Virtual Machine Backup and Replication for Hyper-V and VMware

Rely on a high-performance Virtual Backup and Replication solution.

Altaro VM Backup is an award-winning virtual machine backup and replication solution for Hyper-V and VMware environments. Designed for IT departments, IT resellers and consultants, and Managed Service Providers (MSPs), the solution provides robust, streamlined, enterprise-level functionality. It is characterized by ease of use, speed, affordability, and superior 24/7 support

Up and running quickly, without the need for complex configurations!

With Altaro VM Backup, you can install and run your first virtual machine (VM) backup in less than 15 minutes. Get up and running quickly, without the need for complex configuration or software dependencies. Altaro VM Backup is designed to give you the power you need, without the hassle and steep learning curve.

BENEFITS:

Fast, fuss-free performance – Hassle-free and fast virtual machine backup in less than 15 minutes

Best storage savings in the industry – Lower storage requirements by over 65% with our Augmented Inline Deduplication technology

Minimal RPO and RTO – Significantly reduce Recovery Point Objective (RPO) and Recovery Time Objective (RTO) through replication and CDP

Outstanding 24/7 support – Fast, effective, and human tech expertise with live chat response in seconds and call response of <30 seconds

Unbeatable value – Affordable pricing for enterprise quality; and it’s up to you whether you purchase a perpetual license or an annual subscription

WAN-Optimized Replication:

Replication enables users to be back up and running in minimal time should disaster strike. Optimized for WANs, Altaro’s Replication enables system administrators to replicate ongoing changes on their virtual machines (VMs) to a remote site and to seamlessly continue working from the replicated VMs should something go wrong with the live VMs, such as damage due to severe weather conditions, flooding, ransomware, viruses, server crashes and so on. Replication permits the user to make an ongoing copy of their virtual machines (VMs) and to access that copy with immediacy should anything go wrong with the live VMs. This dramatically reduces the recovery time objective (RTO).

Altaro VM Backup Best Practices

Altaro VM Backup is another product that can be used to protect virtual environments. It is a simple backup solution.

As a guideline, you should consider the following factors when choosing the best backup solution for your environment: size, number and type of virtual infrastructure.

Altaro VM Backup

Altaro VM Backup, currently available in version 7.5, is a low-cost, high-performance backup solution that can be used in small and medium-sized environments. It supports both VMware virtual platforms and Hyper-V. It is only available for Windows OS and requires no software dependencies such as MS SQL.

It is simple to use, and it has an intuitive interface that makes it easy to manage the backup strategy. You can also monitor and manage all Altaro VMware Backup installations using one cloud console with the Altaro Virtual Backup Cloud Management Console.

License and all Editions

Licenses are per physical host, with limitless sockets/CPUs. Support is limited for the first year.

Altaro VM Backup comes in three versions:

Standard – You can backup up to five VMs per host.

Pro – unlimited number of virtual machines per host can be back up. It also supports Exchange item restore, deduplication and boot from backup. Version Pro also supports clusters and vCenter.

Enterprise – All features available when you add the Cloud Management Console or the Cloud Backup To Azure features.

Altaro comes with a free edition that allows you to backup up to 2 virtual machines per host. Altaro VM Backup offers a 30-day free trial.

On the Altaro website, you can view a complete pricing list.

Backup features

Altaro uses snapshot technology to perform an image-based backup. All VM backups are always incrementals. Altaro also uses Changed Block Tracking technology to identify changed data and transfer it to the repository. The Augmented Inline Duplication technology is a unique solution that optimizes data written to storage. This reduces backup storage requirements and speeds up backups.

VM Backup performs consistent application backups of your VMs using guest VSS services. This includes all VSS Writers that are running within the Guest VM. When the backup is complete, the application will also trim transaction logs for products like MS SQL and Exchange.

Backup to Boot

Altaro has the Boot from Backup feature, which allows you to boot a VM from a backup location without having to restore the entire backup. It also supports the granular restoration of files, VMs and Exchange items.

