Data Backup in Desktop virtualization

More and more users are deploying VMware View, so a variety of requirements are naturally emerging. Desktop virtualization has all the operations and data into the data center, which is safe and easy to centralize control of the method, once launched, by many users of all ages.

Data is fully centralized, then the protection of the data becomes indispensable, today we say the virtual desktop backup.

Mention backup, you may think of ghost, but strictly speaking, Ghost is just an image tool, not a regular backup software, general backup software can support the online/off-line system, data backup and other functions.

Virtual desktops require the use of virtual machines, which means that each user has an instance of their own operating system (may be fixed or floating), then the system backup recovery seems to be indispensable.

However, you do not need to make a backup of each user's operating system, for the simple reason that the link cloning technique is used in the virtual desktop.

Therefore, the administrator only need to backup the system template is OK, because the replica disk in the virtual desktop system is read-only, you need to do a simple backup, simple bar J

If some users need to install the software themselves, what about the data?

If this is the type of user, I do not recommend that you use a link clone to create a virtual machine using the full clone mode, and that you can use VMware Data recovery software to back up data for the entire system (completely free for VMware users).