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| How can SnapShot Backup help me? |
SnapShot Backup will help you keep your VMWare environment's data safe, protected and available for restore in seconds. |
| What is the main benefit of deploying SnapShot Backup? |
Almost no Backup window for near 24/7/365 operations with near zero impact on LAN and reduced backup impact on infrastructure are the top 3 benefits |
| What ROI should I expect? |
SnapShot Backup does not require VMWare backup license for ESX hosts that are being backed up. SnapShot Backup has near zero footprint as it does not copy or store data. One SnapShot Backup is media or proxy server-less solution, 1 SnapShot Backup can replace all of your traditional backup servers. |
| What TCO should I expect? |
Reduced and simplified backup solution: no media/proxy servers, no data copy over LAN or SAN Fabric during backup, no need for VMWare backup license |
| How does SnapShot Backup work? |
SnapShot Backup integrates your SAN arrays with your VMWare platform. It schedules, synchronizes and executes guest VM quiescence and SAN snapshots and replicas. It restores individual files or entire servers from SAN snapshots and replicas. |
| De-dupless Data De-Dupe, what is it? |
SnapShot Backup uses SAN snapshots and replicas for backup. You don't have to keep a copy of your entire environment on disk. SnapShot Backup prevents data duplication, with zero performance hit. |
| What are typical infrastructure requirements (media servers, LAN, etc)? |
SnapShot Backup simply coordinates tasks and keeps track of snapshots, replicas and VMWare servers. SnapShot Backup server can safely run inside of VM or a low end physical server or workstation. |
| How does SnapShot Backup differ from others? |
SnapShot Backup does not copy data during backup.
it simply coordinates tasks and keeps track of snapshots, replicas and VMWare servers.
Restore is easy, just browse and select files or server to recover. |
| What are the 1st, 2nd and 3rd generations of backup? |
- 1st Generation backup for VMWare is a script based approach that IT administrators used for "vmdk" backup.
- 2nd Generation was more mature approach that introduced GUI based administration for VMWare backup and replication.
- Both 1st and 2nd generation backup have common reliability problem as they rely on vStorage or VCB software snapshot, data copy/transfer and data duplication.
- 3rd Generation VMWare backup is intelligent integration of VMWare platform into SAN Array hardware for near 100% reliable backup and replication.
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| How does "Backup in Seconds" work? What if I have 100's of TB storage? |
SnapShot Backup performance backup using SAN Arrays snapshots instead of traditional data copy. SAN snapshots are near instant. |
| Is backup file system and database consistent? |
Yes, SnapShot Backup uses VSS integration for consistent backup. You can even save VM's RAM during backup for the instant ON backup. The result is if backup never happened. |
| Can I restore individual files directly from SAN Snapshot? |
Yes, restore Wizard lets you select individual files, folders and drives. |
| How can I restore individual files? |
Yes, restore Wizard lets you select individual files, folders and drives. |
| Can restore entire guest VMs or whole ESX hosts? |
Yes, restore Wizard lets you select servers to be restored. |
| How can I restore entire guest VMs or whole ESX hosts? |
Yes, restore Wizard lets you select servers to be restored. |
| Will it work with a small ESX farm of 2-3 hosts? |
Yes, absolutely! SnapShot Backup is ideal for smaller environments. |
| Will it work with our enterprise datacenter of 100' of ESX hosts? |
Yes, of course SnapShot Backup is great for large datacenter VMWare environments. It will significantly reduce backup solution's complexity, impact and costs. |
| Will it work with multiple data centers across WAN links? |
Yes, SnapShot Backup event lets you use your DR sites for data backup and restore. It will merge DR and Backup solutions. The main results will be simplified/merged backup solution, no data duplication and reduced costs. |
| What kind of backup performance should I expect? |
Actual data backup process will be near instant, backup jobs (connecting to servers, creating snapshots and logging events) takes a few minutes, LAN/WAN traffic is very little since there is not traditional data copy process. |
| Can I schedule backup jobs (SAN Snapshots) based on my needs? |
Yes, SnapShot Backup lets you create your own backup schedule based on your needs. Scheduling is very flexible, you can schedule backups to run monthly, weekly, daily, or and interval of minutes and hours. |
| Can I save RAM memory data during backup? |
Yes, SnapShot Backup lets you save data of VM's RAM. This allows you to bring that VM server back into the exact same "ON" state as it was during the backup process. |
| Does SnapShot Backup copy or move data during backup? |
No, SnapShot Backup does not need to move or copy data across LAN during the backup as traditional approaches do. |
| How recourse hungry is SnapShot Backup server? |
SnapShot Backup does not need to copy or move data during backup. Requirements are very low. You can safely run it inside of VM or a low end server. |
| What versions of VMWare are supported? |
VMWare vSphere 4, ESX 3.5, ESX 3.0.x, ESXi and ESXi "Free" are supported |
| Can I use SnapShot Backup with ESXi "Free" server? |
Yes, SnapShot Backup works with ESXi "Free" server. It does not need VMWare backup license. |
| What SAN Arrays are supported? |
All major SAN arrays are supported: EMC Celera, NETAPP, HP Left Hand. Dell EqualLogic and IBM DS series will be supported in Q2 2010. Please contact us if your SAN is not supported, we will hard to promptly to add it to our list. |
| Do I need snapshot feature on my SAN? |
Yes, SAN Array must be able to make snapshot and or replicas to take advantage of the 3rd Generation backup that SnapShot Backup provides. |
| Can I use both SAN Snapshots and Replicas for backup? |
Yes, SnapShot Backup generally supports both SAN snapshots and replicas. |
| I don’t have SAN or SAN Snapshot feature, will it work? |
Yes, SnapShot Backup is fully backward compatible with vStorage/VCB software snapshot based backup for traditional agent-less backup.. |
| What is LAN bandwidth requirement for SnapShot Backup? |
SnapShot Backup has very little LAN/WAN bandwidth requirement as it does not copy or move data during the backup when using the SAN Array snapshot approach. |
| Does SnapShot Backup have Windows or Web GUI? |
Yes, SnapShot Backup is pure Windows based application. It has very intuitive, clean and easy to use Windows MMC based GUI. |
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