Transcript Acronis Backup Advanced Product Presentation

New Generation Data Protection
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Acronis Backup Advanced
Product Presentation
Peter French, Solutions Director | Synapsys Systems (Pty) Ltd | Acronis Authorized Distributor
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Agenda
• Acronis Corporate Overview
• Challenges of Data Protection
• Solution and Benefits
• Licensing and Support
• Customer Stories
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Acronis
Corporate Overview
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Acronis Industry Proven Leader
Hundreds of millions of USD in license revenue
650 employees worldwide, 300 top-notch engineers
30,000 strong partner ecosystem in 90 countries
300K+ businesses, 5M+ consumers, Over 160 OEMs
5+ Million VMs under Acronis protection
Products in 14 languages, customers in 130 countries
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Acronis Industry Proven Leader
Market Leading Solutions & Technology
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Disaster Recovery
Full Image Backup
Endpoint Backup
System Deployment
Mobile Content Management
Enterprise File Syncing and Sharing
Market Leadership
3,000,000+ new licenses in 2013
300,000 business customers
100,000+ corporate free trial downloads/year
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Recognized for Excellence and Innovation
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# OF SYSTEMS TO PROTECT
Where Does Acronis Fit?
100+
Point solutions for enterprises
(BMR, Deployment, Secure Access)
3-100
Backup, DR & Management
for mid-size environments
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Backup & DR
for small environments
PC
Simple Backup & DR
for SOHO
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The Acronis Labs
The “Next Big Thing” in a Long History of Innovation
From a World-Class Team of 300+ Developers (20+ PhD)
First to introduce P2V
migration for backup solution
First image backup of a
running Windows system
through snapshot
True Image ™
First to introduce
image recovery of
live Windows Active
Restore™
100+ Data Protection Patents
20% of Investment and 45%
of Headcount is in R&D
First to launch image-based disaster
recovery for Physical, Virtual, Cloud in one
solution with multiple hypervisor support
AnyData
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First to recover Windows
image on dissimilar
hardware Universal
Restore™
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First to launch affordable &
integrated Deduplication
First to integrate
Disaster Recovery &
Data Protection in one
solution for SMBs
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Launched industry’s
Launched secure
first secure mobile
enterprise file syncing
content management
Created
Acronis
Labs
to accelerate
and sharing
solution
solution
innovation with AnyData
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Our Solutions
Problems we solve
Backup & Recovery
Disaster Recovery
How we do it
The Acronis AnyData Engine
Capture: Image-based Always Incremental Backup
Store: Unified Backup Format
Easy
Laptop & Desktop
Recover: Universal Restore & Active Restore
Complete
Migration
Manage: Unified, Policy-based
Secure Access
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Access: Policy Engine, AD Integration, Mobile Editing
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Data Protection Challenges
In New Generation Data Centers
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Your Environment:
You Have
You Need
• New and Multi Hypervisors
• Consistent Backup Experience
– Yet Legacy Physical Servers
– Not many distinct interfaces
• Aggressive RTO1 and RPO2
• Centralized Management
– Yet Backup Software Struggles
– But not expensive Backup Servers
• Cross-Platform Migration Needs
1 Recovery
• New Generation Data Protection
Time Objective ; 2 Recovery Point Objective
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The Reality…
70%
48%
54%
67%
Have insufficient*
DR protection of
their critical data
Run both Virtual
and Physical
Systems in their
Data Center
Virtualized
environments
have more than
1 Hypervisor
Virtualized
environments have
Hypervisors other
than two market
leaders
*) Company has sufficient DR protection when more than 75% of critical data is regularly backed up off-site.
Source: “Complexity and Data Growth Driving Small and Medium-Sized Environments Toward a New Generation of Data Protection”,
IDC, June 2014. Sample: 401 SMB Businesses, <1000 employees
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Choices?
Traditional Platforms
• Central Servers
Point Solutions
• No Integration
– Single Point of Failure
• All Things to All People
– No P2V/V2V Migration
• No Scalability
– Not Optimized
• Outdated Technologies
– New Hypervisor?
• No Central Management
No Need to Choose The Lesser of Two Evils!
