Three different architectures to choose from, depending on the backup and Spin up (LiveSpin™) resources required. Chose Single, Dual, and  high-availability Nodes, for small, medium and large enterprises workload

Integrated SAN block-based technology provides high transaction ability for cataloging, indexing, and fast synthetic backup build operations. Integrated NAS file-based technology provides the shared repository for storing and archiving. LiveSpin™ is an integrated virtualization layer facilitates spin up of replicated VMs directly on the DR365V appliance for instant disaster recovery Race to Zero Recovery Time™ Three levels of file isolation protect against ransomware attacks on backups and VM replicas.
(1)Multi-level authentication for repository protection.
(2) Exclusive assignment storage aslogical unit to the Veeam backup engine
(3) immutable 64 system images

Advanced data services include snapshots, Dedup, hardware encryption, tiering, thin provisioning and replication between sites or the cloud. Transportable features allow hot connect/disconnect of volumes and external appliances
for secure off-site storage. Cloud Connect Backup & Replication of backups and VM replicas to your choice of private and public cloud such Azure (Hot, Cool Blob) Amazon (S3, glacier)

Supported Hypervisors:

The backup engine automatically creates backup images of physical servers based on flexible user-defined policy. These images can be restored (bare metal recovery) to the same hardware, to dissimilar hardware to build a new server, or can be mounted as a drive to retrieve an earlier copy of a specific file, folder, etc.

Every backup is also automatically converted into a Virtual Machine. These Virtual Machines can then be quickly spun up and hosted on the DR365V appliance. This feature is quite useful for business continuity for your production environment if a physical server or workstation goes down and needs to be repaired. Replica Virtual Machines can also be used for any testing the user might choose including non-invasive compliance testing etc.

DR365V supports P2P, P2V, V2P, and V2V operations (Physical-to-Physical, Physical-to-Virtual, Virtual-to-Physical, Virtual-to-Virtual) including restoring physical machines to completely different hardware and restoring Virtual Machines to a completely different Hypervisor.  DR365V for Veeam also includes snapshot, one-pane management, SSL-encryption, level-1 data deduplication at the source, compression, and much more.

The DR365V appliance includes a Virtual SAN Appliance (StoneFly Storage Controller Virtual Machine SCVM™), a Virtual Enterprise Backup Engine (Veeam), and the ability to create additional Virtual Storage or Servers as needed.  DR365V flexibility replaces the “fixed hardware model” of the past with software-defined on-demand resource allocation (such as CPU, memory, storage, etc.) based on your application needs.

In addition to serving as a backup appliance, you can migrate your existing Windows and Linux physical servers into Virtual Machines running directly on the StoneFly DR365V appliance and greatly reduce your hardware footprint and run many more applications on much less hardware. Use of virtualized operating systems allows for complete hardware utilization and considerable reduction in power and cooling costs. DR365V can reduce the CapEx and OpEx of your datacenter by as much as one-third when the DR365V appliance and its capabilities are fully implemented in an operation.

StoneFly DR365V appliance’s built-in advanced features include delta-based snapshots with read-write snapshot volumes, Virtual Machine and volume backups, thin provisioning with space reclamation as needed for the vault, optimized block-level parallel hardware-assisted level-2 data deduplication with high-performance index engine and real-time synchronous replication (campus mirroring).Optional features include asynchronous replication, hardware-enabled block level AES 256 volume encryption, Fibre Channel SAN target, scale out NAS support for CIFS/SMB and NFS protocols, and VSS database agent support.

DR365V appliances can also be used for independent back-end enterprise storage (iSCSI, optional Fibre Channel, optional NAS) for your physical and Virtual Machines. This back-end storage provisioned by the DR365V employs all of the same advanced StoneFly features such as snapshots, read-write snapshot volumes, thin provisioning, hardware-assisted data deduplication, synchronous replication and more.

