Symantec Solutions for Virtualization enable organizations to take full advantage of server and endpoint virtualization while preserving best practices for efficiency and cost savings from their physical environment.
Server virtualization introduces new requirements that affect key service level processes such as backup, disaster recovery, and storage management. Symantec infrastructure software is optimized to address these new requirements, and enables you to move the most mission-critical workloads from test and development to production with confidence. Symantec supports all of the most popular virtualization platforms available today, so you can manage heterogeneous physical and virtual server and storage infrastructure with the same industry-leading software tools.
At the endpoint, Symantec solutions enable you to transform the way applications are managed and delivered, reduce costs, and make cloud computing a reality for your organization.
A comprehensive virtualization strategy should include:
- Advanced backup tools that optimize performance and reduce data volumes
- Integrated system, application, and file-level recovery
- Visibility into online and offline virtual machines
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- Advanced block level management to any given application (physical or virtual)
- Consistent management across physical and virtual environments
- Visibility into what storage resources are being utilized by applications in a virtual server environment
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- Granular application level monitoring across physical and virtual environments
- Centralized management for a global view into application availability
- Ability to test disaster recovery plans without impacting business availability
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- Common management platform for physical and virtual environments
- Use of virtualization and streaming to eliminate applications conflict
- Rules-based management for flexible provisioning and detailed usage monitoring
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- Protection designed and optimized for virtual infrastructures
- Centralized security management with complete response automation
- Seamless integration between physical and virtual infrastructures
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With the rapid proliferation of virtual servers in the data center, both backup administration time and storage consumption have grown exponentially. Typical tasks become even more challenging and complex as organizations move from test/development environments into production. To meet both existing and new challenges, storage and backup administrators need new tools to automate and monitor both virtual and physical environments to reduce complexity and risk with data protection.
Symantec Data Protection solution with Granular Restore Technology offers:
- Flexible recovery from a single backup (granular file-level or image-level) cuts backup windows, recovery time, bandwidth, and storage requirements in half
- Singular backup and recovery solution that spans physical and virtual environments
- Seamless physical-to-virtual (P2V) and virtual-to-physical (V2P) conversions
- Easy to use wizard-based administration and setup
Advanced data protection for virtual machines, including total integration with VMware Consolidated Backup (VCB) and deduplication for virtual machines.
- Complete integration with VMware eliminates scripts, discovers machines, and improves recovery speed
- Eliminate backup windows with industry-first VCB capability that delivers image- or file-level restore from one backup operation
- Improves backup speed and reduce bandwidth and storage with global data deduplication of NetBackup PureDisk
Backup Exec
Fast and efficient data protection for physical and virtual server environments, with optimized support for VMware and Microsoft virtual servers.
- Flexible centralized management through a single console saves time and resources
- Simple backup of unlimited virtual guest machines to disk or tape with a single agent
- Granular file-level and image-level recovery with a single backup
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Backup Exec System Recovery
Immediate data protection and systems recovery to and from virtual machines in VMware and Microsoft virtual server environments.
- Ensure seamless physical to virtual (P2V) and virtual to physical (V2P) recovery conversions Quickly convert directly to VMDK or VHD files with an easy-to-use virtual conversion wizard
- Simplify testing and migration to production with preflight testing of patches, application installations, configuration changes, or driver updates in a virtual environment
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Storage capacity growth, heterogeneous storage hardware, continuously changing business requirements, and pressures to minimize application downtime are some of the real challenges that complicate storage management in the physical server environment. These challenges are only exacerbated in the virtual server environment, often offsetting the benefits of server virtualization.
A consistent storage management strategy that spans both physical and virtual environments can help organizations maximize storage utilization, increase IT responsiveness, and lower infrastructure and operational costs.
Symantec Storage Management solution offers:
- Full or space-optimized snapshots of application data, including Microsoft VSS compatibility
- Centralized visibility and control across heterogeneous storage environments
- In-depth storage reports for VMware environments, enabling increased storage utilization
- Continuous monitoring of the state of VMware environments and automatic corrective action based on user defined policies
Symantec VirtualStore
The first unified virtualization technology for x86 virtual server environments in enterprise production deployments on the market.
- Enterprise-class online storage management based on Veritas Storage Foundation
- Robust x86 server virtualization based on Citrix XenServer
- Centralized management for virtual servers and storage with unified web-based management console
Veritas Storage Foundation
Heterogeneous online storage management technology, supporting x86 and non-x86 virtual server environments.
