Altaro VM Backup for Hyper-V and VMware
Rely on a high performance Virtual Backup and Replication solution

Fast, Reliable Restores and Recovery

Great backup is meaningless without the speed, flexibility and reliability to get back up and running when your organization’s data is on the line. Altaro VM Backup offers you a host of tools to recover what you need, FAST.

• Instantly boot any VM version from the backup location without affecting backup integrity
• Ensure you always have healthy backups with Altaro's unique Backup Health Monitor, which proactively monitors the health of your backup storage, and should any corruption be detected, the block(s) in question will be repaired automatically as part of the next backup job
• Browse through your Exchange VM backup’s file system and restore individual emails
• Granular Restore Options for full VM or individual files or emails
• Retrieve individual files directly from your VM backups with a few clicks
• Fast OnePass Restores
• Restore an individual or a group of VMs to a different host
• Restore from multiple points in time rather than just 'the most recent backup'
• Restore Clones - Restore VMs to the same Host but with a different name, without the need to overwrite your live VMs.

Full control over your backups – A single pane of glass

Being able to execute quickly and easily, having complete control over backup/restore jobs is crucial. Altaro VM Backup provides you with quick access to all hosts in your environment.

• Intuitive user interface makes it easy to configure and run backup/restore jobs
• Cloud Management Console - Ground-breaking cloud based tool to centrally monitor and manage all your Altaro VM Backup installations from a single online console.
• RESTful API for advanced automation and reporting functionality.
• Remotely manage and configure all of your backup/restore jobs.
• Queue up backup/restore jobs and move on to the next item on your list
• Run multiple backup/restore jobs simultaneously across your hosts
• Easily test the integrity of your backups for peace of mind

Exchange and SQL support

Back up Exchange Server and SQL VMs or other applications compatible with Microsoft's VSS Writer.

Linux VM support

Back up file consistent Linux VMs without shutting down the machine.

Flexible Backup Destinations

Save Backups to a local drive or UNC share. Save Offsite copies to local drive, UNC share, to single or multiple locations (swapped) or offsite (WAN) Altaro Backup Server.

Supported Backup Media

• USB External Drives and Flash Drives eSata External Drives
• File Server Network Shares (via UNC)
• NAS devices (via UNC)
• Internal Hard Drives (recommended only for evaluation purposes)
• RDX Cartridges
• Offsite Altaro Backup Server via Internet / WAN

RMM integration

Use the Altaro VM Backup with Connectwise Automate (LabTech) Plugin to automatically raise Alerts and Tickets in your ConnectWise Automate Control Center.

Back up Hyper-V VMs easily and reliably

With all the complexities involved with a virtual Hyper-V environment, it can be tricky to set up a solid backup strategy. Altaro VM Backup makes it easy to get reliable backups and replication in place for Hyper-V. Microsoft Hyper-V VSS Writer ensures that live VM backups are taken with zero downtime.

• Backups just got faster with increased concurrent backups per hypervisor. More VMs can be backed simultaneously, drastically reducing backup time and resulting in more efficient backup operations
• Take your first Hyper-V VM backup in under 15 minutes
• WAN-Optimized Replication - VMs can be continuously replicated to a remote site, radically improving the Recovery Time Objective (RTO).
• Switch from running daily backups to a Continuous Data Protection (CDP) model, enabling you to back up as frequently as every 5 minutes, significantly improving the Recovery Point Objective (RPO)
• Centrally monitor and manage all your Altaro VM Backup installations from a cloud-based ground-breaking console.
• Cloud Backup to Azure - Backup to an Azure Block Blob storage account, the most cost-effective Azure storage option.
• Back up to other public clouds - Back up to other public clouds – The Altaro Offsite Server, provided at no cost, can be installed on a VM in any cloud platform such as AWS and Google Storage, to act as a backup server in the cloud.
• Verify your Hyper-V backups data with automated data verification, for peace of mind
• 3-2-1 backup - Keep at least three copies of your data for added security, 2 local copies and at least 1 copy offsite.
• Compatible with all Guest OS supported by Hyper-V including Linux VMs
• Backs up all applications compatible with Hyper-V VSS Writer such as Exchange Server and SQL
• Support for two factor authentication (2FA) in Altaro’s online management platform, Cloud Management Console (CMC)

Best Deduplication and Fast Recovery

With Augmented Inline Deduplication you’ll experience the best storage savings in the industry. Altaro has got the best deduplication technology where on average customers save 63% in backup storage! Also resulting in much faster backups as there is less data to transfer.

