Virtual Environments

Virtual environments offer a new set of challenges.  Although having more machines provides flexibility it also increases the backup administration and when backups are triggered. Instead of kicking off backups for a handful of systems, it turns in a handful of systems times 5 or 10.  VM’s draw on a hosting server’s resources, and they impact them during backups in a tremendous way. 

AIMstor Live Backup offers several key benefits to Virtual Environments:

• First, AIMstor is designed so that a multitude of machines can be added to a backup system easily - reducing the administration overhead. 
• Second, because AIMstor can apply live backup, it eliminates the backup window as there is no longer the need to hit machines with wasteful backup process.
• AIMstor automatically senses systems that are virtual or physical, allowing the administrator to create convenient groups and policies specific to VM needs.