VMware Backup and Data Protection Solution

Native and application-centric backup, disaster recovery, and migration
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Customer Use Case

Challenge

Traditional VMware backup solutions often require complex agent installations and management, creating operational overhead and potential security risks while limiting scalability across multiple data centers.

Solution

HYCU eliminates the need for agents or plug-ins with intelligent remote communication capabilities, offering 1-click simplicity for backup, disaster recovery, and migration operations, while providing instant protection for VMware applications through a unified, intuitive experience that scales effortlessly across multiple data centers.
Business Value

Simplify IT operations and data management

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Hassle-free backup and VM recovery

Use set-and-forget policies to offload management responsibilities and free your time, resources, and energy.
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Cost-efficient disaster recovery

Save storage and cloud compute costs by failing over your VMware workloads to the public cloud only when necessary.
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Risk-free, rapid migrations to the cloud

Gain operational efficiency by lifting and shifting workloads on-demand between VMware and public clouds with application consistency.
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Reduce your TCO and CAPEX

Save on infrastructure resources for backup and DR by leveraging your existing infrastructure and a lightweight deployment optimized for cost.
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Become cyber resilient

Secure your backups from ransomware and other cyber threats with immutable, air-gapped WORM-enabled object storage, architected for security.
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Ensure recovery SLAs

Fast and reliable recovery of entire VMs, applications, or granular-level files.
Key Features & Benefits

Eliminate downtime and data loss across your VMware environment

  • DevOps-Friendly Features

    Effective test/dev virtual environments through fast-mount, cloning, and migration capabilities, supporting streamlined development workflows.

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  • Multi-Tenant Capability

    Multi-tenancy features and a self-service portal, allowing organizations to host multiple tenants and users while offering easy-to-use sandbox environments.

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  • Flexible Recovery Options

    Users can rapidly recover applications, VMs, folders, and files from both on-premises and public cloud targets, ensuring versatile data protection.

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  • Efficient Backup Architecture

    Cost-efficient, high-performance incremental backups, copies, and archives to major cloud storage platforms like Google Cloud Storage, Azure Blob, and AWS S3.

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Resources

Learn more about HYCU and VMware

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Case Study
HYCU provides industrial-strength backup for steel products company
FAQ

Common Questions About Backup & Recovery for VMware

What is a hypervisor’s role in VMware?

A hypervisor is software or firmware that creates and manages virtual machines (VMs) on a physical server. It enables the virtualization of hardware resources, such as CPU, memory, and storage, allowing multiple operating systems and applications to run simultaneously on a single physical machine.

What is a datastore’s role in VMware?

A datastore is a storage container used to store virtual machine files, including virtual disks, templates, and ISO images. It provides a centralized storage location for VMs and allows for efficient management and allocation of storage resources within the VMware environment.

What are the benefits of using HYCU for VM backup?

HYCU offers comprehensive data protection for VMware workloads, providing replication and offsite backup capabilities to support disaster recovery scenarios. The solution seamlessly integrates with both on-premises and cloud storage options, including AWS, Azure, and NAS systems. HYCU enables automation of backup jobs and scheduling to minimize downtime, while also delivering short recovery times and recovery point objectives (RPOs). Additionally, the platform includes archiving capabilities for long-term data retention, ensuring that organizations can maintain historical data as needed for compliance or business purposes.

What is the recovery time objective (RTO) with HYCU?

HYCU aims for minimal recovery times, but the specific RTO depends on factors like VM size, storage, network conditions, and recovery method.

Does HYCU support Windows and Linux VMs?

Yes, HYCU supports both Microsoft Windows and Linux operating systems in VMware VMs.

How does HYCU serve as a VMware backup solution?

HYCU is an agentless backup solution that integrates with vCenter Server and ESXi hosts, offering efficient incremental backups enabled by Changed Block Tracking (CBT), granular recovery options, and application-consistent backups for SQL Server and Kubernetes.

Customer Loyalty

Read why HYCU customers love our simple, flexible data protection software

  • "HYCU has been an excellent product for our backup needs on both the Nutanix and VMware systems."

    Senior System Engineer
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  • "The support is excellent, cases are solved usually within a few hours. It works like a charm with Nutanix AHV and VMware vSpere, backup of MSSQL database is also easy."

    Cristian S. - Senior System Specialist
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  • "The backup tooling allows customers to backup on-premises solutions across various platforms from VMware to Nutanix and on any cloud, especially Google Cloud Platform."

    Fabian D. - Associate CTO
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  • "HYCU backup software is acclaimed for its user-friendly interface, robust performance, and seamless integration with Nutanix, VMware, and various cloud platforms, making it an efficient and reliable solution for data protection and disaster recovery."

    IT Director
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Cost-efficient, high-performance backup and disaster recovery for VMware

  • Application-aware, agentless, and impact-free protection
  • Cost-effective backup and disaster recovery to the cloud
  • 1-click simplicity for all protection and recovery operations
  • Recover from ransomware using immutable, air-gapped backups

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