Your virtual machines are at the heart of all that your business does, hosting practically any workload from mission-critical backup applications to dev/test environments.

In VMware Backup For Dummies, find out how you can implement agentless backup to ensure seamless recovery of critical workloads. Dive in to discover the best recovery methods and data protection solutions to ensure maximum business continuity. Here's what's covered inside:

• Explore VMware backup tools and components
• How to implement VMware backup
• Understand levels of backup consistency
• Five tips for better virtual machine backup

Most legacy backup solutions in the market today aren't very good. Challenges include IT admins lack the time, resources and energy to proactively tackle real business challenges. The frustration is real!

You're not alone. IT pros around the globe feel your pain! This quick read is designed to help you understand the most common reasons other organizations have switched their primary backup solution and why now is the best time to make this switch.

VMware is still the market leader and many Veeam® customers use VMware vSphere as their preferred virtualization platform. But, the backup of virtual machines on vSphere is only one part of service availability. Backup is the foundation for restores, so it is essential to have backups always available with the required speed.

The "10 Best Practices for VMware vSphere Backups" whitepaper discusses best practices with Veeam Backup & Replicatio&trade v11 and VMware vSphere, such as:

• Planning your data restore in advance
• Keeping track of your data backup software updates and keeping your backup tools up to date
• Integrating Continues Data Protection into the disaster recovery concept
• And much more!

We've also included some tips and reviews from experienced community members to provide a peer perspective on VMware backup.

Instantly recover even more of your data center's workloads with seamless recovery for Microsoft SQL, Oracle and NAS backups from the pioneer of Instant VM Recovery® and:

• Instantly recover a SQL Server database
• Recover any image-based backup to Hyper-V
• Achieve instant recovery of a file share

Stop ransomware in its tracks, ensure backup compliance and safeguard your recoverability with immutability for your backup copies, plus:

• Achieve easy setup
• Create a backup repository
• Avoid accidental deletion

Eliminate downtime and minimize data loss for your Tier 1 VMware workloads with built-in Continuous Data Protection (CDP) and achieve immediate recoveries to the latest state or desired point in time, plus:

• Easily install the filter driver on a vSphere cluster
• Use vSphere tags to drive a policy-based approach to protect workloads
• Learn how CDP protects Tier-1 workloads with low RPOs