Product Sheet: Auto-Snapshot Manager/Microsoft® Edition For Hyper-V™

As organizations consolidate more virtual machines (VM) on fewer servers, and IT computing infrastructure is expected to support 7x24 operations, data protection and recovery becomes a greater challenge for IT managers. With shrinking backup windows, growing datasets, and multiple applications sharing fewer physical servers, the need to conserve bandwidth and computing cycles require existing backup methods be augmented with new technologies. Virtual serverand hypervisor-based snapshot and replication tools consume considerable physical server resources, and management overhead can become unwieldy as the infrastructure grows. The few integrated SAN-based solutions that exist are costly, requiring additional software licenses and annual software support fees.

Auto-Snapshot Manager/Microsoft® Edition (ASM/ME) is a unique and innovative bundled data protection feature of the Dell EqualLogic PS Series iSCSI SAN that enables fast online backups and quick restores of Hyper-V virtual machines (VMs). Through an easy-to-use graphical interface, ASM/ME coordinates the creation, recovery and scheduling of VSS-compliant Dell EqualLogic SANbased snapshots of Hyper-V virtual machines helping enhance protection, storage utilization, and performance.