vPower DEMO: Instant VM Recovery, U-AIR, Instant File-Level Restore

I'm Doug Hazelman, director of product strategy for Veeam Software, and I will show how you can recover an entire VM, an application object or an individual file from a regular image-level backup in a matter of minutes -- and all this without having to extract the VM from the backup.

These capabilities are only available with vPower -- the award-winning technology in Veeam Backup & Replication v5 that eliminates the fundamental shortcomings of traditional backup approaches to reduce the cost, ensure the reliability and increase the value of data protection.

Already, Veeam has made enhanced data protection a reality for more than 15,000 customers. And with v5 and vPower, Veeam takes data protection to a whole new level with

• 100% reliability with SureBackup
• 60-second RTOs with InstantRestore
• And near-continuous data protection with SmartCDP

Instant VM Recovery
Let's say you have a 500 Gb Exchange server in your production environment, and an image-level backup of it is stored on network storage. If such a critical VM goes down, you need to get it back online as soon as possible so that your users are not affected. If you were using old tools, you would have to restore the entire 500 Gb VM from the backup first -- this means you would have to find spare storage and then wait for several hours while the image is extracted.

But that is the old way -- with Veeam vPower and Instant VM Recovery, you can get your Exchange server back online in a few minutes or less. How?
Instant VM recovery is a wizard-driven process -- you simply perform a few simple steps to get your VM back. With instant VM recovery, you do not have to extract the backup and copy it to production storage -- vPower allows you to boot the VM directly from the compressed and deduplicated backup file on any ESX host you choose. The backup itself remains in a read-only state -- all changes made to the VM while it is running are written to redo log files.
Now, let's complete the recovery process. As you can see, here is our restored VM starting up. The VM itself is now running from the backup file, and users can access it -- so you actually have your 500GB production Exchange server running again on a "temporary spare" in less than a minute. You can now use Storage vMotion to move the VM back to the production datastore while users are still working with this "temporary spare". Or, if you do not have storage vMotion, you can replicate the VM and switch over to the replica during the next maintenance window using the built-in replication capabilities in Veeam Backup & Replication.

Learn more at http://www.veeam.com/vmware-esx-backup.html

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