ProSight Data Protection Services - Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup
Hyper-V and VMware Virtual Machine Backup/Recovery
ProSight Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup is a managed subscription service designed to provide small and mid-size organizations a reliable and affordable solution for protecting Hyper-V and VMware-powered VMs. ProSight DPS Altaro Backup can be used with local, remote, multi-location, and cloud based environments and also supports cost-effective cloud backup to an Azure Blob storage service.
Key capabilities of ProSight DPS Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup are industry-leading Augmented Inline Deduplication to reduce storage requirements, Continuous Data Protection with backup intervals down to five minutes for reducing your vulnerability to data loss, enterprise-class data encryption, granular recovery alternatives for whole virtual machines or for specific files, extensive support for Windows Server Cluster Shared Volumes and VMware, and support for Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) technology to protect running VMs without downtime.
Progent is a certified Hornetsecurity Altaro partner and offers a wide range of services to assist you to plan, implement, test and troubleshoot a backup/restore solution based on Altaro's VM Backup platform. Progent also has developed ProSight Data Protection Services Altaro VM Backup as a subscription service to deliver end-to-end monitoring and management of your data protection solution. Progent's certified Hyper-V consultants and VMware vCenter and vSphere integration experts can help your organization to plan and manage virtual machine deployments that use local or remote VMs or that use a hybrid network that combines on-prem and cloud-based resources. Also, Progent can provide business continuity preparedness consulting to assist businesses to get ready for catastrophic events such as ransomware assaults and natural disasters.
Key Capabilities of Altaro VM Backup
Altaro VM Backup is built to handle the data protection requirements of typical small and midsize businesses and offers ease of operation plus a comprehensive range of capabilities usually available exclusively in enterprise-class platforms. Altaro VM Backup backs up widely used releases of Hyper-V and VMware vCenter and works with most backup media:
Hyper-V OS |
VMware OS |
Media |
Windows Server 2022
Windows Server 2019
Windows Server 2016
Windows Server 2012 R2
Windows Server 2012
Windows Server 2008 R2
Hyper-V Core
Azure Stack HCI
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VMware vCenter
V(5.0, 5.1, 5.5, 6.0, 6.5, 6.7 & 7.0)
VMware vSphere
V(5.1)
ESXi
V(6.7 & 7.0)
(Free VMware ESXi is not compatible)
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USB External Drives
eSata External Drives
USB Flash
Network Shares
NAS storage
Desktop Internal Drives
RDX Storage
Altaro Offsite Server
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Altaro supports current versions of Hyper-V and VMware and works with most backup technologies
Altaro VM Backup offers advanced capabilities in vital areas of backup such as backup replication, prompt restoration, and centralized management.
Replication
Altaro VM Backup offers fast, economical, and secure backup for data protection and archiving plus offsite replication for dependable restoration. Top backup and replication capabilities include:
- Ransomware Defense leveraging Immutable Cloud Storage: Immutable backup for cloud storage enables tamper-proof data for a set duration so that backup data cannot be modified or deleted by any user including administrators or root users. This adds an extra level of security and restoration ability in the event of a successful ransomware attack.
- Augmented In-Line Deduplication: In-line deduplication saves only changed data to backup storage devices, conserving bandwidth, cutting backup storage demands, and improving throughput. Altaro's deduplication works with data on single virtual machines as well as across many VMs.
- Continuous Data Protection: Rather than performing daily backups, you can reduce backup intervals to as brief as five minutes to lower your Recovery Point Objective.
- Concurrent Backups: You can back up many virtual machines concurrently, allowing you to conduct backup operations within shorter low-activity time windows when more bandwidth is available and network throughput is less urgent.
- Live Backup: Integration with Volume Shadow Copy Service permits you to back up VMs without requiring downtime.
- Cluster Shared Volumes and VMware vCenter: The ability to protect VMs running in a Windows Hyper-V Failover Cluster (with or without CSV) or within a vCenter system allows larger deployments.
- Remote Replication: To facilitate disaster recovery, you can deploy the Altaro Offsite Server tool on an external server for keeping a copy of your backups at a different location.
- Flexible Scheduling and Retention Policies: You can set different backup schedules and retention policies for individual VMs.
Backup scheduling and retention options for Altaro are simple to configure, review and revise
- Workload Specific Protection: Altaro can utilize Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service and any VSS Writers running within the target virtual machine when making a backup. Applications such as Exchange and Microsoft SQL will be aware the backup has taken place and automatically run the relevant maintenance procedures like truncating VLFs.
- Military-Class Encryption: Before saving data to a backup device, you have the ability to encrypt it with the 256-Bit AES standard.
- Virtual Disk Exclude: You can specify which Virtual Disks to include or exclude in your VM backups.