Backups Offsite and to the Cloud

Backups can be sent off site to comply with backup rule 3-2-1 or to an Azure Blob storage account using the Backup Copy jobs. Data transfer can be speeded up over slow WAN using the WAN Accelerator component.

Replication

To quickly recover mission-critical VMs, VMs may be copied to an external location for disaster recovery protection, or to offsite storage via the Internet connection. The WAN Acceleration can speed up transfers and enable drive swap rotation on select drives.

Backups should be tested

Verifying backups is essential to ensure that VMs are recoverable from backups and avoid damage. You can verify the integrity of your backup data automatically by using the Test & Validate Backup feature.

Verify Backup Folders

Perform a full test restore

The Backup Health Monitor is a feature that helps to ensure backups are safe and sound. It detects possible corruption in your backup storage and repairs it as part of the next backup job. A complete guide for the installation and configuration of Altaro VM Backup product can be found in Altaro Partner website.

Backup all your VMs to the cloud with Altaro VM backup

You can get up and running quickly without any complicated configurations.

Cloud backup makes it easy to install altaro vm backup and configure your first virtual machine (VM)backup, including cloud backup, in under 15 minutes. You can get up and running quickly without any complicated configurations or dependencies.

Altaro VM Backup was created to provide you with the power that you require, without any hassle or steep learning curve.

Simple, intuitive interface – Easy implementation of a solid backup strategy

Never before was it easier to manage and configure – Backup/restore job across multiple hosts.

You have full control and scalability. Monitor, manage and monitor all Hyper-V and VMware hosts using one console.

Altaro cloud backup services for DR – Backup all your VMs to the cloud.

Full control and scalability from a centralized, powerful, and quick system.

It’s easier than ever to manage and configure backup/restore jobs across multiple hosts.

Easy-to-use functionality. Altaro’s high performance functionality puts you at ease, with:

WAN-Optimized replication – VMs can continuously be replicated to remote sites, greatly improving the Recovery Time Objective (RTO).

Continuous Data Protection (CDP) – VMs can easily be backed up as often as every 5 minutes. This ensures that only a small amount of data is lost in the event of a data loss, which significantly optimizes the Recovery Point Objective (RPO).

Multiple offsite backup locations – In addition to your local backup, you can also store backup copies of your VMs at multiple offsite locations, such as Amazon S3, Wasabi, or Microsoft Azure. This will give you added security. Learn more about the 3-2-1+ backup strategy.

Natively supports different cloud storage options – Optionally back up natively in Azure, Amazon S3 or Wasabi.

Grandfather-Father-Son Archiving (GFS) – You can also archive different backup versions by setting up separate backup cycles to store a new backup version every week, every month and every year.

RMM Integration – ConnectWise Automate plugin can automatically raise tickets and alerts in your ConnectWise Automate Controller. Integration of ConnectWise Automate with Altaro VM Backup Cloud Management console is not being developed anymore. Although you can still set up backup alerts to connect with the ConnectWise Control Center, this plugin is no longer supported.

There are many more!

Alternatives to Veeam

Veeam’s Backup and Replication (Veeam) is one of the most well-known products in the hypervisor backup market. Its popularity comes with high costs of ownership, however.

Executive Summary

 • In fiscal terms, Veeam is much costlier than Altaro VM Backup. The pricing model is very complicated. • Veeam is very difficult to use with a steep learning curve. Altaro VM Backup is designed for ease of use.

 • Veeam’s installation path is very long and involved. Altaro VM Backup can be set up and operational in a few minutes.

 • Veeam doesn’t offer direct offsite backups to Azure, only by adding on a costly appliance.

• Altaro VM Backup is more efficient at reducing the storage footprint for protected VMs with its new Augmented In-line Deduplication and offers full control of backup/restore operations via the web console.

Veeam Weaknesses against Altaro VM Backup

There are several aspects of Veeam that make the product a far from ideal fit for SMB-sized organizations.

