Our unique architecture provides customers with an enterprise-ready product that is purpose built for large virtualization environments. With PHD Virtual Backup for VMware ESX, formerly esXpress 4.0, we can provide our customers the ability to back up and restore their business-critical information quickly and in a setting that offers greater stability and more security than the competition.
As a leader in virtual backup solutions, PHD Virtual continues to provide our clients with all their data protection needs. In order to meet these ongoing needs, we have added additional capabilities within the release of PHD Virtual Backup for VMware ESX, formerly esXpress 4.0.
With PHD Virtual Backup for VMware ESX, backups can now run up to 20x faster with the addition of the Change Block Tracking (CBT) feature on top of the very powerful VBA foundation. Watch your protected, deduplicated backups fly faster than ever by leveraging PHD Virtual Backup for VMware ESX's patent-pending deduplication and CBT.
Other enhancements were added to simplify the requirements, add stability and increase the robustness of this proven product in order to meet our clients’ ongoing backup needs.
New features added to PHD Virtual Backup for VMware ESX, formerly esXpress 4.0 help our customers run backups up to 20X faster in addition to other enhancements that make it easier than ever. Other features include:
| Feature |
Capability |
| Change Block Tracking |
Utilize vSphere APIs to extract information as to which blocks have changed since the last backup, opposed to reading the entire VM to obtain this data. PHD Virtual will continue to support both methodologies for earlier VMware™ releases (i.e. non-CBT supported) |
| DeDuplication Optimization |
Enhanced capabilities to further optimize its De-duplication performance |
| OVF Install Wizard |
OVFs can now be deployed using a Windows Installer-based wizard |
| Graphical Restore |
Perform VM and VMDK restores directly from the Management Appliance |
| No longer dependent on VMKernel |
Host management capabilities are no longer dependent on having the VMKernel port available. The Management Appliance now utilizes SSH communication with the Service Console |
| Context Sensitive Help |
Management and DeDuplication Appliances now offer context sensitive help |
| Virtual Center Host Import |
Discover new host information directly from vCenter™ |
| License Import |
Licensing information can now be imported directly from a License File |
| IDE Backups |
Additional support for the new vSphere disk types backing up both IDE and SCSI based VMDKs |
| T Times |
Simplifies the process of scheduling backups at set times |
| S Times (Scheduling Special Backups) |
Enhanced capabililtes for implementing special backups for unique cases |
| Target Command |
Specify the backup target to use for individual VMs during one-up and regular backups |
| FLR - Files larger than 4GB |
Restore individual files and folders larger than 4GB |
