Understanding Arcserve UDP › Introduction

Introduction

Arcserve Unified Data Protection is a comprehensive solution to protect complex IT environments. The solution protects your data residing in various types of nodes such as Windows, Linux, and virtual machines on VMware ESX servers or Microsoft Hyper-V servers. You can back up data to either a local machine or a recovery point server. A recovery point server is a central server where backups from multiple sources are stored.

Arcserve UDP provides the following capabilities:

• Protects various type of source nodes
• Backs up data to recovery point servers
• Replicates backup data to recovery point servers and remote recovery point servers
• Copies selected source files to a secondary backup location
• Copies recovery points to an additional location
• Copies recovery points to tape
• Archives data
• Creates virtual standby machines from backup data
• Creates Instant virtual machine
• Restores backup data and performs Bare Metal Recovery (BMR)
• Restores Microsoft Exchange email and non-email objects using the Arcserve UDP Exchange Granular Restore utility.

  Note: For more details on the supported specifications, functionalities, and other features, see the Exchange Granular Restore user guide (esr.pdf), located at: http://documentation.arcserve.com/Arcserve-UDP/Unavailable/V6/ENU/Bookshelf_Files/PDF/udp_esr_guide.pdf.

• Monitors Arcserve High Availability
• Supports Role-based administration
• Supports hardware snapshot

Arcserve UDP replicates backup data that is saved as recovery points from one server to another recovery point server. You can also create virtual machines from the backup data that can act as standby machines when the source node fails. The standby virtual machine is created by converting recovery points to VMware ESX or Microsoft Hyper-V virtual machine format.

The Arcserve UDP solution provides integration with Arcserve High Availability. After you create scenarios in Arcserve High Availability, you can manage and monitor your scenarios and perform operations like adding or deleting destination machines.

The following diagram illustrates the major functions that Arcserve UDP lets you perform.