PHD Virtual Technologies, a provider of backup performance and recovery for virtual machines, has announced the release of PHD Virtual Backup 5.2. With the new release, PHD Virtual will be able to consolidate its lead in providing the most scalable and high performance backup for VMware and XenServer virtual environments.

There has been significant enhancement in backup performance which has made it easier for administrators to backup more virtual machines in considerably less time. For VMware backups using changed block tracking (CBT), ensuing backups run five times faster with optimizations to PHD’s unique virtual full backup model capable of providing the fastest and most optimized backup processing. The management for large and expanding environments has experienced significant improvements with added support for hosts with dual network interface cards (NIC (News - Alert)) and the ability to backup VMware vApp logical containers.

PHD Virtual Backup 5.2 includes key capabilities such as a faster Virtual Machine Backup for faster processing of virtual machine backup jobs and a 5 times Faster VMware CBT Based Backup. The Dual-NIC Support is capable of providing support for larger environments that have separate management and data networks for increased security and performance while VMware vApp Support makes it easy to backup VMware vApp containers comprising one or more virtual machines as a single entity.

Additionally, with Optimized Retention Processing, the processing and performance of automated backup catalogue has been cut down.

In a release, Thomas Charlton (News - Alert), Chairman and CEO, PHD Virtual Technologies said that “Our products consistently beat the competition for backup performance and scalability, but we are focused on pushing the limits to deliver more value to our customers. This release sets a new benchmark for backup performance but more importantly provides real value to our customers by reducing the time, cost and complexity of managing virtual backup for VMware and XenServer environments.”

PHD Virtual Backup 5.2 has been made available for both VMware vSphere and Citrix XenServer platforms.

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Calvin Azuri is a contributing editor for TMCnet. To read more of Calvin’s articles, please visit his columnist page.

Edited by John Lahtinen