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NAKIVO has just released the release of NAKIVO Backup & Replication: the new version 7.3 is now much friendly with enterprise-grade deduplication appliances such as EMC Data Domain, HP StoreOnce, NEC Hydrastor, Quantum DXi, and other similar appliances, when they are used as a backup target.

There is a new special backup repository type with the special architecture optimized for working with deduplication devices. Thus, before backing up VM data to a deduplication appliance, you can choose to use this repository type, and your data will be backed up to the storage server at a great performance level.

There isn’t yet a native integration, but mainly a new backup chain type, that you can select in the backup repository with the Incremental with full backup, that helps all dedup appliances in order to maximize the data reduction.

The new backup repository complements the existing one, so customers now have a choice between the following options:

  • The regular backup repository, which is optimized for generic storage systems and performs forever-incremental VM backups along with global data deduplication and compression.
  • The backup repository optimized for deduplication appliances, which accelerates VM backups to speeds up to 53 times faster on deduplication appliances.

Deduplication appliances are designed to reduce the data size and operate best with sequential large block I/O from backup software. If the architecture of a backup repository is not optimized for deduplication appliances, VM backup may appear to be random I/O, which deduplication appliances are not designed to handle. This can greatly reduce the VM backup performance

A fully-functional free trial of NAKIVO Backup & Replication v7.3 can be downloaded at www.nakivo.com.

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