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• Drastically reduces IT administration effort
• Adapts to company’s RTOs and RPOs
• Ideal for physical and virtual systems

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All-in-one A common availability solution for protecting ESX/ESXi, Hyper-V and physical Windows systems drastically reduces IT administration work and lowering the associated expenses. Simple monitoring Manage all backup tasks from a central console with conventional monitoring solutions and extended testing, reporting and analysis functions. Business Continuity The solution adapts to company’s RTO and RPO. Near CDP, instant replication (failover), automatic data validation, test failover and much more ensure continuity and constant availability. Efficient use of data storage Multi-tier storage support, archiving functions and expanded data duplication options – just to name a few features making Paragon Protect & Restore really cost-efficient. Smooth integration & scalability The solution adapts to IT requirements and can be expanded for using with VMware and Hyper-V hypervisors. Storage reconfiguration and infrastructure expansion are made in minutes. Disaster recovery since 1994 Extensive know-how gathered over 22 years in tech development and customer service ensures the mature functional product and its top-notch support.

Backing up vSphere guests Paragon Protect & Restore (PPR) can operate at the virtualization layer and directly employ the VMware snapshot mechanism to do backups. The agentless method significantly enhances backup performance, while minimizing the load on target machines and the hypervisor. Also, there’s no need to provide credentials for every guest to do backups.

Replicating vSphere guests For high-availability virtual environments running first-tier applications, PPR complements VM Backup with VM Replication. Replication provides the best RTO as this technique implies creation of target machines replicas to a specified ESX datastore and their registration on the host under unique names. Replicas are stored uncompressed in their native format, thus they are ready-to-go at any moment. All changes since the initial full replica are written to VMware native snapshot files, acting as restore points, thus allowing use of the VMware revert-to-snapshot mechanism to further accelerate disaster recovery scenarios, providing relatively zero downtime operation.

Backing up physical machines The administrator can add target machines to the infrastructure directly from the console. Alternatively, a special agent can be installed to interact with the infrastructure and accomplish backup tasks.

Agent-based protection of virtual machines Agent-based backup protects guests hosted by non-commercial VMware ESX, where VMware snapshots are unavailable, or VMware fault-tolerant configurations that do not allow agentless protection.It can also help to protect MS Hyper-V hosts as well as Windows guest machines hosted by other hypervisors.

MS Exchange Protection PPR offers agent-based protection of Microsoft Exchange Server 2007/2010/2013/2016 and its email databases. Administrators have no need to allocate time for backup windows, as PPR enables consistent database backups without any impact on the production email server.

Dual protection PPR supports a two-tier storage infrastructure that optimizes the backup window and network traffic for backups performed simultaneously. In this type of infrastructure, the first-tier storage can reside as close to the target machines as possible, thus ensuring the highest backup or replication performance. During the dual protection process, first, all target machines are backed up or replicated to the primary, local storage, minimizing the impact on the production environment, and then these primary backups are copied to second-tier storage during a time that ensures minimum impact on the network. Advanced dual protection scenarios may involve utilizing two second-tier storages.