A look inside a single DR365V node:

A look inside a single DR365V-HA node:

• Full VM recovery  Recover an entire virtual machine (VM) on the original host or on a different host. Includes quick rollback functionality to restore changed blocks only.
• Instant VM Recovery Quickly restores service to users by starting a VM directly from a backup file on regular backup storage.
• Direct Restore to Microsoft Azure or Amazon Restore or migrate on-premises, Windows-based or Linux-based VMs, physical servers, and endpoints directly into Microsoft Azure
• Instant File-Level Recovery Recover files from 19 common file systems used by Windows, Linux, BSD, Mac OS, Novell, Solaris, and Unix.
• Veeam Explorer for Microsoft Active Directory, Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft SQL Server, and  SharePoint 
• Veeam Explorer for Oracle Restore individual Oracle databases with ease, without needing an extensive Oracle background (Enterprise Plus only)
• 1-Click File and VM recovery portal Restore Guest files and VMs with a single click through a web UI.(Enterprise Plus only)
• U-AIR® (Universal Application-Item Recovery) Recover individual objects for ANY virtualized application, including PostgreSQL and MySQL databases, by starting up the VM directly from a backup file in an isolated environment (Enterprise Plus edition only).
• Microsoft Exchange item recovery portal for help desk operators Restore missing mailbox items back to the original mailbox with a single click items back to the original mailbox with a single click  (Enterprise editions).
• Database recovery portal for Microsoft SQL DBAs Restore individual databases back to the original server or a new SQL server with a single click through a web UI. (Enterprise editions)
•  File-restore portal with automatic VM detection, and automatic delegation based on local administrator group membership. (Enterprise Plus edition only).
• Recovery delegation Enable full self-service for all web UI recovery features by delegating recoveries for individual VMs and groups of VMs to specific users or groups (Enterprise Plus edition only)
• Application-aware, image-based backups Create application-consistent, image-level VM backups with advanced, application-aware processing (including transaction log truncation).
• VeeamZIP™ Streamline ad-hoc backups of live VMs for archival purposes.
• ROBO Guest Interaction Proxy and Proxy affinity Reduce the load on the central backup server and simplify scalability for enterprise-level businesses with a large number of remote office/branch offices (ROBOs) when performing application- aware processing and guest file system indexing. Simplify job creation and map direct connections between proxies and backup repositories. (Enterprise editions)
• Backup I/O control Allows you to set the maximum acceptable I/O latency level for production datastores to ensure that backup and replication activities do not impact storage availability to production workloads. Enterprise edition includes a global latency setting, and Enterprise Plus edition provides setting customization on a per datastore basis.(Enterprise editions)
• Built-in deduplication and compression let you balance storage consumption with performance and backup proxy load, and swap exclusion reduces backup footprint and improves performance.
• Veeam Cloud Connect Backup Get your backups off site with fully integrated, fast and secure backup, and restore from the cloud.
• BitLooker Analyzes the NTFS Master File Table (MFT) to identify blocks belonging to deleted files and skips those blocks from image level processing to reduce backup file sizes and bandwidth consumption.
• Backup Copy jobs Copy all or selected VM backups to your DR storage location of choice automatically, including validation and remediation to ensure copies are available and reliable.
• Built-in WAN Acceleration Get backups offsite up to 50x faster and save bandwidth
• End-to-end encryption Secure backup data and network transfers with end-to-end AES 256-bit encryption
• Backup and archive files and VM backups to standalone tapes, tape libraries and virtual tape libraries connected to any Microsoft Windows server in your environment.
• File-selective, image-level processing Exclude individual files and folders during backup and replication to reduce the amount of data that needs to be transferred and stored.
• Planned failover  Facilitate data-center migrations with zero data loss.
• Replicate VMs on site for high Availability, or off site for DR.
• SureBackup®  and SureReplica Automatically test and verify every backup and replica VM for recoverability
• On-Demand Sandbox Storage Snapshots Run one or more VMs directly from a backup in an isolated environment with the ability to troubleshoot, test and train on a working copy of the production environment, without impacting business operations.
• Standalone Console Install the console separately from the backup server for installation on laptops and desktops, eliminating Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) sessions to a backup server
• Guest file system indexing  A catalog of guest files enabling effortless search of individual files to find and restore a file without knowing the precise file location, or the time when it was deleted.
• vCloud Director support Back up vApp and VM metadata and attributes and restore vApps and VMs directly to vCloud with full support for fast-provisioned VMs.
• Quick migration Migrate VMware VMs between hosts and datastores using
  VMware vMotion, Storage vMotion and Veeam-provided
  migration technology
• File Manager Integrates file management (Veeam FastSCP™) into
  the operator console.
• Support for VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V and Citrix hypervisor/Xenserver
• Multiple storage access options Backup and replicate directly from SAN and NFS storage, through hypervisor I/O stack or over LAN.
• Replace your data center by migrating existing Windows and Linux physical servers into Virtual Machines hosted on the StoneFly DR365V.
• Use the StoneFly DR365V appliance’s enterprise-class iSCSI storage (and/or optional Fibre Channel SAN storage or Scale Out NAS storage) for your:
• Physical machines
• Virtual Machines hosted on the StoneFly DR365V
• Virtual Machines hosted on third-party appliances running VMware, Hyper-V, KVM, or Citrix XenServer
• Global shared back-end object/block/image storage for OpenStack

