Nakivo expands Proxmox backup and DR capabilities in v11.1

Backup supplier Nakivo has moved to model 11.1 of its Backup & Replication software program. Key additions embrace expanded capabilities within the Proxmox virtualisation surroundings – an rising VMware different – that embrace catastrophe restoration (DR) orchestration. It additionally provides a a lot simplified connection to the shopper infrastructure for managed service suppliers (MSPs).

Nakivo additionally responded to questions on a safety vulnerability found earlier this 12 months by a third-party safety firm (see field beneath).

Nakivo gives backup for digital machines (VMs) and bodily machines, and may defend sources that vary from datacentres to edge units, in addition to cloud recordsdata and purposes. It gives replication and catastrophe restoration for some environments, with automated failover. All of that is admin-able from a single-pane-of-glass consumer interface.

In response to vice-president for product administration Sergei Serdyuk, Nakivo gives knowledge safety at “roughly half the value of opponents” within the backup area.

The corporate claims 16,000 clients, which embrace Coca-Cola, Cisco, Siemens, Honda and Radisson, the place they’re deployed in a minimum of some departments, if not the entire buyer surroundings, based on Serdyuk.

Core among the many additions in v11.1 is MSP Direct Join, which permits service suppliers to hook up with buyer environments with out the necessity for open ports and community configuration on the shopper aspect. In response to Nakivo, this may permit backup for VMware, Hyper-V, Proxmox VMs and bodily machines, in addition to working with Nakivo’s web site restoration function.

“Suppliers can set up our answer on the buyer web site. It may hook up with the answer put in on the MSP, and principally off they go. That is to simplify and velocity up deployments for MSP clients,” stated Serdyuk.

In the meantime, the brand new model sees expanded Proxmox capabilities. These embrace the power to create VM replicas, boot VMs from Nakivo backups, confirm backup integrity and restoration readiness, and restore from tape.

“With the brand new model, we are able to create Proxmox VM replicas in the identical or totally different areas,” stated Serdyuk. “So, clients can, in case of a catastrophe, simply swap to a reproduction VM as a substitute of spending time on restore from backup.”

Moreover, Nakivo claims to be the one backup supplier that provides catastrophe restoration for Proxmox environments.

In response to Serdyuk, that interprets to having in place a site-level workflow that’s depending on replication.

Additional additions to the most recent model of Nakivo embrace real-time replication for VMware, which was in beta however is now usually out there.  

There’s additionally the addition of granular bodily backups for Home windows and Linux bodily machines. This enables for backup of particular recordsdata and folders with out full backups, and storage of backups in any location, together with as copies to adjust to 3-2-1 backup plans.