What? Backup for FREE ESXi?
Unitrends announces support for Free ESXi – Free Edition supports free (unlicensed) version of Vmware vSphere Hypervisor. They did it again, they were first with support for Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V and VMware vSphere 5.1. VMware is again a viable option in SMB space.
Unitrends Enterprise Backup can be deployed as a virtual appliance on the complete ESXi family, now featuring support for ESXi Free.
Unitrends Enterprise backup Features:
Heterogenous: Support for over 100 versions of servers, storage and Operating systems including AIX, Solaris, OSX, Linux. Supports both Virtual and Physical.
Flexible recovery strategies with Instant spin-up recovery
Flexible data protection strategies
Global deduplication and CBT
Instant recovery
Near-continuous data protection
Archiving: make the most of your WAN
Replication and disaster recovery
If you are interested in the product you can read my review or visit the product website
Thanks for the Unitrends callout! Just a few more things you may not know about us…
+ Unitrends is available in two formats: physical appliance as well as a virtual appliance (deployable via VMware or Hyper-V)
+ Unitrends offers physical AND virtual server protection
+ Unitrends protect over 100+ versions of OSs, applications, hypervisors, etc.
+ We offer rotational archiving to disk, tape, SAN and NAS; Instant recovery of virtual machines; file-level recovery of files and folders; automated backup scheduling with flexible strategies; adaptive deduplication… and that’s just the beginning!
+ We also have a Free Edition of our virtual appliance that can protect 4VMs, free forever! You will find it here: http://www.unitrends.com/products/software/download