Software Reviews: Acronis® vmProtect™ 8

Best Backup and Recovery for VMware vSphere^®

Acronis^® vmProtect^™ 8 is the fastest, easiest and most complete solution to protect your VMware vSphere environment.

Most Complete

Acronis vmProtect 8 is the only solution that enables complete protection of VMware environments. It supports recovery of entire virtual machines; extracts individual files and Exchange items; and recovers entire ESXi servers, including binaries, configuration and VMs to a bare metal machine.
Any Destinations

Acronis vmProtect 8 offers the widest selection of backup destinations, including local disk, FTP, network shares, ESX(i) datastore, and the cloud to optimize storage.
Best Performance

Powered by Acronis' award-winning technology, Acronis^® vmProtect^™ 8 is the fastest way to backup and recover VMware virtual machines. Agentless backup with VMware API for Data Protection (VADP), Changed Block Tracking (CBT), hot-plug and direct SAN access makes backup and recovery fast and efficient.

New vmFlashBack technology provides near- instantaneous recovery, bringing virtual servers back to life 100 times faster than before.
Easy to Use

Manage Acronis vmProtect 8 from VMware® vCenter™ or an intuitive Web interface to manage backup and recovery using supported browsers.

Acronis vmProtect 8 is so easy to use you can quickly install, configure and start backing up your VMs in just minutes – reducing your operational and maintenance costs.

Features	Acronis vmProtect 8	Veeam Backup & Replication 6.1 Standard	Veeam Backup & Replication 6.1 Enterprise
Deployment
vSphere versions supported	Up to vSphere 5.1	Up to vSphere 5.0	Up to vSphere 5.0
Agent-less backup of virtual machines	Yes	Yes	Yes
Install app on Windows server / laptop / PC	Yes	Yes	Yes
Deploy app as ESX(i) Virtual Appliance	Yes
Management
Management from remote Web-based console	Yes
New! Management from VMware vCenter (all operations)	Yes
Storage
Disk, Network Share, or NAS	Yes	Yes	Yes
FTP and SFTP	Yes
Cloud-based storage	Yes
New! Staging / multi-destination	Yes
Backup
Always incremental backup (after first full backup)	Yes	Yes	Yes
Change Block Tracking (CBT) support	Yes	Yes	Yes
LAN-Free Backup	Yes	Yes	Yes
Excluding unused blocks, files, folders and volumes from VM backup	Yes
Automated backup verification without VM	Yes
Automated recovery verification by running a VM			Yes
Data deduplication between backup sessions	Yes
Encryption (AES 256 bit)	Yes
Recovery
Restore entire VM (full or run from backup image)	Yes	Yes	Yes
New! vmFlashBack /incremental restore	Yes
Recover entire ESXi host	Yes
File-level recovery	Yes	Yes	Yes
Microsoft Exchange mailboxes and e-mails recovery	Yes		Yes
Additional features
Replication	YES	Yes	Yes
Physical to Virtual (P2V) and Virtual to Virtual (V2V) Migration	Yes
Licensing
Per-socket license with unlimited VMs	$599.00	$699.00	$1,099.00

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