As organizations consolidate more virtual machines on fewer servers and IT computing infrastructure is expected to support 24 x 7 operations, data protection and recovery becomes a greater challenge for IT managers. With nightly backup windows shrinking and more application data sets sharing fewer physical servers, both bandwidth and computing cycles require existing backup methods to be augmented with new technologies.

This paper will discuss:

• High performance, space-efficient hypervisor-aware SAN-based snapshot and replication support
  
• Automated, consolidated virtual machine backup and recovery
  
• Scalable HW-based solution for online data protection of virtual infrastructure