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@scottalanmiller said in How to take advantage of virtualization. Major products get updated:
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Yes the skills required to use KVM on a production level is different, but it is no different than managing any other Hypervisor.
Yup, it's easier to use in every way I can think of. You don't easily get agentless backups for the VMs, but that doesn't have to be a deal breaker. Other than that, KVM is easier and better.
It does actually get agentless backup, it's just not a very good one. I have agentless backups on my KVM systems. Better than VMware Free, not anything close to Hyper-V.
Are you describing the export functionality?
Exporting is a backup, yes.
When someone refers to agentless backups in the context of host/vm, we mean something in comparison of how backup software does it on a Hyper-V host using Veeam or WSB for example.
I realize that, but that's a misleading way to say it because you rarely use that same definition when moving to the backup of cloud servers, for example, and not all agents work that way. So it's very bad to use that as a guideline for one type of backup and not all universally.
Very few products do it like Veeam does, agent or agentless, so holding things to that standard rules out a lot of stuff from any given category. And often "how they do it" is a factor of how the resulting backup is viewed, not of how the backup is taken. And agentless on Unitrends is like how KVM does it, not like how Veeam does it. So is Unitrends no longer agentless?
