Protect your HPE Morpheus Software—VM essentials with Cohesity DataProtect

Here is how Cohesity DataProtect delivers the above benefits for protecting HVM:

• Fully hydrated backups: For faster recovery times and dramatic improvement in recovery performance compared to traditional backups with no required rehydration process. Cohesity uses forever incremental backups but stores them as fully hydrated restore points, enabling consistent and predictable restore performance, even at large scale.
• Immutable backup architecture: For stronger ransomware protection and guaranteed recovery integrity in HVM environments, Cohesity creates immutable backups, not just writes to immutable storage. The gold copy of VM data is never exposed to the network, and any VM restore or analysis uses a copy of the protected backup, preserving the original, thereby protecting VM backups from ransomware or attacker modification.
• Forever incremental backup model: For faster VM backups and lower infrastructure overhead, only changed data blocks are transferred after the initial full backup. This eliminates repeated full backups and significantly reduces backup windows and network load.
• Built-in security architecture: For enterprise security of critical data, security is designed into the platform from the ground up with an immutable file system and encryption everywhere (in-flight, at-rest, and replication and archive). No service backdoors exist, customers control authentication and access based on roles, and multifactor authentication is enforced.
• Cyber resilience capabilities: For rapid VM recovery and detection during cyber incidents, Cohesity integrates security and recovery capabilities into the backup platform to deliver anomaly detection for ransomware activity, Threat detection / malware scanning, and data classification to identify sensitive data.

•  Instant mount and search-based recovery: To simplify VM data recovery and investigation workflows, instant mount capabilities ensure rapid file access while Google-like search across VM backups enables finding files quickly. Indexed backups allow faster VM restore operations.
• Optimized backup performance: To dramatically improve VM backup performance for challenging workloads, Cohesity addresses the two biggest backup obstacles with large and small file optimization. In large file optimization (MegaFile), very large files (>256 GB) are split into parallel segments, and pieces are processed simultaneously across the cluster. In small file optimization (Minion), many small files are grouped into larger batches and then processed in parallel.

Summary

As you evaluate hypervisor alternatives to break out of vendor lock-in, resolve licensing challenges, and set the stage for future modernization for hybrid cloud, data protection emerges as a critical solution for your virtualization data.

While HPE Morpheus Software—VM essentials reduces cost and complexity of virtualized workloads by unifying existing and new workload management in one intuitive platform to streamline provisioning and re‑platform with ease—without vendor lock-in, Cohesity DataProtect ensures that your virtualization data is secure and recoverable at any time by offering faster recovery, stronger security, and higher backup performance.

Cohesity DataProtect supports HVM with an agent-based protection approach with advanced cyber resilience that includes immutable and forever incremental backups, fully hydrated restore points, instant mount, anomaly and threat detection, data classification, and file indexing.