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Acronis

Disk Director

Server 10.0

Disk storage is one of the most critical system resources in a business-critical system. It is a

resource that must be optimized from time to time to avoid expensive over-provisioning and

performance bottle necks. It is also a resource that is prone to configuration errors, corruptions and

malware attacks that could render a system and its data inaccessible. Acronis Disk Director is a disk

management solution that enables IT organizations to manage their disk resources without

incurring downtime and recovers partitions and data, in the event of corruption or configuration

errors.

Disk Management

Acronis

Solution Guide

Table of contents

Backup & Recovery

Acronis at a Glance

A global company, Acronis has offices in the United States, Europe and Asia.

Acronis is a world leader in providing advanced, scalable storage

management and disaster recovery software that helps enterprises safeguard

their information and assures the availability, security, integrity and

recoverability of their infrastructure.

Acronis’ patented disk imaging and disk management technology has won

broad industry acclaim and numerous awards for excellence in data

protection, backup and recovery, system deployment, and server migration

for both physical and virtual machine servers.

Its flagship product, Acronis True Image, is a leading commercial disk-imaging

and bare-metal restore solution for Windows and Linux servers, as well as

being an automated system portability and migration tool.

Since 2002, Acronis True Image has been the solution of choice for tens of

thousands of customers, from small and mid-size businesses to the Fortune

500 in the banking, professional services, healthcare, technology, retail,

government and manufacturing markets.

Product Offerings

Built on its cutting-edge disk-imaging technology, Acronis offers market

leading solutions for business continuity and storage management including

Data-protection, System Recovery, Systems and Data Deployment and

migration. Acronis solutions provides seamless support for both physical and

virtual environments.

Image Echo”, “Recovery Manager”, “Secure Zone”, “Active Restore”, “Acronis Recovery” and Acronis logo are trademarks

of Acronis, Inc. Other mentioned names may be trademarks or registered trademarks for their respective owners and

should be regarded as such. Technical changes and differences from the illustrations are reserved; errors are excepted.

For Sales and OEM enquiries, please contact:

APAC Offices:

Australia Tel: +61 2 9922 4650

Hong Kong Tel: +852 3153 4333

Korea Tel: +82 2501 1882

Malaysia Tel: +603 2096 9779

Singapore Tel: +65 6222 0700

Taiwan Tel: +886 2 2764 3355

Database Backup

Email has become a business-critical application in many organizations. In fact, the availability of the

messaging system directly impacts the workforce productivity of an organization. Acronis Recovery for

Microsoft Exchange provides high performance database-level backup and recovery for Exchange

databases, and does not require separate brick-level backup solutions to enable recovery of single

emails or mailboxes.

Acronis

Recovery

™

for Microsoft Exchange

High performance single-pass backup enables complete Exchange database restore and

granular mailbox/message restore.

Minimize data loss with Exchange Continuous Data Protection technology. Exchange database

transaction logs are backed up immediately as they become available.

Standardize database disaster recovery procedures using wizard-generated DR plan. The DR

plan delivers step-by-step documentation for recovery, customized for each Exchange database.

Compress backup images to save cost and disk space.

Reduce downtime even further with Acronis Active Restore™ technology. The Exchange

Messaging System can be recovered and put online first while Active Restore continues to

recover user emails and databases. Patent Pending.

Achieve offsite remote copies with FTP support

Achieve complete DR with integration to Acronis True Image Echo for Server for Windows

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Acronis

Snap Deploy

3 Workstations and Servers

Managing and executing workstation and server system deployment in a sizable environment can

be a challenging task. Installing the operating system and applications, configuring standard

settings, plus the need to comply with corporate standards such as application and security

settings require considerable expertise and manual intervention. The number of hours needed for

an administrator is increasing due to the complexity of the newer OS and the tolerance for

non-compliance to standard is getting lower. Acronis Snap Deploy 3 is a comprehensive

deployment solution that enables IT organizations to deploy laptops, desktops and servers quickly

Based on the same award-winning disk imaging technology of Acronis True Image.

Save cost and simplify image management with ability to deploy to dissimilar hardware brands

and models with Acronis Universal Deploy technology (licensed separately).

Improve administrators’ productivity with fully automated deployment, including Wake-On-LAN

integration.

Maximum deployment flexibility using either network-based or CD-based deployment

Maximum configuration flexibility with pre and post job configuration specification and code

execution.

Scalable deployment performance: capable of deployment to multiple machines

simultaneously with multi-casting technology.

Ease of administration with Centralized Management Console.

64bit Windows support.

Available in Workstation and Server editions.

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Deployment

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Minimize expensive downtime and keep business-critical applications running while

performing storage optimization. Expand, shrink, copy, move, split and merge partitions and

volumes on the fly.