- Industry-leading file system, volume management, and multi-pathing capabilities for physical and virtual server environments
- Advanced storage management for leading x86 virtual environments including VMware, Xen, and others
- Integration into non-x86 virtual environments , including Solaris Zone, LDOMs, IBM AIX LPAR, and others
End-to-end storage visibility into physical, logical, and virtual infrastructures of the data center for efficient capacity planning and holistic monitoring.
- Automatic discovery and decomposition of all physical, logical, and virtual aspects of the data center, from application to device
- Monitoring and health status reporting for the entire data path
- Granular reports detailing the dependencies and correlations of physical and virtual components to implement storage capacity management best practices
Maintaining virtual application availability through testing and migration as well as during unplanned failures is critical to your business and requires a robust high availability and disaster recovery infrastructure that provides application visibility into physical and virtual environments as well as meets the unique requirements of virtual servers.
Incorporating automated application recovery that works in physical or virtual environments is a key step to ensuring effective business continuity. Symantec’s high availability and disaster recovery software detects application failures—on physical and virtual machines, locally or at wide-area distances—before recovery is required, and automatically failovers application to available servers to avoid downtime.
Symantec High Availability and Disaster Recovery solution enables users to:
- Manage multiple local and remote clusters in physical and virtual environments across any distance from a single console, regardless of operating system
- Monitor servers, applications, and virtual machines from a single-pane view
- Automate disaster recovery testing without affecting the production environment
Veritas Cluster Server
Ensure availability of your VMware and non x86 virtual servers, virtual machines, and the applications running on the virtual machines.
- Manage multiple local and remote clusters in physical and virtual environments across any distance from a single console, regardless of operating system
- Monitor server, application and virtual machines
- Automate disaster recovery testing without affecting the production environment
Complete protection for your critical applications, with a focus on availability for physical and virtual environments.
- Protect and manage backup and recovery from the desktop to the data center
- Full image or single-file restore from a single backup pass
- Optimized replication and multi-site recovery using PureDisk deduplication
Backup Exec & Backup Exec System Recovery
Fast and flexible disk-based disaster recovery and data protection for Windows environments running on virtual servers.
- Provide fast and efficient granular recovery of critical files and applications in virtual environments, in minutes
- Ensure immediate recovery with scheduled conversion of physical recovery points (backups) to virtual systems or to offsite locations
- Meet strict recovery time objectives for data and systems residing on virtual and physical servers
End-users are the key to creating value for any business, and Symantec’s Endpoint Virtualization solutions ensure that users in all roles have the most productive workspaces (desktop, applications and information) available to them at all times. Multiple configurations and computing models are generally deployed across an organization, according to the needs of the users. Desktops and laptops, rich clients and thin clients, physical desktops and virtual desktops, shared systems and dedicated systems each have their place in today’s enterprise.
With all of this disparity, manageability has become the next big challenge for IT. Symantec Endpoint Virtualization Suite turns this challenge into an opportunity with dynamic desktops and application provisioning, application conflict elimination, and proactive license compliance and optimization.
Symantec Endpoint Virtualization solution offers:
- Dynamic workspace creation through on-demand delivery of desktops and software to any endpoint, based on user and role.
- Software virtualization to eliminate application conflicts, retain system robustness, and allow portability of applications, profiles and data.
- Rule-based management that captures license compliance rules, user and group authorizations, version control, and automated license reclamation to save license and support costs, and simplify desktop management.
Symantec Workspace Corporate
Workspace optimization provides centralized management of shared and dedicated desktop environments and delivers these securely and instantly to any device, for both corporate and remote users.
- Desktop connection broker delivery of custom desktop to the user device.
- Increase speed to productivity with single sign-on.
- Facilitate ease of roaming with location awareness and local printing.
- Workspace Remote provides roaming desktop access in a browser.
Symantec Workspace Virtualization
Deploy and remove applications into various virtual environments without compromising end-user performance or system integrity.
- Reduce the need for pre-deployment testing.
- Eliminate application conflicts through unique layering technology.
- Ensure full performance and interoperability between applications.
- Instant reset for broken applications.
Symantec Workspace Streaming
On-demand delivery of applications to physical and virtual endpoints to ensure proactive license compliance and automated license re-harvesting for cost optimization.
- Instant, role-based environment configuration for virtual environments.
- On-demand application delivery to thin, thick, and virtual clients.
