Vembu BDR Suite Edition Comparison
Vembu BDR Suite comes in multiple editions to meet the organization’s specific requirements. You can easily change the editions when your organization’s needs change and grow.
Backup for VMware & Hyper-V is available in 5 Editions: Free, Standard Essentials, Standard, Enterprise Essentials, and Enterprise Edition.
Backup for Microsoft Windows, AWS, Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, Endpoints are available in two editions: Free 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
- 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 VMs – Backup 10 VMs for free with all the functionalities of Standard edition
- Workstation Image Backup (Windows) – Backup entire disks or selected volumes of 10 Windows Workstations for free
- AWS – Backup 10 AWS EC2 instances for free
- Microsoft 365 – Backup 10 Microsoft 365 users for free
- Google Workspace – Backup 10 Google Workspace users for free
- Workstation File Backup(Windows & Mac) – Backup files & folders from 10 Windows & Mac Workstations for free
- Vembu Backup & Replication for VMware
- Vembu Backup & Replication for Hyper-V
Vembu Backup & Replication for VMware
| Features | Free Edition | Standard/Standard Essentials Edition | Enterprise/Enterprise Essentials Edition | Description |
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| Backup | ||||
| Automatic Backup Scheduling | upto 10 VMs |
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Automate your backups by schedling them on hourly/daily/weekly/monthly basis |
| Application Aware Backup Processing | upto 10 VMs |
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Create application aware & database consistent backups for the VMs running on your ESXi host or vCenter server |
| Backup VMs from Multiple Hosts | upto 10 VMs |
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Backup multiple VMs irrespective of size, type, application, data and operating systems in a single backup job from different host |
| Synthetic Full Backup | upto 10 VMs |
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Create synthetic full backups by merging the full backup and all subsequent incremental backups instead of running an additional full backup. |
| Backup Job Template | upto 10 VMs |
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Create backup templates using frequently used backup configuration settings or predefined backup policies, and use them to create new backup jobs quickly. |
| Optimized Backup with Where-it-left-off | upto 10 VMs |
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Whenever a backup restarts from an interruption, the backup will automatically start from where it left off during the previous schedule |
| VM/Disk Exclusion | upto 10 VMs |
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Exclude specific VMs/Disk(s) from being backed up, both on VM level and host level |
| Changed Blocked Tracking (CBT) | upto 10 VMs |
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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 | Log Truncation | upto 10 VMs |
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Truncate the transaction logs of Microsoft Exchange & SQL after successful backup for effcient storage management |
| Basic Retention | upto 10 VMs |
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Provides the flexibility to retain upto 999 versions or 999 daily merged recovery points |
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GFS retention to create restore points on a weekly, monthly, quarterly, and yearly basis that are tied to an Additional Full Backup or a Synthetic Full Backup | ||
| Parallel VM Processing | ![]() |
Customize the number of backup jobs and the number of VMs/disks in a single backup job that can run in parallel | ||
| 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 | ||
| Replication | ||||
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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 | ![]() |
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Instantly recover the backup by booting it as a VM on an ESXi/Hyper-V/KVM host |
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Recover your backup data permanently to an ESXi host as a VM | 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 from the backup server GUI. |
| Instant Granular Recovery for Microsoft SQL | ![]() |
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Browse, search and restore the individual databases and tables from the backup server GUI. |
| Instant Granular Recovery for Microsft SharePoint | ![]() |
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Browse, search and restore the individual SharePoint sites and documents from the backup server GUI. |
| Instant Granular Recovery for Microsft Active Directory | ![]() |
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Browse, search and restore the individual user roles and other AD items from the backup server GUI. |
| Cross Hypervisor Migration (V2V) | ![]() |
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Perform quicker migration with lesser time from one hypervisor to another |
| Instant File-level recovery | ![]() |
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Instantly recover the individual files and folder from the backed up VMs without actually restoring the entire VM |
| Disk Management 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 |
| Instant Boot Live Migration | ![]() |
Migrate Instant Boot VMs from a disaster recovery host to your production infrastructure without any downtime while retaining all of the changes you’ve made to the VMs. | ||
| Disk Level Recovery | ![]() |
Attach the disks of the backed up VM to another VM on an ESXi host | ||
| Persistent Boot | ![]() |
The changes made on the Instant Boot VMs will also be tracked and backed up. The changes can be included or excluded during permanent recovery. | ||
| Management | ||||
| Rotated Drives as Backup Repository | upto 10 VMs |
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Set up rotated drives as the primary backup repository to store the backup data in multiple external hard drives and swap them on a regular basis. |
| Reports & Email Notification | upto 10 VMs |
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Reports for every backup schedule is generated and can be sent as emails to multiple users as well |
| Automated Backup Verfication | ![]() |
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Verify the recoverability of the backup data automatically by performing boot, mount and integrity check for every image based backup jobs | |
| Offsite DR Replication | ![]() |
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Backup data is stored on the backup repository after compression and deduplication to manage storage storage efficiently | |
| Cloud DR replication | ![]() |
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Create redundant copies of the backed up data by replicating multiple backup servers to the Vembu Cloud residing on AWS and recover them from anywhere at anytime | |
| Group Management | ![]() |
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Helps administrators orchestrate the backup data and leverage them to users by providing either full or restricted access | |
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