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# Main Features

Storware Backup and Recovery is a data protection solution for virtual environments, storage, M365, and endpoints. It provides a centralized and automated solution for data protection. It can be deployed in minutes and start to protect your environment within hours.

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## Supported backup platforms

### Virtual Machines:

* VMware vSphere
* Microsoft Hyper-V / Azure Stack HCI
* Nutanix
* HC3/Scale
* Red Hat Virtualization
* oVirt
* Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager
* Nutanix Acropolis Hypervisor (AHV)
* HPE SimpliVity
* OpenNebula
* XCP-ng with CBT support
* Virtuozzo
* Proxmox VE
* Oracle VM
* OpenStack 
* OpenShift Virtualization
* libvirt hypervisors (KVM, PowerKVM, KVM for IBM z, Xen)
* KVM
* VergeOS
* Huawei FusionCompute
* Verge

### Containers:

* Kubernetes (deployment-level protection for Persistent Volumes)
* Red Hat OpenShift (deployment-level protection for Persistent Volumes)
* Proxmox VE

### Cloud solutions:

* Amazon EC2
* Google Cloud Platform / Google Computer Engine
* Azure Cloud
* Microsoft 365

### Storage:

* remote file system (including NAS file shares)
* Ceph RBD (with snapshot difference support)
* Nutanix Files (with Changed-File Tracking)
* Nutanix Volume Groups (with Changed-Region Tracking)
* SUSE Enterprise Storage

### Applications:

* the generic backup mechanism for the custom backup processes
* templates for commonly used applications

### Filesystem backup:

* Windows
  * Support for VSS
* Linux

## Advanced backup features:

* Snapshot Management (Copy Data Management)
* Snapshot consistent technology (quiesced/application-consistent snapshots or filesystem freeze)
* Pre/post snapshot remote command execution on VM to enable operations such as database quiesce
* Change Block Tracking (CBT) and Change file tracking (CFT) for faster incremental backups
* VM disks exclusion option
* Hyper-V direct transfer to the DataDomain (DD Boost API)
* Backup schedules
* Backup SLAs:
  * VM automatic policy assignment based on regular expressions and tags
  * backup job prioritization
  * multiple policy rules (with different scheduling and backup destinations) for the same protected object
* Multi-node architecture:
  * scalability
  * automatic task load balancing
  * suitable for geographically distributed environments
* Built-in Storware Backup & Recovery database backup

## Recovery features

* File-level restore using mountable backups
  * directly via a web browser
  * transfer to the remote host over SSH and WinRM
* Backup mount - RAW disks shareable over iSCSI (for direct block-access to your backup data)
* Recovery plans for automated Disaster Recovery
  * on-demand restore of multiple instances
  * automated schedules for recovery testing
* Customizable networking and disk layout during a restore
* Instant restore
  * Hyper-V
  * oVirt/RHV/OLVM instant restore
  * VMware instant restore
* Individual disk recovery

## Supported backup destinations

* File-based:
  * A synthetic backup provider using XFS, NFS 4.2, or Dell Data Domain Virtual Synthetic Full (DD Boost API)
  * Any mounted file system (local or remote, especially GlusterFS for replication, CephFS, NFS, SMB, and many more)
  * Dell EMC Data Domain (BoostFS integration)
  * Rubrik Managed Volumes
  * Catalogic vStor
* Object Storage:
  * Amazon S3 (with Amazon Glacier as a 2nd tier archive storage),
  * S3-compliant storage (IBM Cloud, Oracle Cloud, Scality RING)
  * Google Cloud Storage
  * Microsoft Azure Blob Storage
  * OpenStack Swift
* Enterprise-grade backup providers:
  * IBM Spectrum Protect (TSM)
  * Dell EMC Networker
  * Dell EMC Avamar
  * Veritas Netbackup
  * MicroFocus Data Protector
* Tapes
* Built-in data deduplication with Virtual Data Optimizer (VDO)
* Backup Copy - secondary backup destination to store data in more than one location
* Pre/post backup destination access command execution to execute custom operations on external storage providers such as replication

## Security features

* Role-based access control (RBAC) for administrative accounts
* Audit-log for administrative actions
* Customizable logging configuration for external SIEM support
* Data-at-rest encryption for file system backup destination
* Ransomware protection
  * Immutable Backup (XFS-based backup destination) that protects backup data from being encrypted by ransomware
  * Air-Gap Data Protection with:
    * Rubrik Managed Volumes
    * Catalogic vStor
    * isoLayer - using remote Red Hat linux based host and NFS

## Other features

* Web-based (HTML5) central management portal
* Advanced reporting
  * administrative portal
  * e-mail
* Event notifications using e-mail, Slack, or custom API call
* Command Line Interface (CLI\_ for advanced administrators
* Open API for 3rd party software integration (REST API)
* LDAP authentication
* OpenStack Horizon plugin
* oVirt/RHV/OLVM console integration