About the Virtualization Protector
Unitrends offers all-in-one backup, archiving, and disaster recovery for VMware in an integrated fashion from our Administrator Interface (AI). The Virtualization Protector leverages the vStorage API for Data Protection (VADP) infrastructure to offer centralized and efficient protection of virtual machines.
The Virtualization Protector is a pull-based architecture in which the ESX servers (via vCenter or directly) respond to requests sent from the Unitrends system. There is no client-side backup software on the ESX servers, the vCenter server, or the virtual machines. Once you add the Virtualization Protector to the backup system, you protect all associated VMs without registering them individually.
The Virtualization Protector supports the following features:
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Full, differential, and incremental backups |
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Application-aware protection leveraging Microsoft VSS writers |
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Native provisioning for thin-provisioned disks |
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Changed Block Tracking (CBT) |
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Policy-based automatic inclusion of newly created virtual machines into backup schedules |
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Byte-level deduplication of protected virtual machine data |
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AES-256 bit encryption of protected data |
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Archiving VMware backups via D2D2D (Disk-to-Disk-to-Disk) or D2D2T (Disk-to-Disk-to-Tape) |
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Electronic replication of VMware backups via D2D2C (Disk-to-Disk-to-Cloud) via either single-tenant private cloud replication or multiple tenant public cloud replication |
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Restore of a virtual machine or template to the original ESX/ESXi server or to an alternate ESX/ESXi server. For templates, the ESX server must be in a vCenter setup. |
Note: VMs can be restored to the original ESXi server or to another ESXi server running the same version or a higher ESXi version listed in the in the Compatibility and Interoperability Matrix. (ESXi 6.5 is supported on 64-bit appliances only.)
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Restore of a template backup as a new virtual machine to the original ESX/ESXi server or to an alternate ESX/ESXi server |
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Instant recovery of a VMware virtual machine |
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Granular file-level restore from VADP-based virtual machine backups |
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Automatic exclusion of independent and physical RDM disks |
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Optional exclusion of any other disks |