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Top 5 Large Enterprise vSphere Backup Solutions

Cobalt Iron Compass, Commvault Complete Data Protection, HYCU for VMware, Unitrends Unified BCDR, Veritas NetBackup

WendtThis report, published on October 12, 2021, was written by Jerome M. Wendt, president and founder, DCIG LLC.

 

 

DCIG announced the availability of the inaugural 2022-23 DCIG TOP 5 Large Enterprise vSphere Backup Solutions report.

This report unveils the top 5 large enterprise backup solutions that organizations should consider for protecting their applications, data, and workloads hosted on vSphere.

vSphere Leads in Enterprise Server Virtualization
Analyst market reports that track server virtualization software indicate it will continue to grow for the foreseeable future. These reports also find vSphere maintains its lead as the server virtualization platform large enterprises most use.

Server virtualization in general and vSphere specifically have transformed how enterprises manage their physical infrastructure. Used to host multiple applications on a single physical machine, vSphere simultaneously lowers costs while increasing operational efficiency.

VMware also makes multiple tools available to complement vSphere to assist large enterprises in deploying and managing it.

Consider:
• VMware’s vRealize Suite visualizes virtual infrastructures to create and simplify virtual workflows within enterprises.
• vSphere HA and Fault Tolerance help enterprises create and maintain virtual data centers with uninterrupted 24x7x365 availability.

These tools and others from VMware position large enterprises to create stable, high performing virtual infrastructures. However, they must still protect the VM applications, data, and workloads hosted on vSphere. This necessitates they acquire backup software specifically tuned for this task.

Attributes of Large Enterprise vSphere Backup Solutions
Large enterprise vSphere backup solutions capitalize on specific features VMware offers to backup and recover VMs. These include VMware vCenter integration and leveraging its vSphere Storage APIs – Data Protection (VADP) and Storage vMotion features.

Attributes that help distinguish large enterprise backup solutions from those that target smaller size businesses and enterprises include:

  1. Leverage VADP in VM backup and recovery. All large enterprise backup solutions universally incorporate VADP into their vSphere backup offering. Backup solutions targeted at smaller environments certainly can and do support VADP. However, organizations must first confirm the solution does support it and how they implement it.
  2. Protect the data of VMware-specific applications. VMware offers multiple software tools to help large enterprises orchestrate and manage their virtual infrastructure. These include tools such as vCenter Server, vRealize Orchestrator, and vSphere with Tanzu Objects, among others. These tools create their own application data. All these backup solutions offer options to protect data stored in one or more of these VMware-specific applications.
  3. Support for multiple types of backup media targets. Ransomware’s prevalence has forced enterprises to rethink how and where they store their backup data. Ransomware attacks may target backup software and its backup data stores. These attacks may put backup data stored on direct- and/or network-attached disk storage at risk. All large enterprise backup solutions help mitigate this risk by supporting multiple other backup media targets. These include object storage in public and private clouds and potentially tape. Stored on these alternative media types, backup software can take advantage of the data immutability features they offer.

Large Enterprise vSphere Backup Solutions
DCIG identified over 30 solutions suitable for protecting applications, data, and workloads on vSphere. Of these, DCIG identified 12 of them as meeting its definition of a large enterprise vSphere backup solution.

The general categories under which the features evaluated for these solutions fell included:
• Backup administration
• Backup capabilities
• Configuration, licensing, and pricing
• Recovery and restore
• Service and support

Based on these criteria, DCIG awarded the following large enterprise vSphere backup solutions a top 5 ranking (in alphabetical order):
• Cobalt Iron Compass
• Commvault Complete Data Protection
• HYCU for VMware
• Unitrends Unified BCDR
• Veritas NetBackup

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