Bacula Systems Virtual Machine Performance Backup Suite Bacula Systems VM Performance Backup Suite is part of Bacula Enterprise Edition. It comprises of modules that can be utilized to perfectly fit any IT department to bring all the advantages of natively integrated backup and recovery to a vast range of virtual environments. Backup and Replication for hypervisor environments of any size, when used with Bacula Enterprise Edition The VM Performance Backup Suite provides the widest range of hypervisor interoperability in the industry today, with a variety of fast and flexible recovery options, including entire hypervisor virtual machines (VMs) and application items. The various modules that it consists of are outlined in this datasheet; users need only choose the specific modules they need for their own IT environments. Further significant performance and efficiency gains via Global Endpoint Deduplication, and a range of other specific controls.
1 2 5 1 2 5 1 2 5 SAS SSD SAS SSD 512 GB 512 GB 1 2 5 VMware module The right solution to back up your virtual vsphere environment The VMware module allows you to back up vsphere systems with Bacula Enterprise Edition and also provides virtual machine bare metal recovery. This Bacula Enterprise Edition module also enables backup at guest level. The VMware module can work either over a SAN or via Network Block Device. VMware Key Benefits ˆ Full, Differential and Incremental image-level backups of virtual machines ˆ Restores complete virtual machine image ˆ Single File Restore ˆ Restores vmdk files to local directory ˆ VADP 1 based online backups ˆ VSS based snapshots for quiescing VSS based applications ˆ Supports both TCP/IP and SAN (FC/iSCSI) VMware Datastore access ESXi server Datastore ESXi server Fiber Channel or iscsi SAN Network Bacula Enterprise A SAN ESXi server Network Block Device (NBD) over TCP/IP Backing up VMware machines via SAN or NBD The VMware module integrates the VMware s Changed Block Tracking technology to ensure only blocks that have changed since the initial Full, and/or the last Incremental or Differential backup are sent to the current Incremental or Differential backup stream, to give more efficient backups and reduced network load. The VMware module is available for the following platforms: RHEL 6 and 7 (Red Hat Enterprise Linux) 64bit B SLES 11 (SUSE Linux Enterprise Server) 64bit 1 vstorage API Data Protection
and is compatible with the following environments: Bacula Enterprise 6.x and higher ESX/ESXi versions 5.1, 5.0, 4.1, and 4.0 with the vstorage API enabled. Please note that the vstorage API is not available on the free ESX edition. VMware Instant File-Level Recovery. So Quick. So Easy. The VMware module, together with Bacula Enterprise Edition (version 8.4 onwards) enables Single File Restore for VMware and delivers industry-leading speed and convenience. Finding and restoring single files is now so fast and easy, you need to see it to believe it. From entire physical environments, to VMs, entire servers, applications, single files and folders or granular application objects, Bacula Enterprise Edition 8.4, together with the VMware module brings backup and data recovery to large data centers with industry leading cost efficiency. Single File Restore for Virtual Machines becomes particularly useful when you need to restore from a backup copy of a virtual machine a critical data file that has become corrupted or lost for some reason. Want to avoid restoring an entire virtual machine? Frequently, recovery cases only require single files to be restored from a backup. In these cases, you can now save yourself a lot of effort and time and just recover the individual files that you need. Perform Single File Restore From a Huge Range of Systems Bacula Enterprise Edition 8.4 can do File Level Restores (FLR) for any Virtual Machine running Guest OS s and File Systems that VMware supports. Bacula s Single File Restore for VMware is compatible with an impressive range of systems, including Linux, Windows, LVM support, ext3, ext4, and XFS, Windows FAT, NTFS, multidrive and many more. Full, Differential and Incremental backup are all supported. Enjoy Interface Flexibility Single File Restore can be via either text interface, or BWeb Management Suite. This gives users the option to use customized scripts, or use an easy, informative GUI interface. Or mix and match as you require. See an example of one of the Single File Restore GUI s here. Request your free trial of Bacula Enterprise Edition visiting new.baculasystems.com/try.
