Backup Solution for RHEV Hypervisor
Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization provides a platform for businesses to create Virtual Servers and Desktops. RHEV is a bare-metal hypervisor which provides High performance, Secure and Scalable solution for Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Windows Guests. Nowadays, many organisations have started to migrate and rely on virtualization platform. Thus, protecting the data and ensuring business continuity has become imperative. Vembu offers VM-level and Guest-level backup to protect the VM’s running on the RHEV hypervisor.
VM-Level Backup Solution
Vembu offers ImageBackup Agent for the Windows VM’s running on the RHEV hypervisor and the agent needs to be installed on each VM to backup the entire VM including OS, Application and data.
Full VM Backup – Backs up the entire Virtual Machine which includes Operating System, Applications and Data in it
Application-aware VM Backups – VSS writers are used to create consistent snapshot during backup of highly transactional applications (Microsoft Exchange, SQL, SharePoint and Active Directory) and the logs can be truncated after successful backup
Retention Policies – Basic and Advanced (GFS) retentions policies helps to merge the multiple recovery points and reduces the time taken to restore the backed up VMs
Quick VM recovery – Restore the backed up physical or virtual machines instantly on VMware, Hyper-V, KVM
Full VM Recovery – Backed up VM’s can be permanently restored to the same or different hypervisor
VM migration (P2V and V2V) – Vembu helps to migrate the VMs from other hypervisors to VMware, Hyper-V, KVM and vice versa
Changed Block Tracking (CBT) – Vembu uses proprietary CBT Driver to track the changed blocks since the full backup
Automated Backup Verification – To verify the integrity of the backups, the backed up VM’s will be automatically booted and the boot screen will be captured and mailed to the administrator
Offsite Backup Copy – A redundant copy of the backed up data in the BDR server can be replicated to your own data center or to Vembu cloud for disaster recovery purpose
Instant File Recovery – Individual Files/Folders of the backed up VM can be restored without restoring the entire machine
Vembu Universal Recovery – Instantly recover individual application items from Microsoft Applications such as Microsoft Exchange, SQL, SharePoint and Active Directory
Guest-level Backup Solution
Vembu offers NetworkBackup agent to backup individual files, folders and MS applications from Windows, Linux, Mac VM’s running on RHEV hypervisor.
File-level Backup – Supports file backup on all flavors of Windows, Linux and Mac machines. Also, supports preconfigured folders, such as My Documents, My Photos, Desktop, Browsers and etc
Microsoft Exchange Mailbox Backup – To access up-to-date mailbox data even in the event of a failure, it is necessary to do Exchange Mailbox backup. Vembu Exchange Mailbox Plugin backs up all the data of a particular user (mailbox) or you can backup just a folder (like for example the inbox of a user) or you can backup a sub-folder (like for example, a sub-folder in the inbox)
Microsoft SharePoint Backup – Vembu provides backup for MS Sharepoint server and allows restore in the form entire or individual site level, documents, lists, contacts.
MySQL Database Backups – Vembu supports MySQL database backup from Windows and Linux Machines
Microsoft Exchange Server Backup – In case of critical situation, for complete recovery of mailboxes and system data Exchange server backups are done. Vembu uses Volume Shadow Copy Services (VSS) API for consistent backup of all Microsoft applications
Microsoft SQL Server Backup – Vembu provides an efficient backup for MS SQL server. Vembu uses VDI API to backup database(s) and then uploads the locally dumped file to the BDR backup server
Microsoft Outlook Backup – Vembu provides backup and restore for MS outlook which includes all the mail folders, contacts, calendars, tasks associated with the Outlook account