Tag: hyper-v

Altaro VM Backup now supports Windows Server 2016

Altaro has released new version of their main product – Altaro VM Backup. Now you can protect the latest Windows Server environment by using the most advanced technologies like Augmented Inline Deduplication, Boot VM from Backup and place your backup copies to offsite location through the completely redeveloped Offsite Server.

Augmented Inline Deduplication

Altaro VM Backup with Augmented Inline deduplication improves backup and restore speed. It’s the best deduplication in the industry, creating the smallest backup size. Augmented Inline deduplication runs across all backup jobs, no need to group VMs together (no use of post processing).

  • Much lower storage requirements. Creates the smallest backup size compared to other backup vendors
  • Faster backups (less data to transfer)
  • Efficiency increases as more VM backups are added. Huge savings on storage!

Boot VM from Backup

Instantly boot any VM version from the backup location without affecting backup integrity. The VM may optionally be restored in the background while booted without losing any changes.

  • When a VM goes down, boot a Virtual Machine directly from your Backup Location in seconds, allowing users to continue to access it right away
  • In the background the VM Backup is restored back to the Hypervisor as well as any new changes made to the booted VM
  • Once all changes are recovered, simply switch over to the recovered VM. This minimizes Downtime to a simple VM reboot at the end of the Recovery process, instead of having to wait for the entire VM to restore.

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A brand new look for the Altaro Offsite Server

A completely redeveloped Backup Server, with a brand-new look, is the best tool around to manage your offsite backups. The Altaro Offsite Server is used to replicate VM backups to an offsite location. The Altaro Offsite Server can be connected to the machine running an instance of Altaro VM Backup both via LAN or WAN connection.

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Miscellaneous  improvements

VM Backup leverages CPU multithreading and arithmetic abilities to boost up the backup speed and to achieve lower CPU requirements.

New cloud tool (Cloud Management Console) to manage and monitor entire Altaro VM Backup environment will be available in the next VM Backup release. CMC gives a different dashboards to quickly get backup state , offsite copies, system health information. CMC will be also shipped with the abilities to push upgrades, configurations and licenses to the distributed VM backup instances.

Upgrade it or start free trial right now

Altaro VM Backup is available for free trial (30 day unlimited edition and completely free for up to 2 VMs per host)

Microsoft MVP 2016

Microsoft MVP Award Logo 2016

I’m happy and proud to announce that I’ve just received my 3rd Microsoft MVP award

Dear Roman Levchenko,

Congratulations! We are pleased to present you with the 2016 Microsoft® MVP Award! This award is given to exceptional technical community leaders who actively share their high quality, real world expertise with others. We appreciate your outstanding contributions in Cloud and Datacenter Management technical communities during the past year.

This year becomes special to me.  VMware vExpert 2016 award 1 month ago and now I’ve got a confirmed Microsoft MVP for the next 12 months as well. I’m very honored to be a part of this and will do my best every single day.

Microsoft MVP provides a list of great opportunities for me such as MVP Global Summit (event organized by Microsoft specially for MVPs) , technical subscriptions (Office365, MSDN) and online/offline meetings with Microsoft staff where you can have a talk with internal Product Groups. These benefits are helping me to acquire advanced knowledge about both upcoming and GA products (…a big round of applause goes to MS)

I’d like to thank my readers, fellow MVPs and other followers that support me over years.