Vembu: Complete Free Edition for Backup of Virtual and Physical Environments

Vembu Technologies, Inc. with their BDR Suite v3.7 is coming up with a free edition for data centers which deploy both virtual and physical environments.

The free edition will be beneficial to all those who wish to try out firm’s BDR Suite in their production and testing environments without costs.

Unlike other free edition software available in the market, BDR Suite Free Edition will cover up all the major features needed for the backup and recovery for multiple requirements of a data center.

BDR Suite covers below environments as follows:

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• Free VMware backup: VMBackup Free Edition for VMware is offering backing up of unlimited VMs running on an ESXi and vCenter server without any costs involved especially for the businesses which do not have any sophisticated data protection method to protect their VMs. Supports multiple VMware transport modes like Direct SAN, HotAdd and Network based (NBD and NBDSSL). VMBackup automatically analyses and chooses the appropriate transport mode. It provides fast and flexible Recovery options and also provides recovery of individual files and folder from the backed up data.

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• Free Hyper-V backup: VMBackup Free Edition for Hyper-V is built to overcome the complexities in creating backup policies for VM’s running on Hyper-V server. The company has developed its own proprietary driver to backup the Hyper-V VMs in an efficient manner especially with up to 5X improvement in performance over other backup software. VMBackup supports the VMs located in Hyper-V Cluster Shared Volumes and the Windows SMB share. Hyper-V backups take consistent snapshots application-specific highly transactional applications like Exchange Server, SQL Server using Microsoft VSS writer and truncate the transaction log files during the backup job. VMBackup free edition for Hyper-V is designed to protect the Microsoft’s server both at the host level and VM level.

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• Free Windows Server backup: The company was providing a free edition of its software only for workstations like desktops and laptops, but now it has been now extended to Windows Servers as well. ImageBackup Free Edition is a backup and DR solution for physical Windows environment. It will backup entire disk image of Windows Servers, desktops and laptops including OS, applications and files. Also, ImageBackup helps in migrating the windows machine from the physical environment to virtual environments like VMware or Hyper-V (P2V).