Being able to back up VMs quickly and reliably is important, but being able to restore and recover even more so. Altaro VM Backup gives you the power and granularity you need to get your Hyper-V environment back online, FAST.

• Altaro VM Backup creates the smallest Hyper-V backups in the industry enhanced with our Augmented Inline Duplication technology
• Our inline deduplication runs for every VM backup job without the use of post-processing and doesn’t tax on server performance
• Variable Block Size provides the best efficiency for deduplication
• Business continuity – With Altaro’s WAN-Optimized Replication, you can seamlessly continue working from your replicated VMs should something go wrong with the live VMs
• Optimized OnePass restores for FAST recovery of VMs
• Instantly boot a VM from backup
• Instantly restore individual files and Exchange emails directly from a VM backup
• Restore VMs to a different Hyper-V host, restore an older version or restore a clone
• Supports Cluster Shared Volumes (CSV)

Hyper-V backup solution at unbeatable value

No other backup solution for Microsoft Hyper-V will give you the same functionality and performance as affordably as Altaro VM Backup.

• Priced per host, not per CPU / socket / VM
• Premium support as part of the package. Experts on Hyper-V, quick resolutions.
• Free for 2 VMs per host, forever – our way of assisting micro businesses.

Uncomplicated, powerful functionality

A backup and replication solution for VMware requires flexibility and power to give you confidence in your backup strategy. You need to be able to replicate data to an offsite location or a removable drive, to be able to restore individual files or emails, to restore from different points in time, to verify backup integrity, etc. downtime. Most importantly, you need a solution that:

• Removes complexities from VMware to enable you to easily manage backups and fast restores
• Takes care of the complex configurations and enables you to manage and monitor backups across all your VMware hosts in a single view
• Allows you to drag and drop VMs into a set schedule and retention policy
• Instantly restore an email in a few clicks
• Configure automated backup verification for peace of mind.
• Cloud Backup to Azure - Backup to an Azure Block Blob storage account, the most cost-effective Azure storage option.
• Back up to other public clouds - Back up to other public clouds – The Altaro Offsite Server, provided at no cost, can be installed on a VM in any cloud platform such as AWS and Google Storage, to act as a backup server in the cloud.

Augmented Inline Deduplication – Best deduplication in the industry!

Heavily reduce your storage space requirements with Augmented Inline Deduplication! Altaro VM Backup creates the smallest backup size when compared to other vendors. All backup jobs optionally run Augmented Inline Deduplication and post-processing is never used so you don’t need to group similar VMs together for deduplication to run efficiently. In the process, having less data to transfer improves backup and restore speed, saving you storage space and time!

• Lower storage requirements for VMware backups
• Less data to transfer results in having faster backup and restore speeds
• Variable Block Size provides the best efficiency for deduplication
• Storage savings will continue to improve as more VMs are being backed up and added!
• Reducing backup size using Augmented Inline Deduplication doesn’t tax on server performance.

Highly capable VMware backup solution, affordable price

Ease of use and affordable pricing doesn’t mean you’ll be faced with limited functionality. Altaro VM Backup fully supports VMware vCenter and allows you to retrieve individual files and Exchange emails straight from your VM Backup.

• Built for scalability, allowing you to easily access, manage and monitor multiple VMware hosts from single pane of glass. No need to log in to individual hosts
• Host level concurrency built into the product, giving you high performance backups across multiple hosts
• Monitor and manage all your Altaro VM Backup installations from a cloud-based console.
• Solid feature set that will allow you to create a rock solid backup strategy for all your VMware hosts
• Priced per host, not per CPU / socket / VM
• Free for 2 VMs per host, forever – our way of assisting micro businesses

• Windows Server 2019
• Windows Server 2016
• Windows Server 2012 R2
• Windows Server 2012
• Windows Server 2008 R2
• Microsoft Hyper-V Server (Core)

• VMware vCenter 5.0, 5.1, 5.5, 6.0, 6.5 & 6.7
• VMware vSphere 5.0, 5.1, 5.5, 6.0, 6.5 & 6.7
• VMware ESXi 5.0, 5.1, 5.5, 6.0, 6.5 & 6.7
• (Free VMware ESXi is not supported)