{"id":22784,"date":"2017-11-27T09:00:47","date_gmt":"2017-11-27T08:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/?p=22784"},"modified":"2020-03-15T18:19:24","modified_gmt":"2020-03-15T17:19:24","slug":"vembu-bdr-suite-free-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/vembu-bdr-suite-free-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Vembu BDR Suite Free Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-22807 size-full\" title=\"vembu-bdr-suite-free-edition-01\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/vembu-bdr-suite-free-edition-01.jpg\" alt=\"vembu-bdr-suite-free-edition-01\" width=\"602\" height=\"202\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Vembu BDR Suite is a software solution focused on Backup and Disaster Recovery for VMware vSphere and Hyper-V suitable for\u00a0enterprise and SMB businesses.<\/p>\n<p>Through a <strong>single user face<\/strong>, Vembu BDR Suite backups can be stored on-site, off-site and to the cloud. In addition to common backup features, the software offers the <strong>Item Level backups<\/strong> for Microsoft Exchange Servers, SharePoint, SQL, My SQL, Office 365, G Suite etc.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Latest <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vembu.com\/vembu-bdr-suite\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">version 3.8.0<\/a> is available also as <strong>forever free edition<\/strong> and comes with two options you can choose from:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>unlimited features<\/strong> for three virtual machines<\/li>\n<li><strong>unlimited virtual machines<\/strong> with restricted features<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-22808 size-large\" title=\"vembu-bdr-suite-free-edition-02\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/vembu-bdr-suite-free-edition-02-600x353.jpg\" alt=\"vembu-bdr-suite-free-edition-02\" width=\"600\" height=\"353\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Vembu BDR Suite Free Edition benefits<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Vembu BDR Suite supports <strong>VMware and Hyper-V<\/strong> virtual platforms as well as <strong>physical servers<\/strong> and workstations.<\/li>\n<li>The Free Edition is <strong>free forever<\/strong> and no licenses are involved.<\/li>\n<li>No major restrictions in functionality and <strong>full image backups and recovery<\/strong> for both physical and VMs can be performed. Granular recovery of files is also supported.<\/li>\n<li>The proprietary <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vembu.com\/efficient-storage-management\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">VembuHIVE\u00a0filesystem<\/a> makes the <strong>storage management more efficient<\/strong> with compression, version control, encryption and error correction features.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Unlimited VMs and physical servers<\/strong> can be backed up making the Free Edition suitable also for production environments.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-22809 size-large\" title=\"vembu-bdr-suite-free-edition-03\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/vembu-bdr-suite-free-edition-03-600x328.jpg\" alt=\"vembu-bdr-suite-free-edition-03\" width=\"600\" height=\"328\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Unlimited features available for 3 VMs<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>No agents<\/strong> are installed on VMs to protect.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Disk Image backups<\/strong> can be now managed through the Vembu BDR Server and proxy agent is no longer required (only a distributed deployment still requires it).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-22810 size-large\" title=\"vembu-bdr-suite-free-edition-04\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/vembu-bdr-suite-free-edition-04-600x187.jpg\" alt=\"vembu-bdr-suite-free-edition-04\" width=\"600\" height=\"187\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Full backup<\/strong> for VMs is supported, including OS, applications and data.<\/li>\n<li>Different volumes and storage devices can be aggregated in <strong>Storage Pools<\/strong> used for specific backups. Vembu BDR Server supports local drives, NAS (NFS and CIFS) and SAN (iSCSI and FC).<\/li>\n<li>For LAN free data transfer,\u00a0<strong>Direct SAN<\/strong>, <strong>Hot-Add<\/strong> and <strong>NBD<\/strong> transport modes are supported.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-22812 size-large\" title=\"vembu-bdr-suite-free-edition-05\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/vembu-bdr-suite-free-edition-05-600x193.jpg\" alt=\"vembu-bdr-suite-free-edition-05\" width=\"600\" height=\"193\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Auto Authorization<\/strong>\u00a0feature allows proxy agents to be registered to backup server with a key generated by respective BDR server.<\/li>\n<li>Backups can be <strong>scheduled<\/strong> to be performed during the preferred backup window.<\/li>\n<li>Backups support\u00a0<strong>encryption<\/strong>\u00a0providing an additional security tier.<\/li>\n<li><strong>File Level Recovery<\/strong> (FLR) is now available for both backup and replication jobs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-22813 size-large\" title=\"vembu-bdr-suite-free-edition-06\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/vembu-bdr-suite-free-edition-06-600x190.jpg\" alt=\"vembu-bdr-suite-free-edition-06\" width=\"600\" height=\"190\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Restricted features for unlimited VMs<\/h2>\n<p>All the features mentioned above for limited business environment will be applicable for this categories with few restrictions in the features.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Application aware<\/strong> processing is restricted for Hyper-V but not for VMware vSphere.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-22814 size-large\" title=\"vembu-bdr-suite-free-edition-07\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/vembu-bdr-suite-free-edition-07-600x353.jpg\" alt=\"vembu-bdr-suite-free-edition-07\" width=\"600\" height=\"353\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Changed Block Tracking<\/strong>\u00a0allows to reduce space used in the storage backing up only blocks changed since the previous backup.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Retention Policies<\/strong> can be configured to retain any number of recovery points.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Near CDP<\/strong> allows to schedule Incremental backup every 15 mins.<\/li>\n<li>With incremental backups every 15 minutes, Vembu provides a <strong>quick VM recovery<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Backup can be verified against recoverability through the <strong>Automated Backup verification<\/strong> feature.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A detailed comparison between <strong>Paid vs Free<\/strong> editions can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vembu.com\/vembu-bdr-suite-free-vs-paid-edition\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-22816 size-large\" title=\"vembu-bdr-suite-free-edition-08\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/vembu-bdr-suite-free-edition-08-600x186.jpg\" alt=\"vembu-bdr-suite-free-edition-08\" width=\"600\" height=\"186\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Although is a Free Edition, Vembu BDR Suite Free is a <strong>complete backup solution<\/strong> with all features requested by modern software and can be used also in production environments.<\/p>\n<p>Vembu BDR Suite Free Edition is available as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vembu.com\/vembu-bdr-suite-download\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">30 days free<\/a> trial and a detailed guide to install and configure the application can be found in <a href=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/vembu-bdr-suite-3-7-installation-pt-1\/\">this article<\/a>.<\/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 software solution focused on Backup and Disaster Recovery for VMware vSphere and Hyper-V suitable for\u00a0enterprise and SMB businesses. Through a single user face, Vembu BDR Suite backups can be stored on-site, off-site and to the cloud. In addition to common backup features, the software offers the Item Level backups for Microsoft Exchange Servers, SharePoint, SQL, My SQL, Office 365, G Suite etc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":22807,"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":[1808,880,1767],"class_list":["post-22784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-vmware-en","category-backup-en","category-vembu-en","tag-bdr-suite","tag-free-en","tag-vembu","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22784","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=22784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22784\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}