Leading Hyper-V Backup Solution

With NAKIVO Backup & Replication, you can use powerful backup and recovery features that ensure full protection for your Hyper-V environments. NAKIVO Backup & Replication also delivers a wide range of data reduction, performance-boosting, backup administration tools, allowing you to save time and resources and eliminate any complexities associated with data protection. And most importantly, you can access all of the software’s capabilities and perform data protection activities directly from a centralised web-based dashboard that you can access anywhere and at any time, even from multiple devices.

The installation process of NAKIVO Backup & Replication requires minimum time and effort – you can install the software and then perform your first backup job in just two minutes! No extra configuration is required as all of the software features are built-in and available right out of the box. In addition, you can choose from a wide range of deployment options to find what best fits your needs, environment and budget. You can install NAKIVO Backup & Replication on Windows or Linux OS, deploy as a pre-configured Virtual Appliance, or install directly on a NAS device to create an all-in-one backup appliance.

NAKIVO Backup & Replication can help you easily perform Hyper-V backup copy jobs and safely send these backup copies offsite. Having an extra backup provides an additional level of data protection to ensure successful recovery. You can also create extra copies of Hyper-V backups and send them to the cloud. With Hyper-V backup copies, you can ensure compliance with the 3-2-1 backup rule, allowing you to have a backup plan for any data loss scenario. You can also choose to keep one or multiple copies of your backups, or set custom rules specifying which backups should be copied and when.

With NAKIVO Backup & Replication, you can instantly recover entire Hyper-V VMs, individual files, folders and application objects directly from compressed and deduplicated backups. In case of unexpected production machine failure or data loss, you can quickly resume your business operations without experiencing significant downtime. The all-in-one software provides a number of powerful recovery options that can help you reach the lowest recovery time objectives (RTOs) and recovery point objectives (RPOs) possible and cut your recovery times from days to hours, or even minutes.

Backups stored in the cloud can be vulnerable to ransomware and other malicious attacks. With NAKIVO Backup & Replication, you can leverage the S3 Object Lock functionality to make your Microsoft Hyper-V VM backups stored in Amazon S3 buckets immutable for a specified period of time and protect data from being deleted or encrypted by ransomware. In addition, the Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) feature helps you apply the principle of least privilege by assigning specific roles to users and granting them permissions for each part of the data protection process in NAKIVO Backup & Replication. This way, you prevent unauthorized users from running, viewing or altering your Hyper-V VM backup and recovery operations. Also, the solution ensures your data is protected when stored in a non-secure location or transferred over the WAN with the VM Backup Encryption feature.

NAKIVO Backup & Replication uses the GFS retention scheme and offers backup size reduction tools so that you can archive Hyper-VMs without paying exorbitant storage costs. The grandfather-father-son retention scheme (GFS) consolidates and rotates redundant recovery points according to your preferences, ensuring all your data is accounted for without storing excess data. You can also use global deduplication and compression for even further space savings. NAKIVO Backup & Replication can store up to 4,000 recovery points per VM, giving you the flexibility to meet regulatory obligations or corporate guidelines.

Multiple security risks and threats can be eliminated with a comprehensive data protection plan which dictates how to prevent, respond to, and recover from any failure scenario. Therefore, careful backup job scheduling is an essential component of data protection management. With NAKIVO Backup & Replication’s Calendar dashboard, you can view all your data protection jobs (past, present, and future) and reschedule them with ease. This way, you can avoid potential job overlaps, offload production networks and identify vulnerabilities in your backup planning.

Backing up growing Hyper-V environments means that you need to store more data every day. To reduce the size of your backups, NAKIVO Backup & Replication automatically skips swap data and unused blocks, which would otherwise be read, processed, transferred, and stored in the repository. To further reduce backup size, NAKIVO Backup & Replication can automatically deduplicate all VM backups across an entire repository. The deduplicated data blocks are then automatically compressed to occupy the least amount of space. Together, these data reduction technologies can significantly reduce the storage space occupied by backups, saving you resources and money.

NAKIVO Backup & Replication is a full backup and recovery solution capable of protecting virtual, physical, and cloud and SaaS environments. The software delivers powerful yet affordable functionality for small- and medium-sized businesses and large enterprises. You can scale NAKIVO Backup & Replication horizontally or vertically to keep hundreds of hosts and thousands of Hyper-V VMs safe across multiple sites. You can scale out by increasing the number of product components and distributing the workload among them. Also, you can scale up by adding more resources to NAKIVO Backup & Replication, ensuring that even high production workloads remain protected.

