Virtualized Environments

NowX not only functions on both physical and virtual machines. It also supports backup and restore, agentlessy leveraging the latest API’s from XenServer, VMWare and Hyper-V.

Traditional backup and recovery options do not provide the level of precision recovery required by the modern business. Also, and usually more significantly, the financial implications of traditional or agent based methodologies usually outweighs any cost benefits which virtualization may provide an organization.

The frequently seen agent-based backup and recovery structured approach will inevitably force most organizations into making a series of impossible decisions. Agent-based solutions, by proxy of their design, lack cohesion and do not function well inside virtual environments.

The required process of installation of the required agents to cover each application within the virtual server, and furthermore each machine on the LAN is time, labor, and ultimately cost intensive and redundant in terms of efficiency. Beyond the initial outlay, a single agent in a virtualized environment can add as much as 16% server overhead for each associated application. Factor in the security risks inherent in the use of agents and it’s clear that far from being a best-fit solution in a virtualized environment they serve the opposite function by impacting performance and increasing the total cost of ownership.

NowX provides the architecture and features required for a best-fit virtual environment backup and restore solution.

NowX allows companies to not only maintain the benefits associated with virtualized environments, but to build upon them with complimentary information protection and recovery management with no impact on performance. NowX provides simple implementation, operation and management by functioning as virtual appliances on both a client and server level.

NowX offers VM protection and recovery simplicity. NowX works to automatically discover new guest VM’s while providing backup configuration and management from a single centralized hub. Initial and ongoing backup configuration and management is a minimalized breeze with NowX; not least due it’s far reaching support for a broad range of applications and operating systems, as well as multiple backup sets such as SQL, Exchange, Sharepoint and other that are VSS aware.

Tested and verified on a wide range of virtualization platforms including:

• VMware VSphere 4, ESX 3.5, ESX 3.0, ESXi, Workstation and Server
• Citrix XenServer
• Microsoft Hyper-V
• Parallels and Virtual Containers
• VADP