VMware Disk Backup with Data Deduplication

Backup Applications

VMware Backup

ExaGrid Systems provides cost-effective disk-based backup for VMware environments. ExaGrid provides dramatic cost and environmental savings by reducing the disk space required to store your backed-up, virtual environment. ExaGrid’s byte-level data de-duplication reduces the size of redundant VMWare instances (for example: VMDK files) by a factor of 100s or even 1000s to 1.

ExaGrid leverages your existing backup application support for VMware agents and servers, meaning no change to your environment. Today, ExaGrid supports the management of your VMware backups via CommVault Galaxy, Symantec BackupExec, Veritas NetBackup, EMC NetWorker, and CA ARCserve.

With ExaGrid’s disk-based backup system, backups and restores are fast and reliable. Because the ExaGrid system de-duplicates the data after it is written to disk, as opposed to processing it in-line, you gain the maximum backup and restore speeds available.

ExaGrid also supports the ability to replicate your VMware backups to a second site for off-site disaster recovery protection. Utilizing ExaGrid’s unique byte level data de-duplication creates a 50 to 1 WAN efficiency, allowing you to maintain a fully redundant copy of your backup data at an off-site location without utilizing a costly WAN.

Partnership Solution Brief

Solution Brief: From Box to First Backup in Twenty Minutes Cost Effective Disk-based Backup with VMware

ExaGrid’s cost-effective disk-based backup system is uniquely suited for
environments that have investments in VMware and want a cost-effective and scalable on and off-site disk-based backup system. Read this solution brief to better understand the benefits.

Press Release

March 18, 2008
ExaGrid Joins VMware Technology Alliance Partner Program. Customers Achieve More Than 1,000:1 Data De-duplication of VMware Images Backed-Up to an ExaGrid Disk-Based System