Main Features

Storware Backup and Recovery is a data protection solution for virtual environments, storage, 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.

Supported backup platforms

Virtual Machines

  • HC3/Scale

  • Microsoft Hyper-V

  • Nutanix

  • OpenShift Virtualization

  • Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager

  • oVirt

  • Proxmox VE

  • Red Hat Virtualization

  • SC//Platform

  • VergeOS

  • VMware vSphere

  • XCP-ng

  • XenServer (Citrix Hypervisor)

Containers

  • Kubernetes

  • Proxmox VE

  • Red Hat OpenShift

Cloud

  • Azure Stack HCI

  • OpenStack (Vanilla, Red Hat, Canonical, and OpenStack-compatible)

Storage

  • Ceph RBD

  • Nutanix Files (with Changed-File Tracking)

  • Nutanix Volume Groups (with Changed-Region Tracking)

Applications

  • Generic, customizable mechanism to plug in any script-based application backup into the central console

  • Allows the use of native backup mechanisms of apps such as databases, hypervisor configurations, Git, and more

Agent for file-level backup

  • Windows (including VSS)

  • Linux

  • macOS

Advanced backup features

  • Snapshot Management

  • Snapshot consistent technology

  • Pre/post remote command execution on VM

  • 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)

  • VM automatic policy assignment based on regular expressions and tags

  • Backup job prioritization

  • Multi-node architecture

  • Automatic task load balancing

    • Suitable for geographically distributed environments

Recovery features

  • File-level restore using mountable backups

  • Option to share RAW VM disks in backup over iSCSI

  • Recovery plans for automated Disaster Recovery

  • Schedulable execution for automatic recovery testing

  • Customizable networking and disk layout during a restore

  • Instant restore

    • Hyper-V

    • oVirt/RHV/OLVM

    • VMware

    • OpenStack

  • Disk/network/security group selection

Supported backup destinations

  • Filesystem-based:

    • A synthetic backup provider for XFS/NFS 4.2/ZFS or Dell Data Domain

    • Rubrik Managed Volumes

    • isoLayer (Air-Gapped Protection)

    • Catalogic vStor

    • Any mounted file system

  • Object Storage:

    • Amazon S3 / S3-compliant storage

    • Impossible Cloud

    • Google Cloud Storage

    • Microsoft Azure Blob Storage

  • Enterprise-grade backup providers:

    • IBM Spectrum Protect (TSM)

    • Dell EMC Networker

    • Dell EMC Avamar

  • Tapes

  • Built-in data deduplication with Virtual Data Optimizer (VDO)

  • Backup Copy - secondary backup destination to store data in more than one location

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

  • Immutable Backup that protects backup data from being encrypted by ransomware

  • Air-Gap Data Protection with:

    • Rubrik Managed Volumes

    • Catalogic vStor

    • isoLayer

Other features

  • Web-based central management portal

  • Advanced reporting

  • Event notifications using e-mail, Slack, or custom API call

  • Command Line Interface

  • Open API for 3rd party software integration (REST API)

  • LDAP authentication

  • Keycloak authetication

  • OpenStack Horizon plugin (with option to integrate into Skyline)

  • oVirt/RHV/OLVM console integration

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