Storware vProtect V.3.9 Data Protection for VMs, Containers and Cloud Software Updated

Storware Sp. z o.o. launches vProtect 3.9 software update.

Vprotect 3.9 architecture
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This is a data protection platform dedicated to VMs, containers and cloud environments, offering a wide choice of supported platforms with competitive functionalities, and easy to use, intuitive management (HTML5 web UI and CLI).

vProtect 3.9 (Quasar) is a release adding support for VMware and Hyper-V virtualization platforms. Both full and incremental backups are supported and it also allows you to restore individual files.

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Quasar introduces changes including:

Recovery plans – second huge improvement, for all supported platforms we introduce Recovery Plans. Now, you’ll be able to define rules, how and where multiple VMs should be restored when you need DR. You also are able to schedule them and restore set of VMs periodically to test locations, to be sure that you’re able to restore them if you need to.
Application backup improved – Release introduced several build-in application backup templates for common use cases ready to be used. You also are able to parametrize command execution configurations to force set of parameters that are required for command or script. Application restore will also provide several option how to cope with automatic archive extraction or overwrite existing files.
Good news for Amazon users – S3 backup provider allows to enable extended retention for stored backups and change storage class for oldest objects to Glacier giving option to reduce your storage costs.
RHV/oVirt/OLVM users – boost backups with netcat transfer and for SSH transfer mode, restore operations use direct connection instead of Disk Image Transfer API.
Simplified configuration process – this release also improves Web UI especially in configuration related activities, adds restore history and improves task console and more.

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Detailed changes:

VMware – official release – significant changes in integration layer
VMware – restore – target disk format selection
VMware – added Hot-Add transfer option if available
Hyper-V – full/incremental backup
Hyper-V – snapshot management
Hyper-V – file-level restore with mountable backups
Hyper-V – option to share drives over iSCSI
Recovery Plans – batch VM restore for DR
Recovery Plans – periodic VM restore for DR tests

Mountable backups – option to mount QCOW2 with NTFS file systems
Restore operation – option to delete VM (if one already exists with the same name)
Application backup – command execution configuration parameters
Application backup – templates and ready scripts for several common use cases
Application backup – option to clone applications and command execution configurations
Application backup – automatic archive extraction and option to overwrite
Application backup – option to ignore error codes or standard error output for user-provided scripts
OpenStack – Ceph-based storage support
RHV/oVirt/OLVM – netcat transfer option
RHV/oVirt/OLVM – SSH transfer – restore operation now also over SSH
Swift – compression support
Dell EMC Avamar support
AWS Glacier support
Storware Insight – detailed backup status to reporting option
Ansible playbooks for installation
UI – configuration wizard
UI – task console improvements
UI – global search for quick access to any item
UI – restore jobs history

List of vProtect features available

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