PHD Virtual Backup for Citrix XenServer is purpose built for XenServer and enables companies to perform autonomous, fault-tolerant backup and restoration of an entire virtual environment in less time at lower cost.  With PHD Virtual Backup you get:

• The fastest and most cost effective virtual machine backup solution.
• Dramatically lower backup storage requirements with TrueDedupe™, built-in, source-side data deduplication.
• Increased confidence in virtual machine restore with TrueRestore™, backup data integrity checking and self healing backups.
• The solution with direct management integration with XenCenter, providing a single pane of glass to manage your virtual machine backups.
• Support for XenServer, XenDesktop and XenApp so you can leverage the same solution across your virtual environment.

PHD’s VBA™ Architecture provides an agent-less solution giving you the ability to simultaneously backup and restore multiple VMs concurrently. PHD Virtual Backup deploys as a small virtual appliance on XenServer that autonomously conducts backups of all your virtual machines.

• Designed specifically for virtual environments and integrated with XenServer
• Backs up and restores any VM running on XenServer
• Does not compromise hypervisor performance or impact Dom0
• Does not require dedicated proxy servers, additional hardware or software

Key Features and Benefits:

XenCenter Management Integration - The XenCenter plug-in included with PHD Virtual Backup provides “single pane of glass” management of virtual machine backup and restore directly from the XenCenter management console. 

TrueDedupe™ Technology - PHD’s patent pending source-side data deduplication and compression technology. Deduplication and compression occur before data leaves the host reducing network traffic and target storage capacity requirements and increasing the overall speed of processing backup jobs.  PHD’s customers regularly see a deduplication ratio of 25:1, reducing average data storage requirements for backups by more than 90%.

TrueRestore™ Technology - Provides increased confidence in your ability to restore from backup. Data is checked both during the backup and restore processes ensuring data integrity.

Export Virtual Machine Backup - Provides ability to export virtual machines from backup storage in native VHD or RAW format.

Application Consistent Backup - Provides data consistency for database applications leveraging Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS).

Fault Tolerant Deployment - Distributed architecture minimizes single point of failure.  Multiple VBA’s can be configured to support backup across large environments.

Backup Retention Policies - Define and configure how long VM backups should be stored.

This unique solution for backing up data, combined with an affordable, scalable per-host pricing plan, has earned PHD Virtual more than 2,000 customers and 200 channel partners.