Vembu BDR Reviewed by openBench Labs

Vembu Technologies, Inc. shares a benchmark analysis report by Jack Fegreus, founder and MD, openBench Labs.

Benchmark analysis:
openBench Labs assessed performance and functionality of Vembu BDR (Backup & DR) agentless data protection solution in a vSphere 5.5 HA Cluster. For this test, a vSphere VM configured with three logical disks located on separate datastores to support an Exchange server with two mailbox databases were used. Each of the mailbox databases were configured to support 1,000 user accounts.

Topics covered in the analysis test include:

• Importance of Vembu Hive and advantages of restore anywhere option

• How BDR helps in assuring BC with better RTOs and RPOs

• Necessity of application awareness and the role of Vembu BDR in gaining it effectively

• Detailed study on Vembu’s RTO and RPO success facts

• Management of SnapShot Overheads with RoW and CoW

• Support for dynamic business applications

• A scenario describing the SLA objective results of BDR

• BDR on Exchange backup support and mailbox recovery

• Backup optimization

• Instant boot options for instant results

Benefits Vembu BDR features, based on report:

• BDR data store maintains a Virtual File System

• Document-oriented database enables Restore anywhere for VMs

• Document-oriented database minimize RTO

• Appaware VMware tools extension optimize RPO

• Vembu Windows client enables recovery of application objects