Veeam Availability Suite & Veeam Backup Essentials

What is Veeam Availability Suite?

Veeam Availability Suite provides availability for all applications, by combining the industry leading backup, restore and replication capabilities of Veeam Backup and Replication with the advanced monitoring, reporting and capacity planning functionality of Veeam ONE. Veeam Availability Suite delivers everything you need to reliably protect and manage your VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V environments.

Veeam Availability Suite Version 9:

Veeam have announced that version 9 of Veeam Availability Suite is to be released soon, offering a number of new features, such as:

·   Veeam Integration with EMC snapshots

·         Fast and secure cloud-based disaster recovery

·         Fast and low impact backups with EMC, NetApp, HP and more.

·         Enterprise-level enhancements for Veeam Explorers

·         Availability for the enterprise

·         Veeam integration with HP StoreOne Catalyst and other backup storage integration

·         Unlimited scale-out backup recovery

Veeam Backup Essentials

What is Veeam Backup Essentials?

Veeam Backup Essentials provides small businesses with a reliable, effortless and affordable enterprise-class backup solution, designed to help businesses remain always-on. Veeam Backup Essentials offers the same functionality as Veeam Availability Suite, but is priced for small businesses.

Veeam Backup Essentials Key Features include:

·       High-speed recovery

·         Data loss avoidance

·         Verified Protection

·         Leveraged Data

·         Complete Visibility

       For more information please contact Practical Networks a Veeam Partner on 01723 587240 or email info@practicalnetworks.co.uk

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Veeam ONE

What is Veeam ONE?

Veeam ONE is a virtual management and optimisation tool, offering monitoring, reporting and capacity planning for VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V and the Veeam backup infrastructure. It helps enable availability for the modern data center, by providing complete visibility of the IT infrastructure, in order to detect issues before they have an operational impact. Veeam ONE offers an automated, flexible and dynamic way to categorise and group your clusters, hosts, VMs and data stores by criteria such as business unit, department, purpose and SLA. With Veeam ONE business categorisation, you can view and manage your virtual infrastructure based on your organisation’s needs and priorities.

The features:

• 24x7 real-time performance monitoring and alerting
• Detailed dashboards with informative drill-downs
• Monitoring of failover clusters, CSVs and SMB shares
• Performance and infrastructure analysis
• Integration with vCloud Director
•  Documentation and management reporting
• Predefined and customisable dashboards
•  Infrastructure assessments
•  Multi-tenant reporting and monitoring for VMware
• Custom report builder
• Automated and on-demand reporting for Veeam Backup & Replication
• Complete visibility of your entire virtual environment
• Change tracking
• Advanced capacity planning

24x7 Real-time monitoring:

Veeam ONE boast real-time, agent free and unattended 24x7 monitoring of your backup and virtual infrastructures, providing you with notifications of backup and performance issues before they negatively impact applications and users.

Veeam ONE monitoring includes functionality such as:

•  Fast troubleshooting with detailed information designed to help you isolate the root cause and resolve issues quickly.
• An extensive knowledge base with 200+ preset alarms to ensure you are the first to know when issues are impacting availability.
• Graphs and charts with additional drill-down data to provide more information, when you need it.

Multi-tenant reporting and monitoring:

Multi-tenant reporting and monitoring for VMware is new to version 8, allowing IT managers to delegate reporting and monitoring to system admins over a limited scope of assigned VMs. Managers will have the ability to pre-build backup reports for the entire team, pre-populating individual dashboards with filtered results.

For more information about Veeam ONE please contact Practical Networks on 01723 587240

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Veeam Backup & Replication

What is Veeam Backup & Replication?

Veeam backup and replication is a backup software, providing VM backup for VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V virtual environments. Veeam leverages virtualisation, storage and cloud technologies to deliver a recovery time of less than 15minutes for all applications and data.
Veeam backup and replication brings backup and replication together in one single solution to both increase the value of backup and reinvent data protection for virtual environments.

