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Today most popular virtual platforms<\/strong>\u00a0in IT industry are VMware<\/a>\u00a0and Hyper-V that require an efficient backup infrastructure to ensure data protection and business continuity.<\/p>\n This blog series will cover the top 5 backup solutions to protect VMware and Hyper-V environments where products and vendors don't follow\u00a0any preference or specific order<\/strong>.<\/p>\n There are several backup solutions in the market with different features, and the selection for the most suitable backup product<\/strong> for a specific environment must be evaluated carefully. One of the available products that offers interesting features for data protection is\u00a0Nakivo Backup & Replication, a solution that became very popular in few years with an incredible grow and a constant development.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Nakivo Backup & Replication <\/p>\n Currently available as version 7.2<\/a>, Nakivo Backup & Replication is an agentless software<\/strong> solution that can be installed on Windows or Linux OSs, deployed as Linux appliance or directly on QNAP, Synology, ASUSTOR, or WD NAS. The deployment to Amazon cloud<\/strong> is also supported from a pre-configured Amazon Machine Image.<\/p>\n The management of the product is made through a clean and simple UI web-based<\/strong> where the user is guided in every step of the configuration.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The product is licensed per physical CPU socket<\/strong> for each ESXi and Hyper-V server on which you back up or replicate VMs and no need for socket license if Nakivo is installed on the NAS.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Nakivo Backup & Replication is available in three editions<\/strong>:<\/p>\n Nakivo offers an Essential version<\/strong>\u00a0for Pro and Enterprise editions that allows the protection of small environments with a more affordable price but limited to max 6 sockets licenses<\/strong> per Organization.<\/p>\n A\u00a0Free edition<\/strong> is also available and includes a license for 2 VMs<\/strong>. To test the application, Nakivo Backup & Replication is available as 30-day trial<\/a>.<\/p>\n A detailed pricing <\/a>is available in the Nakivo website.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Nakivo protects the workloads performing an image-based backup<\/strong>\u00a0(snapshot technology) and all VM backups are forever incrementals<\/strong> using the Changed Block Tracking<\/strong> (CBT) technology to identify and transfer only changed data to the repository. Protocols used by Nakivo to get data is the\u00a0LAN-free<\/strong>\u00a0backup mode for fiber-channel and iSCSI SANs or the\u00a0Hot Add<\/strong>\u00a0mode that offload management and production networks. To save space on the repository, all VM backups are\u00a0automatically deduplicated<\/strong>\u00a0at the block level and compressed to ensure that the least amount of space is used.<\/p>\n Network Acceleration feature allows to enable\u00a0compression<\/strong>\u00a0and traffic reduction techniques<\/strong> to speed up data transfer over slow WAN saving the 50% of network load<\/strong> increasing the data transfer of 2X<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Backups are performed using the application-aware mode<\/strong> to ensure consistency for applications data and databases (Exchange, Active Directory, MS SQL, and SharePoint).\u00a0Microsoft SQL and Exchange Log Truncation feature<\/strong> is available to automatically truncates log files after a successful VM backup or replica.<\/p>\n You can protect VM folders, resource pools, host and cluster,\u00a0referred as containers<\/strong>, where virtual machines added to the protected container are automatically added to the backup job.\u00a0Swap files and partitions<\/strong> in VMware VMs can be skipped automatically to speed up data transfer saving storage space in a backup repository.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Nakivo supports the Instant Recovery feature to recover VMs and files as well as Microsoft Exchange<\/strong>, Microsoft SQL Server<\/strong>, and Microsoft Active Directory<\/strong> objects directly from deduplicated and compressed VM backups. A full restore from backup is not required and the recovery is performed directly from the backup<\/strong> repository.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Since keeping backups in the same location of production VMs is not an ideal solution, Nakivo can send backups offsite and to Amazon<\/strong> through the Backup Copy jobs<\/strong>. You can easily setup the copy process maintaining a mirror of your backup repository<\/strong> or customize where and how VMs should be copied.<\/p>\n Replication creates an identical copy<\/strong> of the VMs on target ESXi hosts allowing to quickly recover a VM<\/strong> in case the production VM fails. To recover the VMs is required to powering on<\/strong> the replicated VMs only. You can have up to 30 recovery points<\/strong> to roll back to in case of need.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Taking backup of your VMs without testing the integrity<\/strong> can make the backup useless if the backup is damaged due viruses, disk errors and so on. To ensure you can recover a VM from a backup, the backup must be checked performing a recovery test. Nakivo has the capability of verifying all created backups<\/strong> and send a report with OS screenshots of test-recovered VMs.<\/p>\n Nakivo is a good product that offers all the features requested<\/strong> by the administrators to protect the data and recover the infrastructure from a disaster.\u00a0A complete guide for the installation and configuration of Nakivo Backup & Replication can be found in\u00a0this article<\/a>.<\/p>\nBlog Series<\/h2>\n
\nAltaro VM Backup<\/a>
\nMicro Focus VM Explorer<\/a> (former Trilead, HPE)
\nVembu VMBackup<\/a>
\nVeeam\u00a0Backup & Replication<\/a><\/p>\nNakivo Backup & Replication<\/h2>\n
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<\/p>\nLicense and available editions<\/h4>\n
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Backup features<\/h4>\n
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<\/p>\nInstant Recovery<\/h4>\n
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<\/p>\nCopy backups Offsite and to Cloud<\/h4>\n
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<\/p>\nReplication<\/h4>\n
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<\/p>\nTest backups<\/h4>\n
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