{"id":20567,"date":"2017-04-24T09:00:57","date_gmt":"2017-04-24T07:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/?p=20567\/"},"modified":"2020-03-15T18:19:25","modified_gmt":"2020-03-15T17:19:25","slug":"vembu-bdr-suite-3-7-installation-pt-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/vembu-bdr-suite-3-7-installation-pt-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Vembu BDR suite 3.7 overview and setup - pt.1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-20574 size-full\" title=\"vembubdr37install01\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/vembubdr37install01.jpg\" alt=\"vembubdr37install01\" width=\"602\" height=\"202\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Vembu BDR Suite is a <strong>Backup and Disaster Recovery<\/strong> software solution for the virtualized data centers and supports VMware and Hyper-V platforms.<\/p>\n<p>Based on <strong>snapshots<\/strong> technology, Vembu can be deployed in Windows or Linux platforms or as a virtual appliance for both VMware or Hyper-V environments. Backups can be saved offsite, cloud, on-premise and hybrid cloud.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-20575 size-large\" title=\"vembubdr37install02\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/vembubdr37install02-600x137.jpg\" alt=\"vembubdr37install02\" width=\"600\" height=\"137\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Blog series<\/h2>\n<p>Vembu BDR Suite 3.7 overview and setup - pt.1<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/vembu-vmbackup-3-7-backup-restore-pt-2\/\">Vembu VMBackup 3.7\u00a0backup and restore\u00a0- pt.2<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/vembu-vmbackup-3-7-replication-offsite-copy-pt-3\/\">Vembu VMBackup 3.7 replication and offsite copy - pt.3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Supported platforms<\/h2>\n<p>Vembu BDR Suite supports the following environments:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4>VMware<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>VMware:\u00a0<span class=\"fontstyle3\">vSphere 4.x, 5.x, 6.0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"fontstyle0\">Hypervisor:\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"fontstyle3\">ESXi 4.x, 5.x, 6.0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"fontstyle0\">Management Server: <\/span><span class=\"fontstyle3\">vCenter Server 4.x, 5.x, 6.0<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-20576 size-large\" title=\"vembubdr37install03\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/vembubdr37install03-600x143.jpg\" alt=\"vembubdr37install03\" width=\"600\" height=\"143\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4>Hyper-V<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><span class=\"fontstyle0\">Virtual Infrastructure: <\/span><span class=\"fontstyle3\">Windows Server 2008 R2,\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"fontstyle3\">2012\/2012 R2,\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"fontstyle3\">2016<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"fontstyle0\">Hypervisor: <\/span><span class=\"fontstyle3\">Windows Server Hyper-V 2008 R2,\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"fontstyle3\">2012\/2012 R2,\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"fontstyle3\">2016<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-20577 size-large\" title=\"vembubdr37install04\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/vembubdr37install04-600x137.jpg\" alt=\"vembubdr37install04\" width=\"600\" height=\"137\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The <strong>recommended configuration<\/strong> for the BDR server is the following:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-20579 size-large\" title=\"vembubdr37install05\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/vembubdr37install05-600x381.jpg\" alt=\"vembubdr37install05\" width=\"600\" height=\"381\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Vembu BDR Suite<\/h2>\n<p>Vembu BDR Suite\u00a0can be used to protect virtualized data centers or simple IT environments in small and medium businesses, including <strong>Service Providers<\/strong> that offer offsite backup services to small businesses.<\/p>\n<p>Vembu BDR suite includes:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4>Vembu VMBackup<\/h4>\n<p>Provides protection for VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V environments by taking the <strong>snapshots of the VM images<\/strong> at the host level. Supports <strong>Application-aware<\/strong> image backup processing to ensure application consistency and no agents are installed on virtual machines.<\/p>\n<p>Vembu uses <strong>VMware CBT technology<\/strong>\u00a0(VMs with hardware version 7 and later) to improve VMware backups speed by reducing workload and time taken for job\u00a0completion.\u00a0A <strong>proprietary CBT driver<\/strong> is used in Hyper-V to track changed blocks during the incremental backup instead.\u00a0Backup copies can be sent <strong>offsite or to Vembu Cloud<\/strong>\u00a0for data redundancy and disaster recovery.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-20587 size-large\" title=\"vembubdr37install06\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/vembubdr37install06-600x300.jpg\" alt=\"vembubdr37install06\" width=\"600\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4>Vembu ImageBackup<\/h4>\n<p>It's a BDR solution for Windows Servers, Desktops and Laptops. You can perform a <strong>Bare-metal Recovery<\/strong> into the same or different Windows machine hardware.<\/p>\n<p>It supports also <strong>P2V<\/strong> to migrate Windows machines from physical environment to virtual.