Idealstor, a leading developer of disk-to-disk backup solutions, announced today the release of iBac VIP for VMware Virtual Center.  iBac VIP for Virtual Center was created to simplify VMware backups by offering a single license that backs up every virtual machine regardless of how many ESX hosts have been implemented.

iBac VIP ties into the VCB framework provided by VMware.  Rather than having to run scripts or purchase expensive backup agents to backup each virtual machine, iBac VIP offers an easy use interface that allows backups administrators to efficiently manage their VMware backups.  VIP backups can be managed from the proxy/backup server or from a remote machine running the VIP management console.  Scheduling, advanced logging and email reports are available for all backup jobs.  Recovery can be done at the file level or entire virtual machines can be recovered on the proxy or a specific ESX host.

“When we entered the VMware backup market we realized that most backup vendors were ignoring the flexibility and cost savings that were inherent to virtualization”, said Nandan Arora, chief technical officer at Idealstor.  “Virtualization offers a unique set of tools that enables companies to consolidate servers but also to quickly provision new server instances as needed without having to incur the costs of implementing a physical server.  Most software companies on the market today ignored this and released VMware backup solutions that are tied to the number of virtual machines, physical processors or ESX hosts running on the network.  iBac VIP for Virtual Center was designed to turn this licensing model upside down.  VIP for Virtual Center lets you backup any number of virtual machines regardless of the number of processors or ESX hosts being run.  The only limitation is that the backup proxy server will need to be able to handle the load, but we feel that iBac VIP is affordable enough that if another proxy server needs to be added to handle the load, we will still be far more competitive than the existing players in the VMware backup space.”

You can download a trial version of iBac from Idealstor’s website.