Acronis Backup Advanced for Hyper-V

Acronis Backup Advanced for Hyper-V gives opportunities of protection and recovery for the Hyper-V Server environment (including the cluster Hyper-V configurations).

The Acronis AnyData technology combines backup of the next generation on the basis of disk images without use of agents in systems and deep integration into Windows that provides the speed of backup operations and also flexible and reliable recovery.

There is an opportunity to recover separate files, data of applications, the complete virtual machine or all Hyper-V Server environment from the same backup copy. Besides, the universality of technology allows to recover the server both in initial location, and on absolutely new equipment. It is possible even to recover the virtual machine on absolutely other hypervisor.

Main Features

• Specialized backup for Hyper-V
  • The solution Acronis Backup Advanced for Hyper-V is closely integrated with Hyper-V technology for balancing of backup copies in the Hyper-V environment. Besides, use of incremental backup at the level of blocks reduces amount of data for backup that guarantees speed and success of backup of virtual machines.

• Backup of VM without use of agents
  • Backup without agents of Acronis excludes need to install agents on each virtual machine, thereby reducing use of resources and eliminating difficulties in management.

• Integration into Windows Hyper-V
  • As the solution of Acronis is completely integrated with the Windows Hyper-V system, we can automatically identify all virtual machines. For backup it is possible to select all virtual machines, groups of virtual machines or separate virtual machines — determination and recovery is performed in read minutes.

• Recovery of the server as the virtual machine
  • Solutions of Acronis allow to recover quickly any server as the virtual machine and also it is easy to clone the backup copy as the virtual machine for development or testing.

• Backup directly on a tape
  • Unlike other products for backup of Hyper-V, Acronis Backup Advanced for Hyper-V allows to execute backup directly on a tape. In fact, it is possible to save up to 4 additional backup copies on a disk, a tape and a cloud for access to enhanced capabilities of recovery and for bigger reliability.

Additional opportunities

• Performance management directly
  • Optimal capacity of virtual machines at backup execution of operations is guaranteed. Acronis Backup Advanced for Hyper-V allows to manage Wednesday due to balancing of backup copies of virtual machines on the Windows server. Besides, solutions of Acronis allow to regulate capacity and writing rate of a disk for maintenance of high performance of a system during backup.

• Incremental backup
  • At incremental backup only the changed data remain that allows to reduce considerably backup time and also resources of network and the data warehouse.

• Deduplication
  • The built-in deduplication of data at the level of blocks can be executed on the party of the source computer or target archive to reduce movement of data. It allows to reduce storage expenses of optional data and to reduce loading of network.

• Modular architecture
  • The flexible modular architecture of Acronis allows to add to the main solution the additional products Acronis Backup Advanced for expanded backup at any time.

• Migration of the server
  • It is possible to transfer the server between any physical and virtual platforms using the patented Acronis Unified Backup Format technology which allows to recover any backup copies on any servers.

• Disaster recovery
  • In case of failure of the equipment or natural disaster the patented solutions of Acronis for backup of a disk image guarantee fast recovery of all server on "naked iron" in read minutes with the minimum downtime.

• Centralized operation and reporting
  • Products of a packet of Acronis Backup Advanced are supported by the system of centralized operation and the reporting. It is possible to manage all backup operations on all physical and virtual machines from the single console and to browse reports using a uniform panel of monitoring.^[1]

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