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-20588 size-large\" title=\"vembubdr37install07\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/vembubdr37install07-600x181.jpg\" alt=\"vembubdr37install07\" width=\"600\" height=\"181\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4>Vembu NetworkBackup<\/h4>\n<p>Designed for small medium businesses, this application offers an\u00a0Hybrid backup solution (On-Premise with optional cloud storage) for desktops\/laptops, file servers, applications like Microsoft Exchange, SQL Server, Sharepoint, Active Directory and Outlook. Systems can be backed up to a <strong>central location<\/strong> making the administration easier.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-20589 size-large\" title=\"vembubdr37install08\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/vembubdr37install08-600x315.jpg\" alt=\"vembubdr37install08\" width=\"600\" height=\"315\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4>Vembu OnlineBackup<\/h4>\n<p>It allows to backing up business critical data into <strong>Vembu's cloud<\/strong>. This cloud solution can protect File Server Backups,\u00a0Exchange, SQL, SharePoint and\u00a0Outlook Backups.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-20590 size-full\" title=\"vembubdr37install09\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/vembubdr37install09.jpg\" alt=\"vembubdr37install09\" width=\"580\" height=\"250\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4>Vembu SaaSBackup<\/h4>\n<p>It's a backup solution for<strong> Microsoft Office 365 and Google Apps<\/strong> and it has been designed to backup emails, drives, contacts and calendar. The backup data will be sent to the Vembu Cloud storage over secured network.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-20591 size-large\" title=\"vembubdr37install10\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/vembubdr37install10-600x280.jpg\" alt=\"vembubdr37install10\" width=\"600\" height=\"280\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Pricing<\/h2>\n<p>Vembu license is based on <strong>number of CPU sockets<\/strong> and includes unlimited product upgrade and 24\/7 email and telephone support. <strong>Every year<\/strong> the license has to be renewed.<\/p>\n<p>Check out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vembu.com\/vembu-bdr-suite-pricing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">current princing<\/a> at Vembu website.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-20592 size-large\" title=\"vembubdr37install11\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/vembubdr37install11-600x181.jpg\" alt=\"vembubdr37install11\" width=\"600\" height=\"181\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Install Vembu BDR<\/h2>\n<p>To proceed with the installation of the product, download <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vembu.com\/vembu-bdr-suite-download\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Vembu BDR<\/a> from Vembu website and run the installer. When the installation wizard starts, click <strong>Next<\/strong> to continue.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-20597 size-full\" title=\"vembubdr37install12\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/vembubdr37install12.jpg\" alt=\"vembubdr37install12\" width=\"513\" height=\"399\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Accept the EULA then click <strong>Next<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-20599 size-full\" title=\"vembubdr37install13\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/vembubdr37install13.jpg\" alt=\"vembubdr37install13\" width=\"513\" height=\"399\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Select <strong>Let me customize the configurations<\/strong> option and click <strong>Customize<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-20600 size-full\" title=\"vembubdr37install14\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/vembubdr37install14.jpg\" alt=\"vembubdr37install14\" width=\"513\" height=\"399\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Specify the <strong>Installation Location<\/strong> and <strong>DB Storage Location<\/strong>\u00a0then click <strong>Next<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-20601 size-full\" title=\"vembubdr37install15\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/vembubdr37install15.jpg\" alt=\"vembubdr37install15\" width=\"513\" height=\"399\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Leave default installation folder and click <strong>Next<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-20602 size-full\" title=\"vembubdr37install16\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/vembubdr37install16.jpg\" alt=\"vembubdr37install16\" width=\"513\" height=\"399\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Select <strong>Choose network drive as your Storage Repository<\/strong> option and click <strong>Next<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-20603 size-full\" title=\"vembubdr37install17\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/vembubdr37install17.jpg\" alt=\"vembubdr37install17\" width=\"513\" height=\"399\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Specify <strong>User Name<\/strong> and <strong>Password<\/strong>\u00a0to access the web console and click <strong>Next<\/strong> to continue.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-20604 size-full\" title=\"vembubdr37install18\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/vembubdr37install18.jpg\" alt=\"vembubdr37install18\" width=\"513\" height=\"399\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Click <strong>Install<\/strong> to proceed with the installation.