Storware Backup and Recovery V.5.1 Software Expands Capabilities With New integrations

By Patrycja Mrowiec, CMO, Storware

Storware Sp. z.o.o ‘s Backup & Recovery V.5.1 solution expands its capabilities even more. Let’s start with new integrations.

Storware 5.1 high level architecture
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With Storware supporting a range of sources (virtualization platforms or storage providers) one can expand Rubrik, Inc.‘s capabilities by integrating both solutions. Storware supports file-based backup destinations with a mechanism to run custom pre/post storage access integration scripts. Rubrik on the other hand is able to expose Managed Volumes which can be used as snapshot-driven file system backup destinations. The company’s software initiates backups for all supported virtualization platforms or storage providers.

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IsoLayer – Air Gap Data Protection. To help the firm to protect its data even better, Storware enables the use of the air gap backup concept. The backup stored on the storage infrastructure is unavailable from an external connection or the Internet. IsoLayer plays an essential role in the 3-2-1 backup strategy. This strategy requires 3 copies of the data, on 2 different media types, with 1 off-site copy.

New functionality also appears for Microsoft 365 administrators, who will be able to export emails to PST, as well as protect Microsoft 365 groups.

All VM/application/storage sources also support retention adjustment so that you can keep selected backups longer (than policy retention settings) or mark them as expired to remove unwanted backups earlier.

For oVirt, Red Hat Virtualization and Oracle Linux VM environments, the company supports instant restore capability. Moreover, you can optionally initiate live storage migration once the VM is restored. Individual disk restore (back to the environment’s storage) has also been implemented for oVirt-based environments and OpenStack.

And while we’re talking about OpenStack – the V.5.1 introduces several improvements, such as an option to select flavor or key-pair during the restore, manage the visibility of AZ in the OpenStack Horizon plugin, and for more complex environments – the opportunity to set credentials for multiple authentication domains in a single Hypervisor Manager.

Hyper-V is another area with multiple enhancements – with cluster awareness, you can define a single Hypervisor Manager that can use either cluster IP or SCVMM to cover all hypervisors and VMs and detect if a VM changed its host between inventory synchronizations. This release also added support for Storage Spaces Direct (S2D) and the agent’s restore location browser in the restore modal.

Among the other improvements, it is worth mentioning Swift multithreading transfer, network mapping in ‘Recovery Plans’, push notifications based on defined rules, an improved reporting tab, and more!

With the company’s Backup and Recovery our focus is on introducing useful features that improve data protection processes, automate backup and restore tasks, and ensure the highest standards of reliability.

Remember that you get support for all available backup sources under one license, aims to provide companies with flexibility in designing and implementing data backup strategies. No matter if you manage virtual environments based on open, commercial, or mixed solutions, mobile workforce or Microsoft 365 data Storware supports all under one license.

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