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What is Storware Backup and Recovery?

Storware is an enterprise backup solution for Open Virtual Machine environments such as KVM, Redhat Virtualization/Ovirt, Citrix Xen Server, Xen, Nutanix, Oracle VM, and Proxmox. It enables VM-level data protection and can function as a standalone solution or integrate with enterprise backup software.


  • VM-level, agent-less backup – full and incremental (available for Citrix/RHV/oVirt/Nutanix)

  • Quiesced/application-consistent snapshots (available for Citrix/RHV/oVirt/Nutanix)

  • Support for multiple virtualization platforms including support for libvirt hypervisors (KVM, PowerKVM, KVM for IBM z, Xen), Citrix XenServer, RHV/oVirt, Proxmox, Nutanix Acropolis AHV, and Oracle VM environments

  • Backups performed in a hypervisor-native formats

  • Customizable pre/post snapshot actions executed remotely on VM

  • VM auto-grouping based on regular based on regular expressions and tags (Citrix/RHV/oVirt)

  • Data deduplication with Virtual Data Optimizer VDO

  • Data encryption for the file system, Amazon S3, and Azure backup providers

  • Multiple backup providers supported, including IBM Spectrum Protect (TSM), Dell-EMC Networker, Veritas NetBackup, Amazon S3, Azure Blob Storage, OpenStack Swift, Catalogic DPX or any mounted file-system

  • Multi-node architecture for better scalability or geographically dispersed environments

  • Manage vProtect with a brand new, modern HTML5 AngularJS based Web UI

  • Open API for 3rd party software integration (REST API) as well as command line



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