Nakivo Backup & Replication V7.1 With Support for Hyper-V Failover Clusters for VM Backup

Nakivo Inc. released Backup & Replication v7.1, which provides support for Hyper-V Failover Clusters.

A Hyper-V Failover Cluster is a group of Hyper-V servers (nodes) that can use the ‘Live Migration’ technology to move live VMs between nodes in the cluster without downtime.

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Hyper-V Failover Clusters help improve availability and efficiency of the virtualized environment. If one cluster node fails, its VMs can be automatically started on a different cluster node. In addition, VMs in the cluster can be moved between nodes both manually and by Microsoft’s System Center VM Manager (SCVMM) Dynamic Optimization feature that can automatically move VMs to distribute the load evenly between nodes. Backup & Replication v7.1 can track the VM location in the cluster and can continue to protect the VM regardless on which cluster node the VM is located.

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As virtual environments change rapidly and new VMs are created on a daily basis, chasing and protecting those new VMs becomes a challenge. As a result, some VMs become unprotected and their data can be lost. To solve this problem, Backup & Replication software offers the container protection feature: customers can add an entire Hyper-V Failover Cluster to VM backup and replication jobs. When an entire Failover Cluster is protected, Backup & Replication will monitor the cluster contents and will automatically add all new VMs in the Failover Cluster to the job. This way, all important VMs will always be protected.

“The new v7.1 release demonstrates our commitment to improve the support for Hyper-V, which we have added to Nakivo Backup & Replication in Q1 2017,” said Bruce Talley, CEO, Nakivo, “We see a great demand for a fast, reliable, ad affordable data protection solution for Hyper-V environments from our customers and partners, and Nakivo Backup & Replication delivers on those demands.“

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Backup & Replication supports VMware, Hyper-V, and AWS EC2 environments and offers features that increase VM backup performance, improve reliability, speed up recovery, and help save time and money.

It provides:

Proper backups: Native, agentless, image-based, application-aware VM backup and replication
Fast backups: Forever-incremental backups, LAN-free data transfer, network acceleration
Small backups: Exclusion of SWAP files and partitions, global backup deduplication, variable backup compression
Guaranteed recovery: Instant backup verification with screenshots of test-recovered VMs, backup copy offsite/to the cloud
Faster recovery: Instant recovery of VMs, files, Exchange objects, Active Directory objects, instant DR with VM replicas.

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