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Over the past several weeks, a relatively technical issue in the VMware ecosystem has started creating a very real business problem for organizations trying to move and protect VMware workloads. Access to VMware's Virtual Disk Development Kit (VDDK) has become increasingly restricted. This matters because VDDK is not simply another VMware utility. It is a foundational component used by many migration, backup, and disaster recovery products to access and transfer VMware virtua

Protecting the full generative AI pipeline on Kubernetes and OpenShift with RackWare SWIFT If recovery brings back the model but loses the knowledge and state around it, the AI application is still down. A usable AI service is more than a model Generative AI gets attention at the model layer, but users experience an application. That application may combine an interface or API, enterprise content, retrieval, model serving, persistent data, security, networking, and Kubernetes

This technical training equips IBM Cloud engineers and architects with the knowledge and skills to deliver migration, disaster recovery, and backup solutions across IBM Cloud VPC, OpenShift Virtualization, and Hybrid Cloud infrastructures using the RackWare platform. What You Will Learn ​​ Key Use Cases ​ Migration from on-prem (physical or virtual machines) or other public and private cloud environments to IBM Cloud VPC Comprehensive Disaster Recovery across IBM Cloud region

This demo shows how to build a complete disaster recovery landing zone in IBM VPC using the RackWare engine, protecting source workloads across VMware, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, and other IBM VPC regions into a single DR target. The walkthrough covers the full workflow: deploying the RackWare engine from the IBM Cloud Marketplace, discovering and adding source hosts, and running an initial stage-one sync to seed target storage. It demonstrates two DR configurations side by

A step-by-step demonstration of protecting workloads that are actively running across both Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and an on-premise data center using RackWare

Part V: DR Testing and Drills This is part 5 in a series of articles on understanding and addressing Disaster Recovery criteria. In this article we will discuss the often overlooked and neglected requirements and needs for DR drill and test. Part 1 was an introduction and overview. Part 2 covered the often overlooked personnel plan and site location. Part 3 explained the importance of application categorization to drive the correct RPO and RTO needs and the resulting impac

RackWare RMM Version 7.7 represents significant improvements to how migration and disaster recovery (DR) workflows are structured, in addition to UI improvements and new features like Bulk Discovery, Auto-Provisioning, and DR Failover Groups.

Why Filesystem-Level Replication Outperforms Storage Sector and VMDK Approaches RackWare employs a unique, patented, delta sync mechanism to execute Migration, DR, and backup operations that has the largest scope of use cases in the industry. It is a Filesystem mechanism, operating on used data, not a storage sector or VMDK based approach. Products that employ a storage sector or VMDK approach often have issues surrounding data consistency that prevents applications and serve

Part IV: Backup Versus Disaster Recovery In Part 3 we addressed application categorization and its importance in assessing and determining optimal and economical RPO and RTO. I was originally going to address DR drills in Part 4 but after some consideration it's better to first discuss the dynamics of IT operations and how changes impact the DR plan, the DR configuration and product selection. Additionally, we’ll address the importance of understanding the difference betwee

Part III: Not All Servers Are Equal In Part 2 we addressed DR site location and personnel plan and how these often under considered criteria can make or break the efficacy of your DR strategy. Now you've studied and understand your geographic risk and now understand the realistic and practical implications of your personnel plan. The next issues to address are application categorization and how that feeds into an intelligent plan for Recovery Point Objective (RPO), and Reco

And How RackWare Delivers Reliable Recovery Executive Summary Most disaster recovery products focus on replicating data. Unfortunately, successful disaster recovery requires far more than simply copying data from one location to another. Organizations routinely discover during an outage that applications fail to start, dependencies are missing, recovery environments are incorrectly configured, or DR procedures have never been fully tested. Recovery plans that appear successfu

Unlock the full potential of RackWare across any cloud environment. This technical training equips cloud-focused engineers and architects with the knowledge and skills to deliver seamless migration, disaster recovery, and backup solutions across hybrid and multi-cloud infrastructures using the RackWare platform. What You Will Learn ​​ Key Use Cases ​ Migration from on-premises or third-party clouds to public, private, or sovereign clouds Comprehensive Backup and Disaster Re

Take your RackWare expertise to the next level. This advanced technical training is designed for engineers and architects ready to master the granular configurations and complex recovery logic required for enterprise-grade resilience and seamless large-scale migrations. What You Will Learn ​​​​ Build upon your foundational knowledge to execute high-precision workflows and advanced data protection strategies: Advanced Source Preparation Master the critical pre-requisites fo

Part II: The Human and Physical Reality In Part 1 we addressed the idea that many DR plans and strategies are too narrowly focused. Some only look at RPO; some are only focused on having a copy of data with no concept of total datacenter recovery. The two I’d like to address first (DR site location/network infrastructure and your personnel plan) are often the least considered. They’re not the quantitative metrics teams tend to fixate on; they’re about the physical and human r

For years, the hardware refresh cycle was boringly predictable. Servers aged out every three to five years, you budgeted for the replacement, component prices drifted down over time, and the refresh was a routine line item nobody lost sleep over. That math just broke. Over the past year, the cost of the components inside enterprise servers and other infrastructure equipment hasn’t just crept up. It has exploded. Memory has taken the hardest hit by far. DDR5 server memory roug

A brief video showcasing Rackware's ability to perform a live migration of any VMware virtual machine to IBM VPC and IBM OpenShift virtualisation. Your VMware instance can be in an on-prem environment, or it can be any flavor of VMware in the cloud such as Google VMware Engine, VMware on AWS, or Oracle VMware solution.

Quick overview of the steps to deploy RackWare Disaster Recovery and Migration solutions for servers, VMs, and Kubernetes in OCI, via the Oracle Cloud Marketplace.

Quick overview of the steps to deploy RackWare Disaster Recovery and Migration solutions for servers, VMs, and Kubernetes in IBM Cloud, via the IBM Cloud Catalog.

Part I: The Criteria That Matter Disaster Recovery products, deployments, and strategies have evolved extensively in the last 15 years or so. With Cloud technology, robust virtualization options, vastly improved wide area networking, and new products and methods, it can be a daunting task to plan and implement a modern Disaster Recovery solution. Legacy backup and DR products with limited support for Hyperscaler as well as emerging Cloud technologies can complicate things eve

Automated Cross-Cloud Failover for Nutanix Cloud Clusters Executive Summary Organizations adopting Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) are increasingly looking for a disaster recovery (DR) strategy that extends beyond a single cloud provider while maintaining operational simplicity and automation. RackWare provides failover and disaster recovery automation for workloads running on Nutanix NC2 across any supported public cloud environment leveraging Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI)