Arcserve Unified Data Protection (UDP)
Unbeatable Backup and Recovery Software for Virtual and Physical Environments

Features and Benefits:

Arcserve UDP combines industry-proven image backup, tape, replication, high availability and true global de-duplication technologies within one, simple solution. It is a next generation architecture that delivers comprehensive Assured Recovery capabilities with unmatched ease of use. Innovative technologies include a new unified, scale-out architecture, simple task-based data protection plans, Assured Recovery capabilities and true global deduplication.

Operational Benefits	Capabilities and Features
Unified Solution	Unified architecture for image backup, Infinite Incremental (I2 Technology), bare metal restore, high availability, replication, tape, cloud, virtual. Usability: One UI, all core data protection technologies unified under one management console
Ease of Use	Wizard driven enterprise-class protection Task-based "data protection plans" Purchasing, deploying, licensing, configuring Recovery Point migration and data migration wizard for Arcserve D2D r16.5 customers
Automated DR / Assured Recovery - Recovery Point and Time Assurance	Automated disaster recovery testing of business-critical systems, applications and data, on a separate, replica server. Non-disruptive DR testing process avoids business downtime and impact to production systems Assured Recovery reporting provides evidence of system recoverability for compliance auditors
Continuous Availability	Continuous replication and full system HA of physical and virtual systems for Windows and Linux Protection of the hypervisor environment itself Application level failover and failback P2V, V2P, P2P
Breadth or Enterprise Class for Virtual and Physical	Platform support (Windows and Linux) Agentless backup of VMware and Hyper-V VMs Near-instantaneous VM recovery (LAN & WAN) File level recovery of Linux nodes with Near-Agentless backups Physical and virtual Supports LAN/WAN/SAN/DAS/Cloud Technologies (Replication, HA, Imaging, Tape, SRM, Infrastructure visualization) Scale and performance Task-based data protection and availability plans Advanced scheduling Supports Clustered Shared Volume (CSV) for Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2012 R2 & 2012
True Global Deduplication	True global deduplication across nodes, de-duplicated jobs and across sites In place re-hydration of data for fast granular restore (even tape) Client/Source-side: data is de-duped before transfer to target RPS. Saves bandwidth.
Services Oriented / Designed for MSPs	Single, web services-based management console to manage the entire Arcserve UDP environment Multi-tenant storage Offline synchronization and automated, link-failure resistant resynchronization Compression and encryption Documented API and Log Schema
Tape Support	Integration of image-based or full system backups to tape One step file level restores from image-based backups from tape Re-hydration of server images on tape (No re-hydration of entire de-duplicated store on tape) Physical and virtual
Offsite Protection	Mature and secure Replication from one Recovery Point Server to another with WAN optimization Tape FSHA Cloud Connectors
Purchasing options (Licensing and Pricing Flexibility)	A la carte, suites (bundles), per machine, per socket, per host, capacity sold either perpetually or subscription-based Free, fully functional Workstation edition product for local and UNC (CIFS) backup target. Recovery Point Server (RPS) support with deduplication included as a 30 day trial. All other features continue after 30 days.

Operational Benefits:

	Improved data and system protection, recovery and availability Unified architecture that brings together core data protection technologies under one console Feature-rich solution supporting a wide variety of environments Customized protection plans to meet specific data protection needs Advanced reporting
	Improved capabilities to meet key data protection, recovery and availability SLAs Evolving from RPO/RTO to Recovery Point and Time Assurance Ability to test, measure and report recovery processes Service Level Agreements (SLAs)
	Improved operational efficiency Administrators' efficiency is enhanced with our unified management console Ease of use and broad capabilities combine to enhance time to value Storage and network resources consumption mitigation
	Improved business opportunities for MSPs Feature-rich solution with service provider-friendly API Scalable and flexible, to deliver on in-house or external SLAs Ease of deployment improving time to value MSP-designed reporting

Deployments:

Disaster Recovery Topology View

Arcserve UDP allows users to easily scale their hybrid business continuity topologies, locally or over long distances with multiple sites, including service and cloud providers. At the heart of the architecture is the Recovery Point Server (RPS). Among the key features of RPS are a true global source-side deduplication engine, proven built-in replication, data "jumpStart" / data Seeding, multi-tenant storage, compression and AES encryption.

One unique capability enabled by Arcserve UDP's unified management console is the creation of task-based data protection and availability plans. When combined, the plans form the data protection and availability strategy of the organization. With traditional data protection solutions, administrators are forced to protect highly complex environments by defining tasks using disjointed and ever-growing lists of backup, replication, and failover policies, often across multiple products or systems.

Focus on Assured Recovery

Arcserve UDP enables the automated disaster recovery testing of business-critical systems, applications and data, without business downtime, or impact to production systems.

• Enables automated disaster recovery testing of business-critical systems, applications and data on a separate replica server, which can be located at a remote recovery site, or hosting provider
• Non-disruptive DR testing process avoids business downtime and impact to production systems
• Recovery testing can be fully automated, or performed on a scheduled basis, as needed
• Assured Recovery reporting provides evidence of system recoverability for compliance auditors

Re-Inventing Data Protection:

In contrast, Arcserve UDP data protection plans consist of a single management object that contains within it all of the data management actions and tasks needed to protect devices. These plans orchestrate a workflow of tasks that are user-customizable and can be applied to one or many nodes. The workflow enabled by the plans provides the ability to generate a full data protection lifecycle, one that can combine many advanced features such as offsite replication, high availability, and many more!

