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Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 Virtual Edition for VMware vs Acronis vmProtect 8 Comparison Review
Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 Virtual Edition for VMware vSphere and Acronis vmProtect 8 are server backup solutions that are manufactured by Acronis. Although they share the basic functions of data backup and recovery, they, nevertheless, have a few differences in their mode of operation.
Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 Virtual Edition for VMware vSphere is a reliable and cost effective backup of virtual machines that operate in a VMware vSphere environment. This solution can act as an agentless backup or be used as an agent-based solution for special VMs. It is used to recover various images from the client's physical servers or hypervisors to a VMware environment or vice versa. It allows an unlimited number of migrations to be performed.
Acronis vmProtect 8, on the other hand, is also cloud computing software backup solution that is exclusively designed to offer protection in VMware vSphere environments. Though quite similar in function to Acronis Backup and Recovery 11.5 Virtual Edition for VMware vSphere, it has a different set of features and works differently. It plays several roles such as offering support for recovery of virtual machines, recovery of entire ESXi servers and the extraction of exchange items and individual files.
Features of Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 Virtual Edition for VMware vSphere
Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 Virtual Edition for VMware vSphere is highly flexible and effective in offering protection in VMware vSphere VMs (virtual machines).The backup of VMware vSphere virtual machines is achieved through the seamless integration with the other platform components, thus allowing centralized management, cataloging and reporting. It comes with the following key features:
- Agentless VM backup - this solution provides agentless backup for VMs that operate in a VMware vSphere environment.
- Agent-based VM backup - for VMs such as VMs with RDM disks, the solution has a feature known as 'Agent for Windows' that can be installed into the VM to offer backup in much the same way as backup would be provided for a physical machine.
- vCenter Integration - Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 Virtual Edition for VMware vSphere is capable of reading a list of VMs from VMware vCenter and presents the client with the exact same view as what he would see in vCenter.
- Migration with a Unified Backup Format-using this solution, you can recover physical images from physical servers and hypervisors to VMware or vice versa.
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Features of Acronis vmProtect 8
Acronis vmProtect 8 is exclusively designed to operate in a cloud environment, specifically the VMware vSphere environment. It supports protection for vSphere environments, up to vSphere 5. (Comparable solutions only offer support for up to vSphere 5.0).Management for this solution can be done from remote web-based consoles, with the latest version allowing management from a VMware center platform.
Backup is achieved incrementally after the first full backup. A major advantage of the backup offered is that it's LAN-free. Data recovery is achieved by the full recovery of Virtual Machines and can also fully recover an entire ESXi host. Email recovery as well as Microsoft Exchange mailbox recovery is supported.
Acronis vmProtect 8.0 retails at $599.00 and is considerably cheaper than many comparable cloud-based software solutions, many which cost upwards of $700.
Which is better: Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 Virtual Edition for VMware vSphere or Acronis vmProtect 8?
The two backup solutions are quite similar in many respects and share many features. However, while Acronis vmProtect 8 is a purely agentless backup solution, Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 Virtual Edition for VMware vSphere can act both as an agentless backup or be used as an agent-based backup for special VMs, such as VMs with RDM disks, using its 'Agent for Windows' feature. This allows the solution to be installed into the VM to offer backup in much the same way as backup would be provided
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