Paragon Protect & Restore ver. 3 Centralized Backup and Disaster Recovery for virtual and physical environments Tight Integration with hypervisors for agentless backups, VM replication and seamless restores Paragon Protect & Restore is an innovative and comprehensive backup and disaster recovery solutions, as it combines backup and recovery for virtual servers and workstations as well as well as physical servers and workstations in a single product, offering protection for an organization s entire IT infrastructure. Its transparent backup administration stores backups according to company requirements and archives them in second-tier storages or in the cloud. The administrator uses a central management console and policies to manage all backups as well as their storage and archiving. Paragon Protect & Restore ver. 3 Infrastructure Primary ESX Replica Storage Uncompressed Replica Data vsphere SAN Replicas are converted to backups WAN ESX Bridge; Backup Server 1 Compressed Backup Data LAN Secondary Storage Physical Windows Machine SFTP / FTP Online Storage Administration Server; Backup Server 2; Management Console Primary Local Backup Storage True distributed/role-based architecture Distribute the individual functions of Paragon Protect & Restore to the places within your network which make the most sense. Separating the program modules and installing them on different devices within the network relieves the burden on individual servers and shortens the paths between the computers that are being backed up and the backup storage. WAN Backups are transferred as is Make backups and replicas with a single product Paragon Protect & Restore supports many different backup and restore scenarios, including backup of physical servers and workstations, agentless backup of ESX clients, and ESX replications, and, of course, both file-based and sector-based backups are supported. All of the above tasks can be scheduled and managed from the same centralized console. All backup and retention policies are conffigured, monitored and executed within a single program interface. This makes it unnecessary to install agents for ESX clients for either backups or restores. Protect & Restore Server The Protect & Restore Server consists of an Administration and an Installation Server Administration server: This is the main service within the architecture, where resource distribution is managed and the backup policies are configured and monitored. Installation server: This service is in charge of monitoring and executing the deployment of product components, agents and server applications. The installation server also handles product updates and updates to the Protect & Restore database. Protect & Restore ESX Bridge The ESX Bridge is used for communication with the VMware infrastructure. 1
Protect & Restore Backup Server The Backup Server is installed in a strategic location as an additional module. Once it s been launched, it connects with the Protect & Restore Server and monitors storages of all replications and backups, as well as all retention policies. Protect & Restore Console The Protect & Restore Console is the product s main user interface and provides access to all control functions. It also indicates the status of the system as well as the backups and replications in easy-to-read views. The console can be conveniently accessed from any machine within the network. Available editions Windows Workstation Windows Server VM Edition Licensing Windows Workstation licensed per physical machine Perpetual License incl. 1 year of maintenance (Upgrade Assurance & Extended Support) Exclusive testing environment Paragon Software provides anyone who is interested in testing Paragon Protect & Restore ver. 3 with remote access to our exclusive in-house testing environment. Upon registration, testers can try out all of the software s features, without having to spend valuable resources on building their own testing environment. Maintenance Package (included in all available Protect & Restore licensing options) Upgrade Assurance Paragon Upgrade Assurance covers free upgrades during the license term, to make sure the user always has the latest version of the product, maximizing the user s benefit from and the satisfaction with the product. Extended Support Phone and email support from our technical support engineers and access to various self-help resources on our web site Unlimited support requests during the license term Windows Server Perpetual License licensed per physical machine incl. 1 year maintenance (Upgrade Assurance & Extended Support) VM Edition Perpetual License licensed per CPU socket incl. 1 year Maintenance (Upgrade Assurance & Extended Support) Virtual Machines Edition will be licensed and priced on a per socket (occupied socket) basis (the number of hosts or virtual machines does not matter). The number of cores is not being taken into consideration. Example: A company is running 12 virtual servers on 3 hosts, with 4 servers per host. 1 of the hosts is running on a 2 socket board (both sockets occupied), while the other 2 are running on 1 socket each. This company would obtain a license for 4 sockets, which will license all 3 hosts regardless of the number of virtual machines on each host. This gives the user a great deal of flexibility, as he can move VMs from one host to the other, or spin up or take down VMs without having to update his license. The benefits of Paragon Protect & Restore Supports physical and virtual machines Distributed architecture for high performance and optimal resource efficiency Quick disaster recovery thanks to replications of virtual machines and extremely fast system image restoration Near CDP possible based on fast incrementals and powerful scheduling options System migration between ESX storages and to new hardware Supports second-tier and cloud storage, and easy management of multiple retention policies thanks to a dedicated backup server Paragon ProTran directs the network traffic and relieves the burden on TCP/IP connections Real-time statistics and reports at a single glance in the console or via E-mail 2
