Storware Backup and Recovery for RHV (formerly vProtect)

Storware for RHV is a backup and snapshot-management tool for VMs/containers running in RHV virtual environments and any application which allows to automate backup process with scripts. With easy management interface, you are able to quickly set up protection and store backups in several different backup providers.

Thanks to scalable architecture, data deduplication and compression provided by backup engine, your datacenter will be prepared for protecting not only data itself but the whole configuration of your virtual environments.

Storware for RHV is a reliable way to improve backup performance, automate recovery tests to ensure recoverability, and significantly save your resources, time and money.

Storware for RHV configuration wizard was design to make the launch of Storware for RHV fast and easy. Start to protect your VMs within minutes, automate and monitor backup processes from a single pane of glass.

Storware is a solution that extends capabilities of IBM Spectrum Protect Family (IBM Tivoli Storage Manager) by providing a comprehensive, scalable protection for RHEV environment.

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• Functional details

  - Full and incremental backups
  - Easy to use and intuitive management (HTML5 web UI and CLI)
  - 3 backup strategies: export storage domain (API v3), Proxy VM (snapshot-disk attachment, API v4), snapshot-chains (disk image transfer from hypervisor manager, API v4.2)
  - Independent backup server or proxy for legacy backup systems
  - Recovery plan for automated DR. Test backup automatically to ensure recoverability
  - Consistent licensing per Host or per VM
  - Tag-based VM auto-grouping and scheduling
  - Integration with IBM Spectrum Protect
  
  

• Competitive advantage

  Easy to use and manage
  Storware for RHV facilitates the implementation of virtual machine backup running on open platforms. By using hot-clone feature one is now able to quickly push VMs backup to Storware Server. Dynamic reconfigurations are available directly from the web interface.

  Snapshots supported
  Using snapshot based backup strategy, one can quickly backup not only data but also the configuration of the running virtual machines. Storware Storware also provides easy to use CLI and web UI management interfaces.

  Multiple backup destinations
  Backups can be stored in a flexible way locally, in OpenStack Swift object storage, IBM Spectrum Protect, S3 and many, many more. It is easy to use existing storage instance to keep backups of VMs according to the specific retention policy.

• Industries

  Cross Industry
  

• Solution areas

  Cross industry
  

• Customer size

  Very Small Business (Less than 50 employees)
  Small Business (50 to 99 employees)
  Midmarket Business (100 to 499 employees)
  Midmarket Business (500 to 1000 employees)
  Large Business (greater than 1000 employees)
  

• Languages supported

  Czech
  English
  Polish
  

• Countries/regions available for distribution

  Other

• Solution collateral

  Name	Date	Categories
  Product resources, documentation, latest leaflets	Mar 8, 2021	Products

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• Hardware/OS platforms

  CentOS
     Hewlett-Packard servers (incl. Compaq)
     Fujitsu Siemens servers
     Dell servers
     System x
     IBM PureSystems: PureFlex System and Flex System
     IBM Cloud
     Cloud - Other
  

• Services

  Business Recovery Services
  

• Software

  IBM Tivoli
     Tivoli
        IBM Spectrum Protect
        IBM Spectrum Protect Entry
        IBM Spectrum Protect Extended Edition
        IBM Spectrum Protect Suite
        IBM Spectrum Protect Suite Entry
  

• Storage devices

  Disk Storage Systems
     IBM Storwize V3700
     IBM Storwize V7000
     IBM Storwize V7000 Unified
     IBM System Storage XIV
  IBM System Storage Tape Storage Systems
     IBM System Storage LTO Tape
     IBM System Storage TS3100 Tape Library
     IBM System Storage TS3200 Tape Library
     IBM System Storage TS3310 Tape Library
     IBM System Storage TS3400 Tape Library
     IBM System Storage TS3500 Tape Library