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-20605 size-full\" title=\"vembubdr37install19\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/vembubdr37install19.jpg\" alt=\"vembubdr37install19\" width=\"513\" height=\"399\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The application is being installed.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-20606 size-full\" title=\"vembubdr37install20\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/vembubdr37install20.jpg\" alt=\"vembubdr37install20\" width=\"513\" height=\"399\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When the installation has been completed successfully, leave both options enabled and click <strong>Finish<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-20607 size-full\" title=\"vembubdr37install21\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/vembubdr37install21.jpg\" alt=\"vembubdr37install21\" width=\"513\" height=\"399\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Access the web console<\/h2>\n<p>To access Vembu's web console, open your preferred browser and type the address <strong>https:\/\/IPAddress_DNSName:6061<\/strong>. Enter the credentials previously specified\u00a0and click <strong>Sign in<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-20608 size-large\" title=\"vembubdr37install22\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/vembubdr37install22-600x285.jpg\" alt=\"vembubdr37install22\" width=\"600\" height=\"285\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Select the desired\u00a0<strong>Time Zone<\/strong> and click <strong>Save<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-20609 size-large\" title=\"vembubdr37install23\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/vembubdr37install23-600x274.jpg\" alt=\"vembubdr37install23\" width=\"600\" height=\"274\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Enter\u00a0a\u00a0unique name (i.e. machine name) in <strong>Enter a Vembu BDR ID<\/strong> field then click <strong>Update<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-20610 size-large\" title=\"vembubdr37install24\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/vembubdr37install24-600x263.jpg\" alt=\"vembubdr37install24\" width=\"600\" height=\"263\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Configure the Storage Repository<\/h2>\n<p>First time you access the Vembu <strong>Dashboard<\/strong>, you have to configure the\u00a0storage devices. Click <strong>Add Network Drive<\/strong> button to add the devices used to store the backups.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-20611 size-large\" title=\"vembubdr37install25\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/vembubdr37install25-600x385.jpg\" alt=\"vembubdr37install25\" width=\"600\" height=\"385\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Vembu supports different\u00a0storage media\u00a0<span class=\"fontstyle0\">such as <strong>Local drives<\/strong>, <strong>NAS<\/strong> (NFS and CiFS) and <strong>SAN<\/strong> (iSCSI and FC).<\/span>\u00a0In the <strong>Management &gt; Storage Management<\/strong> section, enter the parameters in the required fields and click <strong>Save<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-20612 size-large\" title=\"vembubdr37install26\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/vembubdr37install26-600x398.jpg\" alt=\"vembubdr37install26\" width=\"600\" height=\"398\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The drive has been added successfully.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-20613 size-large\" title=\"vembubdr37install27\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/vembubdr37install27-600x379.jpg\" alt=\"vembubdr37install27\" width=\"600\" height=\"379\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Go to the <strong>Dashboard<\/strong> to check the global status of the system. Since no backups have been configured yet, no data are displayed except the storage devices.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-20614 size-large\" title=\"vembubdr37install28\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/vembubdr37install28-600x416.jpg\" alt=\"vembubdr37install28\" width=\"600\" height=\"416\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Vembu installation is now complete. <a href=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/vembu-vmbackup-3-7-backup-restore-pt-2\/\">Part 2<\/a> will cover the configuration of the <strong>backup and restore<\/strong> jobs.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"signature\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/firma.jpg\" alt=\"signature\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vembu BDR Suite is a Backup and Disaster Recovery software solution for the virtualized data centers and supports VMware and Hyper-V platforms. Based on snapshots technology, Vembu can be deployed in Windows or Linux platforms or as a virtual appliance for both VMware or Hyper-V environments. Backups can be saved offsite, cloud, on-premise and hybrid cloud.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":20574,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"linkedin_93tdZWzMZc_93tdZWzMZc":"","facebook_2879994398731222_17841400390232720":"","twitter_113568041_113568041":"","mastodon_115463926174894442_115463926174894442":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[903,2138,1766],"tags":[579,1767,699],"class_list":["post-20567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-vmware-en","category-backup-en","category-vembu-en","tag-backup-en","tag-vembu","tag-vmware-en","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20567\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}