ExaGrid Provides the Best Integration with Veeam
Rio Rancho uses Veeam Backup & Replication as its backup software, so it was important for the school district to choose a storage product that integrates well with Veeam. “We looked at Dell EMC Data Domain as well as other HP StoreOnce products and then came across ExaGrid. The real benefit of choosing ExaGrid was the Veeam integration – particularly the Veeam data mover –that ExaGrid has built into its product,“ Leppelman said.
Leppelman likes ExaGrid’s built-in replication and the fact that he doesn’t have to use Veeam to replicate. “ExaGrid’s direct integration with Veeam was a major selling point for us. ExaGrid’s performance with Veeam has been astounding! We love Veeam, so having a really good backup repository that works well with it is huge for us.”
ExaGrid and Veeam can instantly recover a file or VMware virtual machine by running it directly from the ExaGrid appliance in the event that the file is lost, corrupted or encrypted or the primary storage VM becomes unavailable. This instant recovery is possible because of ExaGrid’s Landing Zone – a high-speed disk cache on the ExaGrid appliance that retains the most recent backups in their complete form. Once the primary storage environment has been brought back to a working state, the VM backed up on the ExaGrid appliance can then be migrated to primary storage for continued operation.