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ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) - Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup: Hyper-V and VMware Virtual Machine Backup and Restore
ProSight DPS Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup is a fully managed service intended to offer small and mid-size businesses a reliable and low-cost option for backing up and recovering Hyper-V and VMware-powered virtual machines (VMs). Altaro VM Backup can be deployed local, remote, multi-location, and hybrid cloud environments and also supports cost-effective backup to an Azure Blob storage service.
Top features of ProSight DPS Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup are industry-leading Augmented Inline Deduplication to reduce storage size, Continuous Data Protection with backup intervals as low as five minutes for minimizing your window for data loss, enterprise-class encryption, flexible restore alternatives for entire virtual machines or for individual files and emails, extensive support for Windows Server Cluster Shared Volumes (CSV) and VMware vCenter and vSphere, and the ability to leverage Volume Shadow Copy Service technology to back up live virtual machines with no downtime.
Progent is an Hornetsecurity Altaro partner and can provide a broad range of services to assist you to design, implement, validate and troubleshoot a backup/restore solution based on Altaro's VM Backup platform. Progent also offers ProSight Data Protection Services Altaro VM Backup as a subscription service to deliver end-to-end management of your backup/restore solution. Progent's Windows Hyper-V experts and VMware vCenter and vSphere integration experts can help you to design and maintain virtual machine deployments that use local or offsite VMs or that work in a hybrid architecture that combines local and cloud assets. Also, Progent can provide workplace recovery planning consulting to help businesses to rebound from calamities such as ransomware assaults and widespread disasters.
Key Features of Altaro VM Backup
Altaro VM Backup is built to handle the backup/restore requirements of most small and medium-size organizations and offers simplicity of management plus a rich set of features typically available exclusively in enterprise-class products. Altaro protects widely used releases of Windows Hyper-V and VMware vCenter and supports most backup hardware:
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Windows Server 2022 Windows Server 2019 Windows Server 2016 Windows Server 2012 R2 Windows Server 2012 Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V Server (Core) |
VMware vCenter V(5.0, 5.1, 5.5, 6.0, 6.5, 6.7 & 7.0) VMware vSphere V(6.7 & 7.0) ESXi V(6.0) (Free ESXi not compatible) |
USB Drives eSata External Drives USB Flash Network Shares NAS devices Desktop Hard Drives RDX Storage Altaro AOS |
Altaro VM Backup offers advanced capabilities in vital areas of backup includung backup replication, prompt restoration, and centralized management.
Replication
Altaro VM Backup delivers rapid, economical, and secure backup for data protection and archiving plus offsite replication for dependable recovery. Top backup and replication capabilities include:
- Global Augmented In-Line Deduplication: Altaro's in-line deduplication sends only changed data to backup storage devices, conserving bandwidth, minimizing storage demands, and enhancing performance. Deduplication works with data on single virtual machines and on many VMs globally.
- Continuous Data Protection (CDP): Rather than scheduling one-a-day backups, you can reduce backup spacing to as short as five minutes to minimize your Recovery Point Objective.
- Concurrent Backups: You can back up many VMs simultaneously, which makes it possible to carry out backup operations during briefer off-hour time windows when the most network bandwidth is open and workload performance is less critical.
- Live Backup: Altaro's integration with Volume Shadow Copy Service permits you to back up VMs without requiring downtime.
- Cluster Shared Volumes and VMware vCenter: The ability to back up VMs running in a Hyper-V Failover Cluster (with or without CSV) or within a vCenter environment allows larger implementations.
- Offsite Replication: To facilitate business recovery, you can set up the Altaro Offsite Server utility on an external server for keeping a copy of your backups at a remote location.
- Flexible Scheduling and Retention Policies: You can set different backup schedules and retention policies for individual VMs.
Backup scheduling and retention policies for Altaro are simple to set up, review and edit - Workload Specific Backups: Altaro VM Backup can utilize Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) and any VSS Writers running inside the protected VM when making a backup. Apps including Microsoft Exchange and Microsoft SQL will sense the backup has taken place and automatically run the appropriate maintenance jobs such as truncating virtual log files.
- Military-Class Encryption: Before copying data to a backup device, you have the option of encrypting it with the AES-256 encryption standard.
- Virtual Disk Exclusion: You have the ability to select which Virtual Disks to include or ignore in your virtual machine backups.