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Solution and Benefits
New Generation Data Protection
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Solution: Acronis Backup Advanced
Any Virtual and Any Physical System
Windows
Server
Linux
Server
VMware
Hyper-V
RHEV
KVM
Citrix
XenServer
Oracle x86
VM Server
Exchange
SQL
Share
Point
• All Major Hypervisors
• Single Console
• All Major Operating Systems
• No Dedicated Hardware
• All Major Applications
• Any-to-Any Migration
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Active
Directory
PC
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Introducing…
New Generation Data Protection
Powered by The Acronis AnyData Engine
Cloud-ready architecture delivers in the cloud and on-premise
Backup, Disaster Recovery,
Secure Mobile Access
Easy
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Complete
Safe
Protects
Optimized for
• Any Data
• Virtual
• Any Environment
• Physical
• Any Location
• Cloud
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The Acronis AnyData Engine
Seamlessly
to Become Best TOTAL Solution
Best in Class
IndividualBlend
Products
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How It Works: Acronis AnyData Engine
Unified
Interface
Unified Control
Unified
Policies
Centralized
Management &
Reporting
Physical,
Virtual
& Cloud
Any Workload
Capture
Any Data
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Disk/VM Image
File Backup
Single Pass
Fast Incremental
Store
• Unified Backup
Format
• Disk, Tape & Cloud
• Encryption
Recover
• Universal Restore
• Active Restore
• File & Application
Access
• Policy Engine
• Active Directory
Integration
• Secure Mobile
Editing
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15 dedicated years, 300
top-notch engineers, 100+ patents
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Acronis AnyData Engine Innovation
Includes 100+ Patents
Capture
Transfer and Store
Recover
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Agent-less Virtual Machine Backup
Virtual or Physical Single-pass Backup
Virtual Machine Change Block Tracking
Express & Fast Always Incremental
Differential & Reverse Incremental
Filesystem-aware backup
File Exclusions
Sector-by-Sector Inclusions
Fast Disk Or Virtual Machine Image backup
Virtual Machine agnostic and aware
Encrypted network traffic
WAN optimization & bandwidth throttling
Unified & New Gen Backup Format
Compression & Deduplication
Backups replication & staging
Tape management
Acronis Secure Zone
Integrated Cloud Storage
vmFlashback
Active Restore, Instant for Virtual
Bare Metal Restore, Hypervisor also
Universal Restore
Image or Database mounting
Acronis Recovery Manager
Disaster Recovery Plan
Granular any-level recovery
Any-to-any recovery
Secure and Access
Control
Source and Destination
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Advanced Access policy engine
Active Directory Integration
MDM solution integration
User activity audit logging
Secure in-place editing of documents
Selective Remote Wipe
Backup / date periodic validation
Granular any-level backup/data Access
Centralized Catalogue with Search
Centralized Management
Unified Management
Flexible Policy Based Management
Static & Dynamic Grouping
Extendable Backup Schemes
Accessible Anywhere Web Interface
Remote Agent Installation
Multiple Backup Location
vCenter & vSphere & System Center
Server, Desktop and Mobile
Physical, Virtual and Application
Windows, Linux, Mac OS
Exchange, SQL, SharePoint, Active Directory
Hyper-V, VMware, Citrix, Oracle, RHEV
Disk, Tap, Cloud
Private, Public, Acronis & Hybrid Cloud
VMware & Hyper-V & Exchange Cluster
Any-to-any migration
It is difficult to make Data Protection easy
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Top Reasons to choose Acronis
Easy
Complete
Safe
to install and use
protection of Any Data
and proven solution
• Unified Experience
• Any Environment
• 100+ patents
• Minimal Training
• Any Location
• Designed for Future
• Zero Learning Curve
• Virtual, Physical & Cloud
Best-in-Class Individual Products
• Optimized for Your Most Important Workloads and Devices – Virtual, Physical or in Cloud
• Recovery of whole systems, single files, folders, application data
• Seamlessly Blending into Total Solution
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Key Benefits
• Reduce IT management time and downtime
• Reduce storage volumes and costs
• Implement aggressive RTO
• Get Hybrid protection
• Leverage flexible recovery options for quick Disaster Recovery
• Ensure regulatory compliance
• Drive end-user productivity
• Eliminate single point of failure
• Scale by adding Acronis products as your business grows
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Acronis Backup Advanced
Key Features
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Key Features
 Virtual and Physical Server Backup
 Compression
 Windows & Linux Support
 Deduplication
 Disk Imaging Technology
 Backup Replication and Staging
 Agentless VMware Backup
 Reporting and Monitoring
 Agentless Hyper-V Backup
 Acronis Universal Restore
 Exchange, SQL, SharePoint, AD
 Catalog and Indexing
 Centralized Management
 Resource Throttling
 Advanced Backup Scheduling
 Encryption
 Any-to-Any Migration
 Disk, Tape, Cloud storage
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Licensing and Maintenance
Acronis Backup Advanced
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Licensing Highlights
• Perpetual License
 Easy
• Licensed per physical machine or
virtual host (server)
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Unlimited VMs
Deduplication and WAN Optimization included
Central Management included
Acronis Universal Restore for dissimilar
hardware restore included
• Trial Version
– Fully Functional for 15 Days
– Includes Acronis Cloud Storage
– Can be activated to full version without
reinstallation
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 # of Protected Machines
 No Add-Ons
 No CPU Sockets
 No “Enterprise/Plus” Tiers
 Complete
 Any Environment
 Any System
 Safe
 No hidden costs
 No annual “surprises”
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Maintenance and Support
• Acronis Advantage
– Web Chat, Phone, E-mail Support
– Free Upgrades to New Version
– 1st Year included in Product License
• Pay-per-incident option available
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 Direct access to Acronis
Engineers
 Receive support at Any Time
 Protect your investment with
Free Upgrades
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Customer Stories
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Acronis Solutions: Proven with Real Customers
BT Ireland
500+ servers running a variety of
operating systems and applications
“Acronis has enabled us to deliver
‘restore on demand’ to our
customers and make it easier and
simpler for us to meet the service
level agreements by which our
customers judge us.”
