PHD Virtual Technologies, maker of the esXpress backup solution, are today announcing the availability of the latest version of their backup product. esXpress version 3.6 offers support for VMware vSphere 4 and, according to PHD Virtual, also offers improvements for all versions of VMware ESX since version 3.0.2.
esXpress 3.6 features a new deduplication engine that provides substantial new performance levels, based on information provided by PHD Virtual. For example:
- File-level restores are now up to four times faster
- Image-level restores are up to twice as fast
- Initial backups are up to twice as fast
esXpress performs source-side deduplication at the block level to help reduce backup storage requirements and help keep WAN traffic to a minimum when backing up over a WAN.
It’s unclear to me whether esXpress leverages any new vSphere-specific features, like Changed Block Tracking, in the new release. PHD Virtual has committed to providing a review copy for me to run in the lab; once I’ve had the chance to “kick the tires,” so to speak, I’ll post more information here.
More details are available from PHD Virtual’s web site.
Tags: Backup, Deduplication, Virtualization, VMware, vSphere
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Well, I would say a 4x restore time improvement and 2x initial backup speed improvement sounds fairly decent, certainly advantageous.
Please do keep us posted on what you find
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>It’s unclear to me whether esXpress leverages any new vSphere-specific
> features, like Changed Block Tracking, in the new release.no, 3.6 release does not yet implement change block tracking/VADP
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