"Deployment was a piece of cake. I was able to dynamically allocate resources and increase the size of my disk based on how much data I have. You get all the functionality of Veritas and Legato running in a virtual appliance, including the option to backup to tape."
End-user Review,
VMware Virtual Appliance Marketplace
Arkeia Software selected virtualized environments as a major product development focus beginning in 2008. We address virtualized environments in two ways. First, we deliver Arkeia Network Backup as a virtual appliance. Second, we deliver agents for protecting the contents of whole virtual machine platforms.
Deploying with Virtual Appliances
Virtual appliance deployments offer many benefits:
- Because many backups are performed only periodically or at only certain hours each day, they do not make efficient use of dedicated hardware
- LAN-free backups of virtual machines
- Rapid deployment
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Take advantage of hypervisor features, such as high-availability, snapshotting, and storage provisioning
Backing up Virtual Machines
Arkeia Software offers specialized agents for Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware ESX/vSphere that make it practical to back up any number of virtual machines within a single hypervisor, without having to install Agents on each virtual machine. You license and install a single Agent that handles the backup and recovey operations of multiple virtual machines. These types of agents allow full system image-level backups that enable disaster recovery, which results in reduced downtime.
Often times specific applications or databases may need more granular backup and recovery options. In this case, standard backup agents for both files and applications/databases can be installed directly in the virtual machines, similar to how they would normally be deployed in physical environments. Arkea Network Backup fully supports operating system and associated applications and databases that are running in virtual environments.