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Acronis Solutions: Proven with Real Customers
Mississippi Department of Transportation
300+ Virtual and Physical Windows Servers,
1000s of PCs, MS Exchange
“We can pick the most critical
machines and use Acronis to
restore them to another VMware
farm that’s ready to consume any
boxes we want to recover.”
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Acronis Solutions: Proven with Real Customers
Pentagon Federal Credit Union (US 3rd)
70+ Virtual and Physical Servers mix with
high-speed Virtual Tape Library backup storage
“It’s all about RTO [Recovery Time
Objectives]. Our recovery time is cut by an
average of 50% or more. But In addition to
savings, one of the main benefits we get out
of Acronis is pure sanity. We’ve been able to
reduce weekend hours by 10 to 15%..”
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New Generation Data Protection
Powered by the Acronis AnyData Engine
www.acronis.com
twitter.com/acronis
blog.acronis.com
facebook.com/acronis
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Backup Features
Acronis Backup Advanced
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Best Backup Practice – Acronis 3-2-1 Rule
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Server
Central Network
Storage
Tape
SHIP
Server
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BACKUP
Server
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 Quickly recover single server – no recalling tapes/download
 Eliminate bottlenecks when saving backups to tape/cloud
 Reliably recover whole environment after Disaster
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3 Locations for Data
2 Types of Media
1 Off-site
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Single-Pass Backup
Exchange Databases
System
Physical / Virtual Machines
• Backup entire system in one pass
• OS
• Applications
• Databases
• Files
• Physical & Virtual
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Files &
Folders
Exchange
Mailboxes
• Easy to use
• Complete backup
• Safe Recovery of Any Data
• Whole System
• Single File
• Database
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Acronis Incremental and Differential Backup
• Full backup - independent backup files
 Complete and safe option
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• Incremental backup - chain of backup files.
Contains the changes from previous backup.
 Save time and space on storage
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• Differential backups, non-chain backup file.
Each differential file contains changes since
the full backup.
 Get the best of both worlds
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Scheduling Backup
• Time-driven
– Hourly/Daily/Weekly/Monthly
• Event-driven
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Startup/Shutdown
Windows Event Log event
Every or First Event in a day
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 Ultimate Flexibility
 Fits the Business Schedule
 No blackouts
 No limitations
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Backup Schemes
GFS
• Grandfather-Father-Son scheme
• Custom Daily/Weekly/Monthly backup retention
• Best Practice
Tower of Hanoi
• Flexible Retention Scheme
• Long Retention with efficient Storage Usage
Custom
• Multiple Schedules
• Schedule Conditions
• Ultimate Flexibility
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Encryption
• Industrial-grade encryption options
– Any Backup: AES Encryption at-source
– Deduplication: SSL and Storage-side Encryption
– Acronis Cloud: SSL and Private Key Encryption
• Reliable Encryption for Any Scenario
Source machine
Backup
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Compress
Encrypt
Compressed and Encrypted Data
STORAGE
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Compression
• Save Storage Space
• Reduce Network Traffic
• Flexible Compression Levels
Level
Speed
Compression
Fastest
N/A
Fast
Average
High
Average
Significant
Maximum
Slowest
Highest
None
Normal
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Best For
Hardware Dedup or
WAN Acceleration
Default Setting
Fast CPU
busy network / storage
Optical Media, WAN
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Deduplication
• Eliminates redundant data
• File & Block Level
• Reduces storage by up to 90%
DEDUPLICATION BENEFITS
E-mail Server
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Backup
Acronis Storage
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• Reduce escalating Storage Costs
• Reduce need for Energy & Cooling
• Reduce unnecessary Network Traffic
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CPU Throttling
Protected Machine
CPU Time
• Affects the CPU time distribution by OS
• Same process priority as in Task Manager
• Actual CPU usage depends on hardware, OS
load and applications running
Acronis
Backup
Priority
Other
Applications
Low
Normal
High
0%
100%
 Ensure 24/7 Production Processes get more CPU
