PHD Virtual Backup 5.1 for VMware vSphere
Simple, integrated and scalable backup and recovery of VMware vSphere environments running on the ESXi and ESX hypervisor platforms.

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PHD Virtual Backup for VMware vSphere helps you:
Backup and restore faster to meet RPO and RTO requirements
Reduce backup storage over 90% and optimize network based backup
Integrate management of backup and recovery into vSphere client
Eliminate separate servers, hardware, agents or additional software from your backup and recovery solution
PHD Virtual Backup for VMware vSphere is built on the next generation of PHD’s award winning VBA™ (Virtual Backup Appliance) Architecture providing virtualized backup and recovery of large-scale VMware environments with direct management integration through vSphere client.

Purpose-built for virtualization, the PHD VBA architecture enables backup and recovery to be deployed as a virtualized workload directly on the VMware platform. This evolutionary approach enables high-performance data protection that seamlessly scales for large and distributed deployments. Unlike alternative solutions, PHD Virtual Backup removes the need to deploy and manage a separate physical server, additional software, scripts or agents for backup and recovery of the virtual environment.

Key Features and Benefits
vSphere Client Management Integration
The vSphere client plug-in included with PHD Virtual Backup provides “single pane of glass” management of virtual machine backup and restore directly from the vSphere client management console. A simple right-click in vSphere client allows you to start the VM backup and restore wizards and view job status, history and backup schedules through the PHD Console

Simple to Deploy & Easy to Use
Setup is as simple as deploying the virtual backup appliance, configuring the backup target and installing the PHD Virtual Backup plug-in. Backup and restore job configuration is done through simple and intuitive wizards.

TrueDedupe™ Technology
PHD’s patent pending technology featuring source side data de-duplication and compression. De-duplication and compression occur before data leaves the host reducing network and target storage requirements and increasing the overall speed of processing backup jobs. PHD’s TrueDedupe technology provides an average dedupe ratio up to 25:1 reducing average data storage requirements for backups by more than 90%.

TrueRestore™ Technology
Provides increased confidence in your ability to restore from backup. Data is checked both during the backup and restore processes ensuring data integrity. Self-healing is provided by automatically detecting and repairing corrupt data blocks.

Multiple Data Streams for Fast Backup and Restore
Multiple concurrent backup and restore streams enable you to meet your backup window, RPO and RTO requirements. Backup and restore streams are user configurable from 1-4 streams per VBA™.

Flexible Backup Storage Options
Backup virtual machines to locally attached storage or external storage locations via NFS or SMB/CIFS share.

Set It and Forget It Job Scheduling
Backup jobs can be assigned to defined containers (representing hosts, resource pools, folders…). Any VM in a container or later added to a container will automatically be backed up based on job settings. For flexibility, specific VM’s in a container can be set to be excluded from backups.

File Level Restore (FLR) Any OS, Any File System
Quickly restore individual files and folders without the need to restore the entire virtual machine image.

Application Object Recovery
Use your existing recovery tools to quickly restore application objects (database object, mailbox, mail message, etc.) directly from backup storage

Supports Tape Backup Solutions
Backup Data Connector enables quick and easy integration with tape backup solutions.

Backup Retention and Archiving
Define and configure flexible retention policies for storing VM backups. Flexible trim options can automatically remove old backups based on customizable policies. Archiving provides the ability to mark specific backups for archive to exclude them from being deleted by the retention policy. Archive can be set at the job level for increased flexibility.

Fault Tolerant Deployment
Distributed architecture minimizes single point of failure. Multiple VBA’s can be configured to support backup across large environments.

Additional Feature Highlights
Support for Changed Block Tracking (CBT)
Export Virtual Machine Backup
Application Consistent Backup using VSS
E-mail notification
Support for Thin Provisioned Disks
Backup Storage Warnings
Distributed Virtual Switch Support
Supports all Operating Systems supported by VMware vSphere