TM Hyper-V Module Backing up and restoring Hyper-V virtual machine is supported with Full level backups using the VSS API. Use of the Global Endpoint Deduplication module and the bothsides FileSet option allows the user to minimize the amount of data transfer and storage use. Hyper V Key Benefits ˆ Full image level backups of virtual machines ˆ Restores complete virtual machine image ˆ Restores disk images Bacula Enterprise Bacula Enterprise Edition Agent VSS requestor Hyper-V integration components Hyper-V Host VSS Writer Child 1Hyper-V integration components First virtual machine VSS requestor VSS requestor VSS Writer Volume Shadow Copy Hyper-V Services Host (VSS) VSS Writer VSS Provider Microsoft Windows Server Child 2 Second virtual machine Application Server Volume Shadow Copy Services (VSS) VSS Provider Microsoft Windows Server VSS Writer Application Server ˆ VSS based snapshots for quiescing VSS based applications Volume Shadow Copy Services (VSS) VSS Provider Microsoft Hyper-V server Bacula Enterprise Version and Hyper-V Red Hat Virtualization Module The Red Hat Virtualization module is designed to increase flexibility, efficiency and reduce costs for users of Red Hat Virtualization. It typically renders a lower total cost of ownership year over year when compared to other backup and recovery solutions, and its functionality is unique in the industry, providing the following benefits: Agentless backup of the Red Hat Virtualization environment Full image-level backup. Completely agnostic to storage back-end Transparent quiescing and snapshot creation. RHV snapshot integration to create a snapshop to back up, and delete this snapshot when backup finishes (when the module finishes its work, or when the next backup is initiated). Restore flexibility: to the same or different cluster/storage, existing or new virtual instances
Configuration of restored virtual machines on the fly, and option to restore to plain files for further processing Disk exclusion. To control backup granularity and capacity requirements. Administrators can set up a general, automated backup, for big sets of VMs and can choose not to backup specific storage destinations. Users can retain customized configuration to simplify administration tasks. VM exclusion Offers similar benefits as above, but for VMs. Selection of VMs to back up by tags, regular expression matching on name, per cluster, or per Storage Domain Backup of virtual machines in a running, paused or shut off state Optional password obfuscation Failed backup controls: Find and remove previous failed backups / snapshots with every execution. Backup cancellation and connection loss controls to try to remove snapshots or clones of current backup RHV Key Benefits ˆ Agentless backup of the Red Hat Virtualization environment ˆ Full image-level backup. ˆ Completely agnostic to storage back-end ˆ Transparent quiescing and snapshot creation. ˆ Optional password obfuscation ˆ Failed backup controls
Specific Restore features The Bacula RHV module performs Restore to the original or to a different location (cluster or storage domain). This flexibility allows the user choices such as: Replace original VMs or create new VMs with a new name. For example, change destination VM name, to facilitate actions such as migration Local restore of disk images and VM XML configuration to allow further, manual processing Exclude disks from Restore, potentially resulting in less data retrieval and increasing efficiency. Turn VM on after restore, or leave turned off, offering less downtime as well as automated operations. Restore disk configuration: Virtual disk image format (COW or raw), Virtual disk interface (ide, virtio, virtio scsi, spart) Active state of disk Boot disk flag Disk name format Restore NIC configurations (providing MAC address list). Administrators can choose if they want the exact same machine, or a copy of it.
