Backup and Recovery for Nutanix Acropolis AHV
Certified, stable, agent-less data protection for HCI workloads
Backup Solution for Acropolis Hypervisor
- Efficient, incremental backup of AHV VMs with CBT/CRT (Changed-Region Tracking)
- Snapshot-management for better RPO
- Backup consistency mechanisms for your applications running on AHV VMs
- File level restore directly from the Web UI and accessing VM disks from backups over ISCSI
- 2 different modes: independent backup server or proxy for legacy backup systems
- supported languages: English, Chinese, Spanish, German
- The easiest licensing and custom support levels
Reliable backups
Storware provides VM-level, container-level, agentless full and incremental consistent backup. By using Storware Nodes installed directly in the Nutanix clusters, you’ll be able to perform your backups much faster. For Nutanix Support supports Changed Region Tracking (CRT) feature.
Flexible recovery
Disaster Recovery based on supported enterprise backup providers, object storage vendors or any mounted file-system. File-level restore using mountable backups directly from Web UI, and Automated DR tests feature to ensure recoverability.
Snapshot management
Keep the state of the virtual machine at any given time. One can quickly backup not only data but also the configuration of the running virtual machines. This is an excellent supplement for data backup strategy.
Open RESTful API
All communication between 3rd party systems goes via RESTful API exposed by Storware Server. Tasks are being performed by the Node behind the scenes. End-user is going to use only a 3rd party system to invoke and monitor the status of the tasks.
Storware Backup and Recovery Provides:
- Support for multiple open and commercial virtual environments under one license
- Support for multiple backup destinations: local file system or a NFS/CIFS share, object storage (cloud providers) or enterprise backup providers
- Efficient, incremental backup of AHV VMs with CBT/CRT (Changed-Region Tracking)
- Support for vSphere and Hyper-V environments
- 2 different modes: independent backup Server (local or remote file system, object storage)
- Backup and recovery for Nutanix Volume Groups (with CRT-based incremental backups)
- Backup and recovery for Nutanix Files (with CFT-based incremental backups)
Feel the freedom of choice
Storware is a single platform that is able to backup multiple virtualization platforms to multiple backup providers. So there is no vendor lock-in. If you need to migrate VMs to the different hypervisor, you still can use the same solution to back them up.
With backup providers situation remains the same – if you would like to replace enterprise-grade backup provider with a plain file system – you still may have an option to backup your applications – just select a different target in UI.
What our customers say?
CloudFire successfully overcame the challenges of their backup and recovery processes OpenStack, resulting in improved efficiency, enhanced security, and overall operational excellence within their OpenStack environment.
Very good and intuitive GUI, simple management and ability to backup and restore virtual environments with a couple of clicks.
Storware Backup and Recovery offers excellent support for environments based on Red Hat Virtualization, confirmed by compatibility certificates. What’s more, it meets the security requirements of stored data (encryption) and is economical in terms of the use of disk memory.
Storware has proven to be a very flexible tool that can successfully connect Red Hat Virtualization and IBM Spectrum Protect
Storware vProtect solutions for backup and restoring virtual machines fulfilled our requirements in terms of both flexibility and maintaining the highest security standards
If a company is looking for a reliable and easy-to-use solution to protect virtual environments based on Red Hat Virtualization, Storware is definitely worth recommending.
We are most satisfied with support for Xen and XCP-NG, as well as maintained support for tape libraries (via IBM Spectrum Protect).
With Storware, backups won’t be the thing we need to worry about.
The implementation of Storware and Famoc integrated systems has resolved the company’s core problems related to fleet management.
Storware has provided our company with the ability to share and synchronize selected data between users, regular software updates, and data encryption.
We needed a solution that would work for our oVirt cloud. With the help of Storware, we have been able to get exactly what we wanted.
Storware provides above all rich support for Red Hat Virtualization (RHV), oVirt and KVM and complements the offer of enterprise backup vendors such as Dell EMC.
How to backup Nutanix Acropolis with Storware
Storware Node installed as Proxy VM on the Cluster | VM disk snapshot attached and dumped via Proxy VM. Pros:
- new Nutanix AHV API v3 used
- no additional cloning required
- disk exclusion support
Scale as you grow: scale-out by adding as many nodes as you need; scale-up by assigning more resources to Storware node.
Key Highlights
Fast & Easy configuration
Configuration Wizard makes the launch and setup of Storware Backup and Recovery (former vProtect) fast and easy. Start to protect your VMs within minutes, automate and monitor backup processes from a single pane of glass.
Cost-effective solution
Licensing models tailored to your needs – per VM, per Host, per TB or subscription for the ‘pay as you grow’ model. One license for all hypervisors!
Intuitive management
Easy-to-use HTML5 Web Interface with the advanced Task Console – to give you the life preview of all Storware jobs (finished, running and pending) and global search bar for quick access to any item or restore jobs history
