We have seen some bombastic marketing over the last several months in the data protection space.  One vendor stuffed 26 women in a Mini Cooper, and Veeam called platform proliferation “the next big thing” when they announced intentions to deliver Hyper-V support in December of 2011 – despite it being available for the past three years from Symantec. Let’s cut through noise and look at some of the underlying facts.

Innovative, Established and Proven

•                Over 15,000 companies already leverage Symantec’s Backup Exec for Hyper-V support. What Veeam has announced has been in the market for 3 years with Symantec Backup Exec. 

•                Backup Exec protects over 75,000 virtual hosts (approx 60,...

Like most of you I have found it somewhat frustrating that Ops-Center does not come with a Proper Media Used report.

The Media used report is a particular type of report that is very useful if not invaluable, when informing the operation teams with the correct tapes to change when off-siting, If we could'nt get this report working we would be better of just sticking with the FREE scripts that we currently used to send out automated reports and ditch ops-center.

After consulting Symantec support i was pointed in the direction of a ODBC connection so that I could extract the schema myself the ODBC connector can be found here ftp://ftp.veritas.com/pub/opscenter/.

Once the schema was extracted I had at...