StorageCraft ShadowProtect Virtual: Desktop
Back Up and Quickly Recover Virtual Environments, and Keep Business Running

Overview:

Backup Fast and Recover Faster with StorageCraft ShadowProtect Virtual

Virtualization is an important tool for IT professionals to maximize hardware resources and improve disaster recovery. With unpredictable storage architectures, IT professionals need a backup and disaster recovery solution that can adapt to changing computing environments.

StorageCraft ShadowProtect Virtual provides fast and reliable backup, disaster recovery, data protection, and system migration to get virtual machines (VMs) online quickly. It allows you to backup everything in your virtual environment and recover it anywhere: to another type of hypervisor, to physical environments, or to the cloud.

ShadowProtect Virtual protects your entire computing environment—including the operating system, applications, services, and data.

Fast, Flexible, and Reliable Recovery

The legendary reliability of ShadowProtect includes bare metal recovery to the same system or to another VM, even to a different hypervisor. Its Hardware Independent Restore technology provides portability to new hardware and is agnostic to the underlying physical hardware or virtualization technologies. This provides the flexibility you need within changing IT infrastructures, ensuring business continuity in hybrid environments.

In addition, ShadowProtect includes StorageCraft VirtualBoot technology. VirtualBoot dramatically improves your ability to recover quickly by allowing you to access systems as a VM in just a few minutes.

Priced per VM, ShadowProtect Virtual can be purchased in multi-packs and deployed on multiple hosts.

ShadowProtect Virtual supports the following hypervisors:

• VMware
• Microsoft Hyper-V
• Citrix XenServer
• Oracle VirtualBox
• RedHat KVM/RHEV

ShadowProtect Virtual also includes revolutionary new technology, StorageCraft ImageReady, which automatically mounts ShadowProtect backup images as NTFS shares. Once mounted, ImageReady can perform script-based operations on the image to verify data and application integrity. This might include running CHKDSK, or custom scripts that test the operation of business-critical applications such as Exchange, SharePoint, and SQL environments.

ShadowProtect Virtual provides the following benefits:

• Support for VMware, Microsoft Hyper-V, Citrix Xen- Server, Oracle VirtualBox, and RedHat KVM/RHEV.
• Windows Server 2012 support.
• Rapid recovery from bare metal, to dissimilar hardware or to and from virtual environments.
• ImageReady technology to automatically mount backup image files.
• Granular recovery of individual files and folders in moments.
• Ability to boot any ShadowProtect image as a VM with VirtualBoot.
• Automatic backup of SQL, Exchange, and other critical applications.
• Hardware Independent Restore technology.
• Simplified migration to new Windows servers.
• Scheduler for automatic full and incremental backups

StorageCraft ShadowProtect

As IT environments change, what remains consistent for organizations large and small is the need to protect themselves from unplanned downtime—both everyday disruptions and major disasters. With demands for 24/7 availability and data growth skyrocketing, an organization’s ability to quickly recover its mission-critical systems and resume normal business operations is crucial.

Organizations need a backup and disaster recovery solution that protects both physical and virtual Windows systems and provides full control over the ability to quickly get the business up and running again after a disruption or disaster. Since you never know what resources will be available to you in a disaster, the flexibility to be able to recover anywhere, anytime, every single time is unquestionably vital.

Since 2003, businesses have relied on the award-winning StorageCraft ShadowProtect backup and disaster recovery solution to protect, recover, and migrate their physical and virtual Windows systems. As the foundation of the StorageCraft Recovery Solution, ShadowProtect gives you peace of mind that your Windows systems are fully protected and can be rapidly recovered, no matter the disruption or disaster you face. How it works:

• Install ShadowProtect on any server or workstation you wish to protect. ShadowProtect quickly and efficiently captures your entire system including the operating system (OS), applications, settings, services, and your data.
• Take regularly scheduled backups as often as every 15 minutes. Schedule full and incremental backups to best fit your needs.
• Choose where to store your backup files. Write backup images to any internal, removable, or network storage locations.
• Easily monitor and manage your backup jobs in the ShadowProtect user interface or through the web-based management console StorageCraft ShadowControl.
• Rest assured you have multiple options to recover onsite and offsite in minutes. Recover entire systems or specific files and folders—all from the same backup image.

Technical Information

StorageCraft ShadowProtect quickly and efficiently creates sector-level backup images of physical and virtual Windows systems. A sector-level backup image is a point-in-time representation of the system and therefore includes not just data but also the operating system, applications, services, and configuration settings.

We leverage Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) to ensure solid backups, and our proprietary snapshot driver StorageCraft Volume Snapshot Manager (VSM) makes sure those backups happen fast.

Because backup images contain everything on a given workstation, server, or virtual machine (VM), when you need to recover its system, you can do so in minutes rather than hours or days.

StorageCraft ShadowProtect lets you:

• Rapidly access individual data files and folders
• Restore to the same or different hardware or a virtual environment in a matter of minutes
• Boot a backup image as a VM for a quick, temporary fix