Qnap Officially Launches Hyper Data Protector License-Free VMware and Hyper-V Backup Solution

Qnap Systems, Inc. released Hyper Data Protector, allowing users to backup unlimited VMware and Hyper-V environments to a company’s NAS.

With no license requirements, Hyper Data Protector helps users create a cost-effective and reliable DR plan to ensure 24/7 service operations.

“Server downtime leads to more than just service interruptions and data loss, with some companies suffering a significant financial impact and potentially irreparable damage to their brand. By adopting Qnap’s license-free Hyper Data Protector VM backup solution, users only need one Qnap NAS to securely backup their VM environments. Coupled with snapshots and other protective features of Qnap NAS, users can build a high-performance VM backup and recovery plan within a maintainable budget,” said Wayne Hsiao, product manager,.

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With Hyper Data Protector users can choose to backup all the VMs on a Hypervisor or backup individual VMs. Its features incremental backup, global deduplication, backup scheduling and recovery compression to optimize backup/recovery times and storage requirements. For businesses with significant virtualized infrastructure, the company’s high-speed 10GbE, 5GbE and 2.5GbE NAS provide the environment for running Hyper Data Protector.

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It supports multiple version retention for up to 1,024 versions. If a VM on the production site goes down, users can recover a point-of-time backed-up VM from the backup server to the production site (or to another operating host server) to minimize RPO and service downtime. Additionally, it supports VMware vMotion that features Live Migration to ensure VM backup tasks keep running.

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