Avamar and VMware

Avamar software quickly and efficiently protects VMware Infrastructure environments by reducing the size of backup data within and across virtual machines - using agents in the virtual machines or on the VMware vStorage APIs for Data Protection proxy server.

For virtual machine backups, Avamar eliminates traditional backup bottlenecks caused by the large amount of redundant data that must pass through the same set of shared resources - the physical server's CPU, Ethernet adapter, memory, and disk storage.

Avamar reduces the traditional backup load - up to 200 percent weekly - to as little as 2 percent over the same day period, dramatically reducing backup times and resource utilization.

Key Avamar benefits include:

• Up to 10x faster daily full backups
• Up to 500:1 reduction in required daily network bandwidth
• Up to 50:1 reduction in required global backup storage media
• Encryption of backup data in flight and at rest
• Fault tolerance across Avamar nodes and elimination of single points of failure using the patented RAIN technology
• Scalable grid architecture
• Daily server integrity and data recoverability checks
• Simple one-step recovery
• Flexible deployment options, including EMC Avamar Data Store and EMC Avamar Virtual Edition for VMware (a virtual appliance)
• Improved physical server consolidation rations