Storware vProtect 3.8 Update One Data Protection Software for Open VMs, Containers and Cloud

Storware Sp. z o.o. launches vProtect 3.8 Update One (Nebula) data protection for Open VMs, containers and cloud.

vProtect is a backup and snapshot management tool for VMs/containers running in open virtual environments and any application which allows to automate the backup process with scripts. With a management interface, you can set up protection and store backups in several different backup providers. vProtect 3.8 was also the first release that introduced support for cloud platform – AWS EC2. Additionally, the company added another cloud storage backup provider – Google Cloud Storage.

Vprotect architecture

What’s new in update?

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vProtect 3.8 Update One introduces third backup strategy for RHV/oVirt 4.2+ environments. Using direct SSH transfer from hypervisors vProtect will be able to perform backups faster. All of the features that currently vProtect supports for oVirt 4.2 are also available for Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager.
Another update is a technical preview of OpenStack support. Currently for environments with KVM VMs using QCOW2 disks. The firm also provided Horizon integration to allow more seamless integration.
For Oracle VM the firm introduced option to exclude drives. This version also updates our encryption mechanism for Azure and File System backup destinations to support large VM backups. Update 1 also provides minor UI improvements and fix for ‘snapshot ID not found in the DB’ if full backup has not been done yet.

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Detailed changes:

RHV/oVirt – new ‘SSH transfer’ export/import mode
Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager support – same feature set as for oVirt 4.2
OpenStack – full/incremental backup support
OpenStack – file-level restore support
OpenStack Horizon integration
Oracle VM – disk exclusion support
Kubernetes – support for containers
Web UI – improvements in batch hypervisor operations like node/password modification
Web UI – improved backup status reporting
Update: updated Azure/filesystem encryption mechanism to support 64+GB backups
Fix: automatic full backup if snapshot ID for incremental backup has not been recorded yet

Full list of features