 

• Create numerous delta-based snapshots to back up the iSCSI SAN volumes containing your VMs and storage. Then use mountable read-write snapshot volumes for recovery.
• Easy and flexible volume management and resource allocation with thin provisioning and space reclamation.
• Synchronously replicate (campus mirror) all of your VMs and storage to a second on premises DR365V appliance for business continuity.
• Asynchronously replicate all of your VMs and storage to the cloud or a StoneFly DR365V at a remote site for disaster recovery.
• Protect your data and increase system uptime with high-performance hardware RAID.
• Optimized storage efficiency with block level parallels uplicatdata dedion with high-performance index engine.
• Integrated SAN snapshot – Great for Ransomware isolation – Read only – Mountable as Read/Write
• Optional enterprise-level hardware-enabled block level AES 256 volume encryption.
• Scale out storage and VMs across multiple DR365V nodes.

• Microsoft Azure (page blob, hot blob, cool blob), AWS (S3, Glacier) and Private Cloud.

• Tiered Storage – Hot, Cold On-Prem or On-Prem to the cloud
• Each Node Scale up to 5 PB and Scale out with unlimited  capacity and number of nodes- HyperScale.
• Storage snapshots for popular host storages like  (HPE, NetApp, EMC and Nimble)

• Back up all of your virtual and physical machines with disk-level snapshots including operating system, applications, and data.
• Compression and deduplication optimize utilization of the network and storage. The volume of backup data can be reduced by up to 90% and maximizes backup speed.
• Manage the backup operations of all of your physical and virtual machines from a single centralized backup management console.
• Capability to create sector-by-sector backups for an exact copy of your disk or volume including unused space.
• Granular and file-level backups allow you to selectively back up specific files and folders, or even network shares.
• Manually exclude non-essential files or folders from your backups.
• Flexible scheduling options including hourly, daily, weekly, event-based backups and wake-on-LAN support.
• Manual or scheduled automatic backup validation.
• Balance all backups with bandwidth and disk-write speed throttling.
• SSL-encrypted data transmissions over the network and 256-bit AES encryption of backups protect your data.
• Change Block Tracking (CBT) of Virtual Machine backups reduces the volume of the backup data.
• Virtual Application (vApp) support to capture and recover entire vApps and their configurations.
• Pre/post commands.
• Remote installation and configuration of agents and updates across physical servers as well as remote restore.
• Perform agentless backups on all Virtual Machines running on DR365V, VMware, Hyper-V and Citrix hypervisor/Xenserver appliances.
• No additional licenses required to back up any Virtual Machines running on the DR365V including Exchange, SQL, SharePoint and Active Directory VMs.
• Migrate your physical servers into virtual servers that are hosted on the DR365V. Spin up new VMs as needed.

Data Deduplication Engines

Of the available data optimization technologies, data deduplication offers the greatest potential to deliver substantial and recurring impact on the cost and manageability of data growth. By reducing storage capacity, organizations will enjoy related cost reductions in areas including storage licensing, storage management, power, cooling, and data center floor space. Data deduplication makes it much more affordable to store, analyze, manage and house your data.

Data Deduplication Engine Level 1 – Source-Side

As a primary means of data reduction, a performance-optimized combination of deduplication and compression is used on the source-side to ensure that only unique data blocks not already present in the previous restore point are transferred across the network.

Data Deduplication Engine Level 2 – Target-Side

The secondary means of data reduction occurs at the target-side (directly on the backup repositories on the DR365V appliance).  This method of deduplication checks the received blocks against other Virtual Machine (VM) blocks already stored in the backup file, thus providing global deduplication across all VMs included in the backup job.