Key Features and Benefits

• Provides direct, file system level view of VMs to third party software for simple integration into existing backup processes
• Light weight application runs as a virtual appliance, elimination cost and complexity of additional servers
• Auto-discovers all VMs – active and inactive – to make management of dynamic environments faster and easier
• Filters out inactive data to reduce backup volumes by up to 75% - accelerating backups, reduces resource loads, provides more effective deduplication
• Provides fast, flexible VM and Single File Recovery
• Works with DXi appliances providing more effective deduplication, full support for replication, direct path-to-tape, distributed deduplication and centralized management

Overview

Quantum's vmPRO software provides a unique solution for the data center needing to integrate VM protection. It works as a turnkey solution, or in combination with users' existing backup applications, in conjunction with DXi appliances to simplify and accelerate backup, restore and DR protection for virtual machine environments.

Business Challenge

As more corporate applications and data sets move to virtual machines, IT organizations increasingly confront the problem of how to integrate VM protection into their established backup, DR and retention processes. Most of the options usually offered have limitations. Backing up VMs as if they were physical servers can strain server and network resources, deploying VM-specific agents can be expensive, and adding new, VM-specific backup applications is complex, costly, and often doesn't support DR and long term retention.

Quantum Solution

The combination of Quantum's vmPRO software and DXi appliances provides the industry's most effective deduplication rates and the fastest VM recovery, and it provides a platform for users to consolidate all of their backup, replication, and long-term retention across physical and virtual servers.