Affordable Annual Subscription Licenses to Reliably Protect Hyper-V Virtual Machines at the Host level.
Protect your Hyper-V virtual machines at the disk level without needing to install agents on each VM. Host-based backup for Hyper-V provides flexible annual subscription licensing for StorageCraft® ShadowProtect® SPX. When disaster strikes, quickly recover your VMs and data using VHD, VHDX, or VMDK recovery formats. Host-based backup can also support virtual machine migration workflows.
Annual subscription licensing lets you shift your software costs from capital expenditures (CAPEX) to operational expenditures (OPEX), while enjoying reliable, award-winning backup and disaster recovery protection.
With annual subscription licensing, which includes maintenance benefits, you can:
- Choose from 1-year and 3-year subscription options
- Meet budget needs by paying less upfront than a perpetual license
- Stay up-to-date on the latest updates and upgrades
- Access Standard technical support
- Receive automatic alerts and notifications near the end of the subscription period for easy renewal
Fast and flexible recovery starts with a solid backup. SPX Host-based backups for Hyper-V quickly and efficiently capture whole-disk level images (per virtual machine) instead of having to install an agent on each vm on a host.
With SPX, you have the widest range of options to recover quickly and ensure minimal business downtime no matter the scope of disaster you’re facing allowing you to recover full systems in minutes.
SPX 8.0 Host-Based Backup for Hyper-V enables you to:
- Protect Hyper-V virtual machines directly from the Hyper-V host using agentless backup workflows.
- Manage Host-Based and Agent-Based protection through a familiar SPX management experience.
- Discover and select guest virtual machines available on the Hyper-V host for protection.
- Quickly search and select Hyper-V guest virtual machines during Host-Based backup job creation.
- Create VM-level backup jobs for individual virtual machine protection and recovery management.
- Restore backup images as VHD, VHDX, or VMDK virtual disk formats.
- Recover virtual disks and manually attach them to Hyper-V virtual machines.
- Use existing SPX SPF/SPI backup image formats for consistency across backup workflows.
- Integrate with ImageManager for consolidation, retention, and replication of Host-Based backup chains.
- Simplify VM protection with host-based backup while ensuring reliable recovery.
SPX Host-Based Backup for Hyper-V:
- Requires Windows Server 2016 or newer with Hyper-V installed
- Uses familiar SPX scheduling and backup configuration workflows.
- Supports configurable full and incremental backup schedules.
- Enables agentless protection of Hyper-V virtual machines directly from the host.