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Arcserve UDP Version 5.0 Features

The Arcserve UDP solution provides an all-inclusive solution for next-generation storage problems of organizations that are trying to protect their data in a rapidly changing virtual, cloud, and services world. The solution does this by providing a single user interface to a wide range of functionality addressing multi-site business continuity and disaster preparedness problems.

The following features and functionality are provided:

• Recovery Point Server (RPS) – This is an intelligent storage-target gateway which can be used to offload resource-intensive tasks from the Arcserve UDP Agent (Windows), such as catalog generation and merge/purge operations. This gateway can be used as a local storage center and also as a replication engine for multi-site data protection to remote locations (taking advantage of global source-side data deduplication functionality). You can build multiple storage targets (Data Stores) on a Recovery Point Server.
• Data Deduplication – The Recovery Point Server gateway provides source-side data deduplication capability. Data deduplication enables integrated site-to-site replication so that only the data that has changed is backed up from the source to the local intelligent target and then transferred between intelligent targets located at different sites. Higher deduplication rates are achieved when backing up multiple nodes to the same Data Store with Deduplicate Data enabled or the nodes with lots of free space.
• Integrated Replication – The Arcserve UDP solution supports site-to-site replication (over LAN and WAN) between Recovery Point Servers. Resume replication is also supported in case an error occurs and interrupts the replication process.
• Microsoft Hyper-V Support – The Arcserve UDP solution performs agentless backups of data that reside on virtual machines running on Microsoft Hyper-V without installing the Arcserve UDP Agent (Windows) on the source virtual machines. Incremental backups are supported to back up only the changed data. Compression and deduplication are supported in the backup to decrease the backup size. Virtual Standby is also supported on Microsoft Hyper-V.
• VMware vSphere Support – The Arcserve UDP solution performs agentless backups of data that resides on virtual machines running on VMware vSphere (including the newest version VMware vSphere 5.5) without installing Arcserve UDP Agent (Windows) on the source virtual machines. Incremental backups are supported to back up only the changed data. Compression and deduplication are all supported in the backup to decrease the backup size. Virtual Standby is also supported on VMware vSphere.
• Protect Windows nodes – Performs disk-based backups through Arcserve UDP Agent (Windows) running on the node. The node can be a laptop, physical machine or virtual machine on VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V, including the newest version Windows Server 2012 R2 and Windows 8.1.
• Protect Linux nodes – Performs disk-based backups on Linux nodes through Arcserve UDP Agent (Linux) Backup Server. The node can be laptop, physical machine or virtual machine running on VMware ESX server, Citrix Xen Server, Oracle VM, and Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization.
• Integrate with Arcserve Replication and High Availability – Provides the capability to manage and monitor Arcserve Replication and High Availability functions from the Arcserve UDP Console.
• Integrate with Arcserve Backup - The Arcserve UDP solution provides the capability to utilize a complimentary, limited version of Arcserve Backup to perform backups (agent-based and agentless-based) to tape.
• Share Plan with Remote Recovery Point Servers – Allows you to map multiple Windows users with specific Plans. You can create a Plan as you receive replicated data from the remote Recovery Point Server. These Plans can be mapped with the Windows account and shared with Remote Recovery Point Servers.
• Protect Nodes through Plan – A Plan is a series of tasks that are assembled together to provide data protection. These tasks can include performing Agent-Based Backups, Host-Based Agentless Backups, creating a Virtual Standby machine, Replications, Copying of Recovery Points, and Copying of Files. The Plan can be deployed for protecting multiple nodes and can be enabled or disabled. You can also set email alerts in the Plan for job success, failure, and so on.
• Multiple Data Store Options – Data Store is used by Recovery Point Servers as a location for storing backed-up data. The storage location can be a local disk, a remote share folder, or a NAS device. Data Stores provide plenty of options for data security and space efficient usage. Compression and global data deduplication are supported in data stores to help decrease the size of created backups. Encryption is also supported to provide security for the backed-up data.
• Advanced Schedule – Allows you to set different schedules for performing backup jobs, merging, throttle, and replication jobs for each day. Also allows you to specify daily/weekly/monthly retention periods.
• Virtual Standby –Creates a standby virtual machine for the source node where the most recent recovery points of a source are represented by VM snapshots. Provides capability to power on virtual machine manually or automatically when the source node is not available after disaster. Supports the newest version of hypervisors (VMware vSphere 5.5, Windows Hyper-V 2012 r2). Supports greater than 2 TB disks through VMware ESX(i) server 5.5 or Hyper-V VHDX format virtual disks.
• Create Reports – Collects information and allows you to view reports about such information as Managed Capacity of backup, Backup Size, Backup Status, Virtualization Protection Status, and Data Distribution on Media.
• Multiple Data Recover Options – Allows you to recover data at the application level, the file level, and the VM level. For Arcserve UDP Agent (Linux) it also allows instant volume level recovery.
• Granular Restore for Exchange - The Arcserve UDP solution supports the restore of Exchange mails of an account, a mail folder, or a single mail for Exchange 2013, Exchange 2010, and Exchange 2007.
• Bare Metal Recovery (BMR) – Provides the capability to recover a computer system from “bare metal” including the operating system, applications and data components necessary to rebuild or restore the entire backed-up system. BMR is used for disaster recovery or for migration from one server to another. The Arcserve UDP solution provides the capability to perform V2P (Virtual to Physical) Bare Metal Recovery from the Arcserve UDP Agent (Windows) backup session, from the latest state of a standby virtual machine, from any recovery point that has been previously converted from a Arcserve UDP Agent (Windows) backup session, and from the host-based backup session. The Arcserve UDP solution also supports performing a Preboot Execution Environment (PXE)-based BMR from Arcserve UDP Agent (Linux) backup sessions. Arcserve UDP also supports BMR from an ISCSI destination.
• Copy Recovery Point – Creates a copy of a recovery point to the specified destination for added data protection.
• File Copy – The Arcserve UDP solution provides the capability to copy/move files to and from the cloud or disk for added data protection.
• Central License Management – Arcserve UDP licenses are installed on and checked centrally on the Arcserve UDP Console. With central license management, the license allocation is server based. This means that when a license is allocated to a server, central license management will record this allocation and keep this license exclusively used for that server. Future license requests from the same server will always succeed, and requests from other servers will cause a new license to be allocated to the new server. When there are no licenses available, you will get an activity log message warning you that the license is a problem.
• RPS Jumpstart – RPS Jumpstart lets you copy data to be replicated to an external device and then from the device to the remote RPS server. It is an effective method for transferring a large amount of data with low network bandwidth.