System Requirements Hypervisors Protect & Restore can back up, replicate and recover virtual machines running on: VMware vsphere 5.1, 5.0, 4.1, and 4.0 VMware ESX and VMware ESXi 4.x and 5.x (including agentbased backup of guests on free ESX versions) Please note virtual machines can run any guest operating system supported by VMware vsphere. Product deployment Administration Server, Protect & Restore Backup Server, Protect & Restore ESX Bridge, Agents and Protect & Restore Consoles have similar software and hardware requirements. OS and software requirements: Microsoft Windows XP SP3, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows Server 2003 SP2, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2012 An Active Directory domain environment Domain administrator credentials Domain administrator must have permissions of the local administrator on all machines that join the Protect & Restore infrastructure WMI (Windows Management Instrumentation) service is running Open TCP ports: 135, 18950, 60543, or disabled Firewalls on all computers included into PRM infrastructure File and Printer Sharing is allowed in Firewall, which enables default system shares on local volumes (ADMIN$, C$, D$, etc.) Hardware requirements: CPU: x86/x64 processor (minimum 2 cores/4 cores for Backup Server). The use of fast multi-core processors improves the data processing performance, and allows for more concurrent jobs Memory: 2 GB RAM Hard disk space: - Administration Server: 400 MB to install the component - Protect & Restore ESX Bridge or Protect & Restore Backup Server: 200 MB to install the component - Protect & Restore Console: 50 MB to install the component 3
Backup / Replica Flexible Scheduling Mechanism / nearcdp Smart Incremental Backup Full backup will be automatically created, whenever necessary Automatic Exclusion of Redundant Data e.g. OS page files, zero data blocks, etc. Microsoft VSS Support Paragon UFSD file system access extremely fast and reliable Supports any virtual guest operating system supported by vsphere pvhd support (Paragon Virtual Hard Drive) Cutting-edge backup image format (exceptional security, compression ratio, integrity control) Supports Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 Physical Machine Protection Agent-based backup of physical machines Backup of entire physical machines Backup of separate volumes (mounted or unmounted) Backup of workgroup machines that are not members of the domain infrastructure Protect & Restore One-Stop-Wizard for protecting single physical servers and workstations instantly Virtual Machine Protection for vsphere Agentless backup of online and/or offline VMs (entire machine only) Agentless replication of online and/or offline VMs (entire machine only) Agent-based backup of guests hosted by non-commercial VMware ESX Agent-based backup of fault-tolerant systems VMware CBT-Support (Changed Block Tracking) Paragon ITE (Image Transfer Engine) optional way to track data changes, fall-back solution in case of CBT errors VM disk provisioning type specification (default, thick, thin) 4
Virtual Machine Recovery Agentless restore of Virtual Machines to any required restore point VM Replica launch from Protect & Restore Console Restore to the original location replacing the original VM Restore to a new location including proper reconfiguration of VM VM disk provisioning type configuration (default, thick, thin) Physical Machine Recovery Remote restore of non-system volumes On-site bare-metal restore of entire computers or separate volumes Paragon Boot Media Builder creates customizable WinPE-based recovery media for bare-metal restore operations Paragon Recovery-ID Generated by admin to initiate on-site recovery operation by just entering ID on target machine Manual bare-metal restore launch Connect to infrastructure and choose restore point from overview Paragon Adaptive Restore Restore a Windows-based system to a completely different hardware GPT/uEFI support Restore a 64-bit Windows configured to uefi-based boot mode Migration Migration between ESX Datastores Migrate ESX Virtual Maschine to a different ESX datastore P2P-Migration Paragon Adaptive Restore - migrate physical machine to different hardware V2P-Migration Use Agent-based backup and Paragon Adaptive Restore to migrate virtual to physical machine 5
Management & Administration True distributed architecture Allowing great flexibility and enterprise scalability Protect & Restore Console One central management console for operations in physical and virtual environments Paragon GoForSure Three-level validation of created backup/replica policies Intelligent load balancing Network traffic compression Traffic throttling Manage network bandwidth among the clients to ensure quality of service Paragon ProTrans Makes use of multiple TCP/IP connections to effectively transfer VM data over WAN links Multi-user administration from several Protect & Restore Consoles simultaneously Extra Windows PowerShell Console Protect & Restore Backup Server Supported Backup/Replica Storage: ESX datastores, local disks, NAS, SAN, FTP/sFTP General and policy specific data retention mechanism determines backup lifespan and occupied space Archiving to second-tier storage / Dual Protection Backup/Replica Verification Storage Browser all storages are open for browsing, initiate verification, restore or deletion directly from the browser Notification & Reporting E-mail notifications on activities of certain infrastructure components or particular policies Effective troubleshooting 6
Deployment & Upgrade Unified installation package Remote Components deployment through Protect & Restore Console Group policy support for agent deployment Manual on-site components deployment Utilize workgroup machines as part of Protect&Restore infrastructure (e.g. as Backup Server) Automatically add new domain machines to the infrastructure Update / Upgrade without reboot and with consistent policy database Security User Group to control remote access Configurable Ports 7 Paragon Software Group 15615 Alton Parkway, Suite 400 Irvine, CA 92618/ USA partners@paragon-software.com phone: +1 (888) 347-5462 fax: +1 (888) 240-8993