Recover in minutes from accidentally deleted partitions, or partitions corrupted by viruses or

incomplete shutdowns such as power failures.

Ensure data confidentiality through data destruction facility that allows complete data

eradication before hard disk replacement.

Advanced disk editor enables boot record restoration and hexa-decimal editing for advanced

troubleshooters.

Backup & Recovery

Acronis

True Image Echo

™

Workstation

A significant amount of intellectual property exists in workstations and laptops in an organization.

Losing the information that resides in these machines often impacts productivity and financial

performance. Acronis True Image Echo Workstation provides fast and simple system and data

protection that enables recovery of these digital assets to a replacement machine in minutes.

Backup to Acronis Secure Zone avoids the need to attach external USB storage devices to each

workstation or laptop, saving cost.

Restore in minutes! Quick and easy recovery from Acronis Secure Zone using the Acronis Startup

Recovery Manager. Minimum dependency on IT helpdesk during system crashes or virus

outbreaks!

Award winning image-based backup technology ensures fast backup/recovery performance

without impacting user application performance, even in systems with thousands of small files.

Ability to recover single files and folders too!

Secure backup images with industry standard AES encryption. Prevent unauthorized access to the

information within the backup images.

Fast and simple deployment. Centralized management. Using the Acronis Management Console,

deploy Acronis True Image Echo Workstation remotely and backup tasks from the comfort of your

desk.

Run backup jobs that comply to your corporate policies and schedules. Jobs can be triggered by

scheduler or by events such as user logon or disk space changes.

Restore to any hardware brands and models. Integrated with Acronis Universal Restore (optional),

all backup images can be restored to dissimilar hardware. Great for migration and emergency

restore where the target workstation or laptop is of a different brand or model.

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Recovering systems running on Windows Operating Systems can be a tedious process. It usually

involves reloading the OS, patching, re-installing the backup application and complex configurations,

then you can start restoring the data. The average time needed for this process is about four hours

before the actual data restoration. Acronis True Image Echo Server for Windows can reduce it to less

than one hour with the award winning disk-imaging and Universal Restore technologies.

Acronis

True Image Echo

™

Server for Windows

Minimize downtime with complete and comprehensive system protection. Fast and simple system

recovery avoids the need to re-install the Windows OS, the backup application and user

applications.

Avoid the need to have system documentation such as volume configuration, network, backup

application parameters, user application parameters, license keys, patches, etc. during recovery.

Backup and recovery for business-critical applications such as Microsoft Exchange Server, SQL

Server and Oracle databases.

Achieve ultimate flexibility in recovery. Restore to dissimilar hardware or even virtual

environments with the Acronis Universal Restore option. Save cost on standby server hardware

and achieve cost-effective disaster recovery.

Reduce downtime even further with Acronis Active Restore™ technology. The Windows OS can be

recovered and put online first while Active Restore continues to recover user files and databases.

Patent Pending.

Disaster recovery preparation with peace of mind. Backup image verification ensures trouble-free

restoration. Ability to convert backup images to and from virtual formats enables cost-effective

fire-drills. Virtual environments supported include VMWare, Microsoft, Xensource and Parallels.

In an enterprise IT environment with both Windows and Linux servers supporting business-critical

applications and data, an enterprise-class system backup and recovery solution is required to centrally

install, manage and recover Windows and Linux machines. Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server

enables organizations to manage and protect their Windows and Linux machines, all from the central

management console.

Acronis

True Image Echo

™

Enterprise Server

Encompass all the capabilities of Acronis True Image Echo Server for Windows and Server

for Linux.

Achieve high administration productivity by leveraging on the centralized management

capability of Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server.

Reduce implementation time using remote push-install and configuration technologies,

eliminating the need of physical visits to the protected system.

Achieve “lights out” recovery by performing remote unattended restore, through the

network from a central location.

Advanced protection for VMware ESX server environments. Integration with VMware

Consolidated Backup (VCB) ensures optimum backup performance and minimum load on

the ESX server.

Windows Dynamic Disk support.

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Acronis

True Image

for Microsoft

Windows Small Business Server

Providing outstanding value and protection for Microsoft Small Business Server (SBS). Acronis True

Image for Microsoft Small Business Server is a purpose-built data protection solution for Microsoft

SBS. It is a robust disaster recovery product in an affordable package.

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Based on the same award-winning technology in Acronis True Image Echo Server for Windows.

Fast and simple recovery for Microsoft SBS servers.

Less administration training required with the wizard driven interface that guides through most

administration tasks.

Ideal for Microsoft SBS environment with fewer dedicated IT support professionals

Affordable enterprise-level protection.

