Vembu BDR Suite Free Edition Available with Full backup Features Supports up to 10 VMs

Posted By Rajesh Radhakrishnan September 30 2019

For every Organization even if it is small, medium or large Data is very important. If they lose their data business will get impacted, so data protection is Critical one. Most of the SMB’s does not have data protection it’s because many are not aware of the impact of data loss and many due to their limited budget.

Vembu BDR free edition will be the right fit for your Small business, if you do not have a Backup and DR plan in place, let’s find what Vembu Free edition offers to protect the data for Business Continuity.

Vembu BDR Suite Free Edition Available with Full backup Features Supports up to 10 VMs

Earlier Vembu free edition was supporting with no feature restriction for three VMs. And Vembu always understands the challenges of customers to purchase and use a backup solution Vembu BDR Suite Free Edition is available for everyone with full backup features up to 10 VMs to address the needs backups for the SMB’s do not have a backup strategy or with a limited budget.

Vembu BDR Suite free edition is primarily designed for SMB’s to protect their Virtual, Physical Servers & Workstations and its available for everyone with below details

  • Unlimited VM Backup with a full backup feature for up to 10 VMs and limited features for the rest of the VMs
  • Unlimited Physical Windows Server Backup
  • Unlimited Windows & Mac Workstations Backup

By using Vembu BDR Suite Free Edition you can utilize feature like

  • Agentless VM backup
  • Near Continuous Data Protection (15 mins RPO)
  • CBT based incremental backup
  • Application-aware backups
  • Quick VM Recovery (RTO<15 mins)
  • Granularly recover Files & Application items

Agentless backups

Vembu BDR Suite offers Agentless Backup solution to protect the VMware vSphere ESXi, vCenter VMs and Microsoft Hyper-V VMs. Vembu BDR Suite uses VMware vStorage APIs (VADP) feature to perform the agentless backup and a proprietary driver along with the Microsoft VSS technology in Hyper-V

Agentless backup reduces the efforts involved in installing the agent on each VMs and Backup and recovery configurations are simple since they are directly performing from Vembu BDR Server Web Console.

High Availability with Near CDP

Vembu achieves high availability by providing Near CDP (Continuous Data Protection) with an RTO and RPO of less than 15 minutes. Recovery options available in Vembu BDR Suite are quick enough to keep data centers up and running with minimal downtime with near-zero data loss. Also, you can recover the physical and virtual infrastructure on VMware, Hyper-V or KVM platforms using Vembu Quick VM Recovery feature from image-based backups.

Application-aware Backup

Vembu BDR Free edition has the capability to perform an application-aware backup using Microsoft’s Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS). Vembu BDR Suite provides deep VSS integration to deliver application-aware backup to ensure skipping of applications in a non-consistent state.

Vembu BDR server makes sure that consistent backups for Microsoft Applications like Exchange, SharePoint, Active Directory and SQL. Also, have an additional option to truncate the transaction logs for MS Exchange and MS SQL.

Changed Block Tracking (CBT)

CBT is the technology used in Vembu BDR to track modified data blocks details of a backed-up virtual machine to provide efficient storage utilization. After every full backup, CBT will do this process and it will reduce backup window as well as the storage consumption by backing up only the changes instead of a full backup.

  • Vembu BDR Suite for VMware vSphere & vCenter used the VMware’s CBT to modified blocks for incremental backup.
  • Hyper-V using Vembu’s proprietary CBT for tracking backed up blocks and process an incremental backup.

Quick VM Recovery

Vembu BDR free edition has a wonderful feature called Quick VM Recovery. It is an instant recovery method used at the time of an unexpected disaster happened, which helps to reduce the downtime. Vembu is capable of recovering backup data instantly on either VMware or Hyper-V directly from storage targets, which is still compressed and encrypted. Moreover, the changes that are made during the quick boot session are also tracked and stored in the backup repository that might be used at times of permanent recovery.

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