The disaster recovery and data protection developer uses the VMware forum to rollout the sixth iteration of its disaster recovery solution for agentless backup and recovery of VMware virtual environments.
Disaster recovery and data protection provider Acronis choose the VMworld forum in Las Vegas to launch a new solution for VMware customers.
The new Acronis vmProtect product has been engineered exclusively for VMware vSphere servers (v4.0, 4.1 or later) using ESX and ESXi hypervisors. The latest version, v.6, is designed to provide SMBs with a simple-to-deploy, easy-to-manage disaster recovery solution for agentless backup and quick recovery of VMware virtual environments.
Priced at $499 per CPU (with unlimited physical-to-virtual migrations), Acronis vmProtect 6 represents a relatively affordable backup, migration, and disaster recovery solution for SMBs. According to Acronis, the product boasts an install-to-start backup time of approximately five minutes.
In addition, Acronis vmProtect 6 is designed to recover a virtual machine directly from a backup image, without having to do a full restore. “Actual recovery times can take less than a minute,” states the company in a press release submitted to Channel Pro-SMB.
“Protecting VMware servers should be neither complex nor costly,” says Acronis CEO Jason Donahue. “By using a solution that speaks directly to VMware requirements, businesses can accelerate their virtualization adoption.”
Data deduplication and compression capabilities are included for free with Acronis vmProtect 6. †Backups can also be encrypted using industry-standard 256 bit AES algorithms.
Acronis vmProtect 6 can be installed as a virtual appliance, eliminating the need to purchase additional hardware and minimizing memory consumption and management overhead for SMBs. A Web-based interface enables remote management, even on a smartphone.
