VMware Backup & Recovery Solution

esXpress is a VMware backup solution which has revolutionized data protection for virtual environments by backing up more VMware data in less time at lower cost, becoming the fastest Multi-VM backup & restore solution on the market. esXpress scales across an enterprise’s entire virtual infrastructure with no additional hardware or software required, and minimal impact on VM server, console or network performance.

This unique solution for backing up VMware data, combined with an affordable, scalable per-host pricing plan, has earned esXpress over 2,000 customers and 200 channel partners. esXpress was also recognized as Best of VM World two years in a row, as a 2008 Gold Award Winner for Data Protection and a 2009 Finalist for Business Continuity and Data Protection.

esXpress VMware backup solution is designed to replace:

• Traditional VMware backup solutions which weigh down heavily on hosts and VMs
• Complex, time-consuming next-generation VM backup solutions that require hardware and software that virtualization was supposed to reduce!

esXpress is the #1 VM Backup Solution for VMware featuring:

• Up to 16 concurrent backup streams per ESX host
• The fastest Multi-VM backup & restore solution on the market!
• Source-Side Global De-Duplication Across Entire ESX Farm
• Multi-user Instant File Level Restore
• Multi-User Deployment & Configuration Console
• Built-in Incremental Replication
• Date Smart Dynamic Export
• Self Extracting Backup archive for software free self-restores
• Fault-tolerant – VMware DRS/HA aware and VMotion compatibility
• esXpress v3.6 is compatible with VMware ESX v3, v3.5 and vSphere4

In the world of backup and recovery, it is all about speed. For the most part, all vendors do the same thing: they take information and move it from one location to another, making it available for retrieval at a later date. The screens and buttons all look a little different but essentially all B/R software is the same from that perspective; moving information from one location to another.

In the virtual world, what is important is how quickly a system can move data from multiple Virtual Machines. Multiple VMs are typically housed on a single physical server - it’s not only how quickly you can backup and recover information, but how quickly you can do it for multiple VMs at any one time?

With PHDVirtual’s esXpress, its unique architecture gives esXpress the ability to simultaneously backup or recover up to 16 VMs at one time, making it the fastest Multi-VM B/R solution on the market.

When all is said and done and a server fails on a Friday afternoon, the last day of the month, no one cares how many VMs need to be recovered to get the server back up and running; what they care about is how quickly can it be done. For this there’s nothing better than esXpress.

Notes

• Please read the documentation for installation prerequisites as it will save you time
• Running the esXpress Config & Deployment GUI is NOT required, it is a tool to manage the configuration and deployment of esXpress to multiple hosts. If you plan on running the tool, note this requirement:
  A VMKernel IP must be assigned on each host managed by the esXpress GUI. This is required for NFS to connect to the esXpress quorum.