Robust data protection in a virtual world
Virtualization can bring numerous benefits to the data center, including server consolidation as well as enhanced utilization, availability, and disaster recovery. Consolidation alone can provide substantial cost savings, yet consolidating many virtual machines (VMs) onto one physical system increases not only utilization, but also risk: a single physical hardware failure can bring down multiple VMs. And the greater the density, the greater the risk—a lost host server could inhibit productivity for multiple departments for as long as it takes to recover the virtual environment and the individual VMs.
Because of these considerations, organizations today are looking for efficient backup and recovery software that can provide productivity benefits and cost savings on par with those provided by server virtualization. Symantec™ data protection software such as the Backup Exec™ 2010 and Veritas™ NetBackup™ 7 applications can help meet these needs, providing administrators with powerful, flexible tools for backing up and recovering critical VMs and core enterprise applications.
Symantec data protection software is designed to meet both the virtual and physical requirements of the entire enterprise in a single package by leveraging Symantec’s innovative Granular Recovery Technology (GRT). GRT helps to save time and reduce costs by allowing administrators to restore individual files and folders within a VM from a single-pass image backup of the entire VM. Symantec data protection software also supports block-level as well as native file-level incremental and differential backups, source and target deduplication, full and object-level restores, and automatic inclusion of newly added or created VMs in backups. By deploying tools such as Backup Exec 2010 and Veritas NetBackup 7 in virtualized environments, IT administrators can create a versatile, high-performance approach to protecting VMs and core applications as part of a comprehensive enterprise backup and recovery strategy.