 • High cost: Measuring features per dollar, Veeam Backup and Replication is one of the most expensive backup products on the market today. This includes their method of providing backup storage in the public cloud. Altaro VM Backup is an affordable, full-featured alternative.

 o Veeam’s cheapest option is more expensive than Altaro VM Backup’s most expensive option.

• Complicated pricing model: The pricing model is a complicated multi-tier structure that makes it difficult to determine what you need to pay for and what you’ll be receiving. Additionally, support is a separate purchase. If your organization starts out within the arbitrary limit set for the “Essentials” package (fewer than 6 total CPU sockets) but later crosses over into the range where an Enterprise license is necessary, the sticker shock can be extreme. Altaro VM Backup has a very simple pricing model that scales predictably.

• Added indirect cost: In addition to its own license, Veeam requires a separate installation of Windows and some sort of Microsoft SQL Server installation. Express Edition is acceptable for smaller institutions but Standard or higher, along with the requisite license, is preferred. This adds hardware and Microsoft licensing expenses on top of Veeam’s cost. Altaro VM Backup requires no heavy database system and includes a lightweight console that can run directly from the virtualization host if necessary.

 • Storage Efficiency: With Altaro’s new Augmented In-Line Deduplication, Veeam is not as efficient when compressing and deduping protected workloads. In identical tests, Altaro VM Backup compressed and deduped 206GBs of data from 10VMs down to 73.9GB, while Veeam was only able to shrink it to 119GBs. This difference when compared against larger workloads is projected to be even more significant.

Veeam Backup and Replication Strengths against Altaro VM Backup

 The primary strengths of Veeam against Altaro VM Backup involve its larger overall feature set. Many of these are more important for larger environments.

 • Backup to the tape: Veeam supports backing up to tape drives.

 • Pre-/post- scripts Inside the UI: Veeam can schedule special routines to run before and after backup. Altaro can do this, but with the scriptable API instead.

 • More Granular Restore Options: Linux File Level Item Restore, SQL Object Restores, and AD object level restores add an additional level of granularity.

 • Replication: Veeam can replicate VMs directly to another host.Posted

Install Altaro VM Backup

Install Altaro VM  Backup

Install Altaro VM backup that is a fast, inexpensive high-performance, high-performance backup, and replication solution. We’ve eliminated the waste and hassle and provided you with an efficient, flexible solution that’s easy to set up and comes with exceptional 24/7 support included in the package.

It is up and running in a matter of minutes without the need for complicated configurations

With Altaro VM Backup you can start your backup in a snap Install and start the first virtual machine (VM) backup within less than 15 minutes without the necessity of complex configurations, software dependencies or long learning curves.

Altaro VM Backup is designed to provide the dependability and performance you require without hassle or complexities to give benefits to your company quickly and continuously.

Simple to use, simple UI which makes it simple for you to create an effective backup plan

Simple and quick for managing and configuring backup/restore, and replication tasks across several hosts

Complete control and scaling – Manage and monitor every Hyper-V host host as well as VMware hosts from one console

No formal training is required It is a no-cost solution. Altaro VM Backup is user-friendly and, unlike competitors does not require the certification required to operate and manage it.

Super-fast and efficient Centralised Control: We’ve got you back

Altaro VM Backup simplifies the administration and configuration of your restore and backup jobs across many hosts, which frees up your time.

The best deduplication available in the world Augmented Inline deduplication

Altaro Virtual Machine Backup having Augmented Inline Duplication dramatically reduces the storage requirements to store your backups, thereby saving you both time and money.

If you compare it to other companies when compared to other vendors, this is the most efficient deduplication system in the market, creating the smallest size of the backup. The deduplication is available across every backup job, so you don’t have to cluster Virtual machines (no need for post-processing). The smallest amount of space for backups is just one of the advantages; Augmented Inline Deduplication can also increase backup and restore speed. 