 Speed up the Backup in non-production hours
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Network Throttling
Source
machine
LAN Bandwidth
Acronis Backup
• Limits bandwidth for Backup
– Dynamic (%%)
– Static (kb/second)
• Backup of live 24/7 servers
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Storage
 Avoid Network Congestion
 Control Shared Resources
 Improve User Experience
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Validation
MD5
Checksum
Acronis Backup File
Read and Calculate MD5
Easy
 No Complex “Virtual Labs” or “Sandboxes”
 No Separate Validation Tasks/Plans
Compare
Complete
• Read backup and check MD5 checksum
 Full image, not just bootable parts
– Image is readable and media is good
• Compare MD5 Checksum with original
– No corruption of image
Safe
 Ensure success of future Disaster Recovery
• Schedule to run periodically
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Virtual and Migration
Features
Acronis Backup Advanced
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Any-to-Any Migration
Oracle VM
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RHEV VM
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KVM
Dissimilar
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Hyper-V
VM
Physical-To-Physical (P2P)
Physical-To-Virtual (P2V)
Virtual-To-Virtual (V2V)
Virtual-To-Physical (V2P)
 Reliable Disaster Recovery
 Easy Virtualization
 Straightforward System Upgrade or
Replacement
Acronis Backup Advanced for VMware, Hyper-V, RHEV, KVM, Oracle and Xen
include unlimited number of migrations to the licensed Virtual Host
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Virtual Machine Backup
Acronis Backup supports 6 most popular virtualization platforms:
Agentless and Agent-based Backup
VMware®
vSphere™/ESX/ESXi
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Microsoft®
Hyper-V™
Agent-based Backup
Citrix®
XenServer
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Oracle®
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Agent for VMware vSphere
• Agent-less image backup of
VMware vSphere VMs
ESX(i)
ESX(i)
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VM
• Unified Backup Format
Agent for vSphere
• Appliance automatically
deployed and managed centrally
• Backup Tasks are automatically
assigned
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Virtual appliance
VM
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Agent for vSphere
Virtual appliance
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Agent for Hyper-V
• Agentless backup of Microsoft
Hyper-V VMs and Host
Hyper-V (Windows)
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Hyper-V (Windows)
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VM
• Unified Backup Format
• Support for Hyper-V clusters
Agent for Hyper-V
Agent for Hyper-V
• Centrally Managed
Acronis Management Server
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Acronis Instant Restore
Instant recovery of Physical and Virtual machines to Virtual Infrastructure
How it Works
ESX/ESXi
Storage
• Part of Backup Plan
• Incremental restore to a VM
• Scheduled conversion available
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VM files
• Set of VM files (vmdk, vhd, etc.)
• Saved to disk or a network share
• Extra Flexibility
BACKUP
• Complete Virtual Machine on
VMware vSphere/Microsoft Hyper-V
• Easy to implement
• Near-zero RTO
Archive
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Application Support
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Application Support
Microsoft
Exchange
Microsoft SQL
• Separate Exchange Backup
• Granular Recovery up to
databases
• Single-Pass Backup
• Granular Recovery up to emails,
contacts, tasks
• Truncate logs
• Truncate logs
Microsoft
SharePoint
Microsoft Active
Directory
• Single-pass Backup
• Single-Pass Backup
• Granular Recovery up to
documents via SharePoint
Explorer tool
• Granular Recovery up to
databases and SYSVOL
SINGLE-PASS BACKUP
APPLICATION SUPPORT BY ACRONIS BACKUP ADVANCED
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Acronis Backup Advanced for Exchange
• Unified interface for backup, management and
recovery OS and Exchange Data
• Catalog for Exchange data
• Search DB, Mailboxes and E-mails
Microsoft
Exchange
 Protect Company Email
 Improve user productivity with
quick mailbox recovery
 Enhance service with E-mail
catalog search and recovery
 Reduce Recovery Time with
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• Storage Support
• Acronis Storage node (Exchange deduplication)
• Disks and tapes
• Scheduling, Monitoring, Reporting
• Exchange-specific Disaster recovery plans
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Exchange Granular Recovery
• Built-in Exchange catalog & search
 Catalog for fast lookups
 Find Mailboxes and E-mails quickly
 No Recovery of whole DB needed
• Browse Exchange databases,
mailboxes and emails
• Recover mailboxes or email from DB
Backup
• Supports Calendar items, Notes,
Tasks, etc.
• Recover directly to mailbox or to PST
• No Recovery Storage Group required
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Calendar items
Notes
Tasks
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Safe
 No reconfiguration of Exchange
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Express Full Backup
Granular Recovery
Intelligent Exchange Cluster Support
Continuous Data Protection (CDP)
Data cataloging
Restore to Exchange, Disk, PST
Support of Exchange 2003, 2007, 2010, 2013
Most comprehensive Exchange Data Protection in the Market
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Acronis Backup Advanced for SQL
• Unified interface for backup, management and
recovery OS and SQL Databases
• Catalog and Search for SQL DBs
• Scheduling, Monitoring, Reporting
Microsoft SQL
• Simplify the data protection with
Single Pass Backup
• Get flexible recovery with server,
files or databases recovery
• Reduce risk of low disk space with
built-in log truncation
• SQL Transaction Log Truncation
• Advanced SQL DB Recovery
– Mounting from Backup
– Active Restore
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Acronis Backup Advanced for SharePoint
• Unified interface for backup, management and
recovery SharePoint Servers and Farms
• Scheduling, Monitoring, Reporting
SharePoint SQL DB Protection
Microsoft
SharePoint
• Granular Recovery of Items and Documents
 Simplify the data protection with
Single Pass Backup
 Improve User productivity with
granular recovery of documents
 Reduce Recovery Time with
whole Server DR
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Acronis Backup Advanced for Active Directory
• Unified interface for backup, management and
recovery of Active Directory Domain Controllers
• Scheduling, Monitoring, Reporting
Microsoft Active
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Single Pass Backup
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Server DR and support of
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• AD DB and SYSVOL Recovery
• Authoritative and Non-Authoritative Restore
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Storage Support
Acronis Backup Advanced
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Unified Backup Format
Unified Format
Agent for
Hyper-V
Agent for
Linux
Agent for
VMware
Agent for
Windows
Back up Physical
Restore to ESX
Back up ESX
Restore to Hyper-V
.TIB File
• Recover to Any Platform – Physical and Virtual
• Migrate in Any-to-Any – P2V, V2V, V2P, P2P
• Reduce Disaster Recovery times and risks
Back up Hyper-V
Restore to Physical
• Improve Data Centers without nasty surprises
• Effortless Upgrade of Production Systems
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Backup Storage options
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flexible storage combinations
Local hard disks
Acronis Secure Zone
USB hard disk
NAS - SMB / CIFS
Private Cloud - FTP/SFTP
Tape
 Reduce costs by choosing
storage right for your business
– Drives, Autoloaders, Libraries
 Implement reliable off-site
backup with Cloud or Tape
• Optical media
– CD/RW, DVD/RW)
• Acronis Cloud Storage
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Acronis Secure Zone
 Easy
 Created by Acronis Backup
 Automatic existing partitions resizing
 Complete
 All operations - Backup, Restore,
Explore, Mount
 Safe
 Special Hidden Partition
 Not accessible by Windows, Applications,
Users
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Acronis Cloud Storage
• Easy to use Cloud Storage
– Integrated into Acronis Backup
• Complete Data Protection
– File backup
– Disk image backup
– Bare Metal Disaster Recovery
• Extremely Safe and Reliable
– AES-256 encryption at source
and in transit
– Tier 3+ Data Centers
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Easiest way to implement Off-Site
backup for Disaster Recovery
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Recovery
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Recovery
• Online (in Operating System)
– Files and Application Data (Granular)
– Easy and quick
• Offline (using Bootable Media)
– Bare-Metal Recovery
– Recovery to dissimilar hardware with
Acronis Universal Restore
– Remote recovery using Bootable Agent
– Complete and reliable
• Acronis Active Restore
– Start in Bootable Media
– Continue in Operating System
– Best of both worlds
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Bare Metal Recovery
• Bare Metal - computer with empty hard disk
(no OS)
• Rebuilding system from Bare Metal to full
operation
• Starting from empty hard disk – no OS or data
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Acronis Universal Restore
• Anywhere to Anywhere migration
• Complete flexibility with Acronis
– P2V, V2V, V2P, P2P
– BIOS->UEFI/UEFI->BIOS, 32bit->64bit
67% of companies
are running at
least one
hypervisor other
than vSphere or
Hyper-V
• 50+ supported operating systems
– Windows Server 2000/2003/2008/2012
– Windows XP/Vista/8/8.1
– RHEL/Ubuntu/SLES/CentOS/other
• VMware, Hyper-V, XenServer,
RHEL/KVM, Oracle VM migrations
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Acronis Universal Restore in Numbers
• Thousands of FUBAR situations saved per year
• Support for all major file systems
– FAT16/FAT32/NTFS
– ReFS/Ext2,3,4/ReiserFS/XFS/JFS/other
• 50+ supported operating systems
– Windows Server 2000/2003/2008/2012
– Windows XP/Vista/8/8.1
– RHEL/Ubuntu/SLES/CentOS/other
• Dozens of supported migrations
– P2V/V2P/V2V/P2P
– BIOS->UEFI/UEFI->BIOS
– 32bit->64bit
• Support for any driver
– Windows drivers in system folders
– Linux drivers in modules folders
– Custom driver location
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Acronis Active Restore
Standard Recovery
Recovery
Active Restore
Boot
Recovery
40
sec
Time
Time
Boot
• Restore critical Windows files first
• Boot Windows in about 40 seconds
– Acronis AnyData Engine will substitute missing data from Backup
• All Services will work as normal during Recovery
• Get near-hot RTO with cost of cold backup
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Browsing Images with Windows Explorer
• Easiest Recovery!
– Simply Double-Click in Windows
Explorer on Backup File:
– See Backup Timeline
– Choose Partitions or disks
– Recover Folders and Files
• Use familiar Explorer actions
– Copy/Paste
– Open
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Mounting Images as Virtual Drives
• Easy browsing of the backup
Backup
Image
Incremental
Backup
• Flexible use of any Application
– See drive letter in Windows (i.e. F:\)
– Protect the data by Mounting drive Read-Only
– Mount the Image in Read-Write mode
– Changes will be saved to the Incremental
Backup, leaving original Backup intact
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• Clear the Viruses from infected machines
WRITE
Virtual Drive
Operating System
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Recovering Files From Disk Image on Tape
• Unique in the Market
• Restore files from sector-level disk image backup stored
on tape
• Also includes cataloging with search
Recover:
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Backup on Tape
Files from file backup
Yes
Yes
Files from image backup
Yes
Yes
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Disaster Recovery Plan
• Disaster Recovery Plan
– Simple step-by-step instructions
on how to perform recovery
– Bringing automated enterprise
best practices to SMBs
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Management Features
Acronis Backup Advanced
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Remote Installation
Source machine
Acronis Backup
Management
Console
Target Machine(s)
Microsoft
Installer (MSI)
Remote
Installation
Network
Microsoft Installer
(MSI) Remote
Installation
ADMIN$ Share
• Reduce management effort with Easy installation of Remote machines
• Protect complete environment with Mass Installations
• Leverage safe Microsoft MSI remote installation procedure
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Centralized Management
• Easy and Scalable
– Central Backup Scheduling
– Central Backup Plans
– Central backup catalog and search.
• Complete Picture
– Infrastructure dashboard
– Global alerts, monitoring and reporting
• Improved efficiency
– Central management of storage
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Acronis Disk Cloning
Source Hard Drive
• Transfer all the Data
– Expanding System Volume
– New System Layout
– Predicted Hardware Failure
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Target Hard Drive
 Reliable Migration to Different HDD
 Easy HDD Upgrade
 Faster System Performance
 Migrate to SSD or Hybrid HDD
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Licensing
Acronis Backup Advanced
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Licensing: Per Physical Machine
Unmanaged Storage:
File Servers, NAS, SAN
No License Required
Protected Servers
License Per Physical Server/Host
Management
Server
Included
Management
Console
Included
Acronis Backup Advanced:
..for Windows Server
1x
..for Linux Server
1x
..for VMware
1x
..for PC
3x
Or
..Universal License
6x
NETWORK
•
Acronis
Storage Node
Included
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Protected PCs
License per PC
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•
No Add-ons, tiers, surcharges
•
No CPU Sockets
•
No per-VM, per-OS licenses
Protect your investment with Universal License
Scale your environment easily
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Use Cases
Acronis Backup Advanced
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USE CASE 1:
Data Protection in a Hybrid Environment
Problem
Solution
• Physical and Virtual Environment
• Acronis Backup Advanced
– Data Backup approach differs
• Backup Complexity
– Traditional Platforms are heavy
– Separate Tools difficult to manage
• Escalating Costs and Risks
– Reduced Complexity
– Reduced Costs
– Reduced Risks
• Complete protection
– Windows and Linux
– Servers and PCs
– Physical and virtual
• Easy recovery of entire servers or individual
documents
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USE CASE 2:
Server Consolidation and Disaster Recovery
Problem
Solution
• Hypervisor Choice
•
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– Different Costs, Licensing
• Migration Risks
– Standard tools are limited
• Escalating Costs
• Unpredictable Outcomes
• Backup & DR Complexity
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The only Solution to protect 6 hypervisors:
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•
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Fast and reliable Any-to-Any migration
Agentless backup of VMs
Near-zero RTO with Instant Restore™
VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V, Red Hat
Enterprise Virtualization, Citrix XenServer, Linux KVM,
Oracle VM Server
Reduced Complexity with one blended solution
Reduced Risks with Acronis Universal Restore
