vStor – The beating heart of our data protection solution

At the heart of every data protection solution is the repository where the data the data protection solution is protecting resides. The beating heart of Catalogic's data protection solution DPX is the vStor.

Our vStor backup repository is a flexible and scalable backup target that frees you from expensive backup appliances and vendor lock-in, unlike many of the current market players. 

Built on open source components, vStor can use any block based storage without restrictions. It supports data reduction in the form of both deduplication and compression for efficiency and provides point-to-point replication for DR or remote office support. 
vStor can be architected to meet your needs. We support physical severs and virtual servers and any form of block storage. 
If you are interested in a dedicated appliance we also offer 3 pre-built vStor appliances – 24TB, 48TB and 100TB. See more details on those here

With vStor, you can build different backup targets to meet your performance needs. For example, a single vStor virtual appliance to support a ROBO or small environment, or a high-performance vStor built on all-flash storage for your most critical workloads.

For backups to and recoveries from a vStor server, both Block backups and Agentless backups are fully supported.
Once your backup data is safe and sound in the vStor you then have a choice of options for enabling DR and archive. You can replicate the content to a secondary vStor, offload to cloud providers such as Amazon S3 and Microsoft Azure Blob storage and you can offload to tape. 
DPX is licensed per TB (source side) there are no additional licensing costs for vStor repositories. 

Deploying a vStor is very slick and simple and once your DPX data protection solution has been correctly architected and sized you can deploy your vStor in a few minutes and start backing up your data into the vStor. 
Day to day management has been designed to be as easy as possible via the vStor user interface which shows the following via the interactive dashboard:
• vStor health status
• Capacity allocated and free
• Compression ratio
• Deduplication ratio
• Backed up data history for the last day, week or month
• Backup storage trend for the last day, week or month
• Replication session details per source volume
• Type of shared volumes
• Disks in use

Want to learn more? Get in contact with us we can quickly provide product demonstrations, pricing and a free proof of concept.