Vembu BDR Suite Edition Comparison
Compare Free vs Standard vs Enterprise Edition
Vembu BDR Suite comes with three different editions that aims at ensuring modern data protection to Small, Medium, and Enterprise businesses. 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.
VMware Backup & Replication
| Features | Free | Standard | Enterprise | Notes |
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| Backup | ||||
| Agentless backups for VMware vSphere |  |
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Configure image based backups for VMs on ESXi(s) without actually installing any agent inside each VM |
| vCenter level backup | |
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Protect VMs on VMware vCenters by configuring agentless image based backups from the Vembu BDR Server console |
| Application Aware Backup Processing | |
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Create 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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Vembu VMBackup utilises the HotAdd feature by automatically mounting the data volume of the virtual machine to the Vembu BDR Server for faster backup processing |
| VM/Disk Exclusion |  upto 3 VMs |
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Exclude specific VMs/Disk(s) from being backed up, both at VM level and host level |
| Near CDP (Continuous Data Protection) | upto 3 VMs |
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Ensure lesser RPO with incremental backups that can be scheduled every 15 minutes |
| Changed Block Tracking (CBT) | upto 3 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 |
| Forever incremental | upto 3 VMs |
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After the successful full backup, only incremental backups will be taken thereafter |
| Advanced Reverse Incremental | upto 3 VMs |
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Vembu’s in-house file system-VembuHIVE reduces the I/O latency by virtually merging the incremental backups and retains it as synthetic full backup for every recovery point |
| Log truncation for MS Exchange | upto 3 VMs |
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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 | upto 3 VMs |
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Users can truncate the logs of MS SQL post successful backup completion to save storage space as well |
| Retention policies (Basic) | upto 3 VMs |
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Provides the flexibility to retain upto 99 daily merged recovery points for data archival and management |
| Retention policies (Advanced- GFS) | |
With this functionality, you can manage recovery points that can span years with multiple merge combinations using daily/weekly/monthly merge options | ||
| LAN free data transfer using SAN transport mode | |
On a SAN connected ESXi host, Vembu VMBackup utilises this fastest data transport mode for backing up virtual machines by obtaining information directly from the SAN or iSCSI LUN where the virtual disks reside | ||
| Backup persistent data | |
Changes that are made during the Quick Boot session are also stored as persistent data and can eventually be included during the permanent restore | ||
| Tape Backup Support | |
Implement 3-2-1 backup strategy by archiving VMware backup to standalone tapes and tape libraries greater than LTO-3 as a secondary 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 | ||||
| Quick VM Recovery to ESXi | |
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Instantly recover the backup by booting it as a VM on an ESXi host |
| Quick VM Recovery to Hyper-V | |
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Instantly recover the backup by booting it as a VM on a Hyper-V host |
| Quick VM Recovery to KVM | |
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Instantly recover the backup by booting it as a VM on a KVM host |
| Permanent VM Recovery | |
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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 directly from the backed up data using Vembu Universal Explorer |
| Instant Granular Recovery for Microsoft SQL | |
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Browse, search and restore the individual databases and tables from the backed up VM using Vembu Universal Explorer |
| Instant granular recovery for Microsft SharePoint | |
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Browse, search and restore the individual SharePoint sites and documents from the backed up data using Vembu Universal Explorer |
| 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 backed up VM using Vembu Universal Explorer without restoring entire backup |
| Cross Hypervisor Migration (V2V) | |
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Perform quick migration with lesser time from one hypervisor to another |
| Instant File-level recovery | |
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Instantly recover the individual files and folders 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 |
| Disk level recovery | |
Attach the disks of the backed up VM to another VM on a VMware host | ||
| Persistent boot | |
