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Is restoring your VM’s like looking for a needle in a haystack?
This is a common problem for many of our customers in a Backup Exec environment. Now we have some good news.
Backup Exec 12.5 for Windows Servers
Agent for VMware Virtual Infrastructure
Administrators and companies who have not had to experience recovering a Guest virtual machine using basic backup and recovery tools will face several limitations in quickly recovering their data with these older backup tools designed only for physical systems including;
- Having to install a backup agent inside of each Guest virtual machine or on the ESX server directly
- Recovery of a single file typically requires a long restore of the entire Guest virtual machine
- Separate backups for system level vs. individual file level recovery
- Taking Guest virtual machines off-line during backup in order to protect them completely
- Concerns about ensuring applications running inside of the Guest virtual machines can be recovered
- Having to use separate backup products for physical vs. virtual machines
Key Business Benefits
- Offers online, off-host, protection of all Windows and Linux Guest virtual machines via VMware’s VCB without scripting
- Integrates with VMware VirtualCenter for automated discovery of VMware installations
- Single Pass Backups for complete virtual machine recovery or individual file/folder level recovery
- Online protection of entire Guest systems running VSS-aware applications such as Exchange, SQL, and SharePoint
- Integration with Backup Exec to allow protection of physical and virtual systems
IMPROVING RECOVERY IN VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS
VMware’s Consolidated Backup (VCB) technology helps address some of these concerns for current backup products by creating a framework to take snapshots of Guest virtual machines for off-host backups from existing backup products. However, VCB itself introduces a new set of challenges for IT Administrators including;
• Creating cumbersome and complicated VCB “scripts” to integrate with existing backup products
• Installation of proprietary VCB “integration modules” that require additional testing and setup
• Separate backups for system level vs. individual file level recovery to recover a single file from a .vmdk Backup Exec 12.5
Agent for VMware Virtual Infrastructure (AVVI) takes the advantages of VCB while removing many of the challenges of implementing a VCB-based backup solution including;
• Integration with key VMware API’s to ensure VCB “scripting” or “integration modules” are not required
• Eliminates separate VCB backups for system level vs. individual file level recovery to recover a single file
• Protecting **VSS-aware applications such as Exchange, SQL, or SharePoint as part of the entire Guest virtual machine Backup Exec provides an easy to manage interface that communicates with VMware’s VirtualCenter servers to walk administrators through the process of identifying the necessary ESX hosts, Groups, and Guest virtual machines for fast and simple backup and recovery.
For further details contact LETN on 01189 070070
Platform Support
- VMware ESX 3.02-3.5
- VMware ESXi 3.5
- VirtualCenter 2.2-2.5
- VMware Consolidated Backup 1.1- 1.5
- VMware Converter 3.03
- Supported Backups- SAN, iSCSI, NBD/NBDSSL/NFS
