Free Paragon Backup for Hyper-V Host Community Edition

Paragon Software Group Corp. releases its free Backup for Hyper-V Host Community Edition that lmanage, backup and restore VMs on Hyper-V host and migrate VMware and Hyper-V VMs with one application.

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Backup features include:

Flexible scheduling mechanism – backup tasks can be scheduled to run every 15mn, hourly, daily, weekly, or monthly.
Cut storage requirements by up to 80% thanks to incremental imaging, data compression and data exclusion options.
Support different backup formats: pVHD, VHD, VHDX, VMDK.
Restore an entire VM to a new or original location in one single operation.

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With this handy tool, it’s possible to migrate VMs from vSphere to Hyper-V, as well as run disk contents from turned off VMs – even change their layout, and copy files to/from the virtual disks of these machines. With the company’s Backup for Hyper-V Host Community Edition, you can configure on the fly and change VM’s vCPU, vRAM, and network switch connections on the go, as needed. Better still, the software is smart, letting only move data that is actually used by the guest machine, without touching unused disk areas, temporary files, or other files not needed by a migration. Using the product, you can flexibly convert machines with vSphere either remotely, and run the product on the target Hyper-V host, or from the proxy machine on the ESXi host, uploading remotely to the Hyper-V host.

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It’s also possible to migrate VMs in batch mode, where you can simultaneously move VMs from different vSphere environments. Without batch mode, you can also transfer machines in parallel within a single or different vSpheres. Added flexibility is obtained via scripting and a range of included scripts, with one example being the ability to conditionally launch one migration after the success of another. Want more? Then just create migration jobs to concurrently migrate VMs from the same or different vSphere instances. With a speed of 250GB per hour being between 7,200rpm SATA disks via a 1GbE LAN cable, migrating VMs won’t slow down. Transferring between SSDs will be faster still.

For more functionality and commercial production environment, the company’s HDD Manager for Business offers the fuller feature set that commercial customers need.

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System requirements:

Hyper-V capable Windows editions:
Windows Server (2012R2 and newer, including Core editions)
Windows 10 (Pro and Enterprise Editions)
Source VMware infrastructure: vSphere 5.5 and newer

Availability:
Backup for Hyper-V Host Community Edition is available for free download.

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