VDR for SMB – vEssentials, VMware ESX Server 3, and VirtualCenter Agent

VDR for SMB is an enterprise-class, cost-effective and disaster recovery solution for small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs) in UK and Ireland. VDR for SMB is targeted at customers with between five and 50 physical servers and who are looking to experience the true benefits of virtualisation and disaster recovery for the first time.

VDR for SMB includes VMware Infrastructure 3 Starter Edition, Vizioncore vEssentials, which includes modules for hot backup and recovery, replication and virtual machine tuning and performance. It provides SMBs with an affordable way to consolidate their physical servers, maximise resource usage and simplify management. In addition, they can then back up those virtual machines to remote locations as well as replicate them in real-time for failover in the event of disaster.

Existing Traditional Physical Environment

In order to implement a solid disaster recovery and business continuity strategy, traditional physical environments require duplication of hardware, operating systems, application and data at an offsite, remote location. Once this site is in place, it also must be maintained and updated on a regular basis , which also consumes additional time and resources and is prone to human and system errors.

As a result, mid-size businesses must be extremely selective in how they direct their resources in a backup and recovery strategy. Most conduct file-level backups which protect only data. However, this still leaves the arduous task of rebuilding the OS, applications, configuration settings and updates in the case of a major failure. Therefore, many businesses are looking for a more reliable, faster disaster recovery strategy.

New Virtualized Environment

Virtualization can enable true, cost effective disaster recovery and business continuity solutions. With VMware Starter Edition, small to mid-size businesses can affordably virtualize and consolidate their environments to run the same number of applications on fewer servers for easier management and improved productivity.

Because virtual machines are now fully encapsulated files, they can be backed up as a single file with Vizioncore’ s vRanger Pro that can be sent to a remote location for later recovery in the event of failure. In addition, with Vizioncore’s vReplicator, companies now have the ability to do real-time replication of complete virtual machines offsite for failover capabilities. Vizioncore’s vCharter allows any level administrator to easily monitor and manage the complete environment.

VDR for SMB brochure

"Virtualization Brings Affordable Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery to Companies of All Sizes" (white paper)

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Virtualization Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity Solution Bundle includes:

ESX Server 3 is the leading industry-recognized platform for virtualizing servers, storage and networking.
VirtualCenter Agent coordinates actions received from VirtualCenter Server.
vRanger Pro is the leading hot backup and recovery solution for virtualized environments.
vReplicator is the only true replication solution for VI3 that allows for selective replication of critical-level virtual machines.
vCharter allows multi-level views of virtual machines to fine tune performance and eliminate bottlenecks for use by any level administrator.