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Veritas Backup Exec 16
Powerful, flexible, and trusted data protection designed for virtual, physical and cloud environments
Overview
Backup Exec™ 16 delivers powerful, flexible, and trusted data
protection designed for your entire infrastructure regardless of
platform: virtual, physical or cloud. With Backup Exec, you get
fast, reliable protection of data and systems at every level, as
well as advanced integration with the most recent releases of
Microsoft® Server, Microsoft® Hyper-V and VMware® vSphere®.
In a matter of minutes, you can recover anything including VMs,
servers, databases, files, and granular application objects.
Protect one to thousands of virtual machines from a single user
console, optimizing performance and efficiency. Backup Exec
saves time, money and helps ensure your critical information is
always protected and easily recoverable.
What's New in Backup Exec 16
It's not just backup. It's a more powerful, flexible, trusted business. Data protection that goes beyond backup and recovery. Veritas Backup Exec helps you migrate to cloud, gives you immediate protection for Windows Server 2016 and Hyper-V 2016, and enables time, cost and resource savings across your entire infrastructure. This means you can focus on what matters most: your business.
New features to improve IT productivity and simplify your life:
Scale to Azure Cloud: read/write directly to hot and cool storage tiers
Protection for the newest Microsoft deployments: Windows Server 2016 and Hyper-V 2016
Virtualize with Confidence: fast backup and Instant Recovery for VMware and Hyper-V
Simplified licensing enables powerful capabilities with a single entitlement
Streamlined user interface improves workflow and efficiency
Key Features and Benefits
Single solution for virtual, physical and cloud
environments simplifies backup and eliminates
the cost and complexity of multiple
point products.
Fast virtual machine snapshots through
deep integration with Microsoft® Volume
Shadow Copy Service (VSS) and
VMware vStorage™ APIs for Data Protection
(VADP) minimizes CPU, memory, and I/O
load performance impacts on the
virtual host.
Instant Recovery of VMware and Hyper-V
virtual machines provides an immediately
usable copy of the server and data for DR,
compliance, testing and application deployment.
Integrated global deduplication and change
block tracking allows you to protect more data
while minimizing disk space required for
backup files.
Veritas-certified compatibility with virtually any
storage device including disk, tape and cloud
means Backup Exec supports your organization’s
storage strategy, not the other way around.
Integrated bare-metal, physical to virtual (P2V)
and virtual to physical (V2P) recovery helps
minimize downtime and disruption.
Powerful
When you can solve more problems with less complexity, you
have a simple yet powerful solution to improve administrative
productivity. Backup Exec can help you meet business
expectations for backup and recovery, reduce storage costs,
secure confidential data, achieve regulatory requirements,
and eliminate niche backup tools from your infrastructure.
Fast and reliable backup and recovery—Backup Exec
enables you to meet your organization’s data protection
expectations by reducing the time it takes to back up and
recover critical information, apps and servers. With Backup
Exec you can mitigate the risk and cost of downtime by
using a wide variety of flexible backup and recovery
methods. Whether you are using disk, tape, or cloud, your
information can be easily and reliably recovered.
Advanced integration with VMware and Hyper-V—Backup
Exec offers full protection for your virtual environment and
Software-Defined Data Center including new Software-
Defined Storage features like VMware® Virtual SAN and
Virtual Volumes. Recover what you need, when and where
you need it. Easily create stand-by virtual copies of your
physical systems for disaster recovery in minutes, or for
general P2V migrations. Backup Exec addresses VM sprawl
by automatically identifying and protecting new VMs as they
appear so you can be assured your VMs are protected from
day one.
Save more, store less—Flexible global de-duplication in
Backup Exec helps you solve for growing data challenges,
regardless of how much your data changes. It helps
minimize backup windows, decrease network traffic,
and reduce disk space required for storing backup data.
Backup Exec de-duplicates across all virtual and physical
backup jobs, reducing storage costs over other, individual
job-based methods.
Flexible
Not every backup solution has the flexibility to protect all of
your organization’s information – whether virtual, physical or
cloud. Choose the data protection architecture that works for
you, rather than letting the software dictate your setup. Back
up anything to virtually any storage device, and restore nearly
anywhere. From VMs, to entire servers, applications, single files
and folders or granular application objects, Backup Exec is the
single solution for all of your data protection needs.
Virtual and physical data protection in a single solution
—Lowering costs and simplifying backup tasks starts with
deploying a single solution that is designed for your entire
infrastructure regardless of platform: virtual, physical, or
cloud. Deeply integrated with VMware, Microsoft and Linux
platforms, Backup Exec can protect one to thousands of
servers and virtual machines all from the same user console,
providing optimal performance and efficiency. Scalability is
an important consideration in backup and recovery, and
Backup Exec supports you as your organization grows.
