How? Simple. Drop your old backup software.
- Stop paying thousands of dollars in backup software maintenance.
- Stop throwing away money for off-site tape services and tapes you may never use or may never be able to recover from.
- Stop using outdated software in a band-aid approach to "try" to protect your organizations data.
- Start using VMware vSphere Data Protection.
In 2013, organizations have stopped using tape and old backup software.
Tape is over 60 years old, it's time to update.
Welcome to backup software that's built into the Hypervisor code with VMware... The logical place for it to be.
With context of individual Virtual Machines, backup at the Hypervisor level understands and provides consistency, across both Operating System and Application.
You can do Image-level Restores, Single File Restores, Single Email or Mailbox Restores, Database Restores... Oh, and one more thing, even End-User Restores!
It's free for up-to 2TB of deduplicated storage, that could be 3-7 years of retention on disk. Want more than 2TB? You can have up-to 10 data stores, that's 20TB of deduped storage! Still want more? Upgrade to the 8TB Advanced version for as little as $1,095... You can store it on your SAN, NAS, USB or even as-a-service with EMC Avamar.
And if that's not enough? EMC Avamar now has a Business Edition available to save you money on larger deployments.
Think about the thousands of dollars, you are throwing away, on old tape and backup software maintenance.
When you could protect all your virtual machines and business-critical applications with vSphere Data Protection Advanced, a new backup and recovery solution powered by EMC Avamar. vSphere Data Protection Advanced delivers the most efficient deduplication engine, seamless integration with vSphere and application-specific agents to protect Microsoft Exchange and SQL.
Backup and recovery for midsize vSphere environments
vSphere Data Protection Advanced is a backup and recovery solution powered by EMC Avamar designed for midsize vSphere environments. It extends the capabilities of vSphere Data Protection – available with all vSphere editions – to provide the most proven, efficient and easy-to-use protection for virtual machines with greater scalability and integration with business-critical applications.What vSphere Data Protection Advanced Delivers
Proven Technology
vSphere Data Protection Advanced is built specifically for VMware vSphere, the market-leading virtualization platform and powered by EMC Avamar, a market-leading deduplication backup and recovery solution.
Efficient Backup And Recovery
Reduces backup storage and bandwidth requirements with industry-leading variable-length deduplication. Shrinks backup and recovery times by leveraging Changed Block Tracking.
Simple Management
With vSphere Data Protection Advanced, vSphere administrators have a “single pane of glass” console to manage their entire virtual infrastructure, including backup and recovery.
Application Awareness
vSphere Data Protection Advanced adds application-specific agents to ensure application-consistent backups and more granular recovery of Microsoft SQL Server and Microsoft Exchange Server.
Proven, efficient and simple backup and recovery
vSphere Data Protection Advanced is a backup and recovery solution powered by EMC Avamar designed for midsize vSphere environments. It provides the most proven, efficient and easy-to-use protection for virtual machines with added scalability and integration with business-critical applications.
Efficient
- Variable-length: data is broken into segments of variable length, which enables the highest rates of deduplication – on average 99% for file systems and 96% for databases.
- Global: Deduplication is compared across all VMs backed up by the same VDP Advanced virtual appliance, reducing the required backup storage by up to 95%.
- Client-side: for guest-level backups, the agents deduplicate at the VM reducing the daily impact on the virtual network by up to 99% as compared to traditional full-backup methods.
VADP Integration: offloads the backup process from production VMs. Up to eight VMs per virtual appliance can be backed up simultaneously to increase backup throughput.
Changed Block Tracking Backup: leverages Changed Block Tracking in combination with variable-length deduplication, sending truly unique changed blocks to the VDP Advanced virtual appliance.
Changed Block Tracking Restore: only restores the delta of changed blocks between the current state of the VM and the last backup, reducing recovery times up to 30 times as compared to full VM recoveries.
Changed Block Tracking Backup: leverages Changed Block Tracking in combination with variable-length deduplication, sending truly unique changed blocks to the VDP Advanced virtual appliance.
Changed Block Tracking Restore: only restores the delta of changed blocks between the current state of the VM and the last backup, reducing recovery times up to 30 times as compared to full VM recoveries.