Our promise to you: Unparalleled 24/7 human assistance

Whatever your backup system is, things could happen, and we’re determined to make sure that you and your Altaro solutions are always up and running around all hours of the day. We have experts available on standby. There are no chatbots, gatekeepers or chatbots; or even an answering machine to provide canned responses.

Our experts are ready and eager to assist you with any questions you have regarding tech support for VMware, Hyper-V and backup all day and 7 every day of the week, with a guarantee of a call response time of under 30 seconds.

Altaro is the most efficient deduplication system that lets customers save 63% on storage for backups! Also results in more efficient backups since there are lesser data that needs to be transferred.

Altaro Managed Service Providers

Altaro is a fast-growing provider of simple-to-use backup solutions that are suitable designed for Managed Service Providers (MSPs) as well as IT resellers and IT departments. It is an expert in backup solutions for cloud and virtualized environments, offering affordable enterprise-class capabilities while avoiding features that cost money and create unnecessary complexity. With more than 50,000 customers around the world and 10,000+ partners worldwide and more than 2,000 MSPs, Altaro’s main product can be described as Altaro VM Backup, which has become the ideal option for VMware and Hyper-V Backup and Replication. Altaro also offers an annual subscription option to backup and restore Office 365 mailboxes, Altaro Office 365 Backup. Both are available as monthly subscriptions for MSPs.

It was designed to be used by Managed Service Providers (MSPs), Altaro Office 365 Backup for MSPs allows you to restore and back up all of your clients’ Microsoft Office 365 mailboxes Teams, Teams, and the files that are stored in OneDrive and SharePoint and then back them onto the Altaro Microsoft Azure infrastructure.

Unique to M365’s backup solutions It also allows users to back up the files of customers’ Windows-based computers.

You pay Altaro an all-inclusive price per month for each user that includes mailbox Teams OneDrive as well as SharePoint backups; unlimited storage for Microsoft 365 backups; any Windows endpoint backups, 24/7 support as well as access to our multi-tenant cloud-based console, which allows you to control all your backups for your customers centrally. You can create your own pricing plan.

Multi-tenancy

Use Microsoft 365 / Office 365 mailbox, Teams, OneDrive, and SharePoint and backups for your endpoints along with backup administration for each of your customers with Altaro’s multi-tenant cloud management console.

Provide backup services

Since Microsoft doesn’t offer the native backup option, Altaro enables you to backup to your users’ Office 365 content with ease.

Pay per user per month

Pay one charge per month, per user, and provide your customers with the price you determine.

No contracts

The starter pack covers as many as 30 monthly users on all your customers and no contracts that are binding. Increase to hundreds of thousands of people.

Unlimited M365 backup storage to Azure

Unconstrained, hassle-free storage of clients’ Office 365 backups: Saved automatically to Altaro’s cloud-based backup storage, which is secure and located on Azure.

Provide endpoint backup services

Wow, you’ve provided your customers with backup and recovery service available for Windows laptops and PCs in the course of your package.

Altaro Endpoint Backup

Windows endpoint backup solution for MSPs

Back up your customers’ files on their Windows-based endpoints, such as desktops and laptops, and manage them through a multi-tenant console, on a monthly subscription.

Endpoint backup is frequently overlooked and yet company PCs and laptops store valuable business data. Should they be lost, damaged or undergo a malware or ransom ware attack, your customers will turn to you to recover that data.

Developed for Managed Service Providers (MSPs) and IT consultants, Altaro Endpoint Backup for MSPs enables you to do so with ease, through a multi-tenant management console where you can manage all your customers’ backups centrally.

Altaro Endpoint Backup for MSPs is available as part of Altaro Office 365 Backup for MSPs, a convenient, subscription program where you can set your own pricing model, with the ability to scale as customer requirements grow. Your subscription includes access to Altaro’s multi-tenant, cloud-based console and 24/7 support.

