Dell Vranger

Simplicity

• Easy to learn and use
• Wizard-driven
• Takes minutes to configure and start protecting the environment
• Efficient, agentless architecture for protecting virtual and physical environments
• Comprehensive protection for both virtual and physical environments that can be managed from one simple interface
• Automated virtual appliance deployment through Static IP support.

Speed

• Employs fastest I/O path available, ensuring high-speed performance with minimal disruption to production systems
• Multi-threaded processing executes multiple operations in parallel to reduce backup job windows and replication job windows
• Patented Active Block Mapping (ABM) reduces amount of data transferred to only changed blocks with active data, significantly reducing backup/replication job windows, network utilisation and storage requirements.

Scalability

• Comprehensive resource-allocation control ensures data protection operations complete optimally with minimal impact on production systems and networks
• Increased scalability through optional Virtual Appliance, which includes a simple deployment of Linux, and DHCP support, and distributes job execution while providing centralised control on the vRanger server
• A single vRanger Virtual Appliance can support a cluster of hosts for scalable protection
• EMC Data Domain Boost integration reduces network load, improves backup performance, and reduces backup storage requirements.

Deduplication

• NetVault SmartDisk vRanger Edition provides enterprise-class deduplication at an SMB price. Its industrial-strength, byte-level, variable-block-size deduplication is built on a hardware-agnostic architecture, making it easy to expand capacity.

Reliability

• VMware Ready certification ensures seamless integration and support for vSphere APIs, features, performance and scalability
• vSphere 5 vMotion support ensures vRanger automatically protects VMs as they move from one host to another, even when backup jobs are running.
• Support for vSphere 5 vMotion ensures vRanger follows VM storage disks when they are relocated to different data stores, and locks VM storage disks when vRanger accesses the disks during a job.

Efficient Backup and Recovery

• One centralised installation provides VMware ESX and ESXi backup across your entire vSphere environment
• Native cataloging efficiently indexes file metadata for easy search recovery
• Offloads applications, host operations, and the network by leveraging the virtual infrastructure
• Automatically backs up new virtual machines as new resource objects are provisioned.

Robust and Flexible Disaster Recovery

• Replicate virtual machines for flexible and cost-effective off-site disaster recovery preparedness
• Combine backup and replication jobs to ensure you meet your organization¿s SLAs for recovery-time and recovery-point objectives
• Ensure ESX and ESXi replication across your entire vSphere environment with one centralized installation
• Perform quick recovery on site or at remote sites.

Virtualised application support

• Agentless implementation of Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) ensures application-consistent snapshots for critical transactional servers with the option to truncate application logs
• Image-level backups are compatible with object-level and application-specific recovery with Quest Recovery Manager for Exchange and Recovery Manager for SharePoint.

User-interface

• Unicode support ensures functionality in multi-byte environments.