Creating regular Hyper-V backups does not always guarantee that data can be restored. Backups can also get corrupted for various reasons and render recovery impossible. With NAKIVO Backup & Replication, you can instantly verify the integrity of your Microsoft Hyper-V VM backups and make sure they can be used for recovery when needed. The solution can run a VM directly from a Hyper-V VM backup with networking turned off and make a screenshot of the successfully booted VM. The solution can also verify that you can successfully recover Hyper-V VMs by powering on the VM and checking the availability of the Hyper-V Integration Services (if they are installed on the VM). You can view the verification results in the web interface or receive them via email.

With NAKIVO Backup & Replication, you can automate most of your data protection activities by running policy-based jobs and setting up effective job schedules. NAKIVO Backup & Replication allows you to set up specific data protection policies, which would regularly scan your infrastructure and automatically add/remove Hyper-V VMs from corresponding jobs based on the selected criteria (such as name, size, location, power state, configuration, and so on). With сarefully scheduled and organized Hyper-V backup jobs, you can achieve impressive results – eliminate job overlaps, minimize administrative overhead, avoid retention policy gaps and, eventually, save you time and effort.

With the rich functionality of NAKIVO Backup & Replication, you can improve your Hyper-V backup performance considerably. NAKIVO Backup & Replication provides you with speed-boosting features, such as Network Acceleration and LAN-free backup mode. Network Acceleration allows you to increase backup and recovery speed even in busy LAN and WAN. With LAN-free data transfer modes, you can offload production networks, thus reducing backup windows and ensuring high backup performance. As a result, these technologies can boost VM backup speed by up to 2 times without affecting your production environment.

Multi-tenant mode in NAKIVO Backup & Replication allows you to deliver backup as a service (BaaS), replication as a service (RaaS) and disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS) to your customers. You can create up to 1,000 separate tenants within a single copy of the software and manage them from the tenant dashboard. Tenants’ environments are isolated, which means that a tenant can only access their own data. Tenants can perform their data protection and recovery jobs via the self-service portal and you, as the administrator, can control which jobs they are allowed to access and perform.

NAKIVO Backup & Replication can help you recover iindividual files, folders and application objects for applications like Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft Active Directory and Microsoft SQL Server instantly from compressed and deduplicated Hyper-V VM backups. Just select the recovery point, search for the file, folder or object you require and recover with a push of a button, without recovering the entire Hyper-V VM first. The advanced search capabilities of the solution allow you to quickly find the items you need using the name or even part of the name and restore them to their original or a different location.

The threat of potential data loss as a result of ransomware attacks or unintentional deletions is growing. Advance planning and creating regular backups are key to reducing risks of losing critical data, minimizing production environment downtime and ensuring swift recovery. First, identify critical VMs and apps that tolerate the least downtime. Second, set up a process to periodically review which workloads are critical. Third, decide on your recovery point objectives (RPO) and recovery time objectives (RTO). Finally, start using NAKIVO Backup & Replication to create regular incremental backups according to your requirements.

Backups are resource-intensive operations. To perform a backup job, NAKIVO Backup & Replication reads data on the source, then processes, transfers and writes that data to the target backup repository. The shortage of CPU or RAM resources available for backup jobs can slow down backups. Other software competing for disk and network bandwidth resources can also cause bottlenecks. To speed up backups, allocate sufficient CPU, RAM, bandwidth and disk space resources to NAKIVO Backup & Replication. The backup chain is as fast as its slowest link.

NAKIVO Backup & Replication simplifies routine data protection tasks. Create policy rules to automate adding Microsoft Hyper-V VMs to backups or excluding them. Adjust rules according to preferred parameters, such as VM name, size, tag or location. When a new VM is up, NAKIVO Backup & Replication checks whether that VM matches any policy and adds the VM to the corresponding job automatically. The same works for existing VMs whose parameters change. When the VM no longer matches the policy rules, the solution automatically excludes it from the backup.

