AIMstor Bare Metal Recovery
Bare Metal Restore: The System Recovery Challenge
At the heart of any backup strategy is having an optimum recovery mechanism. The efficiency and flexibility of your recovery tools dictates how quickly your systems will be back in service.
Consequently, an investment in a good disaster recover tool, for both physical and virtual machines, is no longer a choice; it is a necessity to most organizations.
Key Differences in AIMstor's Approach to Bare Metal Restore
- Feature
- Benefit
- Use Existing CDP & Backup
- Does not require the creation of specialized DR backups. As long as your backup is of the complete operating system, the Disaster Recovery Module will use those backups. This includes using live Backups and even AIMstor's native CDP snapshots, offering you "up-to-the-second" point in time recovery.
- Dissimilar Disk Recovery
- Allows the re-partitioning and re-formatting of disks enabling you to get the full benefit of recovering to a larger disk.
- Dissimilar System Restore
- Allows recovery to different host hardware. The facility to backup from one hardware platform and restore to a different hardware platform is ideal when there is complete system failure, or when there is a requirement to migrate to other hardware.
- Physical to Virtual support
- Allows a recovery of a physical machine to a Virtual machine and vice versa. This is ideal for environments that used virtual servers as standby machines, and also for physical to VM data migration.
- Granular Recovery
- Unlike many other recovery products, the AIMstor Disaster Recovery Module is not an "all or nothing" recovery system. You may mix and match watch is required. For instance, restore an old copy of the operating system, but include the latest application data (Oracle, SQL, etc.).
- Information Aware DR
- Why deal with legacy DR solutions? AIMstor provides policy driven data management, making DR an integral part of the information lifecycle for your data, from creation to disaster, AIMstor is aware
- Choose your disk
- Unlike volume image based Disaster Recovery products, which require the exact previous disk size for restores, AIMstor does not impede you from restoring to larger disk partitions, or if needed, smaller as well
- Disaster Ready
- In a real disaster, you may need to recover to different hardware where the motherboard, graphic card, network controller, RAM size, etc, may be different. AIMstor gives you this flexibility
- Unified Backup with Bare Metal Restore
- Unifies Live Backup with Scheduled Backup, Source and Target Deduplication, Continuous Data Data Production (CDP) and Bare Metal Restore within a single application with a single interface for a unified workflow. Bare Metal Restore pulls data from this unified framework for restore.
- Unified Data Protection
- Your Bare Metal Restore and Unified Backup can be further unified with Real-time Replication for Server Failover, and File Versioning and Archive into a single application for end-to-end data management and unified workflow.
- Centralizes Backups
- Backups from multiple nodes, laptops, desktops, file servers and application servers, for all-in-one, high performance, backup. Bare Metal Restore can be part of this unified and centralized framework as well.
- Event Notification
- AIMstor creates notification events based on log events. An advanced filter system allows events to be triggered by very broad or very specific criteria with event handlers that can email or write to the system log. The system is expandable so users could create their own event systems, and can help you be proactive with understanding when and where a Bare Metal Restore may be required somewhere within your AIMstor network.