Reduced Costs with choice of right Hypervisor
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USE CASE 3:
Data Retention for Compliance and Audit
Problem
Solution
• Multiple Compliance Regulations
• Acronis Backup Advanced
– SoX, FATCA, HIPAA, FINRA, PCI
• Internal and External Audits
• 100% Data Preservation required
– Costs
– Complexity
– High Risks
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– Unified Disaster Recovery and Data Protection
solution
– 100% data backup with Disk Imaging
– Restore Any Data with catalog and search
– Built-in affordable off-site backup to Acronis Cloud
• Reduced Costs
• Scalability in rapidly changing IT
• Risk control
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USE CASE 4:
Remote Office, Branch Office (ROBO)
Problem
Solution
•
•
•
•
•
•
• Acronis Backup Advanced
Limited Resources
No IT Personnel in ROBO
Data is Business-Critical
Increased Data Loss Risks
Inconsistent Data Protection
Impossible to use Complex Data Centeroriented Solution
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•
•
•
•
Unified Protection of local and ROBO systems
Single console
Reduced downtime with remote recovery
Acronis Cloud Storage for secure off-site backup,
even from ROBO
Consistent Backup Experience
Consistent Corporate Policies
Reduced Risks without Complexity
Full protection without high Costs
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USE CASE 5:
Recovery of Applications (e.g. Exchange)
Problem
Solution
• Application Backup
• Acronis Backup Advanced
– Application-specific features needed
• Resource Overload
– Traditional Backups heavy
– Point Tools not scalable
– Built-in Tools limited
• Escalating Costs
• Risks
– Inability to Restore Data
– User Productivity affected
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Exchange, SQL, SharePoint, Active Directory
Single Pass Backup, CDP, Express Full Backup
Transaction Log Backup and Truncation
Individual mailbox, folder, e-mail Recovery
Searchable Catalog
• Improve User & IT Productivity
• Reduce Risks with reliable Data Protection
• Achieve faster RTO
– Recover entire Server to dissimilar hardware
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Appendix
Extra details
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Protecting Applications: Using Microsoft VSS
Backup Start
Acronis Backup Advanced
Start
Backup
Take Snapshot
(Activate SnapAPI)
Backup
Microsoft
VSS
Framework
Save
transactions
Suspend
Activity
Less than 1 second
No disconnection of users
VSS-Aware Database Engine
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Resume Normal
Operations
OS:
• Windows 2003/R2
• Windows 2008/R2
• Windows 2012/R2
• Windows Vista,7,8,8.1
DBs:
• MS SQL
• Exchange
• SharePoint
• Oracle 10g+
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Protecting Applications: Scripting
Backup Start
Acronis Backup Advanced
Start
Backup
Take Snapshot
(Activate SnapAPI)
Execute
Before Capture
Execute
After Capture
Operating
System
Script or
Command
Script or
Command
Suspend
Change Mode
Backup
Resume
Pure Downtime
Change Mode
Less than 1 second
Stop
Resume
Normal
Operations
Start
Database Engine
Total Downtime Up to several minutes
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Multi-volume Snapshot
Enabled
Disabled
Snapshot
Snapshot
Snapshot
Snapshot
Backup
Backup
• Snapshot all partitions simultaneously
• Backup of complex Databases
• Default Setting
• More efficient
• Faster
• Not for complex Databases
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Exchange Express Full Backup
Backup
Exchange Database
Full
Backup
• Enabled by Acronis Storage Node
• Send modified data only
– Typically <5% of the database size daily
• Benefits:
– Quick backup of large databases
Express
Full
– No impact of Backup during business hours
– Reliable Protection with backup over WAN
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Exchange Cluster Support
• Transparent support of Exchange Cluster
• Cluster recognition, automatic agent installation
• Single Cluster view in Management Console
• Cluster-aware configuration
• Performance-optimized backup of passive (replica) servers
• Automatic re-configuration on cluster events (failovers, switchovers)
• “Set and forget” configuration
Replication
Replication
Replication
Single Copy Cluster
(2003, 2007)
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Group (2010)
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Local Hard Disk
Strengths
• Convenient
– no connectivity/password/firewall
issues
• Fast
• No impact to shared resources
(e.g. network)
• Mobile
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Caution
• Same machine as production
• Does not protect from major
disasters
• 1-to-1 management
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External Hard Disk (USB)