KVM Module KVM Key Benefits ˆ Includes VM autodiscovery feature ˆ Backup at File level ˆ Allows backup of multiple virtual machines at the same time ˆ Allows includes and excludes on the module command ˆ Fully integrated into BWeb Management Suite Backing up and restoring KVM virtual machines at file level is now supported. The module uses the libvirt virtual machine management interface, and provides the following main features: File level backup Automatic virtual machine discovery Full, Differential, Incremental backup level support Possibility to handle inclusion/exclusion of files The KVM module can be used when the hypervisor uses local storage for virtual machine disks and libvirtd for virtual machine management. ˆ Uses guestfish and libvirt toolkits Proxmox Module Proxmox VE is a powerful and lightweight open source server virtualization software, optimized for performance and usability. Offering maximum flexibility and using the Proxmox API, Bacula is fully integrated and can back up and recover data from Proxmox, including its two virtualization technologies Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) and container-based virtualization with Linux Containers (LXC) and / or QEMU virtual machines. Some of Bacula s Proxmox backup and recovery software features and benefits are: Snapshot-based online backup of any Proxmox VM including QEMU and LXC Guests Full image-level Proxmox backup Restore complete virtual machine image to original or alternate Proxmox hypervisor Restore QEMU VM archive (.vma) to alternate directory Restore LXC VM archive (.tar) and configuration to alternate directory
Xen Module Bacula Systems technology for XenServer backup and recovery brings never-seen-before speed and convenience to Xen users, all designed to make your backup of Xen VMs easier and with no intermediate steps required. Bacula Enterprise Editions native integration with Xen provides virtual machine bare metal recovery, while its ability to back up data at the guest level simplifies data protection of critical applications. Backup can be performed for a guest VM in any power state (running or halted). Bacula uses the Xen Server API to access and backup virtual machines. It brings a broad range of features, capabilities and automation to the Xen environment. XenServer backup features: Snapshot-based online backup of any guest VM VSS-based guest snapshots for quiescing VSS-based applications Full image-level backup Ability to restore complete virtual machine image Ability to restore VM archive (.xva) to alternate directory Full restore job logs It also displays useful information about available XenServer resources, which could simplify your backup configuration and restore operations, such as: List of guest VM name-labels List of guest VM UUIDs List of XenServer Storage Repositories Citrix Xen is a hypervisor based on microkernel design, that provides services that allow multiple operating system environments to run concurrently in a single computer such as hardware, which includes CPU, memory, disk devices, network devices, etc. It is available in different architectures, both in IA-32 and in x86-64, supported by the fact that operating systems have implemented virtualization without special hardware support. XenServer VM backup is required for all Xen-based IT infrastructures. XenServer virtualization functionality allows: Secure isolation of resources between XenServer virtual machines Control of resources, such as CPU, memory, disk, etc. Hot resources allocation between XenServer virtual machines
Simple management of Xen virtual machines in terms of resource allocation and configuration settings (that are necessary for migration operations, snaphots, monitoring and others) Benefits of XENServer virtualization: Abstraction of applications Protection of applications, databases and information by distributing them in different Xen virtual machines Execution of different operating systems on a single XenServer, which allows not only to save resources but also to take advantage of the benefits offered by each OS Dynamic allocation of resources and hot Xen VM migration, which facilitates the configuration of environments with load balancing and high availability Possibility of configuring a backup for XenServer virtual machines, which is not based on agents It is important to have a XENServer backup strategy that goes beyond the use of scripts at the command line level or shell, which do not offer alternatives or benefits in terms of: Granularity while using Citrix XenServer VM backup and restores Execution of different Citrix XenServer VM backup levels Ease of Citrix Xen VM data recovery Scheduling of backup for XenSever from Citrix
Deduplication Modules Deduplication Benefits Key ˆ Universal built-in deduplication solution ˆ Possibility to choose the deduplication engine on the Storage or on the Client ˆ Reduction of bandwidth usage requirement & disk space optimization ˆ Faster backup and restore processes ˆ Feature included in subscriptions at Silver, Gold and Platinum levels only Performance Acceleration with Global Endpoint Deduplication The VM Performance Backup Suite offers further performance and efficiency gains via Global Endpoint Deduplication, and a range of other specific controls. Global Endpoint Deduplication is an industryleading technology that analyzes data at the block level, then stores only new blocks and uses references in Bacula volumes to blocks that are stored in the Deduplication engine. This not only saves storage space but also network bandwidth usage, which is achieved by only sending a File Daemon unknown blocks to the Storage Daemon. Aligned Volume Deduplication This is another option that allows you to benefit from built-in deduplication features designed in filesystems like ZFS, BTRFS and others. Bacula System s Aligned Volume Deduplication technology offers an alternate (additional) Volume format that is aligned on specific block boundaries. This allows an underlying filesystem to efficiently deduplicate the Bacula Enterprise Deduplication Optimized Volume format. Aligned Volume Format Deduplication is an effective solution for ZFS deduplication. It is ZFS based, and supported with Netapp data ONTAP 8.0.1 and higher.
Bacula Enterprise: Outstanding Flexibility Bacula Enterprise Edition has an especially wide scope of integration with different technologies, - especially different databases and virtual environments - when compared to other backup and restore solutions. Because of this, it presents the opportunity for large data centers with complicated IT environments to back up and rapidly recovery data, using just one platform. Its great scalability, flexibility and customizability is further complemented by the fact that Bacula Enterprise is not licensed according to data volume. As a result, IT department costs can be reduced significantly using Bacula s very broad range of functionality and efficient cost model. Bacula Enterprise Features
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