The changes made on the Quick booted VMs will be tracked and backed up. The changes can be included or excluded during 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 |
| Multiple storage location | |
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Storage devices of any file system that include local, SAN, NAS, DAS can be used for storage |
| In-built Compression and Deduplication | |
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Backed up data is stored on the backup server after compression and deduplication to manage storage efficiently |
| End-to-End encryption | |
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Encrypt all your backup data with inbuilt AES-256 bit algorithm for secure backups |
| OffsiteDR Replication | |
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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 for spontaneous data recovery | |
| CloudDR Replication | |
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Create redundant copies of the backed up data by replicating multiple backup servers 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 that are sent off-site are optimized thereby saving bandwidth | |
| Backup window settings | |
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Prevent backups from interrupting your network traffic during critical operations by blocking the backup schedule for certain periods | |
| 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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Helps administrators orchestrate the backup data and leverage them to users by providing either full or restricted access | |
| 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 and utilization | |
| Automated backup verification | |
Verify the recoverability of the backup data automatically by performing boot, mount and integrity check for every image based backup jobs | ||
| Distributed Vembu VMBackup agents | |
Deploy proxies on multiple clients to decrease the load on the main backup server | ||
| Bandwidth throttling in client & Backup server | |
Optmize your network utilization during peak production hours by limiting bandwidth usage. |
Hyper-V Backup
| Features | Free | Standard | Enterprise | Notes |
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| Backup | ||||
| Agentless image backups for Hyper-V | |
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Configure image backups for VMs running under Hyper-V on SMB share without installing an agent inside each VM |
| Backup VMs running on Hyper-V Cluster | |
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Backup the VMs running on Hyper-V cluster, even if the VMs configured for the backups moves from one host to another |
| Backup Hyper-V on Cluster Shared Volumes | |
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Protect the Hyper-V servers residing on Cluster Shared Volumes |
| Shared VHDX backup | |
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Backup the data from Shared VHDX |
| Application Aware backup processing | |
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Create application aware & database consistent backups for the VMs running on your ESXi host or vCenter server (including log truncation) |
| Backup multiple VMs | |
|
|
Backup multiple VMs irrespective of size, type, application, data and operating systems in a single backup job |
| Automatic Backup Scheduling | |
|
|
Automate your backups by scheduling them on hourly/ daily/ weekly basis |
| VM/Disk exclusion | upto 3 VMs |
|
|
Exclude specific VMs/Disk(s) from being backed up, both at VM level and host level |
| Near CDP (Continuous Data protection) | upto 3 VMs |
|
|
Ensures lesser RPO with incremental backups that can be scheduled every 15 minutes |
| Changed Blocked Tracking (CBT) | upto 3 VMs |
|
|
Only the blocks that have changed since the previous backup are tracked and backed up in the successive incremental schedule |
| Forever Incremental | upto 3 VMs |
|
|
After the successful full backup, only the incremental backups will be taken thereafter |
| Advanced Reverse Incremental | upto 3 VMs |
|
|
Vembu’s in-house file system-VembuHIVE reduces the I/O latency by virtually merging the incremental backups and retaining it as synthetic full backup for every recovery point |
| Log truncation for MS Exchange | upto 3 VMs |
|
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The transaction logs of MS Exchange can be truncated after successful backup for effcient storage management |
| Log truncation for MS SQL | upto 3 VMs |
|
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Users can truncate the logs of MS SQL post successful backup completion to save storage space |
| Retention policies (Basic) | upto 3 VMs |
|
|
Provides the flexibility to retain upto 99 daily merged recovery points for data archival and management |
| Retention policies (Advanced- GFS) | |
With this functionality, you can manage recovery points that span years with multiple merge combinations using daily/weekly/monthly merge options | ||
| Backup persistent data | |
Changes that are made during the quick boot session are stored as persistent data and can eventually be recovered during permanent restore | ||
| Native Tape Backup Support | |
Implement 3-2-1 backup strategy by archiving the Hyper-V backup to standalone tapes and tape libraries greater than LTO-3 as a secondary backup | ||