Strengths
• Convenient
– no connectivity/password/firewall
issues
• Fast
• No impact to shared resources
• Mobile
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• Does not cover major disasters
• 1-to-1 management
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Network Storage
Strengths
• Relatively Fast
• Covers hardware failure
• Centrally managed
Caution
• Uses Shared Resource, like LAN
• Not mobile
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Tape and Optical Media
Strengths
• Covers hardware failure
• Mobile
• Acronis One-Click restore from
CD/DVD
Caution
• Lower performance
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Acronis Cloud Storage
Strengths
•
•
•
•
Reliable Off-premise location
Tier-3+ Data Center
Accessible from Anywhere
Centrally managed
Caution
• Performance depends on Internet
Connectivity
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Bootable media
• Bootable CD, DVD, ISO file, Flash Drive, PXE Server
–
Can be created by user anytime
• Standalone Acronis Backup
–
Does not require pre-installed OS
• Contains Drivers
–
SAN, NAS, SCSI, RAID, USB, IEEE1394, Network
• Universal (generic)
–
Works on any hardware - no individual disks for each machine
• Supports All major operations
–
Backup, Recovery, Cloning, Disk Management
• Flexible Base
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Linux – Default media created in Acronis Backup
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Windows – Created with Windows PE
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Supported OS - Windows
• Windows 8.1
– except RT
• Windows 8
– except RT
• Windows 7
• Windows Vista
• Windows XP Professional
– SP2+
• Windows 2000 SP4
– except Datacenter Edition
x86/x64
MBR/UEFI
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Windows Server 2012 R2
Windows Server 2012
Windows Server 2008 R2
Windows Server 2008
Windows Server 2003 R2
Windows Server 2003
Windows Server 2012 Essentials
Windows Server 2012 Foundation
Windows MultiPoint Server 2010/2011
Windows Small Business Server 2011
Windows Small Business Server 2008
Windows Small Business Server 2003 R2
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Supported OS - Linux
• Linux with kernel 2.4.20 or later (including 3.x kernels) and glibc 2.3.2 or later
• Various 32-bit and 64-bit Linux distributions, including:
 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.x, 5.x and 6.x
 Ubuntu 9.10, 10.04, 10.10, 11.04, 11.10, 12.04
 Fedora 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17
 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 and 11
x86/x64
MBR/UEFI
 Debian 4, 5, 6
 CentOS 5.x, 6.x
 Oracle Linux 5.x, 6.x – both Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel and Red Hat
Compatible Kernel
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Complete Linux Support
Universal
Restore
Disaster
Recovery
X Window
Management
Console
File Backup
Disk, Tape,
Cloud
Storage
Disk Image
Backup
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Supported VMware vSphere (Global)
Agent for ESX(i)
• VMware ESX Infrastructure 3.5 Update 2+
• VMware vSphere 4.0 (ESX/ESXi)
• VMware vSphere 4.1 (ESX/ESXi)
• VMware vSphere 5.0 (ESXi)
• VMware vSphere 5.1 (ESXi)
• VMware vSphere 5.5 (ESXi)
*) Free VMware Hypervisor is supported only for Agent-Based Backup
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Supported VMware vSphere (NAM)
Agent for ESXi
• VMware vSphere 5.0 (ESXi)
• VMware vSphere 5.1 (ESXi)
• VMware vSphere 5.5 (ESXi)
*) Free VMware Hypervisor is supported only for Agent-Based Backup
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Supported Microsoft Hyper-V
Hyper-V 2.0
•
•
•
•
Hyper-V 3.0
Windows Server 2008 R2 with Hyper-V
Windows Server 2008 R2 with Hyper-V
Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008
Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2
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Windows Server 2012 with Hyper-V
Windows Server 2012 R2 with Hyper-V
Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2012
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Supported Microsoft Applications
• MS Exchange Server: 2003 SP2+, 2007, 2010, 2013
• MS SQL Server: 2005, 2008, 2008 R2, 2012
• MS SharePoint: 3.0 SP2, 2007 SP2, 2010 SP1, 2013
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Component Interaction
Unmanaged Storage: File Server, NAS, SAN
No Acronis components
Servers to be backed up
Acronis Backup Advanced
Acronis Management Server
Network
Managed Storage
(Deduplication, Server-side Retention)
Acronis Storage Node
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(for PC)
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Acronis Backup Advanced
Management Console
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