SUMMARY
Describes Unitrends Free for Google Cloud Platform features, requirements, and community resources.
DESCRIPTION
Unitrends Free for Google Cloud Platform is a virtual-only backup appliance that provides comprehensive data protection delivered through an intuitive user experience at no cost. We collaborated with Google Cloud Platform to provide low-cost, secure, and highly durable redundant storage of backup copies on Google Cloud Storage. With Unitrends Free for Google Cloud Platform, you can protect up to 1.5 TB of unique VM data, and there are no limits on retention, the number of VMs you can protect, or the number of sockets.
Unitrends Free for Google Cloud Platform deploys as a Linux-based VMware or Hyper-V virtual machine. The appliance performs hypervisor-level backups of the virtual machines you choose to protect.
This document describes Unitrends Free for Google Cloud Platform features, requirements, and community resources.
These features, requirements, and community resources are available for Unitrends Free for Google Cloud Platform:
- Protect and recover for free.
- Quick and easy deployment.
- Appliance setup in seconds.
- Intuitive interface.
- Protection and recovery made simple.
- Protect up to 1.0 TB of unique VM data, with no limits on the number of VMs you can protect and no constraints on the number of sockets.
- Schedule fast, incremental forever backups for daily recovery points. Changed-block tracking and incremental forever backups ensure your backups complete quickly and consume minimal storage space, since only changed data is processed after the first backup completes.
- Recover files and VMs in just a few clicks. Use instant VM recovery to quickly run a virtual machine from a backup and minimize downtime.
- Easily monitor backup, backup copy, and recovery jobs using a dashboard of interactive tiles.
- Cloud integration.
- Unitrends community integration.
- Requirements and considerations for deploying on an ESX host
- Requirements and considerations for deploying on a Hyper-V host
- Storage requirements, for both VMware and Hyper-V deployments
- Windows Server 2012 or 2012 R2 with the Hyper-V role enabled
- Hyper-V Server 2012 or 2012 R2
Storage requirements
In addition to the hypervisor requirements, the following resources are required to deploy the Unitrends Free for Google Cloud Platform VM appliance:
- A minimum of 2 virtual processors (CPUs)
- A minimum of 4GB of RAM
- 90GB of space for the VM's initial disk
- At least 128GB of backup storage
Support for Unitrends Free for Google Cloud Platform is provided through the following resources:
- Unitrends Free forums
- Unitrends Free for Google Cloud Platform Administrator's Guide
- Unitrends Free for Google Cloud Platform tour
- Knowledge Base articles
Unitrends Free for Google Cloud Platform tour
After you complete the Quick Setup dialog, a short tour guides you through the necessary steps to begin protecting your VMs.
Knowledge Base articles
Articles in our Knowledge Base provide assistance with troubleshooting. If you encounter a problem that is not covered in a Knowledge Base article, we encourage you to search the forums or post a question. You can access KB articles and forum discussions here:
https://unitrends-support.force.com/UnitrendsFree/s/