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FEATRURE BRIEF▷ NetBackup 7.6 - Direct virtual machine creation from backup with BMR

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Feature Description The last few years have seen a significant growth in the adoption of virtualized servers in data centers with many organizations converting to purely virtual environments. Even organizations that use physical servers in their production environments are starting to see the benefits of using virtualization in their disaster recovery and test and development environments. NetBackup’s Bare Metal Restore (BMR) feature has always provided an effective mechanism for migrating between physical and virtual environments by recovering backups of physical servers to virtual servers. In NetBackup 7.6 this “physical to virtual” recovery model has been greatly simplified allowing customers to achieve rapid physical to virtual migration and disaster recovery to virtual environments for Windows servers in both local and remote (disaster recovery) sites. Business Value The Bare Metal Restore “physical to virtual” recovery capability allows customers to recover backups of physical Windows servers to VMware virtual machines. Using VMware virtualization in a disaster recovery data center can significantly reduce both the capital and operational costs associated with maintaining a disaster recovery position by allowing a “lights out” facility to be rapidly spun up in the event of a site loss. Bare Metal Restore “physical to virtual” can be combined the NetBackup Auto Image Replication feature, allowing backup of physical servers to be replicated to a remote data center. VMware ESX servers at this disaster recovery facility can be left powered off until required and then powered up. Once the ESX servers are available the replicated backups of the physical servers at the product site can be quickly restored to virtual machines running on the ESX servers rather than needing to deploy physical servers. For disaster recovery testing purposes the virtual machines created during the recovery process can simply be deleted once the testing activities are complete. A similar approach can be used in test and development environments with backups from physical production servers being used to create virtual test servers.