Overview

Replay for Hyper-V is an enterprise-class backup and disaster recovery solution designed for Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V environments. It supports both host and guest level backup methodologies while delivering accelerated application backups, fast local recoveries and disaster recovery, all in one solution. With Replay for Hyper-V, the entire hosts, select volumes and individual files within virtual machines can be restored. Replay’s compressed and de-duplicated point-in-time images are mountable as drive letters or mount points delivering storage efficient backups and fast recoveries. AppAssure also offers a free Explorer shell extension for Windows 2008 R2 and Windows 7 that mounts VHDs as drive letters or mount points so you can access the files within VHDs in seconds.

Features

• Backup Elimination
  • Live Host based and application-aware agent continuously images the Hyper-V host.
  • No need for agents on individual guests.
  • Unique compression and de-duplication reduces disk storage requirements by 80%
  • Overhead less than 1-2%  on virtual host
  • Integrated with Hyper-V VSS components
• Fast Local Recoveries
  • Point and click file recoveries from within virtual machines
  • Recover entire virtual machines in minutes.
  • Instant volume recoveries
  • Mount any image as a Windows share for migrations.
  • Bare-metal recoveries of Hyper-V Host to similar or dissimilar hardware
• Disaster Recovery
  • Off-site backups with Built-in replication, ideal for cloud based backup strategies.
  • Restore Hyper-V host locally or at disaster site.
  • Safeguard virtual host by creating a portable Rescue Image directly to removable storage devices.
• Centralized Management and Control
  • Easy to use enterprise console
  • Flexible retention policies
  • Exception alerting to Windows event log or to e-mail
  • Supports all Windows virtual workloads