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Storware vProtect documentation
Table of Contents
Overview
Architecture
Licensing
Main Features
Typical Scenarios
Glossary of terms
Changelog
Planning
Deployment
Administration
Troubleshooting
Integration
Known software issues and limitations
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Main Features
VM-level, Container-level backup and recovery
Storage Provider (file system & Ceph RBD) backup & recovery
Full and Incremental backups (with native CBT, CRT where available)
VM data is exported in native (hypervisor-specific) format
Backup only selected VM disk option
Deployment protection (PVs and deployment metadata) for Kubernetes and OpenShift environments
Support for a wide range of virtual platforms, containers and cloud such as:
VMware vSphere
Microsoft Hyper-V
Red Hat Virtualization
oVirt
Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager
Nutanix Acropolis Hypervisor (AHV)
HPE SimpliVity
Citrix Hypervisor (XenServer)
XCP-ng
Proxmox VE
Oracle VM
OpenStack
libvirt hypervisors (KVM, PowerKVM, KVM for IBM z, Xen)
Kubernetes
Red Hat OpenShift
AWS EC2
Pre/post snapshot remote command execution on VM to enable operations such as DB quiesce
Pre/post backup destination access command execution to allow mount/unmount operations on external storage providers
Prioritized backup policies
VM automatic policy assignment based on regular expressions and tags
Snapshot Management (Copy Data Management)
Snapshot consistent technology (quiesced snapshots)
File-level restore using mountable backups
Mounted backups - RAW disks shareable over iSCSI (for direct block-access to your backup data)
Recovery plans for automated DR - on-demand restore of multiple VMs when needed, or on a scheduled basis for testing
Generic application backup with your custom scripts with ready templates for commonly used databases
OpenStack and KVM stand-alone with Ceph RBD storage support
Multi-node support for better scalability or geographically dispersed environments
Built-in vProtect DB backup
Data encryption for file system backup destination
LDAP authentication
Integration with different backup destinations such as:
Any mounted file-system (local or remote, especially GlusterFS for replication, CephFS, NFS, SMB and many more)
Dell EMC Data Domain (BoostFS integration)
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
IBM Spectrum Protect (TSM)
Dell EMC Networker
Dell EMC Avamar
Veritas Netbackup
Built-in data deduplication with Virtual Data Optimizer (VDO)
Easy to use and modern management (HTML5 web UI and CLI)
Open API for 3rd party software integration (REST API)
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