| Recovery | ||||
| Quick VM recovery to Hyper-V | |
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Instantly recover the backup by booting it as a VM on a Hyper-V host |
| Quick VM recovery to ESXi | |
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Instantly recover the backup by booting it as a VM on an ESXi host |
| Quick VM recovery to KVM | |
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Instantly recover the backup by booting it as a VM on a KVM host |
| Permanent VM recovery | |
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Recover your backup data permanently to same or different Hyper-V Server |
| 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 using Vembu Universal Explorer. |
| Instant granular recovery for Microsoft SQL | |
|
|
Browse, search and restore the individual databases and tables from the backed up VM using Vembu Universal Explorer |
| Instant granular recovery for Microsft SharePoint | |
|
|
Browse, search and restore the individual SharePoint sites and documents from the backup data using Vembu Universal Explorer |
| Instant granular recovery for Microsft Active Directory | |
|
|
Browse, search and restore the individual user roles and other AD items from the backup VM using Vembu Universal Explorer without restoring entire backup |
| Cross Hypervisor Migration (V2V) | |
|
|
Perform quicker migration with lesser time from one hypervisor to another |
| Instant File-Level recovery | |
|
|
Instantly recover the individual files and folder from the backed up VMs without actually restoring the entire VM |
| Disk Management mount | |
|
|
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 |
| Persistent boot | |
The changes made on the Quick booted VMs will also be tracked and backed up. The changes can be included or excluded during permanent recovery | ||
| Management | ||||
| Web based management console | |
|
|
The backups are configured and edited from a single web console |
| Reports and email notification | |
|
|
Reports for every backup schedule is generated and can be sent as emails to multiple users as well |
| Multiple Storage location | |
|
|
Storage devices that include local, SAN, NAS, DAS can be used for storage that supports all the filesystems |
| In-built compression and deduplication | |
|
|
Backed up data is stored on the backup server after compression and deduplication to manage storage efficiently |
| End-to-End encryption | |
|
|
Encrypt all your backup data with inbuilt AES-256 bit algorithm for secure backups |
| OffsiteDR replication | |
|
Offsite Disaster Recovery provides extended data protection to safeguard sensitive business data by replicating them from production site to offsite data center for spontaneous data recovery | |
| CloudDR replication | |
|
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 | |
| WAN acceleration | |
|
The compressed, encrypted and deduplicated blocks that are sent off-site optimize the data transfer rate thereby saving bandwidth | |
| Backup window settings | |
|
Prevent backups from interrupting your network traffic during critical operations by blocking the backup schedule for certain periods | |
| Web services API | |
|
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 | |
|
Helps administrators orchestrate the backup data and leverage them to users by providing either full or restricted access | |
| Vembu BDR360 for centralized monitoring | |
|
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 | |
|
Scale out your storage repository by adding physical/network storage devices based on your storage needs and utilization | |
| Automated backup verification | |
Verify the recoverability of the backup data automatically by performing boot, mount and integrity check for every image based backup jobs | ||
| DIstributed Vembu VMBackup agents | |
Deploy proxies on multiple clients to decrease the load on the main backup server | ||
| Bandwidth throttling in client & Backup server | |
Optimize your network utilization during peak production hours by limiting bandwidth usage |
Windows Server Backup
| Features | Free | Enterprise | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Backup | |||
| Full Image backup | |
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Backup the entire machine including the operating system, applications and data |
| Backup selected disks or volumes | |
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The user can backup a particular disk or volumes of their need |
| Backup MBR & GPT Partitions | |
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The GPT partitioned disks or disks more than 2TB will also be backed up |
| Backup disks more than 2 TB | |
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The disks which are more than 2 TB can also backed up using Vembu ImageBackup |
| Application Aware Backup Processing | |
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Create application consistent, image-level backups with advanced Application-Aware processing (including transaction log truncation) |
| Automatic Backup Scheduling | |
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Backups can be automatically scheduled as per the user’s flexibility |
| Edit existing backup job configuration | |
