vRanger Pro P2V-DR Module
October 29th, 2007 | 
Author: Vizioncore: vRanger Pro P2V-DR Module
Vizioncore’s new P2V-DR module adds the ability to create backups of running physical servers on centralized Windows storage.
“The P2V-DR Module in vRanger Pro leverages the robust conversion engine of Vizioncore’s vConverter software. The cloning method employed by vConverter is executed at the “block-level” as opposed to “file-level” which results in extremely fast & reliable conversions with superior completion rates and no data loss.”
Unlike Ghost or other products that allow you capture an image of a server for bare metal restores, Vizioncore’s new module captures the server image while the server is live, and those images are converted for restoring the image to a VM. This sounds similiar to Platespin’s P2I (physical to image) conversions.
“The P2V-DR module can extend your disaster recovery strategy to cover your physical machines. Now you can create images of both your physical and virtual machines which can be sent and archived at a remote site. In the event of a major failure of the operational site, the VM clones can quickly be restored to another site using the vRanger Pro interface and users can access their data and applications within hours.”
Vizioncore also suggests that their new module can also expand a company’s data archiving strategy.
“In many cases, versions of physical server deployments need to be archived to protect investments in intellectual property or critical historical data of an organization. With the P2V-DR module in vRanger Pro, companies have an extremely cost-effective way to archive point-in-time physical machines, keep track of them with centralized management features, take advantage of compression to reduce the size of the backups for lower storage costs and retore them easily if and when needed through vRanger Pro.”
The P2V-DR module can also leverage scheduled backups of frequently changing data on physical machines so that once the decision is made to migrate to P2V, the most recently created baackup can quickly be restored as the new VM.
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