Ahsay delivers comprehensive protection for all virtual machines (VMs) running on latest versions of VMware vCenter/ESXi, VMware Workstation, and VMware Fusion, combining rapid recovery with precise restore capabilities so IT teams can handle both major outages and everyday small scale data loss incidents with confidence.
- Disaster recovery & business continuity: Restore entire VMs to replacement hosts when production servers fail or data becomes corrupted.
- Minimize downtime costs: Faster recovery means less disruption—protecting revenue streams and productivity.
- Migration flexibility: Backups can be leveraged to move VMs between hosts.
- Instant recovery: Boot VMs directly from backup storage and get critical services online within minutes, even while full recovery continues in the background—for meeting strict RTOs (Recovery Time Objectives).
- Granular restore: Recover individual files or folders from any point-in-time without restoring the entire VM. Perfect for meeting precise RPOs (Recovery Point Objectives).
Secure, reliable, and fast backups
Ahsay leverages a suite of technologies and settings to ensure data reliability and consistency, minimize backup transfer size, and boost overall performance:
- Select all VMs or specific VMs to backup.
- Select specific virtual disks on each VM for backup to focus on protecting critical data while optimizing backup performance and storage usage.
- VMware takes a snapshot to capture the entire state of the guest VMs to ensure complete data consistency in preparation for a backup.
- Application-aware backups for Windows guest VMs automatically flush all in-memory data and pending transactions to disk to guarantee application-level data consistency.
- VMware CBT (Change Block Tracking) technology to detect data block level changes on a guest VM, which means only data blocks that have changed since the last backup job are included in the backup data.
- Automatically excluding the swap file and deleted data blocks on the virtual disk(s) from the backup data.
- Data deduplication removes duplicate data, backing up only unique data, which can reduce storage usage and costs by up to 90%.
- Data compression is for further reducing the size of the backup data.
On top of these, backing up your guest VMs with Ahsay using more advanced technologies, including immutable backups, AES 256-bit encryption, two-factor authentication, and Restore Drill (backup data validation), ensures your organization can reliably recover data in the event of a disaster.
What are the benefits?
Ahsay provides an intuitive user interface to guide you through the automated recovery process directly on a live production server or standby server:
Standard recovery options:
- Restore guest VMs to the original location on the same VMware host.
- Restore guest VMs to an alternate storage location on the same VMware host.
- Restore guest VMs to an entirely different VMware host.
- Restore guest VMs as raw files for manual recovery on the same VMware host or a different VMware host.
Advanced recovery options:
- Granular Restore: Mount the virtual disks of a guest VM directly from the backup file on the backup destination, then recover individual files or folders using the Windows File Explorer.
- VM Run Direct: Run a VM directly from the backup file on AhsayCBS or cloud storage without restoring it to the Proxmox host.
- Live Migration: Restore a running guest VM back to the Proxmox host with minimal downtime.
