Reliable VMware backup
solution for enterprises
Zmanda’s VMware Vsphere client is a pioneer in data protection of virtual environments. It has set a high standard for comprehensive backup and recovery solutions. Zmanda Client for VMware vSphere and ESXi uses vStorage API to directly communicate with ESXi. Its core strength is in allowing you to protect an unlimited number of VMs on each of your hypervisors.
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Simplified deployments
VMware vSphere client is built into Zmanda Backup Appliance (ZBA). It's a pre-loaded VM, licensed and configured with Amanda Enterprise to help back up all virtual machines running on the same hypervisor as the appliance. Zmanda VMware backup is a cost-effective alternative, versus licensing for each virtual machine in the environment.
Block-level differential backups
VMware Backup with Zmanda tracks the blocks that have changed since the last full backup. During a differential VMware backup run, only changed blocks are backed up. This makes differential backups faster as well as reduces the amount of backup data transferred and stored. During recovery, a full backup image will automatically be combined with the relevant differential backup image.
Efficient VMware backup storage
Optimizing backup runs matter across an enterprise of 1000s of machines. Thus in Zmanda, only those blocks that are being used by the VM are backed up. Zmanda's VMware Backup skips the unused raw space on the VMDKs, considerably reducing the size of backup images and improving the efficiency of backup runs.
Flexibility in VMware backup &
data protection
Hybrid Cloud Architecture: Balancing backup runs across on-prem and cloud providers shouldn't be complex. Zmanda ensures all configurations are seamlessly managed from a single console.
No Proxy Servers Required: Your VMs will be backed up directly to the Zmanda VMware backup server, without needing another proxy server required in some solutions.
Workloads Zmanda protects, including VMware
Strengths of our VMware backup solution
Hot backups of VMs
VM backups are done using snapshots ensuring no downtime for your applications.
Agentless backup and recovery
No software needs to be installed on ESXi or VMs. However, to help backup and recover specific directories and applications - Zmanda VMware backup agents can be installed within a VM.
Complete image-level backup
The whole VM is backed up to an image that is self-sufficient for restore. No need to re-install and re-configure the OS during the recovery process.
End-to-end restore
The VM can be fully recovered to the original ESXi server or even to a different ESXi server to aid in the disaster recovery process.
Selective restore of VM disks
Recover just the disks you need or even just the VM configuration. Flexibility baked in to aid in your Recovery Objectives.
Full backup management features
Leverage all features of amanda enterprise for your VMware backups: compression, encryption, retention policy control,monitoring, and reporting.
Instant VMware file level recovery
Instant file-level recovery is a great feature of Amanda Enterprise. Zmanda Management Console can seamlessly recover files and folders on Zmanda server’s temporary path and to another user mentioned location without hassle. It allows you to perform restores of files or folders from VMware without having to stage the VMware backup itself.
Streamlining your VMware backup
Easy installation
Easily install Zmanda VMware vSphere client as an add-on to Zmanda. No need for separate softwares. Just install the latest Zmanda VMware patch available in the Zmanda network.
Encryption & compression
Encryption and compression of the backed up data is performed on the Amanda server. This process significantly saves the clients CPU & memory resources.
Scheduled backups
You can schedule the backups of VMware servers using the Zmanda management console. The backups of the guest VM are performed by taking snapshots of the disks associated with the guest VMs.
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“Zmanda’s software and customer support has been great”
Zmanda has spent time helping with any bugs, explaining errors, and adding necessary features so we can continue to transition from our old backup software to Zmanda Enterprise.
Their effort has helped to keep our backups rolling!
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FAQs
Hence, whether or not a virtual machine requires less or more memory depends on:
- Size of the Guest operating system.
- Memory requirements of the applications that you are planning to run in the virtual machine.
Amanda Enterprise allows you to backup VMware VM snapshots from ESX or Vcenter to various media supported by Amanda. The backups are performed in a file system consistent manner. These backups can be used for restoration of guest VMs running on the ESX server and can be restored to alternate ESX server. The VMware is backed up using VMware Virtual Disk APIs (vStorage APIs).
VMware consolidated backups and incremental backups are supported. The incremental backups contain only the changed data blocks in the virtual machine.
We recommend using Amanda client to backup files from guest VM if file level backup of VMs is needed.
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