Storware vProtect V4.1 Backup and Recovery Software for VMs, Containers and Cloud Environments

vProtect is a backup and recovery software developed by Storware Sp. Z o.o for VMs, containers, and cloud environments.

The software provides data protection services for open VMs (Citrix Hypervisor, Huawei FusionSphere, KVM, Nutanix Acropolis, OpenStack, Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager, Oracle VM, oVirt, Proxmox, Red Hat Virtualization, XCP-ng, Xen), virtual environments built on vSphere and Hyper-V hypervisors, containers (OpenShift, Kubernetes, Proxmox) and cloud (AWS EC2).

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vProtect is a versatile, affordable and reliable data protection solution with competitive functionalities and a HTML5 Web Interface.

vProtect 4.1 introduces compelling changes:
Backup source type has been added: storage provider. Now it’s possible to protect Ceph RBD volumes, plain file systems, and Nutanix Files (AFS) as a technical preview. Administrators can execute full and incremental backups, recover individual files using mounted backups or share them over iSCSI.

This release introduces enhancement for multi-AZ OpenStack environments with separate Ceph clusters in each AZ. Now it’s possible to assign individual storage providers to each AZ (hypervisor cluster). For OpenStack and OpenShift environments, vProtect also adds Projects to its inventory during synchronization.

When using Dell EMC PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) as a backup provider, administrators get the option to enable the retention lock feature to protect backups. This release adds a backup size report which may be essential for chargeback reporting. Starting from the 4.1 release Java 11 will be used.

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vProtect 4.1 – detailed changes:

• Storage Provider – Ceph RBD – support for backup/restore/mount of RBD volumes

• Storage Provider – File system – support for backup/restore/mount of plain file systems mounted on the nodes

• Storage Provider – Nutanix Files (AFS) – technical preview of support for backup/restore/mount of Nutanix Files

• Support for separate Ceph clusters per AZ in OpenStack environments

• Multi-AZ OpenStack environments support

• OpenStack/OpenShift – project scanning

• Backup size reporting for chargeback

• PowerProtect DD (DataDomain) retention lock

• Hyper-V multi-threaded disk export

• Java update to v11

• Task API performance optimizations

Resource:
List of vProtect features