In essence, this allows users to create service level oriented plans or specific protection plans for nodes that share the same characteristics. With Arcserve data protection plans, users can achieve the level of RTO/RPO granularity they need for each node, very granularly, quickly and easily. This is unique in the industry and sets Arcserve UDP apart. The plans are akin to an "SLA dial" in many ways, where the user simply turns the dial to the level of RPO/ RTO they require and the solution selects the most appropriate technology to deliver the desired result.

Virtualization:

Server and desktop virtualization have become very pervasive in most organizations, and not just in the enterprise. Everybody agrees that server virtualization offers many advantages, saves money, offers more flexibility, etc. Although server virtualization helps reduce IT infrastructure costs, it also adds complexity to protecting the wide range of applications installed on the virtual machines and the ever-increasing volumes of data created on shared storage devices…But it can also help in disaster recovery scenarios and can offer some level of high availability.

This apparent contradiction is an opportunity that can be seized to enhance service levels, in particular to better control those metrics focused on system and data recoverability. To do so, users need to truly understand the operational ramifications of virtualization deployments. One critical step is to adopt the right approach and technologies when it comes to data protection.

The solution is not to add more complexity by adding yet another point solution or vendor, but rather to take a holistic and unified view of data protection across the infrastructure, virtual and physical.

Introducing Arcserve Unified Data Protection

Arcserve UDP delivers comprehensive Assured Recovery™ for virtual and physical environments with a next generation unified architecture and unmatched ease of use. This feature-rich solution enables organizations to scale their IT environments easily, while delivering against their recovery point and recovery time objectives (RPO and RTO), on-premise, off-premise or in the cloud. Traditional, overly complex backup policies are replaced by modern task-based data protection plans and deep integration with hypervisors to fully automate complex, mundane repetitive tasks.

Arcserve UDP is the first solution to combine industry-proven backup, replication, high availability and true global deduplication technologies within one solution and unlike competitive products, does not require expensive professional services.

Arcserve UDP Differentiators at a Glance
Unified Solution with Broad Features	Image backup, high availability, tape, cloud; virtual, physical, global deduplication One UI, all core data protection technologies unified under one solution
Ease of Use	Out of the box Enterprise Class Protedtion that leverages wizards (improves end to end customer experience) Protection Plans Purchasing, deploying, licensing, configuring
Assured Recovery - Recovery Point and Time Assurance	Recovery Time and Recovery Point Assurance Assured Recovery with full system high availability Automated Virtual Standby Reporting and logs
Service Provider Friendly	MSP Capabilities Document API and Log Schema MSP Partner Program

Fast, simple, agentless backup for VMware and Hyper-V host environments

Arcserve UDP offers a wide array of functionalities to enhance data protection easily and efficiently:

• Single-pass backup of all VMs without the need to install software agents on each VM
• Auto-discovery of VMs on target hypervisor
• Integrated with VMware vStorage API's
• Only backs up changed blocks
• Application consistent (Exchange, SQL etc.) and transaction-log purge
• Easy recovery of individual files and folders from within each VM
• Centralized node, group and plan management from Arcserve UDP Console
• VM auto-disccovery
• Microsoft Hyper-V Clustered Resources Volume support
• VMware Backup Transport Mode Switching

Focus on host-based backup for VMware and Hyper-V

The Host-Based/Agentless Backup Proxy technology enables single-pass backup of all Windows and Non-Windows VMs, without the need to install software agents on each VM.

For Microsoft Hyper-V environments, Arcserve UDP introduces a new changed block tracking mechanism that tracks changes to the virtual disk file of a Virtual Machine. With changed block tracking, only the changed or used blocks of the virtual disk are actually read, which improves performance significantly, as well as reducing overall storage requirements. In addition, Arcserve UDP leverages VSS snapshot technology to help ensure file system and application consistent backups. The resulting backup session format is identical to Arcserve UDP client backups and host-based backup of VMware VMs.

Agentless Backup for VMware & Hyper-V

High Availability Features

Arcserve UDP not only leverages local and virtual remote standby capabilities that can provide a shorter RPO and RTO than traditional backup technologies, but also provides a sophisticated high availability solution for both virtual and physical systems.

Migration capabilities
Migrations often offer operational challenges and complexity in execution. With Arcserve UDP and its high availability and hypervisor support capabilities, many permutations are available whether you are conducting migrations in house or as a service provider. Among the supported topologies and migration use case are:

• Physical System to Physical System (P2P)
• Physical to Virtual (P2V)
• Virtual to Physical (V2)
• Virtual to Virtual (V2V) including cross-hypervisor migrations. This capability allows users to easily migrate a system from one supported hypervisor to another.

Full System High Availability/Failover

Focus Feature: Assured Recovery

Arcserve UDP uniquely provides capabilities to test and measure your RPO and RTOs through a set of automated and non-disruptive features. Instead of objectives, you can now actively manage your infrastructure with actual numbers: assured recovery metrics.

• Enables automated disaster recovery testing of business-critical systems, applications and data, on a separate, replica server
• Non-disruptive process avoids business downtime and impact to production systems
• Recovery testing can be fully automated, or performed on a scheduled basis, as needed
• Assured Recovery reporting provides evidence of system recoverability for compliance auditor

Local and remote virtual standby

With Arcserve UDP you can enhance your RPO and RTO locally or over distance:

• Periodic, image-based system, application & data protection for Windows Servers & VMs
• Replication to remote location (remote office, DR site, MSP & Cloud)
• Recovery point conversion into VHD or VMDK formats at the remote site to a virtual server
• Register with Hypervisor
• Server Heartbeat Monitoring
• Manual failover to remote resources

Local & Remote Virtual Standby with RPS

Documentation:

Download the Arcserve UDP Data Sheet (PDF)

Download the Arcserve UDP Solution Brief Data Sheet (PDF)

Download the Arcserve UDP Virtualization Solution Brief Data Sheet (PDF)