Simple
vSphere Integration: fully integrated with vCenter Server and managed natively through the vSphere Web Client. VDP Advanced enables vSphere administrators to manage their entire virtual infrastructure, including backup and recovery, from a “single pane of glass."Ease of Deployment: deployed as a virtual machine appliance with very little additional configuration required post-deployment.
Ease of Use: delivers simple and efficient wizard-driven creation of backup jobs with customized policies based on specified retentions and schedules set at the backup job level.
One-step Recovery: enables easy browsing to perform file-level recovery and full VM restores to the original VM or a new VM.
Self-service Recovery: facilitates self-service restore performed by end-users, such as application owners or guest OS administrators, offloading restore requests to the IT department.
Application-Aware
Agents for Microsoft SQL and Exchange: provides application-specific agents to protect these business-critical applications. The lightweight agent installed inside the VM deduplicates data, moving only unique changed blocks to the VDP Advanced appliance. VDP Advanced achieves the highest levels of deduplication at the guest level.Application Consistency: guest-level backup and recovery ensures application-consistent states crucial to guarantee reliable protection of business-critical applications
Recovery of Individual Items
- Microsoft Exchange Server agent - provides recovery of individual databases with options to restore to special Exchange databases to perform granular recovery of mailboxes and messages.
- Microsoft SQL Server agent - enables recovery of the entire application, individual databases, or only logs.
Choosing Your vSphere Data Protection 5 Edition
VMware vSphere Data Protection is available in two editions to help you protect your virtual machines depending on the size of your vSphere environment and with the level of granularity that your applications require.
VMware vSphere Data Protection 5 Advanced
vSphere Data Protection Advanced is a backup and recovery solution powered by EMC Avamar designed for midsize vSphere environments. It extends the capabilities of vSphere Data Protection – available with all vSphere editions – with greater scalability and integration with business-critical applications. vSphere Data Protection Advanced provides fast agent-less image-level backups, as well as guest-level application-consistent protection of Microsoft® SQL Server™ and Microsoft® Exchange Server™.
VMware vSphere Data Protection 5
vSphere Data Protection, a feature available with all vSphere editions, is ideally suited to protect small vSphere environments. Based on EMC Avamar technology, vSphere Data Protection provides the most efficient agent-less image-level backup and recovery for virtual machines.
| VDP | VDP Advanced | |
| Licensing and Pricing | ||
Per CPU (license only)
| Included with vSphere ESS+ and above | US $1,095 |
Max protected VMs per CPU
| Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Scalability | ||
Max deduplicated storage per appliance
| 2TB | 8TB |
Max supported VMs per appliance
| 100 | 400 |
Max appliances per vCenter instance
| 10 | 10 |
| Features | ||
Agent-less backup
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Variable-length deduplication
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CBT for backup and restore
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vSphere Web Client management
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Self-service backup and recovery
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Full VM and file-level recovery
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Integrity check and rollback mechanism
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Dynamic provisioning
2TB->8TB | | |
MSFT Exchange Server agents
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MSFT SQL Server agents
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Migration from VDP
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Note: List Pricing is for reference purposes only and is subject to change without notice. Pricing reflected in this document is suggested retail price in USD, for sales in the US. Regional prices may vary.
Licensing
Midsize companies constrained in time and resources can’t afford to deal with complicated and expensive licensing models. However, these organizations should not have to settle for less capable solutions simply because they can’t invest on enterprise-level products. With enterprise-class deduplication and streamlined backup and recovery management, vSphere Data Protection Advanced is the most cost-effective backup solution.
Licensing unit – vSphere Data Protection Advanced is licensed per CPU.
What this means to customers
- Protect as many VMs as needed on properly licensed vSphere hosts.*
- Deploy virtual appliances as needed at no additional charge (up to 10 per vCenter Server instance).
- No charge for the agents deployed throughout the environment – they are included with the solution.
- No need to perform complicated calculations to forecast backup storage capacity as in “per TB” licensing models.
Licensing vSphere Data Protection Advanced is as simple as matching the number of vSphere licenses in the environment.
*Actual limit in the number of VMs that can be protected is dictated by the technical scalability limitations of the solution.
