Unitrends Enterprise Backup™
Trying to protect VM’s on Free VMware?
Unitrends Enterprise Backup™ software can be deployed on free VMware hosts. No paid-for licenses required. Protecting other guests running on free VMware hosts requires exploration of options. Why is this? VMware blocks the backup APIs (vStorage APIs for data protection) in their unlicensed (free) versions.
All backup solutions, including Unitrends, who perform host-level snapshot-based backups of VMware guests leverage these APIs.
So what can you do?
- Purchase a license from VMware to unlock the vStorage APIs (see chart for VMware license definitions)
- Install a Unitrends agent on your VM’s and treat them like physical servers
Do you hold a current VMware certification (e.g. VCP, VSTP, VCI, vExpert)?
- You automatically qualify for a NFR (not-for-resell) edition of Unitrends Enterprise Backup
- 2 socket licenses
- 2 server licenses
- 2 application license
- Click here to download and deploy your NFR edition now!
For more information on VMware licensing, check out this website:
http://www.vmware.com/products/datacenter-virtualization/vsphere/compare-editions.html
Fig. 1 Unitrends Enterprise Backup™ Hyper-v Deployment
Fig. 2 Unitrends Enterprise Backup™ Agent/Agentless Deployment
| ESXi Single Server | Essentials | Essential Plus | Standard | Advanced | Enterprise | Enterprise Plus | |
| ESX/ESXi | ESXi Only | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| vCenter Server Compatibility | None | vCenter Server for Essentials | vCenter Server for Essentials | vCenter Server Foundation and Standard | vCenter Server Foundation and Standard | vCenter Server Foundation and Standard | vCenter Server Foundation and Standard |
| Cores per Processor | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 |
| vSMP Support | 4-way | 4-way | 4-way | 4-way | 4-way | 4-way | 8-way |
| Memory / Physical Server | 256GB | 256GB | 256GB | 256GB | 256GB | 256GB | 256GB |
| Thin Provisioning | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| VA Agent | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Update Manager | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| VMSafe | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| vStorage APIs | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |
| High Availability (HA) | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ||
| Data Recovery | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | |||
| Hot Add | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ||||
| Fault Tolerance | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ||||
| vShield Zones | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ||||
| VMotion | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ||||
| Storage VMotion | ✔ | ✔ | |||||
| DRS | ✔ | ✔ | |||||
| vNetwork Distributed Switch | ✔ | ||||||
| Host Profiles | ✔ | ||||||
| Third Party Multipathing | ✔ |
