StorageCraft ShadowXafe
Powerful Data Protection Made Simple

Features & Benefits:

Dependable Recovery

Automated and advanced re-verification of backup images along with inflight verification ensures dependable backup images.

Instant Recovery

Quickly recover files/folders in seconds and entire systems in minutes

• Recovery using VirtualBoot IO read-ahead technology, irrespective of the VM size
• Direct recovery to primary store means no Virtual Storage Motion and no performance impact during recovery

Flexible Recovery

Recover to dissimilar HW or virtual environments

• Ensures that recovery is timely & quick (v2v, p2p, v2p & p2v)
• Utilize resources on hand. No waiting for any specific resources

Management Simplicity

Single management workflow for the data protection and disaster recovery lifecycle

Reliable Recovery & Data Integrity

Get your business up and running with integrated Cloud Services.

• Automated, advanced reverification of backup images along with inflight verification ensures dependable backup images
• Smart retries, and self-healing repairs ensures service reliability
• Retained metadata for improved recovery experience
• Cold file access/recovery
• PKI-based encrypted channel communication for ensuring data integrity
• Best-in-class certified VSS integration for app-consistent data protection

Integrated Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS)

Get your business up and running with integrated Cloud Services.

• Orchestrated, one-click virtual failover
• Self-service portal with no 3rd party intervention during recovery
• Replication to another site or StorageCraft Cloud Services
• Seed/BMR drives and web download

Cloud Services:

Cloud-Based Disaster Recovery

Protect on-premises business systems and data in a cloud purpose-built for total business continuity.

This is Where Uptime Comes From

Leveraging the OneXafe, ShadowXafe, or ShadowProtect backup and recovery solution for local backups is usually enough to recover IT systems from server failure and other common problems. But a site-wide disaster will destroy those backups and result in major downtime and data loss for a business. Replicate OneXafe, ShadowXafe, or ShadowProtect backup images to our disaster-recovery cloud, which gives you the tools you need to keep business running no matter what happens.

Features and Benefits

Security and Availability

Know that your offsite data backup is safe and always available inside our distributed, scalable, fault-tolerant cloud built specifically for disaster recovery.

Service Levels, Retention Tiers, and Mirroring

Customize your cloud storage to fit your organization’s business continuity needs and budget, whether your IT environment is small and straightforward or large and complex.

Control and Flexibility

Centrally manage and monitor all your StorageCraft Cloud Services accounts as well as fail over in a disaster without intervention from StorageCraft.

Advanced Network-Recovery Options

Hit the ground running after a disaster with advanced networking features (available with Cloud Premium) that enable you to run your network in our cloud just as you’d run it onsite.

Policy-based Failover

Use Virtual Machine Policy (available with Cloud Premium) to configure and test machine boot order, timing, and dependencies, and be able to press just one button to start site-wide failover processes.

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Supported Operating Systems:

Learn which operating systems work with ShadowXafe.

ShadowXafe supports the following operating systems via agent-based protection. Agents can be installed on physical servers or virtual machines (VMs).

• Windows Server 2016 x64
• Windows Server 2012 R2 x64
• Windows Server 2012 R2 x64 Foundation
• Windows Server 2012 x64
• Windows Server 2012 x64 Foundation
• Windows Server 2008 R2 x64
• Windows Server 2008 R2 x64 Foundation

Via agentless protection, ShadowXafe supports what VMware supports for ESXi 6.0 or later.

System Requirements:

Requirements and Prerequisites

The requirements for setting up and running ShadowXafe include:

• The system where your Hosts and VMs run (VMware vCenter and ESXi versions 6.0 through 6.7).
• Virtual Machines/Hosts
• The Deployment Tool from StorageCraft
• The storage destination - any NFS, SMB, or iSCSI devices accessible to ShadowXafe.
• System Requirements for deploying ShadowXafe:
  • A minimum of 4 GB RAM
  • A minimum of 2 dual core processors
  • At least one Network Interface Card
  • 10 GB free on the datastore
  • Ports 443 (SSL), ports 40049 through 40056 for control and data (port 40051 is used for data control).
• Defragmenting disks before backing up a machine can reduce the size of the backup image.

Documentation:

Download the StorageCraft ShadowXafe Data Sheet (PDF).