- Grandfather-Father-Son Archiving (GFS): Besides your continuous and daily backups, you can implement a special backup schedule to make and archive a backup version each week, month and year.
- Cloud Backup to Microsoft Azure: Altaro VM Backup allows backup to an Azure Block Blob account, which is the lowest priced storage option available on the Azure cloud.
Altaro Virtual Machine Backup enables you to back up virtual machines hosted on-premises, remotely or in the cloud - Cloud Backup to Amazon S3 and Wasabi: Altaro VM Backup allows seamless backup to Amazon S3 and Wasabi clouds. No extra resources running in the cloud are necessary to provide backup storage.
- Back up to multiple off-premises datacenters: For improved robustness, you can make copies of virtual machines on multiple off-premises sites including multiple clouds like Microsoft Azure and Amazon S3.
Altaro VM Backup offers a rich set of tools for point-in-time recovery of VMs and files that have been copied on schedule and need to be restored. In case of a catastrophic event, Altaro VM Backup VM Backup has tools for quickly restoring an entire site using the most recent replicated version stored on a safe remote site.
- Recover as Clone: You can restore a VM backup to a new destination with a new name, allowing the cloned virtual machine to operate beside the original VM. This eliminates the necessity to write over active virtual machines.
- Restore to Different Host: You can restore a virtual machine backup to a new or different Hypervisor. The VM can be recovered from the on-prem backup location, or directly from the remote copy location. (You may not cross-recover between Hyper-V and VMware Hypervisors.)
- Boot from Backup: You can immediately boot any virtual machine version directly from the backup location either for verification or to achieve a significant improvement in Recovery Time Objective (RTO) in a disaster recovery scenario.
- File-Level Restore: You can rapidly restore individual files from any VM copy.
- WAN-Optimized Replication: You can make ongoing backups of your virtual machines to a different site and switch instantly to the backup site in case a calamity takes out your main virtual machines. This can significantly reduce your Recovery Time Objective and put you back in business fast.
- Microsoft Exchange Item-Level Restore: You can retrieve individual emails from within the Exchange Mailbox.
Altaro Virtual Machine Backup enables you to restore specific emails from an Exchange Mailbox database - Recover Different Versions: You can recover from different points in time instead of being limited to the latest backup copy.
- Sandbox Restores and Testing: This feature lets you schedule or run manually tests to confirm the integrity of your backup. You can verify backup folders without connecting the VM to your Hyper-V or VMware Hypervisor, or you can execute a full test recovery to a replicant and ensure that the restored VM is able to boot.
- Backup Health Monitor: Backup copy integrity can be checked on demand and repaired automatically as part of the subsequent backup process.
The browser-based Cloud Management Console centralizes management, monitoring and reporting for Altaro Virtual Machine Backup deployments. The CMC offers a centralized online portal for processes like initiating backups, establishing on-premises and remote backup sites, defining encryption keys, and recovering virtual machines. The Cloud Management Console also saves time by allowing you to build specialized templates with backup schedules, retention details and advanced settings and assign them to various virtual machines across different hosts. Also, you can use the CMC to observe backup activities in real time, review historic reports on jobs and problems, and configure the Cloud Management Console to send email alerts for successful or failed tasks and other important information.
Download ProSight Altaro VM Backup Services Datasheet
To view or download a datasheet describing the key capabilities of ProSight Altaro VM Backup Services, click:
Progent's ProSight Altaro VM Backup Services Datasheet. (PDF - 310 KB)
How Progent Can Assist Your Business to Benefit from Altaro VM Backup
Progent's Microsoft-certified Windows Server Hyper-V planning and deployment experts and VMware-certified vSphere and vCenter specialists can assist you to plan, implement and manage a backup/recover solution built on Altaro VM Backup software. Progent's Exchange consultants can help you to use Altaro VM Backup to safeguard your Exchange environment, and Progent's Microsoft Azure hybrid cloud integration experts can assist you to use your Azure Block Blob storage with Altaro to back up your VMs. Progent's business continuity planning experts can assist your company to use Altaro VM Backup's replication features and remote backup options to safeguard your mission-critical data and allow you to restart your vital operations rapidly in the event of a catastrophe. Progent's GIAC-certified information assurance (IA) consultants can assess the cybersecurity posture of your backup solution and can help your organization to deploy advanced technology and follow industry leading practices for working securely in the current threat environment.
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