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Storage Engine's Application Snapshot Director for VMware® is a cost-effective, readily deployable solution that dramatically improves data protection of VMware ESX Server 2.5 virtual machines (VMs) by providing transactionally consistent recovery-an important enhancement to the crash consistency native to VMware. The result: significantly faster, reliable data recovery. Now VMware environments can easily meet critical business recovery time objectives (RTO) and recovery point objectives (RPO).

At last… fast, reliable VMware data recovery

Storage Engine Application Snapshot Director for VMware®

Key Benefits
::	Solves the need for transactional integrity of VMware snapshots, resulting in faster data recovery without the usual lengthy consistency checks
::	Enables VMware environments to meet or exceed business RTO and RPO requirements
::	Simplifies disaster recovery
::	Fully integrated, application-aware - coordinates with both VMware and the database, email, and file systems hosted on VMs
::	Is compatible with all leading applications including Oracle, Microsoft Exchange and SQL Server, IBM DB2 UDB and Lotus Notes/Domino
::	Cost-effective and easy to deploy
::	Easily integrates with existing VMware installations and storage investments; no costly reconfiguration required
::	Leverages proven, flexible Storage Engine data protection technology

No more data loss

If, like a growing number other IT professionals today, you use VMware to virtualize and consolidate servers, you know it includes a utility to take snapshots of VM instances. However, this can be a complex process that results in "crash consistent" backups for the applications within each instance. In other words, recovering your data from the snapshot backup of VM is like trying to reboot after a sudden system crash. Imagine having to wait many hours for database consistency checks, rebuild the system, reinstall software, etc., and still risk losing critical data…or, worse, maybe you've already experienced it.

Now there's a solution. Storage Engine Application Snapshot Director for Vmware enhances the capabilities of VMware ESX Server 2.5 to offer snapshots that are transactionally consistent: application-aware, accurate, and up-to-the-minute. This means that in the event of unforeseen downtime, or planned testing, you can very quickly and easily retrieve data and pick up right where you left off.

Fully application-aware

Only Storage Engine provides the intelligence and depth of integration to facilitate the communication of the VMware snapshot process in each application's distinctive "language." Storage Engine Application Snapshot Director for VMware works in tandem with unique application-specific Storage Engine Snapshot Agents (for Oracle, Microsoft Exchange, etc.) to quiesce host-based database applications, email applications, and file systems running on VMs to ensure transactional integrity and point-in-time consistency of any snapshot taken of a VM.

Storage Engine Application Snapshot Director for VMware extends sophisticated data protection to applications by making them aware that a snapshot backup is about to or has taken place. It coordinates with VMware ESX native snapshot technology to seamlessly place critical applications into "hot backup mode" during the few moments required for VMware to snapshot the instance. Through this awareness, lengthy consistency checks are avoided and recovery is rapid and simple. And now, when a snapshot is taken of a VM, it can be mounted and used quickly, for optimal RTO and RPO.

Storage Engine Application Snapshot Director for VMwareSpecifications

Supports

VMware ESX Server 2.5

Solution Components

::	Storage Engine Application Snapshot Director for VMware runs on the VMware ESX server
::	Storage Engine SAN Client software runs on each VM
::	File system-specific or application-specific Storage Engine Snapshot Agents run on their respective VMs

Snapshot Agents
Available for virtual machines operating within the VMware ESX Server environment

::	For Linux environments: IBM® Lotus Notes®/Domino, Oracle®, Linux file system
::	For Novell® NetWare® environments: Novell GroupWise®, NetWare file system
::	For Microsoft® Windows environments: Microsoft Exchange Server, IBM Lotus Notes/Domino, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, Sybase®, Informix®, IBM DB2 UDB, SAP®, Pervasive® SQL, Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service, Windows file systems

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