Are you dealing with some of the following VM backup and recovery challenges?
- Significant storage redundancies between VMs
- Monitoring and management of large # of VMs
- Ease of VM deployment complicates discovery of new production resources
- Lack of visibility to individual VMs—backing up one can impact performance of other production (virtualized) servers
- Outside of backup window
- Time to restore after failure
- Reliability of disaster recovery (if still using tape)
If so, a webcast from ExaGrid and Quest Software might help you. A combined solution from the two companies provides reliable backup and restoration, full support of Quest vRanger advanced features, and advanced deduplication and data replication for off-site protection.
Many IT people are familiar with the Grow/Break/Replace cycle—where you buy a product to you’re your backup or storage needs today, your data grows, the system can no longer handle the increased amount of data and backup breaks, and then you have to replace the system. In this webcast, you’ll learn how only ExaGrid solves this problem by permanently shortening your backup window as data grows, quickly recovering VMs and files and protecting your IT budget over time.
In the webcast, you’ll learn how the combination of ExaGrid and Quest vRanger gets you the following benefits:
- Lower CapEx – vRanger’s Active Block Mapping (ABM) technology combined with VMware Changed Block Tracking (CBT), significantly reduces amount of data transferred to ExaGrid
ExaGrid further reduces backup size by up to 50:1 with patented zone-level deduplication - Faster Recovery – vRanger with ExaGrid enables rapid image-level and file-level restores. Native catalog in vRanger enables fast, easy granular recoveries
- Offsite DR – Joint solution allows customers to quickly and safely copy vRanger backups offsite via ExaGrid appliance. Enables fast, reliable recoveries over the WAN in the event of disaster
Here’s just one of several customer stories that might be of interest to you.
| Before | After |
|---|---|
| Backing up to tape (6 tapes/day nightly, 9 tapes on weekends) | Backing up to 2-site ExaGrid (main Ft. Meyers data center, DR site) |
| Long backup times--13-hour backups | Backups run 5 hours including replication |
| Many hours/week spent transporting tape for offsite DR | Tape management time and costs completely eliminated |
If you’d like to learn more, click here to register for the webcast and watch it live on Wednesday, May 16 at 11:30am Eastern. You can also watch via replay.



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ExaGrid has created a new resource for Symantec NetBackup users, the “Best Practices Guide: Symantec NetBackup with ExaGrid Disk Backup with Deduplication.”
As a leader in the field of data deduplication, ExaGrid was recently honored by Backup Academy.