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Backup jobs can be re-configured any number of times as per the user’s needs |
| Near CDP (Continuous Data Protection) | |
Incremental backup can be scheduled every 15 mins to ensure RPO < 15 mins | |
| Changed Block Tracking (CBT) | |
Only the blocks which have changed since the previous backup are tracked and the changed blocks are alone backed up in the successive backup | |
| Forever incremental | |
After the successful full backup, only the incremental backups will be taken thereafter | |
| Advanced Reverse Incremental | |
Vembu’s in-house file system-VembuHIVE reduces the I/O latency by virtually merging the incremental backups and retaining it as synthetic full backup for every recovery point | |
| Retention Policies (Basic) | |
Provides the flexibility to retain upto 99 daily merged recovery points for data archival and management | |
| Retention policies (Advanced- GFS) | |
With this functionality, you can manage recovery points that span years with multiple merge combinations using daily/weekly/monthly merge options | |
| Backup persistent data | |
Changes that are made during the quick boot session are stored as persistent data and can eventually be recovered during permanent restore | |
| Recovery | |||
| Bare metal Recovery | |
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Recover the backed up image data to a new hard-drive using Vembu Recovery CD |
| File Level Recovery | |
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Individual files and folders can be easily recovered from the image backup instead of restoring the whole machine |
| Quick VM Recovery to VMware | |
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The backed up image data will be instantly booted on ESXi host |
| Quick VM Recovery to Hyper-V | |
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The backed up image data will be instantly booted on Hyper-V host |
| Quick VM Recovery to KVM | |
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The backed up image data will be instantly booted on KVM host |
| Disk Management Mount | |
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Auto attach the backed up image data (physical or virtual machine) on the disk management of local machine through the Vembu virtual drive |
| Instant Granular Recovery for Microsoft Exchange | |
|
Browse, search and restore the individual Exchange items such as emails, calendars, contacts of users directly from the backed up data using Vembu Universal Explorer |
| Instant Granular Recovery for Microsoft SQL | |
|
Restore the individual databases or tables using Vembu Universal Explorer without restoring entire machine |
| Instant Granular Recovery for Microsoft SharePoint | |
|
Restore the SharePoint sites and documents using Vembu Universal Explorer without restoring entire SharePoint machine |
| Instant Granular Recovery for Microsoft Active Directory | |
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Restore the user roles and other AD objects using Vembu Universal Explorer without restoring entire AD machine |
| Cross platform Migration (P2V) | |
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The backed up image data can be migrated to the hypervisors such as VMware ESXi or Microsoft Hyper-V |
| Disk/Partition Recovery | |
This option lets you restore backed up machines at disk/partition level in servers | |
| Persistent boot | |
The changes made on the Quick booted VMs will also be tracked and backed up. The changes can be included or excluded during permanent recovery | |
| Management | |||
| Web based management console | |
|
The backups are configured and edited from a single web console |
| Reports and email notifications | |
|
Status report of all backup schedules will be available in a single page and the same can be emailed to users |
| Multiple storage location | |
|
Storage devices of any file system that include local, SAN, NAS, DAS can be used for storage |
| Scale out storage repository | |
|
Based on storage utilization the storage devices can be easily scaled out |
| In-built Compression & Deduplication | |
|
Backed up data is stored on the backup server after compression and deduplication to manage storage storage efficiently |
| End-to-End encryption | |
|
The backed up data is encrypted against threats using AES-256 bit encryption algorithm |
| Bandwidth Throttling | |
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The bandwidth of the backup job can be throttled to reduce the network traffic during peak production hours |
| Automated Backup Verification | |
Verify the recoverability of the backed up images and screenshot of the booted Image backup will be mailed to administrators | |
| OffsiteDR Replication | |
The Backed up data will be replicated to an offsite location for Disaster recovery | |
| CloudDR Replication | |
The Backed up data will be replicated to Vembu Cloud for Disaster recovery | |
| Tape Backup | |
Implement 3-2-1 backup strategy by archiving the Windows Image backup to tape libraries greater than LTO-3 as a secondary backup | |
| WAN Acceleration | |
Only the compressed, encrypted and deduplicated blocks are sent offsite for replication, resulting in a significant decrease in the amount of data transfer |
