"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
Several virtual machines, each with its own operating system instance, can be backed up using traditional Arkeia Backup Agents and Agent Options. Our software operates normally in a virtual environment. However, the advent of our VMware ESX Agent makes 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. Arkeia will offer specialized agents for other hypervisors, such as Hyper-V and Xen, in the future.