Summary

What’s ActiveImage Protector™ ?

ActiveImage Protector is an enterprise-level backup and disaster recovery solution that supports both physical and virtual (Hyper-V/VMware), Windows/Linux, On-Premise/Cloud environments. ActiveImage Protector is the fastest and most powerful data protection solutions on the market, and provides all the necessary tools for enterprise deployment and management, immediate system recovery, switch-over availability, and virtual migration.

	Image based backup for virtual environments ActiveImage Protector™ Virtual Edition is an image based backup and recovery solution for virtual environments. ActiveImage Protector™ backs up your entire machine, including the OS, settings, data files and applications, and access rights into a single image file. When disaster strikes, select a backup image to quickly restore for a fast and complete recovery.
	Direct-To-Cloud Backup Backup systems directly to cloud storage. Supported public cloud storage services include Amazon S3 and Azure as backup destinations. In addition, Direct-To-Cloud Backup also supports SFTP servers as backup destinations.
	Agent-based or Agentless Backup is available Supports both agent-based and agentless backup.(HyperAgent) HyperAgent backs up virtual infrastructures without the need to install backup software on either the host or guest machines, minmizing system resource consumption.
	File Backup A new file backup option providing granular point-in-time backup and restore of specific files and folders.
	LTO Tape Support Support for LTO as a backup destination. Backup data saved on tape can be physically isolated from ransomware attacks and ensures long-term archival stability.
	CBC (Changed Block Comparison™) Technology Actiphy’s proprietary Changed Block Comparison™ (CBC) technology comprehensively analyzes a volume’s file system and identifies changed blocks that need to be backed up. CBC is an installed program rather than a filter driver. A system restart is not required upon the installation or update of the program.
	Save storage space with IDDC Our Inline Data Deduplication Compression (IDDC) feature eliminates duplicate data while simultaneously compressing it, resulting in a significant reduction in backup storage requirements. An included advanced option, IDDC has no impact on backup processing time. No additional deduplication hardware or software purchase is necessary.
	Bootability check by BootCheck™　 BootCheck™ provides confidence that your backup images are bootable on local or remote Hyper-V host. BootCheck™ boots up a virtual machine directly from a backup image file for quick bootability check, minimizing the resource consumption and startup time.
	Image Target Server Utilize iSCSI targets and NFS exports to emulate backup images as virtual disk files for flexible and immediate recovery or migration.
	Boot backup images instantly using HyperBoot™ Using our real-time virtual conversion technology, HyperBoot bypasses the lengthy, resource intensive, and cumbersome physical to virtual conversion process, and boots the backup as a virtual machine in minimal time.
	Disk-To-Disk Copy A new disk-to-disk copy option that supports physical disks and volumes, for a complete sector by sector copy. The Disk-to-disk Copy feature can select the entire disk or a specific volume to copy, or copy to a higher capacity disk or volume.
	Flexible virtual environment licensing 1 license is required to back up Windows Server OS or Linux OS virtual machine. One licensed copy of ActiveImage Protector Virtual Edition can be applied to one virtual environment host. There are no restrictions on the number of virtual machines running on a single licensed virtual environment host.

 

 

License

ActiveImage Protector Virtual

1 license is required to back up Windows Server OS or Linux OS virtual machine. One licensed copy of ActiveImage Protector Virtual can be applied to one virtual environment host. There are no restrictions on the number of virtual machines running on a single licensed virtual environment host. There are no restrictions on the number of CPU sockets or cores, the size of backup source volume, etc. There is no limit to P2V conversions on the virtual environment host activated with one Virtual Edition license (cold backup image needs to be created in boot environment.)

 

 

 

 

 System Requirements

Server/Desktop Edition
CPU:
Pentium 4 or above

Main Memory:
2GB or more.

Hard Disk:
650MB or more of available disk space.

DVD-ROM drive:
Needed to install, boot, or start up the ActiveImage Protector boot environment.
Internet connection is required for activation of the product and installation of the most recent updates.

• Indispensable when using HyperAgent.

 

Hot Imaging Backup:
FAT16, FAT16X, FAT32, FAT32X, NTFS, CSVFS, ReFS

• CSVFS（supported for only Cluster Edition）
• The above listed file systems on MBR and GPT disks are supported.
• Support for the above mentioned file systems of virtual disks on Storage Space configured with Windows 8 or later OS.

Cold Imaging in Actiphy Boot Environment（Windows RE/PE）:
FAT16, FAT16X, FAT32, FAT32X, NTFS, exFAT, ReFS, Linux Ext2, Linux Ext3, Linux Ext4

• File system on Storage Space and ReFS are supported only if the boot environment is created by using Windows ADK that supports the file system.
• Boot Environment Builder supports building Boot Environment.

 

Cold Imaging in Boot Environment（Linux）:
FAT16、FAT16X、FAT32、FAT32X、NTFS、Linux Ext2、Linux Ext3、Linux Ext4、Linux Swap,Linux LVM

• Boot Environment Builder supports building Boot Environment.

 

Parallel ATA, Serial ATA (including eSATA), SCSI, SAS, iSCSI, SAN (Fibre Channel), USB, FireWire (IEEE 1394), network shared folders compatible with file sharing SMB/CIFS protocols（shared folders of Windows OS and Samba）, and virtual hard disks created in storage

• Storage media with a 512 byte sector size or more is supported.

 

System requirements for Deduplication are as follows:

• A volume with available space of 1% or more of the total volume size of the backup source is required as the working area other than the storage space for backup image files.
• CPU: Dual core processor or above (recommended)
• Main Memory: 8GB or above (recommended)
• Intel Itanium（IA-64）based systems are not supported.

Main Memory:
2GB or above is recommended

DVD-ROM drive:
Needed to install, boot, or start up the ActiveImage Protector boot environment.

Others:
System requirements for Deduplication feature are as follows:

•  A volume with available space of 1% or more of the total volume size of the backup source as the working area to back up using deduplication other than the storage space for backup image files.

CPU:
Dual core processor or above (recommended)

 

Main Memory:
8GB or above (recommended)
Intel Itanium（IA-64）based systems are not supported.

 

File System
FAT16, FAT32, NTFS, Linux Ext2, Linux Ext3, Linux Ext4, Linux Swap, Linux LVM, XFS

• The above file systems on MBR and GPT disks are supported.
• The above mentioned file systems of virtual disks on Storage Space configured with Windows 8 or later are supported.

Storage Interface:
ATA, SATA, eSATA, SCSI, iSCSI, USB, FireWire (IEEE 1394), SAS, SAN (fibre channel), network drive, Network shared folders compatible with file sharing SMB/CIFS protocol (shared folders of Windows OS and Samba)

• Please refer here to check how to use iSCSI.
• SAN (fibre channel) can be used only when the driver is loaded in the boot environment.

 

Linux Edition System Requirements
CPU:
Pentium 4 or above