Introducing CA ARCserve Central Virtual Standby › Introduction

Introduction

CA ARCserve Central Applications combine core data protection and management technologies with an ecosystem of targeted applications that work in unison to facilitate on- and off-premises protection, copy, movement, and transformation of data across global environments.

CA ARCserve Central Applications are easy to use, manage, and install. It provides organizations with automated control of their information to make educated decisions about the access, availability, and security of their data, based on the overall business value.

Among the applications offered by CA ARCserve Central Applications is CA ARCserve Central Virtual Standby. CA ARCserve Central Virtual Standby integrates with CA ARCserve D2D and lets you provision virtual machines from CA ARCserve D2D backup sessions. The application lets you do the following:

• Convert CA ARCserve D2D recovery points that are stored on the CA ARCserve D2D destination devices to VMware Virtual Disk (VMDK) or Microsoft Virtual Hard Disk (VHD) formats based on a schedule. From the recovery point snapshots you can allow the virtual machines to function as CA ARCserve D2D source servers in the event that your source servers fail.
• Push conversion policies to CA ARCserve D2D source servers.
• Store recovery point snapshots on VMware ESX Server-based or Windows Hyper-V-based virtual machines.
• Power on virtual machines manually or automatically if an emergency situation occurs.
• Recover data from recovery point snapshots to the original or alternate source servers (V2P recoveries).