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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.

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You don’t have the budget for the required infrastructure of VCB backups? Try esXpress from PHD technologies. I mean literally, try their free 30 day, fully functioning, fully supported demo that can back up live VMs to a dedicated VMFS partition, an FTP server, or both! After the 30 days you can continue to perform daily full backups for FREE!

Once you install it on all your ESX hosts, you can configure the backups from a basic console GUI or integrated within the VI client connected to the VC2 server.

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Quest is the parent company of Vizioncore. Look for some new VI monitoring tools from these guys soon, but for now check out:

vRanger (formerly ESXRanger) – is still the best VCB based solution for live VM backups IMHO. I am not sure of the general availability date, but the product will soon use MS VSS as well.

vReplicator (formerly ESXReplicator) – Service console based VM replication. The only solution that I know of at this time that goes the extra step and registers the replicated VM in the VI at the DR site.

vCharter – monitoring, drill down performance analytics, and charge back reporting tool

vMigrator –

“vMigrator provides a powerful tool that can support the upgrade process from ESX Server to VI3, by enabling smooth and seamless migrations to the new platform with minimal downtime even for complex environments.”

vOptimizer -

“vOptimizer is an advanced optimization solution that quickly and easily reduces a virtual machine’s virtual hard drive to the smallest size possible while optimizing Windows guest operating systems for speed and performance. “

vConverter – similar to VMware’s VMConverter in design but can also V2V

“vConverter enables fast and easy conversions without disrupting the source physical system during the conversion process. There are never any reboots, no need to visit machines being converted, no software to install on the source and no downtime. vConverter contains advanced disk and network I/O algorithms to ensure that the fastest possible conversions are executed, and extremely reliable block level cloning is performed to minimize any risk of data loss. “

vPackager – sounds like this product will give some competition to VMware’s LabManager

“With vPackager, customers can configure a Windows based VM with the applications and configurations they wish to distribute, then extract these changes to a compressed package. This package can be distributed without OS licensing implications and applied to similar VMs to merge the changes.”

From Vizioncore’s web page (linked below):

“vConverter is an enterprise-class conversion solution that significantly reduces the time and effort spent converting servers to the VMware, Microsoft, XenServer or Virtual Iron platforms. vConverter enables lightning fast and easy conversions without disrupting the source physical system during the conversion process. There are never any reboots, no need to visit machines being converted, no software to install on the source and no downtime. A significant R&D effort and focus on conversion reliability and efficiency has resulted in the fine tuning of read/write/transfer algorithms and the creation of several mechanisms which result in impressive speed and conversion completion metrics. Combined with an impressive simultaneous conversion capability, vConverter is ideal for medium to large server consolidation initiatives where hundreds or thousands of physical servers need to be virtualized. vConverter can migrate more servers per conversion window than any other conversion method or technology, dramatically reducing risk, cost and time from start to finish.”

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