- Grandfather-Father-Son Archiving: On top of your continuous and daily backups, you can implement a special schedule to make and archive a backup copy each week, month and year.
- Cloud Backup to Microsoft Azure: Altaro supports backup to an Azure Block Blob storage account, which is the most affordable storage alternative available on the Azure cloud.
Altaro VM Backup permits you to protect virtual machines hosted on-premises, offsite or in a public cloud
- Cloud Backup to Amazon S3 and Wasabi: Altaro VM Backup VM Backup allows seamless backup to Amazon S3 and Wasabi. No extra resources operating in the cloud are necessary to provide storage for backup.
- Back up to multiple remote locations: For better robustness, you can make copies of VMs on multiple off-premises locations including multiple public clouds like Azure and Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3).
Restoration and Disaster Recovery
Altaro VM Backup includes a rich toolset for granular point-in-time recovery of virtual machines and files that have been backed up periodically and have to be restored. In a disaster recovery scenario, Altaro VM Backup has utilities for quickly restoring a complete site from the most recent copy protected offsite.
- Restore as Clone: You can restore a virtual machine backup to a new destination with a new name, allowing the cloned VM to run side by side with the original virtual machine. This eliminates the necessity to overwrite active VMs.
- Recover to Different Host: You can restore a VM backup to a new or different Hypervisor. The VM can be recovered from the local backup location, or directly from the offsite copy location. (You may not cross-restore between Hyper-V and VMware Hypervisors.)
- Boot from Backup: You can instantly boot any VM copy from the backup device for testing purposes or to achieve a major improvement in RTO in a disaster recovery event.
- File-Level Restore: You can rapidly restore specific files from any VM backup.
- WAN-Optimized Replication: You can make ongoing backups of your VMs to a remote location and switch instantly to the copy location in case a disaster takes out your main virtual machines. This can significantly shrink your Recovery Time Objective (RTO) and put your organization back online fast.
- Exchange Item-Level Recovery: You can restore specific emails from within the Exchange Mailbox.
Altaro VM Backup permits you to recover individual emails from an Exchange Mailbox
- Restore Various Backup Versions: You can restore from different points in time rather than being restricted to the last backup.
- Sandbox Restores and Verification: This feature lets you schedule or run manually validation tests to confirm the accuracy of your backup. You can validate backup folders without attaching the VM to your Hyper-V or VMware Hypervisor, or you can execute a full confirmation restore to a replicant and ensure that the recovered VM is able to boot.
- Backup Health Monitor: Backup storage accuracy can be monitored proactively and fixed automatically as a component of the next backup operation.
Management and Reporting
The web-based Cloud Management Console centralizes management, monitoring and reporting for Altaro Virtual Machine Backup deployments. The Cloud Management Console provides a single portal for processes such as launching backups, establishing on-premises and remote backup sites, defining encryption keys, and restoring VMs. The Cloud Management Console also conserves time by allowing you to build specialized templates with schedules, retention policies and advanced settings and assign them to multiple virtual machines across a selection of hosts. In addition, you can use the Cloud Management Console to monitor backup activities in real time, review historic reports on jobs and problems, and program the CMC to generate email alerts for successful or failed tasks and other useful information.
Download ProSight Altaro VM Backup Services Datasheet
To see a datasheet describing the major features of ProSight Altaro VM Backup Services, click:
Progent's ProSight Altaro VM Backup Services Datasheet. (PDF - 310 KB)
How Progent Can Help Your Business to Benefit from Altaro VM Backup
Progent's Microsoft-certified Windows Server Server Hyper-V planning and deployment experts and VMware-certified vCenter consultants can assist your organization to design, implement and maintain a backup/restore system built on Altaro VM Backup software. Progent's Exchange experts can help your business to utilize Altaro VM Backup to protect your Exchange system, and Progent's Azure hybrid cloud consulting experts can assist your company to use your Azure Block Blob storage with Altaro software to protect your virtual machines.
Progent's business continuity preparedness experts can assist your business to use Altaro's replication tools and remote backup options to protect your mission-critical data and allow you to restart your vital services rapidly in case of a calamity.
Ongoing validation, testing, and optimization of data restoration are crucial and frequently underappreciated requirements for successful disaster preparedness. In the event of a disaster such as a ransomware breach, these recovery drills can spell the difference between a temporary period of downtime and a life-or-death crisis to a business. Progent's Altaro VM Backup experts can assist you to design a workflow for regularly validating, testing, and enhancing your restore procedures in order that you can keep your backup strategy up to date and contain the impact of a catastrophic event.
Progent's GIAC information assurance (IA) specialists can evaluate the cybersecurity profile of your data protection system and can help you to deploy advanced tools and adhere to industry leading practices for operating safely in the current threat landscape.
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