Storware vProtect V.4.2 Software for Data Protection for VMs, Containers and Cloud Environments

Storware Sp. Z o.o announces vProtect 4.2 software for data protection for VMs, containers and cloud environments.

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It is a proprietary backup and recovery solution for workloads. The software provides agentless data protection services for open VMs, virtual environments built on vSphere and Hyper-V hypervisors, containers, storage providers (Ceph RBD, Nutanix Files, file system) and applications running on-prem and in the cloud.

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

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V4.2 introduces compelling changes:

• It adds a synthetic backup provider based on XFS which allows forever-incremental backups and faster restores. This release also introduces RBAC system-level roles to give administrators more control over vProtect security. User groups and roles enable administrators to specify which actions and views are accessible to which users, either by using built-in roles or defining their own.

• For oVirt/Red Hat Virtualization/Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager distributions 2 transfer optimizations have been added: BZIP2 compression when using SSH Transfer and direct transfers to/from hypervisors in ‘Disk Image Transfer’ strategy. Both should result in faster backups. Additionally, for these environments, vProtect received the option to configure metadata DB backups directly from the hypervisor manager’s section.

• It adds snapshot-management for Ceph RBD Storage Provider and SMB support for Nutanix Files. Finally, the management interface received additional notifications related to VDO space occupancy, transfer rate charts, inventory synchronization statuses.

List of vProtect features available.

New detailed changes:

• Synthetic file system backup provider using XFS

• RBAC – system-level roles and user groups

• Storage providers – Nutanix Files – SMB shares support

• RHV/oVirt/OLVM – metadata DB backup setup from Hypervisor Manager details pane

• RHV/oVirt/OLVM 4.3+ – Disk Image Transfer now supports direct transfers to/from hypervisors

• RHV/oVirt/OLVM – data compression during transfer with BZIP2 for SSH Transfer

• Connectivity test action for backup destinations

• Connectivity test action for virtualization platforms

• Hyper-V multithreaded import during restore

• RHV/oVirt UI plug-in update – now reflecting vProtect Main menu and views and with additional reporting

• Web UI – transfer rate charts

• email notifications – when VDO runs out of space

• inventory synchronization status for virtualization platforms

• inventory synchronization status for storage providers