The Features:

The key features of Veeam backup and replication are:
• High-Speed Recovery
• Data Loss Avoidance
• Verified Protection
• Leveraged Data
• Complete Visibility

High-Speed Recovery:
• Instant VM recovery provides recovery of a failed VM in as little as 2 minutes.
• Instant file-level recovery allows you to recover guest OS files and folders.
• Low recovery time objectives for Microsoft Exchange, SharePoint, SQL Server and Active Directory with Veeam Explorer.

Data Loss Avoidance:
• Ultra-fast backup from storage snapshots with leverages storage snapshot capabilities for HP and NetApp.
• 50% faster backups and 10x faster synthetic full backup file creation and transformation with EMC Data Domain Boost integration.
• Veeam Cloud Connect helps you avoid the risk of catastrophic data loss.
• End-to-end encryption to secure your data.
• Improve your offsite recovery with WAN-accelerated replication, replication from backup and 1-click site failover with support for planned failover.
• 2-in-1 Backup and replication, providing near-continuous data protection for any virtualised application.
• Store entire VM backups or individual files on tape, and restore from tape whenever needed.

Verified Protection:
• SureBackup and SureReplica automatically verify the recoverability of every backup and every replica, every time.

Leveraged Data:
• Virtual lab helps you avoid deployment problems by testing and troubleshooting your applications in an isolated, production-like environment without creating any impact on your production infrastructure.

Complete Visibility:
• Veeam Enterprise Manager Web Client allows you to federate multiple backup servers from multiple locations in a single pane of glass without having to log in to the company network, providing centralised management.
•Monitor your backups infrastructure directly from the vSphere Web Client.

For more information about Veeam Backup and Replication or other Veeam products, please contact Practical Networks on 01723 587240 or email: info@practicalnetworks.co.uk

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How can vSphere transform your Business IT?

Vmware vSphere is the industry’s leading and most reliable virtualisation platform. vSphere separates applications and operating systems from the underlying hardware, so that your existing applications see dedicated resources, while your servers can be managed as a pool of resources. The end result is a business that runs on a simpler, more resilient IT environment.

vSphere Key Benefits include:

·         Business Continuity and always-available IT

·         Reduced IT footprint and simplified management

·         Drastically cuts hardware and datacenter running costs

·         Improved service levels and application quality

·         Strengthened security and data protection

vSphere is made up of numerous key components, including:

Vmware ESXi hypervisor architecture – a high performance virtualisation layer, enabling multiple virtual machines to share hardware resources, while maintaining high performance levels.

VMware vCenter Server – providing centralised management and performance monitoring for all virtual machines and vSphere hosts.

VMware vSphere VMFS – a key technology, allowing virtual machines to access shared storage devices and enabling other vSphere components, such as VMware vSphere Storage vMotion.

VMware vSphere Thin Provisioning – enables implementation of a tiered storage strategy and reduce storage spending by up to 50 percent.

VMware vCenter Update Manager – allowing for automated tracking, patching and updating of vSphere hosts, as well as applications and operating systems running in VMware virtual machines.

VMware VMsafe APIs – provides higher levels of security by enabling the use of security products that work in conjunction with the virtualisation layer.

vSphere High Availability – in the event of hardware or operating system failures, vSphere high availability provides cost-effective, automated restart for all applications, within minutes.

vSphere vMotion – eliminates the need to schedule application downtime for server maintenance, as vMotion enables live migration of virtual machines across servers with no disruption or service loss to users.

vSphere Data Protection – enables agent-less backups with built-in deduplication, to provide simple, cost-effective backup and recovery for virtual machines.

vSphere Endpoint – an agent-less antivirus and antimalware protection to keep all your virtual machines secure.

Why vSphere?

With vSphere your business can leverage a comprehensive and cost-effective virtualisation solution to protect your business, reduce your IT footprint and dramatically reduce your IT costs.

For more information contact Andy Potts on 01723 587240.

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