Benefits of the Altaro Endpoint Backup subscription program for MSPs

Available as part of Altaro Office 365 Backup for MSPs, Altaro Endpoint Backup for MSPs is a highly scalable endpoint backup solution through which you can back up thousands of on-premises and roaming endpoints, such as Windows desktops and laptops, across multiple customers.

It enables you to provide Windows workstation backup and recovery services. You can configure, manage and monitor the backups centrally through a multi-tenant online console, which gives you added control and convenience.

MSPs can benefit from a full-functioned edition of this solution at no cost for up to 10 of their own endpoints. This is being provided exclusively for their own internal use, and is not for resale or commercial use. To access it, they simply need to sign up for a 30-day trial of the product, following which they will retain the ongoing ability to back up and recover 10 of their internal endpoints per month for free.

Why back up on-premise and roaming endpoints?

Altaro Endpoint Backup for MSPs addresses a data protection gap faced by many companies and organizations. Employees tend to perform the bulk of their work on workstations and laptops. Even though many companies have policies requesting them to store their files on corporate network servers or in the cloud, the reality is that many end users save files on their desktops and laptops instead.

If these endpoints are lost, stolen or damaged, or if the employee deletes any data, there is no easy way for businesses and organizations to access and restore that data.

Altaro MSP

Virtual Machine Backup and Replication for MSPs

Join our monthly subscription program to offer robust Hyper-V, VMware, and physical server backup for all your customers via one central online console for the most affordable cost within the industry.

Benefits

Make sure your customers are satisfied with their physical and virtual server backup requirements using Altaro’s MSP program. It lets you charge by VM per month and has the option of setting your own pricing structure.

Why should you select Altaro as your MSP company?

Praise-winning 24/7 support

Fantastic 24/7 support, with quick call pick-up in just 30 seconds. The best in the business!

Pay per VM

You pay by VM (and all physical servers) monthly at the lowest price available in the market, with no upfront charges.

Recurring revenue

Pay your users a monthly charge for backups, the services, and (optionally) storage that is used.

No contracts

Monthly minimum subscription of 10 VMs per calendar month, without binding contracts and a capacity of to up to 1,000 machines.

Onsite to offsite, onsite, and cloud backup

Select the model of backup and recovery you can backup on-site VMs to cloud, or transfer them to other on-site as well as offsite sites.

The ability to access all the features

Get the most up-to-date and packed with features of Altaro VM Backup Unlimited Plus Edition for use with all your customers at no cost.

Monitor Altaro VM Backups for MSPs at work

Backup solutions from us are a great option to managed service companies looking to assist their clients by offering quality backup services at a reasonable cost.

Small to Medium MSP

Develop your MSP company faster by using Altaro’s program

• Multi-tenant online consoles – Reduce time and costs by having the central, easy-to-manage control of your clients
• The cost is per VM and all physical Windows servers that are backed up per month at the most affordable cost in the market
• Start small and gradually increase to thousands of machines. No contracts that are binding

Large MSPs

Enjoy personalized, quick service when you partner with Altaro

• Multi-tenant online console: Manage all your customers from one single view, allowing to make it easy to monitor and bill
• Easy to use and quick and easy to use, you can ensure the satisfaction of your customers while freeing your staff to focus on other projects
• The ability to scale to your requirements easily manage 1000s of machines and 100s of customers

Altaro Physical Server Backup

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Back up the actual servers on your organization through this P2V arrangement and advantage from the quick and simple recuperation would it be advisable for them to be affected by a catastrophe?

Overview

Organizations and associations with virtualized server conditions now and then likewise have some actual machines and these too require information assurance. Altaro Physical Server Backup is a server reinforcement programming arrangement made to fulfill this need, with the special reward that it’s free.

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Altaro Physical Server Backup: Features

Organizations with virtual conditions that have at least one actual machine or inheritance servers that have not been virtualized can utilize Altaro Physical Server Backup to secure these actual machines and protect them.

•          Reliable, quick reinforcement, and recuperation – As Altaro Physical Server Backup is speedy and simple to set up and use, with vigorous usefulness, it permits you to move quickly if there should be an occurrence of issues, giving inner serenity to you and the clients who depend on you.

