DATA S H E E T

VMware vSphere Data Protection Advanced 5.5

Reliable, Efficient, and Simple Backup and Recovery for vSphere

AT A G L A N C E What Is vSphere Data Protection Advanced?

vSphere Data Protection Advanced is a backup and recovery
Traditional backup and recovery solutions that solution with built-in backup data replication, designed for vSphere
are adapted to work with the VMware platform environments and powered by EMC Avamar. It extends the
are too expensive, slow, complex, and unreliable.
capabilities of VMware vSphere® Data Protection™, available
Organizations that want to accelerate their journey
to fully virtualized environments need a reliable with most editions of vSphere, with greater scalability and
backup solution that is specifically designed to enhanced functionality. Capable of backing up an average
protect virtual machines. of 200 virtual machines per virtual appliance, it can safely
VMware vSphere® Data Protection™ Advanced is a protect environments of several hundred virtual machines.
backup and recovery solution with built-in backup It provides agentless, image-level backups to disk, as well
data replication, Built for VMware vSphere® as guest-level, application-consistent protection for Microsoft
environments and powered by EMC Avamar, SQL Server, Exchange, and SharePoint. vSphere Data Protection
it delivers high-performance data protection Advanced includes network-efficient, encrypted replication to
through patented variable-length deduplication protect deduplicated backups offsite across WAN links.
and network-efficient, encrypted replication of
the backup data. Rapid, assured recovery and
simple end-to-end management through VMware What’s New in vSphere Data Protection
vSphere® Web Client make vSphere Data Protection Advanced 5.5?
Advanced the ideal backup and recovery solution
for vSphere. EMC Data Domain systems integration – Increase scalability
when backing up to Data Domain by using vSphere Data
BENEFITS Protection Advanced as the front end. Data Domain Boost
software increases backup throughput by 50 percent and
• Reliably protect all virtual machines and mission- decreases network bandwidth by up to 99 percent.
critical applications in any small or midsized
vSphere environment. Network-efficient, secure backup replication – Variable-length
deduplication at the source, along with compression and encryption,
• Minimize storage and bandwidth consumption
to lower backup infrastructure costs. ensures that backups are optimized for WAN transmission:
• Reduce backup and recovery times to minimize • Flexible schedules and retention – Select which backups to
application downtime. replicate, and define an independent replication schedule and
• Shrink operational overhead of vSphere retention policy.
administrators who provision backup services
to virtual machines. • Multiple replication topologies – Replicate in one-to-one,
• Protect backup data offsite to ensure business one-to-many (fan-out), and many-to-one (fan-in)
continuity and compliance, even in the event of configurations.
site-level failure.
• Multiple replication targets – Integration with EMC backup
solutions offers a choice of replication targets:
–– vSphere Data Protection Advanced – Replicate to another
vSphere Data Protection Advanced appliance.
–– EMC Data Domain – Use vSphere Data Protection Advanced
to manage replication between Data Domain systems.
–– EMC Avamar – Replicate directly from a vSphere Data
Protection Advanced appliance to an EMC Avamar grid.
Automated backup verification – Automated restores to an
isolated “sandbox” environment according to user-defined
schedules ensure recoverability without manual processes.
Microsoft SharePoint agent – Perform application-consistent
backup and recovery with client-side deduplication.

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Mailbox-level recovery for Exchange – Recover individual • Automatic virtual machine discovery – Virtual machines that
mailboxes with the improved MS Exchange agent. are available for backup are automatically added or removed in
sync with vCenter Server.
Granular .vmdk files backup and restore – Reduce storage
consumption and accelerate recovery. • Simplified backup policies – Assign backup jobs to individual
virtual machines or larger containers, with specific schedules
Direct-to-host emergency restore – Restore directly to a and retentions, with only a few clicks.
VMware® ESXi™ host. Protect VMware® vCenter Server™ itself.
• One-step recovery – Incremental forever full backups enable
Flexible storage placement – Deploy independent storage simple browsing of restore points for single-step recovery of
partitions for backup data and the virtual appliance OS. virtual machines, without the need for agents.
Mount existing storage to a new appliance – Remount existing • Self-service file-level recovery (FLR) – Guest OS administrators
data partitions to a new appliance if the original appliance fails. and application owners can restore individual files and folders
using a supported Web browser, without the need for agents.
Scheduling granularity – Schedule backup and replication jobs
Agents for mission-critical applications – A lightweight in-guest
at user-defined times.
agent communicates with the application’s backup APIs, delivering
application consistency and granular backup and recovery:
Other Key Features
Scalability – Each virtual appliance stores up to 8TB • Microsoft SQL Server agent delivers granular backup and
(approximately 200 virtual machines) of deduplicated backup recovery of the entire application, of individual databases,
data. Up to 10 virtual appliances per vCenter Server instance can or only of logs.
be deployed. • Microsoft Exchange Server agent delivers application-consistent
backup and granular recovery, and mailbox-level recovery.
Deduplication – Consumes four times less storage than
alternative backup solutions: Volume Shadow Copy (VSS) support enables consistent
backups of virtual machines running VSS-aware applications.
• Variable-length – Data broken into segments of variable length
enables the highest rates of deduplication—on average, Licensing vSphere Data Protection Advanced
99 percent for file systems and 96 percent for databases.
vSphere Data Protection Advanced is licensed per CPU (processor):
• Global – Deduplication is performed across all virtual machines
that are backed up by the same virtual appliance. • No licensing fees apply for additional protected virtual machines
on licensed hosts. Customers must license every CPU on a vSphere
• Client-side – For guest-level backups, agents deduplicate
inside the virtual machine, reducing backup time and the host, and every host in a cluster.
amount of data sent through vSphere resources. • No licensing fees apply for up to 10 additional virtual appliances
per vCenter Server.
VMware vSphere® Storage APIs - Data Protection integration –
Up to eight virtual machines per virtual appliance can be backed • No additional licensing fees apply for application-aware agents.
up simultaneously: Licensing vSphere Data Protection Advanced is as simple as
• Changed Block Tracking (CBT) backup – Leverages CBT matching the number of vSphere licenses in the environment.
in combination with variable-length deduplication, sending
truly unique changed blocks to the virtual appliance. Product Specifications and System Requirements
• Changed Block Restore – Reduces recovery time by a factor of • Requires VMware® ESX® or ESXi 4.1i or higher
six compared to full image restores, by restoring only the delta • Requires vCenter Server 5.1 or 5.5
of blocks between the virtual machine and the last backup.
• Can only be managed through vSphere Web Client
Management integration and simplicity:
For more detailed product specifications and system
• Linux-based virtual appliance deployment – The solution requirements, refer to the Administration Guide.
is simple to install, configure, and update.
• vSphere Web Client integration – Perform end-to-end data- Learn More
protection management from a familiar user interface. For more information or to purchase vSphere Data Protection
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