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Acronis is a leading provider of easy-to-use backup, recovery and security solutions for physical, virtual and cloud environments.
Its patented disk imaging technology enables corporations, SMBs and consumers to protect their digital assets. With Acronis' disaster recovery, deployment and migration software, users protect their digital information, maintain business continuity and reduce downtime.
Our installed customer base encompasses more than 175,000 businesses across a broad range of industries and over 2.5 million users of our consumer products.
We have built a mature sales and distribution network that has sold our products in more than 90 countries.
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Best Backup and Recovery for VMware vSphere®
Acronis® vmProtect™ 8
is the fastest, easiest and most complete solution to protect your VMware
vSphere environment.
New Features in Acronis vmProtect 8 include:
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“vmFlashBack”
–When restoring a
backup over an original virtual machine we will only copy blocks that were
actually changed: Restoring now is 10 to 100 times faster than before!
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Staging/Multi-destination
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This long-awaited feature provides functionality to copy freshly created
backups to another location with separate schedule and retention rules.
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Full integration into the
vCenter
– Now, as an alternative to the vmProtect intuitive web-based console, all
backup, recovery and replication operations can be managed directly from the
vCenter.
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Microsoft®
Windows®
8 and Windows Server 2012 support
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Seamless integration with
the Cloud.
Optional Acronis vmProtect Online subscription can back up your data to
Acronis Cloud Storage for guaranteed access in case of a site-level
disaster.
New features in vmProtect 8
- Most
Complete
Acronis vmProtect 8 is the only solution that enables complete
protection of VMware environments. It supports recovery of entire virtual
machines; extracts individual files and Exchange items; and recovers entire
ESXi servers, including binaries, configuration and VMs to a bare metal
machine.
- Any
Destinations
Acronis vmProtect 8 offers the widest selection of backup destinations,
including local disk, FTP, network shares, ESX(i) datastore, and the cloud
to optimize storage.
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Best Performance
Powered by Acronis' award-winning technology, Acronis® vmProtect™
8 is the fastest way to backup and recover VMware virtual machines.
Agentless backup with VMware API for Data Protection (VADP), Changed Block
Tracking (CBT), hot-plug and direct SAN access makes backup and recovery
fast and efficient.New vmFlashBack
technology provides near- instantaneous recovery, bringing virtual servers
back to life 100 times faster than before.
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Easy to Use
Manage Acronis vmProtect 8 from VMware® vCenter™ or an intuitive Web
interface to manage backup and recovery using supported browsers.
Acronis vmProtect 8 is so easy to use you can
quickly install, configure and start backing up your VMs in just minutes –
reducing your operational and maintenance costs.
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Acronis® vmProtect™ 8 Versus the Competition
Features |
Acronis
vmProtect 8 |
Veeam
Backup & Replication 6.1
Standard |
Veeam
Backup & Replication 6.1
Enterprise |
Deployment |
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vSphere versions supported |
Up to
vSphere 5.1 |
Up to vSphere 5.0 |
Up to vSphere 5.0 |
Agent-less backup of virtual machines |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Install app on Windows server / laptop / PC |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Deploy app as ESX(i) Virtual Appliance |
Yes |
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Management |
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Management from remote Web-based console |
Yes |
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New! Management from VMware vCenter (all
operations) |
Yes |
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Storage |
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Disk, Network Share, or NAS |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
FTP and SFTP |
Yes |
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Cloud-based storage |
Yes |
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New! Staging / multi-destination |
Yes |
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Backup |
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Always incremental backup (after first full backup) |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Change Block Tracking (CBT) support |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
LAN-Free Backup |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Excluding unused blocks, files, folders and volumes from VM
backup |
Yes |
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Automated backup verification without VM |
Yes |
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Automated recovery verification by running a VM |
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Yes |
Data deduplication between backup sessions |
Yes |
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Encryption (AES 256 bit) |
Yes |
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Recovery |
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Restore entire VM (full or run from backup image) |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
New! vmFlashBack /incremental restore |
Yes |
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Recover entire ESXi host |
Yes |
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File-level recovery |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Microsoft Exchange mailboxes and e-mails recovery |
Yes |
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Yes |
Additional features |
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Replication |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Physical to Virtual (P2V) and Virtual to Virtual (V2V) Migration |
Yes |
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