VM backup solution for VMware and Hyper-V

Backup and recovery for VMware and Hyper-V

Back up unlimited VMware^® vSphere^™ and Microsoft^® Hyper-V^® virtual machines with powerful storage space reduction technologies.

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Feature1

In the event of disaster or service downtime, you can instantly restore a virtual machine to a production site or Synology Virtual Machine Manager (VMM).

Feature2

Easily connect to your vSphere host without installing an agent and start creating backup tasks with ease.

In the event of disaster or service downtime, you can instantly restore a virtual machine to a production site or Synology Virtual Machine Manager (VMM).

Easily connect to your vSphere host without installing an agent and start creating backup tasks with ease.

Agentless backup for VMware and Hyper-V

Incremental backup

Boost the speed of backup processes through native integration with VMware Changed Block Tracking (CBT) or Microsoft Hyper-V Resilient Change Tracking (RCT) to only transfer the changed data during every new backup task.

Application-aware image backup

Ensure data consistency in VSS-aware applications, including Microsoft Exchange, Active Directory, SQL, and SharePoint running on VMware or Hyper-V.

Built-in global deduplication

Greatly reduce the space needed across devices and platforms by saving duplicate files only once. Learn more from success stories

Verify backup reliability

Ensure backup reliability through an on-screen simulation of VMs on Synology VMM.

Achieve full protection with the 3-2-1 backup rule

Replicate your backups offsite to another Synology NAS and restore your data quickly when the production site is down. Learn more

Recover what you need in a flash

Quickly restore VMs to hypervisors

Minimize Recovery Time Objectives (RTOs) by restoring VMs to VMware, Hyper-V or Synology VMM from their backups.

Recover to Virtual Machine Manager

Migrate physical servers or virtual machines to Synology VMM when unexpected interruptions occur or in upgrade testing environments. When original hypervisors are back online, you can restore the virtual machines back to the original hypervisors.

Self-service recovery portal

Administrators and authorized users can browse through backups and perform file-level granular recovery.

See what companies worldwide are saying

"After tests, we found Active Backup for Business has astonishing backup speeds and works wonders on deleting duplicate data — it only took up 28 TB out of the total 58 TB on the server. We are quite satisfied with the overall performance."

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"Active Backup for Business, the complete, license-free solution, allows us to manage all backup tasks from a single console. Fast and reliable recovery also ensures business continuity."

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"Synology provided us with a cost-effective, high-performance backup solution that we were able to roll out across our network of centres in APAC within a very short time frame."

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