Great news, everyone, a fresh Veeam plug-in for Hitachi Vantara systems can be acquired now! That is something I’ve already been personally looking forward to and am pleased to provide the news for you.

Let’s first breakdown what we must share and how it operates.

What’s the plug-in for the Hitachi Vantara systems?

It is a plug-in that’s leveraging the Veeam Universal Storage API that allows storage OEMs to permit Veeam integration to the arrays for backup and replication jobs.

What Hitachi Vantara systems are usually backed with the plug-in?

The plug-in shall need Veeam Backup & Replication v11 and can support the next systems:

• • VSP E Series

• • VSP F Series

• • VSP G Series

• • VSP 5000 series

What really does the Veeam plug-in perform?

You can find four main delights our customers can enjoy with the Hitachi Vantara storage plug-in:

      Decreased stress on primary storage:           The Backup from Storage Snapshots capability will certainly reduce the period of time a VM includes a VMware snapshot open and move data from the storage snapshot; effectively enabling you to have a backup at any area of the day for just about any kind of system while retaining Transformed Block Monitoring data. You’ll possess faster, less impactful backups.

      New recovery options from the storage snapshot:           The Veeam Explorer for Storage Snapshots capability enables you to restore data (a VM, file or application item) from the storage snapshot on the array. This could be done ad-hoc or with a schedule established on the Hitachi Vantara array. The figure below shows how easy it really is to restore from the storage snapshot:

Create storage snapshots easily: It is possible to orchestrate the creation of storage snapshots on the principal storage VSP arrays to make sure that you have the opportunity to recover when it’s needed. Unleash the potential with the info you possess: Essentially the most powerful capability may be the Virtual Lab capacity to operate an On-Demand Sandbox from the storage snapshot. This is powerful because the performance profile of the Virtual Lab function will undoubtedly be on-par with the merchandise workloads and it can help you save unplanned downtime on critical changes by entering a big change with complete preparation and confidence understanding the results. Everything from tests a change to a crucial application to updating to the most recent system updates will undoubtedly be finished with ease from the storage snapshots.

VMware backups with less I/O stress

The full total result is that with the plug-in for Hitachi Vantara systems, backups can be achieved without the pain linked to the removal of a VMware snapshot which has taken time (especially on a complete backup) and will mitigate the stun phenomena. This timeline will be visualized below:

Data recovery from storage snapshots

With the addition of the Hitachi Vantara systems as a plug-in to Veeam Backup & Replication, our joint customers can like a new recovery angle: Veeam Explorer for Storage Snapshots.

This versatile recovery technique shall allow a snapshot on the array to operate a vehicle recoveries with out a backup. You can find to eight different recovery scenarios with the storage integration up, shown below:

As the Veeam Explorer for Storage Snapshots shall give a great additional solution to recover, backups on different storage remain needed to stick to the 3-2-1-1-0 Rule !

I particularly benefit from the storage integration benefit for the potential recovery scenario to obtain out of a ransomware attack. I’ve spoken to numerous organizations who have utilized the storage integration to accomplish recoveries, but definitely recommend a minumum of one copy of backup data getting offline also, air-gapped or immutable for ransomware resiliency. Couple this with the Hitachi Vantara HCP for Cloud Scale (another Hitachi Vantara storage product), organizations might have end-to-end Hitachi Vantara systems with Veeam vendor and integrations verifications.

Hitachi Vantara storage plug-in download and much more

This latest plug-in provides Veeam customers more great methods to back up and enhance recovery choices for Hitachi Vantara systems. You will find more about Veeam and the storage integration capabilities here: