8 Min
KayGrid Backup: How to Select the Right Solution for Your Virtual Workloads
This guide defines KayGrid, explains why its workloads need dedicated backup, and lays out the six criteria IT teams use to choose backup software. It also covers five common buying pitfalls and the most common evaluation questions for KayGrid protection.
By Nathaniel Harper
Sep 11 2026
12 Min
What Causes a Restored VMDK Coming Back Corrupted on VMware vCenter, and How Do I Stop It Happening Again?
Explains why VMDKs restore corrupted on VMware vCenter, CBT data errors, blocked snapshot consolidation, and VMFS-level damage, and how to verify restores and prevent recurrence going forward.
By Amelia Luo
Sep 08 2026
10 Min
What’s the Best Tool to Migrate VMs from VMware to Another Hypervisor?
Compares native hypervisor importers, standalone V2V converters, and backup-based cross-platform recovery tools for VMware exit migrations, with selection criteria, a decision matrix, and platform-specific notes across six target hypervisors.
By Amelia Luo
Sep 04 2026
12 Min
How Should I Choose a VM Backup Solution?
This guide breaks down how to evaluate VM backup solutions across recovery objectives, architecture, ransomware resilience, licensing, and platform coverage, with a decision matrix, a POC checklist, and platform-specific notes for seven hypervisors.
By Amelia Luo
Aug 28 2026
14 Min
What Dedupe Ratio Is Typical for a Mixed Environment of Similar VMs?
Realistic structural dedupe ratios for mixed VM environments sit at 2:1–5:1; combined with retention and compression, 10:1–20:1+ is achievable. This guide adds academic evidence, RAM/CPU cost economics, and three original frameworks explaining the gap between marketing and production numbers.
By Amelia Luo
Aug 10 2026
13 Min
Best Practices for Using Instant VM Recovery to Minimize Downtime
Instant VM recovery minimizes downtime by booting a VM directly from backup storage instead of waiting for a full restore. This article covers how it works, operational best practices, a decision matrix for when to use it, benchmark ranges for recovery time, IOPS, and bandwidth, and its role in ransomware resilience.
By Amelia Luo
Aug 04 2026
6 Min
Hyper-V Boot Failure: 5 Common Causes and Troubleshooting Guide
Hyper-V boot failure can occur due to incorrect configurations, missing boot images, or conversion issues. This guide explains five common causes and fixes, and introduces how to back up Hyper-V VMs in advance to prevent data loss.
By Richard Yang
Jul 22 2026
6 Min
Hyper-V Pass USB Device to VM: 3 Working Methods
Passing a USB device to a Hyper-V virtual machine is a common but non-trivial task. This article walks through all three methods step by step, clarifies when each one works (and when it doesn't), and covers what to do after your data lands inside the VM: protecting it with a reliable backup solution.
By Amelia Luo
Jul 16 2026
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