Store at least one copy of your backup data in a remote location (offsite). With that remote copy, your data is recoverable even if the primary onsite backup is lost or corrupted. Use NAKIVO Backup & Replication to create backup copies of your Microsoft Hyper-V VM without affecting production VMs. The list of supported public clouds to use as a backup destination includes Amazon S3, Wasabi and Microsoft Azure. For long-term backup storage, write a copy of your backups to tape.

Ransomware attacks are impossible to completely prevent. However, their harm is minimal when backups are immutable. Enabling backup immutability protects recovery points from overwriting, deletion or change. The WORM (write-once-read-many) model used to store the recovery points is effective to protect them from accidental deletions and ransomware threats. Make backup data stored in your local Linux-based repository or Amazon S3 bucket immutable directly in the NAKIVO Backup & Replication interface.

Plan and schedule backup jobs carefully to avoid retention gaps, job overlaps and potential network overload. For example, create daily local backups, and send backup copies to the cloud weekly and to tape monthly. Use the Calendar dashboard in NAKIVO Backup & Replication to monitor the schedule and see all past, current and future jobs. Additionally, set up Job Chaining for backup copy jobs to start automatically after a successful backup and optimize resource use.

When dealing with live applications and databases, having consistent backup data is key to a smooth, hassle-free recovery. With the App-Aware Mode enabled, the exact state of the application will be recorded to the backup file for Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Exchange and Microsoft Active Directory. Use the App-Aware Mode to launch the Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) inside guest OS of source VMs to make applications flush data from memory to disk. Save your app and database data in a consistent state and recover it faster at any time.

Proper performance control and resource distribution are essential to maintain the efficiency of the entire infrastructure. NAKIVO Backup & Replication uses Microsoft’s native Resilient Change Tracking (RCT) technology to write only the blocks that changed since the previous backup session. Network Acceleration increases VM backup, and recovery speed for both WAN and LAN. Bandwidth Throttling prevents backup jobs from overconsuming network resources. Additionally, NAKIVO Backup & Replication allows excluding unused disk blocks during the backup procedure.

The worst time to discover that your Microsoft Hyper-V backups are not recoverable is when your primary machine goes down. Checking VM recoverability is easy with Instant Verification. NAKIVO Backup & Replication offers two verification methods for Microsoft Hyper-V backups. Boot Verification starts the VM from the backup and checks whether the hypervisor tools are running. Screenshot Verification boots the target VM and takes a screenshot of the VM’s screen. Verify that the system created the Microsoft Hyper-V backup successfully via an email report or by checking the job dashboard.

Even in the best of circumstances, Hyper-V VMs can become corrupted, accidentally deleted or malfunction at any time, exposing your business to data loss. If you do not have a Hyper-V backup solution in place, recovering your lost data can range from time-consuming and expensive to impossible. With NAKIVO Backup & Replication, you can perform image-based, incremental and application-aware backups of your Microsoft Hyper-V VMs to ensure your data is protected and recoverable. Image-based backups capture an entire Hyper-V VM at a point in time, including configuration files. This ensures that your VM is immediately ready for production after recovery. Application-awareness means that VM backups maintain the transactional consistency of applications, such as SQL Server, Microsoft Exchange and Active Directory. To keep your data safe, enable AES 256-bit encryption to protect Microsoft Hyper-V VM backups at rest and in-flight and use role-based access controls to limit unauthorized access.

Data protection is all about resiliency – a single backup does not mean that your data is safe. If, for example, you store all your data on-premises, a site disaster could result in significant financial and data losses. The most effective way to eliminate a single point of failure is to have multiple backup copies with at least one located offsite or in the cloud. NAKIVO Backup & Replication makes it easy to create multiple backup copies of Microsoft Hyper-V VMs and supports a wide range of local storage devices, tape media and cloud storage providers. The Backup Copy feature creates mirrored copies of your Microsoft Hyper-V backups without affecting the source machine. From the same window, you can then send your copies directly to your preferred onsite, offsite or cloud storage destinations. NAKIVO Backup & Replication supports Amazon S3, Microsoft Azure and Wasabi; leading NAS vendors; data deduplication appliances; and traditional and virtual tape libraries.