Hybrid architectures to disk, tape, and cloud—Backup
Exec provides the flexibility to protect VMware and Hyper-V
environments using agents or agentless methods, in addition
to Microsoft and Linux-based physical machines, whether local
or remote. Flexible target options allow you to write to virtually
any storage device including disk, tape, hosted storage, or
directly to public cloud services such as Amazon S3, Google
Cloud Storage and Microsoft Azure. Gateway devices such
as Amazon Storage Gateway or Microsoft StorSimple permit
rapid migration to economical cloud storage.
Fast, efficient, and versatile recovery
—Backup Exec recovers data rapidly at any level of granularity,
“from anywhere, to anywhere” with a single pass backup. In a
few simple clicks, you can recover data from virtual machines
and physical servers, including entire applications, individual
objects, files, folders, and granular application items from
Microsoft® Exchange, Active Directory®, SQL Server®, and
SharePoint®. Backup Exec intelligently indexes and catalogs
backup data so you don’t waste valuable time and disk
space mounting backup jobs, determining what’s inside, and
searching for specific data. Backup Exec efficiently restores
data directly from the backup, which simplifies and speeds up
recovery when you need it most. Backup Exec also provides
built-in disaster recovery (DR) for physical and virtual systems
to help minimize downtime, mitigate risk and eliminate
business disruption. In the event of a disaster, Backup Exec
can recover an entire server from a bare metal state to the
same or dissimilar hardware in minutes, not hours or days. It
can also convert your physical servers or their backups into
virtual machines. Protected virtual machines can be rapidly
spun up from the backup set for immediate use.
Trusted
Complex backup and recovery products can be inefficient, time
consuming, and expensive to manage. Through intuitive wizards
and insightful dashboards, Backup Exec is easy to implement,
use and manage, whether you are upgrading from a previous
version or switching from a competitive product.
Easy to manage—Quickly track and monitor every backup
and recovery job through an easy-to-use interface with
intuitive dashboards and wizards. In a few simple clicks, you
can set backup jobs, view backup status, and perform quick
recoveries. Rather than using complex policies, save time and
simplify the implementation of backup protection with a visual
workflow that lets you replicate data on-premise, off-site or to
the cloud. In addition, the centralized administration console
in Backup Exec delivers scalable management of distributed
sites and helps reduce the time and resources needed to
manage your backup operations.
Superior visibility—Backup Exec gives you visibility into your
entire backup and recovery infrastructure so that you can
take action when needed. Easily perform a granular search of
backed up data including mailbox data by subject, Microsoft
SQL databases by name, or SharePoint data by document
name. Configure Backup Exec to intelligently browse your
environment and discover servers, VMs and other data at risk.
Flexible licensing—Backup Exec 16 is a cost-effective
solution that’s easy to acquire, license, and deploy. Flexible
licensing options for on-premise software include per TB, per
socket or per module (agents and options). With Backup Exec
you benefit from the ability to choose the right licensing model
for your environment—all at affordable prices.
Support Services
No matter the size of your organization, a service interruption
can result in significant losses. Fortunately, the Veritas technical
support team is here to help. Veritas
Essential Technical Support is included with your Backup Exec
purchase and provides 24 x 7 expert problem resolution. In
addition, while your support contract is active, you can upgrade
your appropriate Backup Exec licenses to newer versions as they
become available — at no additional cost.
System Requirements
For a complete list of system requirements and supported
devices, please refer to the Backup Exec 16 hardware and
software compatibility list:
http://backupexec.com/compatibility
Available Editions, Agents, and Options
Backup Exec 16 Editions
Backup Exec is available as on-premise software with three
licensing options—per TB, per socket, per module.
Backup Exec 16 Capacity Edition Lite (per front-end TB)
Backup Exec 16 (a la carte: per module, media server,
agent or option)
Backup Exec Agents and Options
Backup Exec provides scalable, easy-to-manage backup and
recovery for virtual and physical environments. Backup Exec
Agents and Options expand the features and functionality of
Backup Exec to support critical applications, databases,
storage configurations and much more.
Backup Exec 16 Capacity Edition Lite includes a Backup Exec
Server, Agent for VMware and Hyper-V, Agent for Windows,
Agent for Applications and Databases, and Agent for Linux
Backup Exec 16 Capacity Edition includes all Backup Exec
Agents and Options
Backup Exec 16 V-Ray Edition includes Agent for Applications
and Databases, Agent for VMware and Hyper-V and Deduplication Option (additional Agents and Options
can be added and licensed as required)
Backup Exec 16 a la carte: Agents and Options are
licensed individually