VMware ESX support in Asigra Televaulting 8

Server consolidation is driving deployment of virtualisation across enterprises of all sizes. However, to fully realize the benefits of virtualisation, organisations must consider their information recovery management strategy. Traditional backup and recovery strategies are not adequate to deliver the granular recovery demanded by the business. More important, the cost associated with traditional or agent based technologies essentially negates many of the cost advantages of virtualisation. Asigra Televaulting delivers a simple, elegant and cost effective agentless solution that enables the enterprise to maximise their virtualisation strategy while achieving superior information protection and recovery management without performance degradation.

Traditional agent based backup and recovery force the enterprise into a series of unattractive choices. Agent based technologies pollute the virtual environment. Agents, by their nature, lack cohesion. The need to physically install and manage agents on each application within the virtual server and each machine on the LAN is time and labour intensive. A single agent adds as much as 16% server overhead to each application. Add to that the security risk and cost of each agent and it becomes quite clear, agent-based backup and recovery dramatically impacts the TCO and performance of the virtual environment.

Read more about this topic in the Information Recovery Management: VMware overview paper.