMware Backup For Dummies, Veeam Special Edition

Understanding VM and VM Backup Concepts

Server virtualization is one of the most disruptive innovations of the past twenty years. It is a foundational technology in cloud computing and has been widely deployed by businesses of all sizes in both on-premises data centers and in the public cloud. Today, virtual machines (VMs) host practically any workload from mission-critical enterprise applications to dev/ test environments supporting DevOps pipelines.

Like any other server in your data center, backing up and restoring VMs reliably and efficiently is a must for business continuity and disaster recovery. In this chapter, you learn about the basics of VMs and VM backups.