VMware vSphere Online Backup

Virtualized environments are becoming more prevalent and are proving to be extremely valuable for businesses around the world that want to reduce expenses, reduce the physical environmental footprint of their computer centers and achieve greater flexibility, with consistent and/or improving performance.

When designing the overall virtual layout, backup and recovery options must be considered prior to and throughout the implementation process. Utilizing practices that centralize management, as well as process controls, is extremely important to ensure the ease of monitoring and to maintain a secure environment.

SEP sesam offers outstanding backup options for virtualization platforms, including VMware. The fully integrated solutions offered by SEP sesam yield easy installations into enterprise backup environments and allow for the maximum flexibility possible when determining backup strategies. Cnce the platform has been designed and implemented, SEP sesam also provides easy administration.

Key Features
Full Support of ESX backups through a VCB proxy, VADP or direct access to the Hypervisor
Full Integration in the SEP sesam GUI
SAN Ready Backup Strategy
Single File Restore for VSS on Windows, Linux and unix Guest
Linux Server Snapshots
Windows VSS Server Snapshots
Restore to Other Hosts or HA Clusters
Use to Keep a Disaster Recovery Site in Sync for a Hot or Cold Availability Solution
Disaster Recovery : Used to Synchronize Your Virtual to Another Pool or Off-site Location
Agent-less Technology
Convert Between Virtual and Physical Servers (V2P and P2V)*
* Function provided by SEP solution but not the virtualization agent
Note: All free versions of ESXi require a minimum license from VMware in order to be protected by SEP  sesam. This is due to the lack of vStorage API for Data Protection support in the free unlicensed versions of ESXi and is a current limitation of VMware.