Virtualization continues to sweep through enterprises, leading to consolidated server workloads and improved utilization throughout the data center, remote offices and recovery sites. Administrators are struggling to adjust old backup ideas and methods to this environment that tends to grow, shift and change overnight. As the virtual infrastructure farm rolls out, so do new operational concerns. Backup window management, production impact, retention, data growth vs. storage usage, site recovery costs, and data discovery implications can all complicate the process of optimally implementing virtualization.

CommVault Simpana® software and the Universal Virtual Server Agent (VSA) offer a solution framework that spans an end-to-end data protection lifecycle to help meet recovery objectives and operational budget constraints with maximum efficiency. Simpana software transcends a simple backup job and touches all three dimensions–backup phase, retention phase and recovery phase–driving higher efficiency at each phase and reducing operational complexity.

Simpana software and the Universal Virtual Server Agent help organizations protect critical virtual server information assets, while reducing operational overhead, improving manageability and scalability, simplifying granular recovery and Disaster Recovery (DR) operations, and enhancing backup storage utilization:

  • Combine auto-discovery with auto-protection to ensure virtual machines (VM) are fully protected with minimal administrator intervention.
  • Leverage high resiliency and concurrency for scalable backup operations within shrinking backup windows. Built-in protection options distribute backup workload across physical servers, data-stores and networks for optimal resource utilization.
  • Take advantage of the latest improvements in the virtualization platform by full integration with vStorage API for Data Protection (VADP) in VMware environments.
  • Centralize flexible virtual machine protection, without having to install client software on individual virtual machines.
  • Utilize Granular Recovery or Full VM recovery from single pass backup to meet Service Level Agreements.
  • Optimize backup storage utilization through the use of innovative features, such as block-level incremental image level backup and embedded deduplication.

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