WHITE PAPER
9
Server consolidation for maximum results
Bare-bones tools included in virtual platform products can get your
consolidation effort off the ground, but their limited functionality can
stretch your timeline for completion to unreasonable lengths. Acronis
keeps you flying with:
• Fast, error-free migrations between physical and virtual machines,
using Acronis patented disk image technology that has migrated vast
numbers of servers worldwide
• Agent-less backup that dramatically lowers ongoing administration
costs
• One flat price per host that saves 50% – 95% of the cost of
protecting each virtual machine
• Massive storage and network bandwidth reductions with industry-
leading data deduplication and file compression tools capable of
reducing storage requirements by 50% – 90%
• Support and Certification for the widest array of hypervisors in one
product
Disaster Recovery you can depend on
IT organizations also consolidate servers to achieve more flexible, faster disaster recoveries. For several years,
Acronis has concentrated exclusively on building and refining a product line that offers:
• More protection. Acronis patented disk imaging technology is your best choice for backup and disaster
recovery. Storage Magazine calls Acronis “the new king of midrange backup applications” in its June 2010
issue.
• More options. Recover not only to another virtual machine, but also to any physical hardware using the
Acronis
®
Universal Restore
™
feature
• Better recovery time objectives (RTO) by leveraging a stand-by virtual machine to recover instantly– using
the Instant Recovery feature
• More flexible recovery point objectives (RPO) with the ability to recover the whole VM or just specific files
from the VM
• Reduced cost of ownership. Acronis protects physical, virtual and cloud-based resources through a single
pane of management glass, eliminating the need for parallel, duplicate disaster recovery solutions.
• VMware Ready
®
protection. Our commitment to data protection and our deep virtualization expertise made
Acronis one of the first disk-imaging based companies to be awarded VMware Ready status by VMware, Inc.
The value of agent-less backup
Acronis reduces administrative overhead with agent-less backup technology for VMware and Microsoft VM
environments.
For VMware installations, one Acronis agent is loaded in its own virtual environment on a physical host capable
of supporting a potentially unlimited number of virtual machines. For Microsoft Hyper-V environments, a single
agent is installed on the physical server. In both cases, no additional agents are installed in the VMs themselves.
Instead, the host server’s agent executes and manages the backup process for all hosted VMs.