•          P2V reinforcement for actual servers – Through this free physical to the virtual reinforcement arrangement (P2V), you can secure an actual server machine and reestablish the substance in a virtual configuration. You can back up actual servers running Windows Server OS to a nearby circle, removable plate, or organization way.

•          Backup plan – Set up at least one reinforcement plan as indicated by your prerequisites.

•          Restoring your reinforcements – As this is a Disk2VHD arrangement, it is speedy and simple to reestablish the sponsored up server as a virtual machine (VM) on a Hyper-V host or as a virtual circle (VHDX).

•          Avert the effect of a calamity – Should a catastrophe influence one of the actual servers on your organization, Altaro Physical Server Backup empowers you to effectively reestablish and get to it on your current virtual climate, as a virtual circle or completely practical virtual machine. Thusly, if the equipment is destroyed, you would now be able to run that machine practically all things considered and access all its substance.

What working frameworks (OS) does Altaro’s freeware Physical Server Backup back up?

•             Windows Server reinforcement – Supported OSs

•             All Windows Server OSs from 2008r2 until 2019, including center versions:

•             Windows Server 2008 R2

•             Windows Server 2012

•             Windows Server 2012 R2

•             Windows Server 2016

•             Windows Server 2019

•             Does not back up hypervisors (Hyper-V hosts) and customer working frameworks (Windows 7, 8, 10).

Altaro VM Backup

Altaro VM Backup is a virtual machine backup and replication solution for Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware environments. The cloud-based application ensures business data is always secure with tools for automatic backup, WAN-optimized data replication, cloud storage management, continuous data protection (CDP), and more. Designed for IT departments, IT resellers and consultants, as well as managed service providers (MSPs), Altaro VM Backup provides robust, streamlined, enterprise-level functionality for backup, replication, and reduplication.

Data backup and replication can be managed within Altaro VM Backup through features including augmented inline reduplication to speed up backups, WAN-optimized replication to any remote site, continuous data protection (CDP) for more frequent data backups, and concurrency to facilitate more backups simultaneously. All backed-up VM versions can be booted from the backup location at any time in the case of a disaster, and individual files can be retrieved from VM backups in a few clicks. The Altaro VM Backup backup health monitor continuously tracks backup storage health to ensure data is available at all times, and any corruption is automatically repaired as part of the next backup.

What is Altaro VM Backup?

Altaro VM Backup is a virtual machine backup and replication solution for Hyper-V and VMware. Designed for IT departments, IT resellers and consultants, and Managed Service Providers (MSPs), it provides robust, streamlined, enterprise-level functionality, such as WAN-Optimized Replication, CDP, Augmented Inline Deduplication and more. It is characterized by ease of use, speed, affordability and a Lightning Fast Support Call Response Guarantee of under 30 seconds.

Key Benefits of Altaro VM Backup

• Manage backup of VMs with features including backup scheduling, continuous data protection (CDP), 3-2-1 backup, cloud backup to Azure, grandfather-father-son archiving (GFS), and more.

• Be prepared for any disasters or loss of data and instantly boot any VM version from backup logs, and utilize granular restoration of full VMS or individual files.

• Monitor and manage all Altaro VM Backup installations from one central dashboard, configure all backup jobs remotely, and queue or schedule backup jobs for later.

• Backup VMs from the Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware platforms within one single console, and backup, restore, or replicate multiple VMs at any one time.

• Replicate VMs using Altaro VM Backup’s WAN-optimized replication tool which allows users to replicate to a remote site continuously.

Best For

Businesses seeking an effective backup, replication and disaster recovery solution for their virtual environment. Managed Service Providers (MSPs) seeking to provide VM backup & recovery services.

Altaro VM Backup Pricing Overview

Altaro VM Backup pricing starts at $485.00 per feature, as a one-time payment. There is a free version for 30 days.