PHD Virtual Backup for Citrix XenServer provides the ability to back up and restore business-critical information quickly and efficiently, directly within the XenCenter management console, providing a single pane of glass to manage your virtual machines backups. With support for XenServer, XenDesktop and XenApp customers can leverage the same solution across their entire virtual environment
 
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PHD’s VBA™ Architecture provides an agent-less solution giving you the ability to simultaneously backup and restore multiple VMs concurrently. The PHD VBA™ Architecture deploys as a small virtual appliance on XenServer that autonomously conducts backups of all your virtual machines.
 •Designed specifically for virtual environments and integrated with XenServer
•Backs up and restores any VM running on XenServer
•Does not compromise hypervisor performance or impact Dom0
•Does not require dedicated proxy servers, additional hardware or software

Key Features

XenCenter Management Integration: 
The XenCenter plug-in included with PHD Virtual Backup provides “single pane of glass” management of virtual machine backup and restore directly from the XenCenter management console. VM backup and restore jobs are easily started with a simple right-click from XenCenter. Job status, history and backup scheduling through the PHD Console can be easily accessed directly from XenCenter.
 
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%.    >> Learn More

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: New in 5.1 
Backup virtual machines to locally attached storage or external storage locations via NFS or SMB/CIFS share.
 
Set It and Forget It Job Scheduling: New in 5.1 
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: New in 5.1 
Quickly restore individual files and folders without the need to restore the entire virtual machine image.
 
Application Object Recovery: New in 5.1 
Use your existing recovery tools to quickly restore application objects (database object, mailbox, mail message, etc.) directly from backup storage.
 
Supports Tape Backup Solutions: New in 5.1 
Backup Data Connector enables quick and easy integration with tape backup solutions.
 
Backup Retention & Archiving – Meet DR and Retention Policies: New in 5.1 
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.
 
Export Virtual Machine Backup: 
Provides ability to export virtual machines from backup storage in native VHD or RAW format.   Backups may also be exported to VMDK format providing a V2V restore capability.
 
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
 •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 XenServer

, 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.