Vembu BDR Suite Edition Comparison
Vembu BDR Suite comes in multiple editions to meet the organization’s specific requirements. Each successive edition offers additional features that are edition-specific. As your organization’s needs change and grow, changing editions is easy.
Backup for VMware & Hyper-V is available in 5 Editions: Free, Standard Essentials, Standard, Enterprise Essentials and Enterprise Edition.
Backup for Windows, File & Application, AWS, Office 365, G Suite is available in Free Edition and Standard Edition.
Get started with knowing the differences between the functionalities of these editions to make the best decision that fulfills the backup requirements of your business.
What’s included in Free/Standard/Enterprise Edition?
Enterprise Edition
- Full functionality edition for VMware and Hyper-V backup modules
- Enterprise Essentials includes the same functionality as Enterprise edition and is available only for businesses with up to 10 CPU-Sockets or 100 VMs
Standard Edition
- Offers a subset of the functionality of Enterprise Edition for VMware and Hyper-V backup modules
- Full functionality edition for Windows, File & Application, AWS, Office 365, and G Suite backup modules
- Standard Essentials includes the same functionality as Standard Edition and is available only for businesses with up to 10 CPU-Sockets or 100 VMs
Free Edition
Available for all the backup modules and includes the following functionalities:
- VMware & Hyper-V – Backup Unlimited VMs with Standard Edition features for 10 VMs and limited features for all other VMs
- Windows Server – Backup Unlimited Windows Server with limited features
- Workstation (Windows & Mac) – Backup up to 10 Workstations with no feature restrictions. You can backup the Windows machine at image/file-level and Mac machine at file-level
- AWS – Backup up to 10 EC2 instances with no feature restrictions
- Office 365 – Backup up to 10 users with no feature restrictions
- G Suite – Backup up to 10 users with no feature restrictions
- Vembu Backup & Replication for VMware
- Vembu Backup for Microsoft Hyper-V
- Vembu Backup for Microsoft Windows
- Vembu Backup for File & Application
- Vembu Backup for AWS
- Vembu Backup for Office 365
- Vembu Backup for G Suite
Vembu Backup & Replication for VMware
Features | Free Edition | Standard/Standard Essentials Edition | Enterprise/Enterprise Essentials Edition | Description |
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Backup | ||||
Agentless VM backups | ![]() |
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Configure image-level backups for VMware vSphere VMs without installing any agent inside VMs |
vCenter level backup | ![]() |
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Add VMware vCenters and configure image-level backups for the VMs directly from the Vembu BDR Server console |
Application-aware backups | ![]() |
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Application-aware & database consistent backups for the VMs running on your ESXi host or vCenter server (including log truncation) |
Backup multiple VMs | ![]() |
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Backup multiple VMs irrespective of size, type, application, data and operating systems in a single backup job |
Automatic Backup Scheduling | ![]() |
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Automate your backups by scheduling them on hourly/ daily/ weekly basis |
HotAdd Transport Mode | ![]() |
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Utilizes the VMware HotAdd mode of data transfer for faster backup processing |
VM/Disk Exclusion | ![]() |
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Exclude VMs/Disks from being backed up |
Near Continuous Data protection | ![]() |
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Ensures lesser RPO with the incremental backups that can be scheduled every 15 minutes |
Changed Blocked Tracking (CBT) | ![]() |
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Only the blocks that have been changed since the previous backup are tracked and backed up in the successive incremental schedule |
Forever Incremental | ![]() |
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After the successful full backup, only the incremental backups will be taken thereafter |
Advanced Reverse Incremental | ![]() |
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Vembu’s in-house file system-VembuHIVE reduces the I/O latency by virtually merging the incremental backups and retaining it as a synthetic full backup for every recovery point |
Log truncation for MS Exchange | ![]() |
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The transaction logs of MS Exchange can be truncated after successful backup for efficient storage management |
Log truncation for MS SQL | ![]() |
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Users can truncate the logs of MS SQL post successful backup to save storage space |
Basic retention | ![]() |
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Provides the flexibility to retain up to 999 of daily merged recovery points for data archival and management |
Advanced retention (GFS) | ![]() |
Manage recovery points that can span years by merging the recovery points using daily/weekly/monthly merge options | ||
Backup Persistent Data | ![]() |
Utilizes the fastest VMware SAN transport mode for backing up virtual machines by reading the VM data directly from the SAN or iSCSI LUN where the virtual disks reside | ||
Native Tape Backup Support | ![]() |
Implement 3-2-1 backup strategy by archiving the VMware backup to standalone tapes and tape libraries greater than LTO-3 as a secondary backup | ||
VMware Backup Proxy | ![]() |
Distribute the workload of the Vembu BDR Server by processing the backups through the proxy agents | ||
VM File Exclusion | ![]() |
Exclude the files and folders from the VMs when taking the backup | ||
VM Replication | ||||
VM Replication | ![]() |
Replicate the VM running on an ESXi server to another ESXi server to ensure business continuity | ||
Failover | ![]() |
Failover the replicated VMs on the secondary site during a disaster | ||
Failback | ![]() |
Failback the replicated VMs to the source host or different host | ||
Recovery | ||||
Instant boot VM on VMware ESXi | ![]() |
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Instantly recover the backup by booting it as a VM on an ESXi host |
Instant boot VM on VMware Hyper-V | ![]() |
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Instantly recover the backup by booting it as a VM on a Hyper-V host |
Instant boot VM on VMware KVM | ![]() |
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Instantly recover the backup by booting it as a VM on a KVM host |
Full VM Recovery | ![]() |
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Permanently restore the backup VM to the same or different ESXi host |
Instant File-level Recovery | ![]() |
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Instantly recover the individual files and folders from the backed up VMs without restoring the entire VM |
Disk Mount | ![]() |
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Attach the backed up disks of your VMs virtually to the disk management of local machine through the Vembu virtual drive and restore the necessary files |
Disk Level Recovery | ![]() |
Attach the disks of the backed up VM to another VM on an ESXi host | ||
Instant Granular Recovery for Microsoft Exchange | ![]() |
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Browse, search and restore the individual Exchange items such as emails, calendars, contacts of users directly from the backup data |
Instant Granular Recovery for Microsoft SQL | ![]() |
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Browse, search and restore the individual databases and tables from the backed up VM |
Instant Granular Recovery for Microsoft SharePoint | ![]() |
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Browse, search and restore the individual SharePoint sites and documents from the backup data |
Instant Granular Recovery for Microsoft Active Directory | ![]() |
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Browse, search and restore the individual user roles and other AD items from the backup VM |
Cross Hypervisor Migration (V2V) | ![]() |
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Migrate the backup VMware VMs to other hypervisors such as VMware, Hyper-V or KVM |
Restore Persistent Changes | ![]() |
Include changes made on the VMduring Instant Boot VM session when performing the permanent recovery | ||
Management | ||||
Web Based Management Console | ![]() |
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Configure, edit and monitor your backups from a single web based user interface |
Reports and Email Notifications | ![]() |
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Status report of every backup schedule is generated and it can be delivered as an Email to the users |
Different Storage Mediums | ![]() |
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Storage devices of any file system that include local, SAN, NAS, DAS can be used as backup repository |
In-built Compression and Deduplication | ![]() |
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Backup data is stored on the backup repository after compression and deduplication to manage storage storage efficiently |
End-to-End Encryption | ![]() |
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Encrypt all your backup data with inbuilt AES-256 bit algorithm for secure backups |
Offsite DR | ![]() |
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Offsite Disaster Recovery provides extended data protection to safeguard sensitive business data by replicating them from production site to offsite data center | |
Cloud DR | ![]() |
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Create a copy of the backup data to the Vembu Cloud residing in AWS and recover them from anywhere at anytime | |
WAN Acceleration | ![]() |
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The compressed, encrypted and deduplicated blocks are sent off-site to optimize the data transfer rate thereby saving bandwidth | |
Backup Window Settings | ![]() |
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Prevent backups from interrupting your network traffic during critical operations by stopping the backup schedule for a certain period | |
Web Services API | ![]() |
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Integrate Vembu BDR Suite with third party products using the Web Service API’s provided by Vembu. You can use these APIs to automate any of the operations | |
Group Management | ![]() |
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Group the backup data and give access only to the particular group for the required users. | |
Vembu BDR360 for Centralized Monitoring | ![]() |
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End-to-End visibility to all the backup jobs through a single centralized web portal to enhance the productivity with extended reports and email notifications. | |
Scale-out Storage Repository | ![]() |
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Scale out your storage repository by adding physical/network storage devices based on your storage needs | |
Automated Backup Verification | ![]() |
Verify the recoverability of the backup data automatically by performing boot, mount and integrity check for every image based backup jobs | ||
Vembu Client Agent for VMware | ![]() |
Deploy client agents and configure backup jobs from them to reduce the load of the backup server | ||
Bandwidth Throttling | ![]() |
Optmize your network utilization during peak production hours by limiting bandwidth usage for offsite backup copy |
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