One of the cool things I love about BDRSuite is its diversity, whether you are a VMware shop, Office 365, or a Hyper-V – the one platform to provide comprehensive data protection without having to learn and manage multiple software solutions is extremely valuable when you want to spend less time doing operational tasks.
As an avid VMware supporter, I really had the opportunity to spend a great deal of time learning and architecting Hyper-V solutions during my presales days.
What is really promising and reassuring is knowing the important level of the feature set that BDRSuite offers Hyper-V users.
Let’s look at and cover 8 features that I think are useful.
1. Farewell to Cumbersome Agents:
One of the standout features of BDRSuite is its agentless backup approach. This eliminates the need for mass deployment of agents onto each client, making the backup process hassle-free. With agents out of the picture, you can experience simplified operations and reduced resource consumption, saving you valuable time and effort.
BDRSuite offers agentless replication for Hyper-V virtual machines (VMs) with instant failover capabilities. This impressive feature ensures high availability by creating replica VMs that can be activated instantly in case of a primary VM failure. As a result, downtime is minimized, and business continuity is maximized, providing uninterrupted availability for your critical applications.
2. Flexibility at Your Fingertips with Versatile Backup Options:
BDRSuite supports a wide range of options including local storage, Cluster Shared Volumes (CSV), Storage Spaces Direct (S2D), SMB shares, and Scale-Out File Servers (SOFS). This flexibility ensures that you can choose the backup storage option that best suits your requirements.
3. Seamless Data Integrity with Application-Aware Backup and Replication:
BDRSuite takes data consistency to the next level with its application-aware backup and replication for Hyper-V VMs. It understands the applications running within the VMs and automatically performs log truncation, ensuring data integrity during backup and replication processes. You can have peace of mind knowing that your data remains intact and consistent throughout the backup and recovery operations.
4. Efficiency and Optimization with Resilient Change Tracking-Based Incremental Backup:
Thanks to its integration with Resilient Change Tracking (RCT), BDRSuite excels in performing incremental backups with precision. Tracking and capturing only the changes made since the last backup, significantly reduces backup time, minimizes storage requirements, and optimizes network bandwidth utilization. This efficient approach ensures that backups are performed swiftly and resourcefully.
5. Rest Assured with Automated Backup Verification:
With BDRSuite, you can sleep soundly knowing that your backed-up VMs are recoverable. The solution includes an automated backup verification feature that regularly tests and validates backup data. This proactive approach ensures the readiness of your backup data for recovery when needed, providing an additional layer of confidence and peace of mind.
6. Speed and Efficiency with Instant VM Boot and Granular File Restoration:
When disaster strikes, time is of the essence. BDRSuite allows you to restore backed-up data instantly as fully functional VMs using its Instant Boot feature. Additionally, it enables granular file restoration, allowing you to retrieve individual files and folders without the need to restore the entire VM. This saves valuable time and effort, streamlining the recovery process.
7. Precision Recovery with Granular Restore of Application Items:
BDRSuite empowers you to precisely restore critical application items such as Microsoft Active Directory (AD), SQL databases, Exchange, or SharePoint. Its granular restoration capabilities ensure that you can retrieve specific data within applications quickly and accurately. This level of precision recovery enables you to swiftly get back to business without any unnecessary delays.
8. Seamlessly Expand with Scale-Out Backup Repository:
As your data needs grow, BDRSuite is prepared to support you. Its scale-out backup repository feature allows for flexible storage capacity expansion as required. This seamless scalability ensures that you can accommodate your data growth.
In closing
While I just highlighted 8 notable features BDRSuite offers Hyper-V users there are dozens of excellent features and capabilities that make Hyper-V systems administrators’ lives easy,
For more info on BDRSuite for Hyper-V, go here, or even better, download and trial yourself!