Day-to-day operational disruptions, such as lost files and objects or a malfunctioning Hyper-V VM, are simple problems to fix but often result in unnecessarily long downtime for businesses. For example, recovering an entire Hyper-V VM to retrieve individual files or objects wastes time and resources, resulting in hidden costs for a business. With NAKIVO Backup & Replication, you can perform granular recoveries and use Flash VM Boot to ensure small IT issues do not cost you lost revenue. Use Instant Object Recovery and Instant File Recovery to restore individual files or application objects back to source or custom locations directly from Hyper-V backups. This eliminates the need to first perform a time-consuming full recovery. If a VM becomes unavailable, use Flash VM Boot to nearly instantly boot a Hyper-V VM on a target host directly from a backup. By allowing you to continue your workflow without delay, Flash VM Boot dramatically reduces the potential consequences of IT downtime.

For businesses with a large or growing virtual infrastructure, Microsoft Hyper-V VM backups require significant storage space, which translates to high hardware and cloud storage costs. NAKIVO Backup & Replication helps you cut these costs with a set of backup size reduction tools. Data deduplication removes duplicated data blocks from the Backup Repository, resulting in up to a 30-time reduction in storage requirements. Compression further reduces the size of backups by allowing you to choose the balance between backup size and backup speed that best fits your business needs. NAKIVO Backup & Replication offers three compression levels: fast, medium and best. Swap data and unused block exclusion prevents unnecessary swap files, swap partitions and unused blocks from being included in backups. Employed together, the backup size reduction toolkit makes it simple to optimize your existing hardware and lower monthly cloud storage payments.

For businesses with a large virtual infrastructure, it can be a constant battle to fit backup windows within non-business hours. At the same time, other businesses need to perform backups during business hours to meet tight RPOs. Fortunately, with NAKIVO Backup & Replication, one of the most cost-effective Hyper-V backup solutions, you can shrink backup times and reduce network congestion. Increase the speed of backups by up to 2X with network acceleration and backup size reduction tools. Backup size reduction tools include Resilient Change Tracking (RCT), global deduplication, log truncation and skipping swap data and unused blocks. Set limits on how much bandwidth backups can use during business hours to minimize network congestion. Adapt to changing circumstances by raising or lowering the limit at any time. Completely eliminate network slowdowns and boost Hyper-V backup speed by enabling LAN-free data transfers.

Each minute of downtime equals lost revenue and inefficient data protection practices result in unnecessarily high administrative overhead. Furthermore, as your data protection activities become more complex, the chance for mistakes, oversights and retention gaps to emerge rises sharply. To counter these risks, NAKIVO Backup & Replication offers a set of backup management features designed to ensure data remains protected in infrastructures of any complexity Use Policy-Based Data Protection to automate Hyper-V backups according to preferred parameters, such as VM tag, size or VM configuration. Comprehensive policies ensure VMs are properly accounted for, preventing policy gaps from emerging. Automate routine Hyper-V backup jobs to run on your preferred schedule and monitor completed and future tasks on the Calendar Dashboard. Integrate monitoring, automation and orchestration solutions with the NAKIVO Backup & Replication HTTP API for advanced automation controls.

As data protection requirements get more sophisticated, businesses face new regulatory challenges in their data management practices. Many of these challenges, including ransomware protection and data retention gaps, involve backup practices. With NAKIVO Backup & Replication, you can meet compliance requirements by creating backups of critical data to be used for reporting. Use the solution to create multiple recovery points to preserve business-critical data and ensure timely point-in-time. This Hyper-V backup solution allows you to retain up to 4,000 recovery points per VM using the GFS retention scheme. NAKIVO Backup & Replication also uses industry-grade encryption to protect backup data from unauthorized access. The solution’s advanced backup features can help you comply with different industry-specific regulatory requirements.

Ransomware has made it to the top of cybersecurity threats affecting organizations. New sophisticated techniques used by hackers are weakening traditional protection measures, so recovery from backup is often the only option to regain access to business data and avoid paying the ransom. To stay ahead of the curve, NAKIVO Backup & Replication allows you to enable S3 Object Lock feature available in Amazon S3 to create ransomware-proof, immutable Hyper-V VM backups. The feature uses the write-once-read-many (WORM) model to keep backup objects protected from modification or deletion for the time period you specify. When storing your backups in the cloud, you can be certain that the data stays exactly as it was captured and ransomware cannot encrypt it. With NAKIVO Backup & Replication, you can ensure your data is immutable to ransomware for as long as you need.