vRanger 7.0

Key Features in vRangerRevision: 3

Near Continuous Data Protection (CDP) with recovery to any point-in-time in seconds to minutes

Understanding RPO and RTO Objectives

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Nightly image-based backup and recovery for VMware and Hyper-V

Failover to replicated VM at point of failover within minutes

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Understanding vRanger’s Agentless Architecture

• Simple, scalable backup and recovery for VMware and Hyper-V and physical Windows servers

• Agentless architecture and cost-effective pricing

• Catalog search and file level restore from both virtual and physical backups

• Integrated VMware VM replication provides disaster recovery for critical virtual applications

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• Speed — Patented Active Block Mapping with Changed Block Tracking reduce size, network payload, storage space and backup and restore times

• Scalability — Parallel job execution and distributed architecture completes operations fast. Dynamic resource governing ensures operations don’t impact the performance of production networks

• Ease of Use — Integrated Catalog provides indexed search and fast restores of individual files

• VMware Ready – vRanger is VMware Ready™

Agentless architecture

• Scalability through distributed clients

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Agentless ArchitectureDirect-to-Target Architecture Advantages• Eliminates I/O bottlenecks during backup and restore operations

• Much faster backups and restores

• Enables parallel data protection operations for improved scalability

• Parallel backup, replication, and recovery operations can be completed in a fraction of the time required by other virtual and physical solutions

• Supports the use of lightweight Linux virtual appliances to distribute VMware backup workloads across the environment

Feature: Resource ManagementScalability

• Automatically manages backup performance based on available resources

Resource Governing AdvantagesScalability

• vRanger Resource Governing ensures production application performance is not impacted during backup and recovery operations

• Organizations can balance data protection SLAs with production performance goals

• vRanger performance can be dialed up or down in real-time

Ease of UseFeature: Integrated Backup Catalog

• Native cataloging

• Keyword & wildcard search through multiple repositories

• One click restore for files and folders

Ease of UseIntegrated Catalog Advantages

• It’s 3 AM – where’s your backup?

• vRanger Integrated Catalog allows search operations (including wildcards) to locate individual files from virtual and physical backups

• Locating backups faster dramatically reduces recovery times

Feature: Active Block MappingBackup/Restore Speed & Size

• Only active blocks are read and written

• Improves backup, restore, and replication speed

• Reduces backup storage

• Optionally eliminates Windows pagefiles and hibernation files from backups for improved backup, restore, and replication performance

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vRanger Deduplication Support

• Patented Active Block Mapping (ABM) reduces vRanger backup data streams and backup storage requirements by up to 30%.

• Dell DR4100 offers a simple and cost-effective disk backup and recovery solution featuring deduplication, replication and capacity expansion. vRanger has been certified by Dell for usage with DR4100 disk-based appliance (RDA support coming soon)

• EMC Data Domain Boost integration reduces network load, improves backup performance, and reduces backup storage requirements

Target-side deduplication integration and options

What’s New in vRanger 7.0

• Windows Hyper-V Server 2012 / 2012 R2 agentless backup support

• VMware vSphere / ESXi 5.5 support

• Windows 2012 R2 / 8.1 platform support

• Active-Block Mapping (ABM) job options to skip Windows pagefiles and hibernation files

• Scalability improvements for VMware inventory

• Streamlined Installer

• 64-bit vRanger console / server / virtual appliance

• Restore jobs prioritized in the job queue

vRanger Feature Customer Benefits1. Auto discovery of newly

deployed VMs; Deep VMware and Hyper-V integration

• Eliminates manual updates to backup processes• Ensures newly created VMs are backed up and can be

recovered• No system reboots required

2. Indexed catalog search • Reduces the time needed to find files for restore• Reduces restore time

3. Integrated VMware replication • Cost effective & efficient disaster recovery for select VMware VMs

4. Scalable architecture • Virtual Appliance delivers outstanding scalability• Resource governing ensures virtual application

performance is not degraded

5. Virtual and physical Windows server backup

• One simple GUI provides VMware, Hyper-V, and Windows physical server protection

• Image-based backup/restore• Reduced cost by eliminating the need for legacy physical

backup solutions

Key vRanger Differentiators

Automated backup of newly deployed VMs

• A global information technology company hosts hundreds of their customers’ virtualized applications and used to manually install agents on thousands of VMs. This took up most of the VMware administrator’s time

• They were experiencing high levels of customer recovery failures as new VMs were missed and were being backed up

Organizational Problem

• vRanger automatically detects and protects all customer VMs ensuring they don’t lose key customers using their hosting service

Return on Investment

• Admins aren’t constantly trying to fix failed customer recoveries and can now restore key VMs and files – customer satisfaction has risen significantly

End User Benefit

• Admins are spending a fraction of the time deploying and managing backup, replication, and restore operations resulting in huge productivity savings

Ease of use - Catalog search

• A large state university experienced frequent VM outages and was often unable to restore VMware hosts or VMs

• Deploying their legacy solution to protect VMware was a full time job and they still couldn’t find and restore individual files fast enough to meet their restore time objectives (RTO)

Organizational Problem

• VMware admin team manager told us “We use vRanger every single day for all kinds of recoveries. We can find anything in seconds and restore with a single click.”

• The university is also using vRanger’s EMC Data Domain Boost integration and seeing huge saving in backup time and storage footprint

Return on Investment

• The university now has VMware administrators that sleep at night

• File level restores can be performed in only a few minutes

End User Benefit

Integrated VM replication

• A major bank has the need to replicate key VMware VMs for disaster recovery

• Their agent-based, legacy DP solution did not have the needed replication capabilities and was far too expensive

Organizational Problem

Return on Investment

• The bank has decreased replication times by 67% with vRanger’s built-in VMware replication, and at a cost that’s far less than hybrid solutions

• The restore process at the bank improved from many hours to just minutes with vRanger

End User Benefit

• The bank could not solve their VMware backup/restore and disaster recovery requirements with one easy-to-use product

Scalable architecture

• Customers can’t safely scale their VMware backup, replication, and restore operations as their virtual infrastructures grow. Agent-based legacy solutions are too expensive to use in large virtual infrastructures

• Many VMware customers experience application performance problems as their backup, replication, and restore operations expand to protect new hosts and VMs

Organizational Problem

• vRanger’s job parallelism, resource governing, and virtual appliance features allow vRanger to perform well and safely distribute workloads even in the largest VMware virtual environments – without ruining application performance

Return on Investment

• vRanger’s scalable features can be deployed and managed in minutes

• vRanger adjusts resource usage limits as needed, in real-time, and can automatically react to changing VMware workloads

End User Benefit

Virtual and physical Windows server backup

• Many VMware customers use multiple solutions to backup VMware/Hyper-V and physical Windows server environments.

• This results in higher software license costs and added complexity

Organizational Problem

• vRanger’s physical agent delivers superior imaged-based backup and restore for physical Windows servers at an affordable price

Return on Investment

• IT personnel no longer need to administer and manage multiple backup products to protect their virtual and physical environments

End User Benefit

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