How does one navigate in the ocean of solutions that are available on the market? What is supported? What is compatible with which hypervisor? Allow us to help! Here is part three of supported backup solutions together with an overview of each.

ARCSERVE

Top significant functionalities:

• Agent-based backup and restore of VMs for AHV, VMware and Hyper-V on Nutanix. 

• Granular restore: File / DB / App / AD Restore / BMR to VM or V2P.

• Disaster recovery: Zero RPO and near-zero RTO with RHA to AWS EC2 environment.

• Built-in replication & high availability.

• Migration of disk images to tape, with granular restore from disk or tape.

Supported hypervisors:

• Nutanix AHV, VMware vSphere and Hyper-V

Nutanix platform OS:

• Arcserve UDP 6.5 Update 4 is validated on ESXi (6.5) & Nutanix AHV (AOS 5.5.5)

• Arcserve UDP 7.0 is validated on on ESXi (6.5) & Nutanix AHV (AOS 5.10.3.1)

• Arcserve UDP 7.0 is validated on Nutanix AHV (AOS 5.11)

• Arcserve UDP 7.0 is validated and has API integration with Nutanix Objects 1.0 (AOS 5.11 )

Resources and getting started:

Datasheet: Protecting Nutanix Environments with Arcserve

Getting started and trial: Get your free Arcserve UDP Trial

Overview of ArcServe:  ArcServe UDP Technical Whitepaper

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BARRACUDA

Top significant functionalities:

• Available as a physical appliance, virtual appliance, or SaaS.

• Agent (physical) and agentless (virtual) backups.

• Inline, source- and target-based deduplication.

• Offsite replication to another Barracuda Backup device, Amazon Web Services, or Barracuda Cloud Storage.

• Restore VMware and Hyper-V VMs as Amazon Machine Images (AMI).

• 256-bit AES encryption in-flight and at rest.

• Hypervisor-level snapshots for VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V.

• Archive data to tape, disk, or AWS Storage Gateway-VTL.

Supported hypervisors:

• VMware vSphere and Hyper-V

Nutanix platform OS:

• Barracuda Networks Web Application Firewall 10.0.1 is validated on Nutanix AHV ( AOS 5.10.9 )

• Barracuda Backup 6.4.03 is validated on ESXi & AHV (Agent-Based)

• Barracuda Backup 6.4.05 is validated on Hyper-V (Agent-Based)

Resources and getting started:

Datasheet: Barracuda Backup Easy Cloud-Connected

Getting started and trial: Free 30-day trial of a Barracuda virtual product

Overview of Barracuda:  Data Protection

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STORWARE

Top significant functionalities:

• Independent backup server: supports local filesystem, NFS, cloud AWS S3, OpenStack SWIFT. 

• Proxy server (media agent) for enterprise backup: supports IBM Spectrum Protect (TSM), Veritas NetBackup and Dell EMC NetWorker. 

• Support for enterprise applications (Nutanix Enterprise Cloud OS with AHV).

• Incremental backup of AHV VMs with CBT/CRT (Changed-Region Tracking).

• Data consistency for applications running on AHV VMs.

• Orchestration via Open API.

Supported hypervisors:

• Nutanix AHV, VMware vSphere and Hyper-V

Nutanix platform OS:

• vProtect 3.4 validated on Nutanix AHV (AOS 5.5.0.6)

• vProtect 3.7 Update 1 Validated on Nutanix AHV (AOS 5.10)

• vProtect 3.9 is validated on ESXi(6.5) (AOS 5.11)

• vProtect 3.9 is validated on Hyper-V(2016) (AOS 5.10.8.1)

Resources and getting started:

Datasheet: vProtect main features

Getting started: vProtect Deployment in Nutanix AHV environment

Overview of vProtect:  Storware vProtect Documentation

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