Quantum Corp. vmPRO 4000 appliance | Backup hardware

Quantum Corp. vmPRO 4000 appliance

Quantum's vmPRO is the winner of the backup hardware category in Storage magazine's/SearchStorage.com's 2011 Products of the Year competition. To get a complete listing of all our winners, please read our guide to the best data storage products of 2011.

After buying Pancetera Software for $12 million in mid-2011, Quantum quickly turned the acquired technology into its vmPRO family to provide data storage managers with a way to protect VMware-based virtual machines (VMs) for backup, disaster recovery (DR) and data retention. As one of the first VMware backup and deduplication appliances, one judge described the Quantum vmPRO family as a “nice VMware-only backup that operates as both a virtual and physical appliance.”

The product line consists of the vmPRO standalone software that’s the basis of a set of appliances: the vmPRO 4510 and 4601 disk deduplication appliances. The software works with third-party backup apps, while the

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vmPRO 4000 family provides backup software and storage in one appliance that’s based on Quantum’s DXi deduplication and replication devices. Both products create backup copies in a native, file-system view to allow for single-stage recovery for whole VMs or single files.

The vmPRO software operates as a virtual appliance integrated into VMware vCenter. It treats VMs as files in a single virtual file system and presents them in directories, instead of the VMs residing on different ESX hosts and different types of storage. It features a progressive optimization capability to filter out inactive, expired and random data in VMs as it’s read so that initial backup volumes are reduced by up to 75%.

The vmPRO 4601 ingests at 1.7 TB an hour, with up to 12 TB of usable capacity in a 2U rackmount appliance. Capacity can be expanded on demand with a license upgrade. The Quantum vmPRO 4510 has 2 TB of usable capacity. Pricing starts at $13,750, including all software.

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This was first published in February 2012

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