DESCRIPTION
The release notes provide brief, high-level descriptions of the features of Unitrends Free, highlight major differences between Unitrends Free and Unitrends Enterprise Backup (UEB), and provide information on system requirements and community resources. Any recommendations and considerations follow best practices and requirements for a successful deployment. For detailed instructions of procedures supported in Unitrends Free, consult the Unitrends Administrators Guide.
Contents
Welcome to Unitrends Free
Features
Comparison Table
User interface
Requirements and considerations
Additional resources
Welcome to Unitrends Free
Unitrends Free™ is free virtual backup and recovery software that quickly deploys as a virtual appliance in VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V environments. The appliance performs host-level backups of the virtual machines you choose to protect.
Features
- Protect and recover for free
- Quick and easy deployment
- Appliance setup in seconds
- Intuitive interface
- Protection and recovery made simple
- Protect up to 1 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
Unitrends Free is available in two editions: the original edition and Unitrends Free for Google Cloud Platform, which was created in collaboration with Google Cloud Platform. The following product comparison table highlights the major differences between the Unitrends Free editions and Unitrends Enterprise Backup.
Feature |
Unitrends Enterprise
|
Unitrends Free |
Unitrends Free
|
---|---|---|---|
Licensing Model | Paid | Free | Free |
Amount of Data Protected | Unlimited | 1 TB | 1.5 TB |
vSphere Hypervisor-Level Protection | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Hyper-V Hypervisor-Level Protection | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Next Generation User Interface | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Physical Protection for 200+ Operating Systems | Yes | Windows Only | |
Deep Virtual Protection | Yes | ||
Granular Application Protection | Yes | ||
Local Backup Copies for Tape, Disk | Yes | ||
VM Recovery—Full, Instant VM, and File | Yes | Yes | Yes |
P2V, V2V, V2P Recovery | Yes | ||
Windows Instant Recovery | Yes | ||
Dissimilar Bare Metal Recovery | Yes | ||
Protects free VMware vSphere (Free ESXI) | Yes | Yes | |
Amazon Web Services† | Yes | Yes | |
Google Cloud Storage† | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Unitrends Cloud† | Yes | Coming Soon | |
Managing a License | Yes | ||
Cloud Backup Copy Targets | Google Cloud Storage Standard Google Cloud Storage Nearline Amazon S3 Rackspace | Google Cloud Storage Standard Google Cloud Storage Nearline Google Cloud Storage Nearline | Google Cloud Storage Standard Google Cloud Storage Nearline |
Backup and Restore of applications: SQL, Exchange, SharePoint, and Oracle | Yes | ||
Management of Other Appliances | Yes | ||
Automatic Installation of Unitrends Agent | Yes | Manual install | Manual install |
Credential Manager | Yes | ||
Adding NAS Assets | Yes | ||
Deduplication | Yes |
User Interface
The user interface in Unitrends Free differs from the user interface in Unitrends Enterprise Backup in the following ways:
- There is no Feedback button in the Help menu.
- There is no access to the legacy interface.
- The following Dashboard tiles are not available and do not display as tile preferences in Unitrends Free:
- Recover Summary
- Backup Copy – Cold Targets
- Backup Copy – Target
- The following Dashboard tiles are selected by default in Unitrends Free and cannot be deselected:
- Backup Summary
- Storage
- Active Jobs
- There is no Add Appliance button on the Appliances tab of the Configure page.
- There is no Remove button on the Appliances tab of the Configure page.
- There is no Add Storage button on the Storage tab of the Configure page.
- There is no Copied Assets tab on the Configure page.
- There is no Manage Credentials tab on the Protected Assets tab of the Configure page.
- 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
Storage requirements
In addition to the hypervisor requirements, the following resources are required to deploy the Unitrends Free VM appliance:
- Minimum of 2 virtual processors (CPUs)
- Minimum of 4 GB of RAM
- 90 GB of space for the VM’s initial disk
- Minimum of 128 GB of backup storage
Support for Unitrends Free is provided through the following resources:
Recovery-Series and UEB Administrator’s Guide provides complete instructions for deploying, setting up, and using procedures supported in Unitrends Free. If you have questions that are not covered in the guide, please search the forums or post questions. For assistance with troubleshooting, see our Knowledge Base.
Unitrends Free 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/