Backup Exec 2010 with V-Ray technology now provides visibility across both physical and virtual servers, as well as into the virtual machine and applications for more efficient backup and recovery.

Administrators looking to protect their VMware vSphere, ESX, or Hyper-V environments clearly understand the frustration and time involved with backup technology that was not built for protecting virtual environments. Administrators and companies who have not had to experience recovering guest virtual machines or applications in guests using basic backup and recovery tools will face several limitations in quickly recovering their data with other backup tools designed only for physical systems.
 
Backup Exec 2010, powered by V-Ray technology, features host-level protection allowing IT professionals to backup a virtual system in a single pass via the Hyper-V host, ESX, or vSphere server, rather than having an agent in each virtual guest machine. This “off-host” data protection method lowers data protection impacts on the hypervisor and virtual guests. Additionally, not only does Backup Exec 2010 protect virtual machines at the host level, the agents for VMware and Hyper-V are licensed per host, meaning an unlimited number of guests per host can be protected with a single agent for virtualization.

Backup Exec with V-Ray technology provides visibility across both physical and virtual servers, as well as into the virtual machine and applications for very fast and efficient backup and recovery. With integrated Granular Recovery Technology (GRT), Backup Exec empowers IT professionals to provide single-pass, high-speed backup of virtual machines. Additionally, it provides the ability to recover the entire Guest virtual machine or individual files/folders within the virtual machine to the original or alternate locations. Backup Exec also improves recovery for applications such as Exchange, SQL, or Active Directory, allowing granular recovery of Exchange and Active Directory objects, individual emails, and calendar items.

Integrated source or target deduplication optimizes bandwidth utilization when backing up to data centers, reducing storage capacity requirements dramatically.


Businesses today are challenged with managing and protecting an ever-increasing amount of data. It is more critical than ever, therefore to easily tune and optimize your current backup storage infrastructure to meet data growth demands.
 
Symantec Backup Exec 2010 deduplication technology helps you manage your data growth and effectively reduce rising storage costs. Integrated source or target deduplication optimizes bandwidth utilization when replicating data from a remote office to the data center, across physical and virtual machines and can be easily coupled with integrated archiving for a complete end-to-end solution. Deduplication has the power to transform information management. It keeps storage at predictable levels, and helps make virtualized server backup manageable.