The vRecovery virtual appliance operates on VMware ESX/ESXi (licensed and unlicensed) vSphere 4.1 (and higher) and operates identically to our physical backup, archiving and disaster recovery appliances. It is ideal for businesses that have a previous investment in VMware-ready servers and storage. vRecovery is simply the Unitrends backup, archiving and disaster recovery solution on a VMware-based platform rather than a physical appliance platform. As such, VMware features such as vMotion, thin provisioning, direct I/O and others are supported inherently by vRecovery.

A 1TB vRecovery entry-level model is available in which that terabyte is the amount of formatted physical storage (data only) available for backup. Additional 1TB capacity upgrades are available up to a total of 10TB. vRecovery provides the same byte-level adaptive deduplication that our physical rack-based appliances offer.

If more than 10TB of physical storage is required, additional vRecovery virtual appliances work scalably together (just as our physical appliances do). In fact, Recovery-series and vRecovery-series appliances may all work together at a single customer site using our web 2.0 single pane of glass federated monitoring and management tools.