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Another product to mention designed to protect virtual environments is Altaro VM Backup<\/a> that offers a backup solution where the simplicity<\/strong> is the strong point.<\/p>\n As guide line, the choice for the most suitable backup solution<\/strong> for your environment depends on different factors, such as size, number of VMs, virtual infrastructure type and so on.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Nakivo Backup & Replication<\/a> <\/p>\n Currently available as version 7.5<\/a>,\u00a0Altaro VM Backup is an affordable, high performance backup solution suitable for small and mid-market environments<\/strong> and supports both VMware and Hyper-V virtual platforms. The software is available for Windows OS only<\/strong>\u00a0and the installation requires only few clicks without the need of software dependencies, such as MS-SQL.<\/p>\n The application is easy to use and the\u00a0management is done through an intuitive UI<\/strong> making the backup strategy easy to implement. It's also possible to monitor and manage all Altaro VM Backup installations from a\u00a0single cloud console<\/strong> using the\u00a0Altaro VM Backup Cloud Management Console<\/strong>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The product is licensed per\u00a0physical host<\/strong> with unlimited sockets\/CPUs\u00a0and includes first year of updates and support.<\/p>\n Altaro VM Backup is available in\u00a0three editions<\/strong>:<\/p>\n Altaro includes a\u00a0Free edition<\/strong>\u00a0and allows the backup of 2 VMs per host<\/strong>. To test the application, Altaro VM Backup is available as\u00a030-day trial<\/a>.<\/p>\n You can find a detailed\u00a0pricing<\/a>\u00a0in the Altaro's website.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Using the snapshot technology, Altaro performs an\u00a0image-based backup<\/strong>\u00a0where all VM backups are\u00a0forever incrementals<\/strong>\u00a0and uses the\u00a0Changed Block Tracking<\/strong>\u00a0(CBT) technology to identify and transfer only changed data to the repository. Backup storage requirements are drastically reduced with the\u00a0Augmented Inline Deduplication<\/a>\u00a0technology, a proprietary solution to optimize data written to the storage that saves space speeding up backups.<\/p>\n VM Backup performs application consistent backups<\/strong> of your VMs (application-aware) using the guest VSS services and all VSS Writers running inside the Guest VM. For products such as Exchange and MS SQL when the backup has completed successfully, the application performs also the task of truncating transaction logs<\/strong>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Altaro includes the\u00a0Boot from Backup feature that allows to boot a VM directly from backup location<\/strong> without restoring the full backup first.\u00a0The product also support the granular restore of VMs, files and Exchange items<\/strong>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n To be compliant with the backup rule 3-2-1, backups can be sent offsite<\/strong> or to an Azure Block Blob<\/a> storage account\u00a0through the\u00a0Backup Copy jobs<\/strong>. The WAN Accelerator component can be used to speed up data transfer over slow WAN.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n To quickly recover mission critical VMs,\u00a0VMs can be copied<\/strong> to an offsite location for disaster recovery protection or to an offsite storage through the Internet connection, optimized through the WAN Acceleration to speed up transfers, or by enabling drive swap rotation on selected drives.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n To ensure recoverable VMs from backups avoiding risks of damaged backups, verifying the backups is an essential part of the backup stratey. Using the Test & Verify Backup<\/strong> feature, there are two ways to verify automatically the integrity of your backup data:<\/p>\n To ensure backups are healthy, the application offers a cool feature called\u00a0Backup Health Monitor<\/strong> that proactively monitors the health of your backup storage, detecting possible blocks corruption and automatically repairs as part of the next backup job.<\/p>\n A complete guide for the installation and configuration of Altaro VM Backup product can be found in\u00a0this article<\/a>.<\/p>\nBlog Series<\/h2>\n
\nAltaro VM Backup
\nMicro Focus VM Explorer<\/a> (former Trilead, HPE)
\nVembu VMBackup<\/a>
\nVeeam\u00a0Backup & Replication<\/a><\/p>\nAltaro VM Backup<\/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>\nBoot from Backup<\/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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