The VMware Ready Data Protection Program is a partner-focused initiative to integrate and simplify comprehensive data protection of VMware vSphere 4 environments with appropriate partner products. The program is designed to help customers reduce complexity and accelerate implementation of comprehensive data protection of VMware environments and provide better functionality, choice and reduced IT expenses for partner data protection products.
Through the Data Protection program, VMware provides partners with best practices and full access to the full set of vStorage APIs for Data Protection – the enabling framework for developing integrated solutions for centralized virtual machine backup. Customers using these integrated products can perform rapid backup without disrupting applications or the end user experience. VMware also continues to support existing implementations of the previous generation of its data protection framework, VMware Consolidated Backup.
As part of the program, VMware designates partner products that provide for essential data protection processes such as backup and restore with the VMware Ready logo This means that these solutions adhere to stringent integration guidelines and pass a technical validation. Partner products using the VMware Ready logo provide optimized levels of integration, functionality, or performance. VMware Ready Data Protection solutions will also be featured with the VMware Ready logo in the VMware Partner Product Catalog.
Data Protection partners that specialize in physical and virtual machine data protection leverage virtualization specific features in VMware’s storage infrastructure to provide extended capabilities for virtual machine protection. These features and the corresponding APIs are designed with data protection in mind. They allow increased backup and restore functionality over physical machine backup.
The VMware Ready Data Protection program qualifies data protection products to ensure these virtualization specific features are leveraged and that the data protection product is compatible with standard platform features such as VMware HA, Distributed Resource Scheduler and vMotion.
Setting a Higher Bar
Customers deploying VMware Ready Data Protection qualified products can be assured that these products were developed and tested specifically with advanced VMware virtualization features. VMware Ready Data Protection products include capabilities such as:
- The ability to browse a vCenter or ESX environment to quickly and easily locate virtual machines
- No hassle backup configuration and setup
- Flexible backup and restore over a SAN or local network
- Off host backup of virtual machines to reduce or completely eliminate backup windows
- Tested compatibility with VMware platform features
These features allow customers to protect more data while reducing storage and management costs and improve overall backup performance.
Program Participants
The following market leaders have qualified products in the VMware Ready Data Protection category:
Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Advanced Server Virtual Edition
Based on Acronis patented disk imaging and bare metal restore technologies, Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 is the next generation disaster recovery product family, succeeding the Acronis True Image product line. It is designed to provide centralized management of all workstation and server backup and disaster recovery activities in Windows and Linux environments to help organizations of all sizes meet challenging Recovery Time Objectives (RTOs). In addition, Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 delivers an affordable deduplication option that helps IT departments to make a better use of their storage and network infrastructure, saving time and expense.
www.acronis.com
Backup Exec 2012
Symantec Backup Exec 2012 is the gold standard in Windows data protection for physical and virtual systems, providing comprehensive disk and tape-based backup and recovery support for physical and VMware environments, including the latest VMware vSphere 5.0 platform. Backup Exec 2012 is "VMware Ready for Data Protection" certified by VMware and completely integrates with the newest backup technology from VMware, VMware vStorage API's for Data Protection. Backup Exec 2012's vStorage integration provides complete protection of all online and offline Guest VM's and Template files for vSphere 4.0, 4.1 and 5.0 on any supported storage including SAN, LAN, NFS, iSCSI, and FibreChannel.
www.symantec.com
Commvault Simpana
CommVault Simpana Software is a single product that helps you easily control all aspects of data management in virtualized environments for VMware. This includes data protection, archive, replication and reporting all integrated to deliver a complete virtualization solution managed from a single console.
www.commvault.com
EMC Avamar
EMC Avamar deduplication backup software delivers highly efficient backup and recovery, which is a must for rapidly expanding virtual server environments. Because reliable data protection is imperative for a virtualization strategy, Avamar can help accelerate VMware adoption.
EMC Avamar meets all the requirements for optimizing backup and recovery in a virtual environment. It supports both guest- and image-level backups (supports the VMware vStorage API for Data Protection); minimizes the backup load; enables cost-efficiency in management, licensing, bandwidth, and storage; and leverages the full hypervisor feature set. In addition, Avamar is integrated with VMware vSphere, so it can be monitored and managed via vCenter.
Learn more about EMC Avamar
HP Data Protector
With more than 41,000 customers worldwide, HP Data Protector software helps organizations meet any service level agreement in VMware environments through unified recovery and advanced automation. One-touch backup policy configuration and HP StoreOnce-powered software deduplication, together with a unique and flexible licensing structure, meet the most stringent recovery requirements while reducing licensing and maintenance renewal costs. HP Data Protector single-pass disaster recovery streamlines bare metal restore from virtual-to-physical or physical-to-virtual servers and, together with HP Storage, delivers fully-automated, down-to-the-second application recovery – all from a centralized console.
www.hp.com
Symantec NetBackup
Symantec NetBackup delivers high-performance data protection from desktop to data center across physical systems and VMware virtual environments. NetBackup 7 is integrated with the latest vStorage API improvements; provides deduplication anywhere: within the VM, or the backup server, or appliances; and provides single-pass stage-less backup, and granular stage-less recovery.
www.symantec.com
Syncsort BEX
Syncsort BEX accelerates server consolidation and virtualization without impacting application performance. BEX provides the fastest backup and instant recovery while minimizing storage requirements - all from a "single pane of glass." The holistic solution makes administration easy, minimizes network, CPU and storage requirements, and increases ROI. BEX reduces backup time by 90%, recovery time to minutes, and CPU and bandwidth usage by more than 90%, while reducing storage requirements by 90% and increasing backup success rates by up to 99% or more.
www.syncsort.com
Quest vRanger Pro
Quest vRanger Pro provides a fast, comprehensive and scalable backup and recovery solution for VMware environments. Used to manage disaster recovery strategies and protect critical data, vRanger Pro performs differential or complete image backups of virtual machines and can quickly recovery the entire backup image or just specific files.
www.quest.com/vranger
