Veeam Explorer for SAN Snapshots

Veeam Software announces restore capabilities for Veeam Backup & Replication.

Developed in conjunction with HP, Veeam Explorer for SAN Snapshots enables IT administrators to recover VMs and their data directly from HP LeftHand and HP StoreVirtual VSA snapshots.

The capability enables admins to quickly restore any or all of a VM directly from SAN snapshots, which can be taken throughout the day with little impact on production systems. This enables short RPOs for the most common recovery scenarios: users accidentally deleting data, scripts accidentally corrupting data and system updates gone wrong.

Veeam’s approach is to leverage SAN snapshots as part of a backup and recovery strategy, where SAN snapshots and image-level backups complement each other. Rather than converting SAN snapshots to backups, Veeam uses them in their native form.

Veeam Explorer for SAN Snapshots was created for the virtualization community to address the need for affordable, easy-to-use, and flexible recovery from SAN snapshots.

New capabilities:

• Recover an entire VM or individual items in 2 minutes or less.
• Automated process mounts the selected SAN snapshot.
• Restores directly from VM files on the SAN snapshot (without staging or intermediate restores).
• Includes wizards to simplify and safeguard restores.
• Flexible – Admins can restore exactly what they need:
• Full VM
• Individual guest files
• Individual Microsoft Exchange items
• Free – Leverages existing SAN snapshot capabilities.
• Worry-free: Automated process eliminates human errors and protects integrity of SAN snapshots and production LUNs.
• No agents to deploy on hosts or VMs.
• Included in all editions of Veeam Backup & Replication 6.5, including Veeam Backup Free Edition.

Ratmir Timashev, president and CEO, Veeam Software, said: "We worked with HP to develop Veeam Explorer for SAN Snapshots. Veeam’s revolutionary capability enables customers to recover quickly from daily disasters using SAN snapshots they already have in place without additional cost."  
 
Steve Crimi, director of Business Development and Alliances, HP, said: "To maintain competitive advantage, organizations require quick and reliable backup and recovery processes. The combination of Veeam Backup & Replication software with HP LeftHand and HP StoreVirtual VSA solutions enables our clients to restore their virtual environments more quickly to minimize business disruption."
 
Dave Russell, research VP, Gartner, said: "Gartner sees growing interest from end-user organizations in bolstering backup with additional data protection capabilities. In one recent survey, nearly two-thirds of respondents said they have plans to augment backup software with snapshot and replication solutions. End-user organizations most frequently cite network-attached storage (NAS) and block storage array snapshot capabilities as the technologies they are turning to."
 
Veeam Explorer for SAN Snapshots was demoed Aug. 26-29 at VMworld 2012 in San Francisco.

The new feature will be available in Veeam Backup & Replication 6.5, which is scheduled for release in Q4 2012.

The feature will be free and included in all editions of Veeam Backup & Replication, including Veeam Backup Free Edition.