Main Features

Storware Backup and Recovery is a data protection solution for virtual environments, storage, M365, and endpoints. It provides a centralized and automated solution for data protection. It can be deployed in minutes and start to protect your environment within hours.

Supported backup platforms

Virtual Machines:

• VMware vSphere

• Microsoft Hyper-V / Azure Stack HCI

• Nutanix

• HC3/Scale

• Red Hat Virtualization

• oVirt

• Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager

• Nutanix Acropolis Hypervisor (AHV)

• HPE SimpliVity

• OpenNebula

• XCP-ng with CBT support

• Virtuozzo

• Proxmox VE

• Oracle VM

• OpenStack

• OpenShift Virtualization

• libvirt hypervisors (KVM, PowerKVM, KVM for IBM z, Xen)

• KVM

• VergeOS

• Huawei FusionCompute

• Verge

Containers:

• Kubernetes (deployment-level protection for Persistent Volumes)

• Red Hat OpenShift (deployment-level protection for Persistent Volumes)

• Proxmox VE

Cloud solutions:

• Amazon EC2

• Google Cloud Platform / Google Computer Engine

• Azure Cloud

• Microsoft 365

Storage:

• remote file system (including NAS file shares)

• Ceph RBD (with snapshot difference support)

• Nutanix Files (with Changed-File Tracking)

• Nutanix Volume Groups (with Changed-Region Tracking)

• SUSE Enterprise Storage

Applications:

• the generic backup mechanism for the custom backup processes

• templates for commonly used applications

Filesystem backup:

• Windows

  • Support for VSS

• Linux

Advanced backup features:

• Snapshot Management (Copy Data Management)

• Snapshot consistent technology (quiesced/application-consistent snapshots or filesystem freeze)

• Pre/post snapshot remote command execution on VM to enable operations such as database quiesce

• Change Block Tracking (CBT) and Change file tracking (CFT) for faster incremental backups

• VM disks exclusion option

• Hyper-V direct transfer to the DataDomain (DD Boost API)

• Backup schedules

• Backup SLAs:

  • VM automatic policy assignment based on regular expressions and tags

  • backup job prioritization

  • multiple policy rules (with different scheduling and backup destinations) for the same protected object

• Multi-node architecture:

  • scalability

  • automatic task load balancing

  • suitable for geographically distributed environments

• Built-in Storware Backup & Recovery database backup

Recovery features

• File-level restore using mountable backups

  • directly via a web browser

  • transfer to the remote host over SSH and WinRM

• Backup mount - RAW disks shareable over iSCSI (for direct block-access to your backup data)

• Recovery plans for automated Disaster Recovery

  • on-demand restore of multiple instances

  • automated schedules for recovery testing

• Customizable networking and disk layout during a restore

• Instant restore

  • Hyper-V

  • oVirt/RHV/OLVM instant restore

  • VMware instant restore

• Individual disk recovery

Supported backup destinations

• File-based:

  • A synthetic backup provider using XFS, NFS 4.2, or Dell Data Domain Virtual Synthetic Full (DD Boost API)

  • Any mounted file system (local or remote, especially GlusterFS for replication, CephFS, NFS, SMB, and many more)

  • Dell EMC Data Domain (BoostFS integration)

  • Rubrik Managed Volumes

  • Catalogic vStor

• Object Storage:

  • Amazon S3 (with Amazon Glacier as a 2nd tier archive storage),

  • S3-compliant storage (IBM Cloud, Oracle Cloud, Scality RING)

  • Google Cloud Storage

  • Microsoft Azure Blob Storage

  • OpenStack Swift

• Enterprise-grade backup providers:

  • IBM Spectrum Protect (TSM)

  • Dell EMC Networker

  • Dell EMC Avamar

  • Veritas Netbackup

  • MicroFocus Data Protector

• Tapes

• Built-in data deduplication with Virtual Data Optimizer (VDO)

• Backup Copy - secondary backup destination to store data in more than one location

• Pre/post backup destination access command execution to execute custom operations on external storage providers such as replication

Security features

• Role-based access control (RBAC) for administrative accounts

• Audit-log for administrative actions

• Customizable logging configuration for external SIEM support

• Data-at-rest encryption for file system backup destination

• Ransomware protection

  • Immutable Backup (XFS-based backup destination) that protects backup data from being encrypted by ransomware

  • Air-Gap Data Protection with:

    • Rubrik Managed Volumes

    • Catalogic vStor

    • isoLayer - using remote Red Hat linux based host and NFS

Other features

• Web-based (HTML5) central management portal

• Advanced reporting

  • administrative portal

  • e-mail

• Event notifications using e-mail, Slack, or custom API call

• Command Line Interface (CLI_ for advanced administrators

• Open API for 3rd party software integration (REST API)

• LDAP authentication

• OpenStack Horizon plugin

• oVirt/RHV/OLVM console integration