The chance of getting the same brand and model hardware replacement can be low when system

hardware fail or disasters strike. Good disaster recovery preparation and planning should not be tied

down to the requirement of identical hardware provision. Acronis Universal Restore enables

organizations to simplify their DR planning and drills and ensures fast and simple recovery for their

Windows-based systems.

Acronis

Universal Restore

Save time and recover in minutes without the need to re-install the Windows OS and the backup

application.

Restore in 5 easy steps with menu-driven recovery wizard.

No need to find a replacement machine with the same brand and model for recovery.

Work with industry leading virtualization vendors such as VMWare, Microsoft, XenServer and

Parallels.

Seamless migration and recovery from physical to virtual machines and from virtual to physical

machines.

Based on Acronis Transportable Image Technology which disassociates the data from the

underlying hardware of the protected system.

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Acronis

Recovery

™

for Microsoft SQL Server

Protecting the information in Microsoft SQL Server can be complex and time-consuming. As

businesses continue to leverage on MS SQL Server to record business transactions and maintain

business-critical records, the availability of the MS SQL Server is crucial to business operations.

Acronis Recovery for MS SQL Server provides proven database-level data protection that significantly

reduces recovery time and complexity. Businesses can now recover SQL databases in minutes, and to

the point-in-time of its choice.

Fast and simple operation with wizard-driven GUI minimizes the requirement for an

experienced Database Administrator.

Achieve enterprise-wide administration with the centralized management capability built-in.

Minimize the impact on the database performance during backup operations with CPU and

bandwidth throttling.

Standardize database disaster recovery procedures using wizard-generated DR plan. The DR

plan delivers step-by-step documentation for recovery, customized for each SQL database.

Automated Recovery to the point of failure.

Secure backup images with industry standard AES encryption. Prevent unauthorized access to

the information within backup images.

Achieve complete DR with integration to Acronis True Image Echo Server for Windows

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Acronis

True Image Echo

™

Server for Linux

Business-critical applications exist on Linux servers. Acronis True Image Echo Server for Linux enables

system administrators to backup and recover a Linux-based system within minutes. Based on similar

award-winning disk imaging technology, high performance backups can be achieved with minimal

performance degradation on the system and its applications. Recovery is fast, simple and menu driven,

requiring minimum input from the system administrator.

Restore the entire Linux system in minutes.

Minimize the impact on the system and application performance during backup operations

with backup throughput throttling.

Reduce disk space utilization, cost and achieve faster recovery. Differential backup capability

greatly reduces the number of backup images needed for system recovery.

Secure backup images with industry standard AES encryption. Prevent unauthorized access to

the information within the backup images.

Protect custom-built applications with pre and post job scripts integration.

Proven award-winning technology since 2006.

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Softarea51

5 Stars Award 2008

Our awards:

WindowsNetworking.com

Readers Choice 2008

PC Pro Recommended

Award 2008

PC Pro A List

Award 2008

Acronis True Image Echo

Acronis True Image Echo Server

For Windows

Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server

Acronis

True Image Virtual Edition

The cost-saving advantage of system virtualization has lead many IT organizations to use it in

Development, Production and Disaster Recovery environments. Maturing virtualization technologies

can allow system managers to run numerous virtual machines on a physical server, simplifying

management and reducing datacenter footprint.

Acronis

True Image Virtual Edition is specially created for the virtual environment and enables IT to

take full advantage of the system virtualization technology. It is a complete data and system protection

solution for the virtual environment. It is licensed per physical server and protects unlimited number of

virtual machines. It also has embedded Universal Restore technology that enables system managers to

move between physical and virtual environments effortlessly.

Backup and Restore unlimited virtual servers. Take full advantage of the cost-saving benefit of

system virtualization!

Fully support VMware

, Microsoft

, Citrix

XenServer and Parallels

virtualization platforms

Fully support VMWare

Consolidated Backup. Backup can be created with minimum load on

VMWare ESX Servers

Effortless migration between physical and virtual servers, including dissimilar physical

hardware

Cost effective Disaster Recovery Solution that fully leverages on the advantages of the system

virtualization technology.

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Acronis at a Glance

Introduction

Product Offerings

Backup & Recovery

Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server

Acronis True Image Virtual Edition

Acronis True Image Echo Server for Windows

Acronis True Image Echo Server for Linux

Acronis True Image for

Microsoft Small Business Server

Acronis True Image Echo Workstation

Acronis Universal Restore

Database Backup

Acronis Recovery for MS SQL Server

Acronis Recovery for Microsoft Exchange Server

Deployment

Acronis Snap Deploy 3 for Workstation/Server

Disk Management

Acronis Disk Director Server 10

Solution Guide 1

Summary of Contents

Page 1 - Solution Guide

Acronis® Disk Director® Server 10.0Disk storage is one of the most critical system resources in a business-critical system. It is a resource that must

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