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Modern Hypervisor Protection
Catalogic DPX delivers modern hypervisor protection for VMware and Microsoft Hyper-V: agentless backup, Change Block Tracking for fast incrementals, and Instant VM Restore that brings virtual machines back online in minutes.
Modern hypervisor protection for VMware and Hyper-V
Your virtual infrastructure runs the business, so protecting it can't be an afterthought. Catalogic DPX provides modern hypervisor protection for both VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V from a single platform, with no separate tools and no per-VM agents to deploy and patch. DPX backs up your virtual machines efficiently, recovers them fast, and keeps every recovery point safe from ransomware, so your most important workloads stay protected and available.
Agentless backup that's efficient by design
DPX uses native hypervisor APIs to protect virtual machines off-host, so backups are fast and your VMs stay unburdened.
Agentless VMware backup
Protect VMware vSphere through VMware vStorage APIs for Data Protection (VADP), an off-host backup with no agent to install or maintain inside each VM.
Change Block Tracking
DPX leverages VMware Change Block Tracking to back up only changed blocks, cutting CPU, storage, and network overhead so you can back up more often.
Parallel proxy servers
DPX proxy servers move data off-host and provide parallel load balancing across VMs and virtual disks for faster, concurrent backups.
Auto-discovery of VMs
New and modified virtual machines are discovered and protected automatically, and protection is dropped for VMs that are deleted, with no manual job edits.
Flexible VM selection
Select what to protect at any level of the hierarchy: vCenter, datacenter, ESX server, or an individual virtual machine.
Built-in data reduction
Deduplication and compression shrink the backup footprint, so protecting a large virtual estate doesn't mean runaway storage costs.
Agentless VMware protection, end to end
For VMware vSphere environments, DPX combines efficient backup with flexible, granular recovery:
- Off-host backup through VADP and DPX proxy servers keeps the workload off your production hosts.
- Change Block Tracking captures only what changed since the last backup, shrinking backup windows.
- Wizard-driven recovery restores a full VM to its original or an alternate ESX server.
- Recover an individual VMDK, or drill down to file-level recovery using LUN mapping, without rebuilding the whole VM.
Microsoft Hyper-V protection, fully covered
DPX protects Microsoft Hyper-V virtual machines through the DPX Backup Agent for Hyper-V installed on your hosts, which handles snapshot processing and moves data to your chosen storage. You get crash-consistent backups of guest operating systems on Windows Server 2016, 2019, and 2022, plus automatic discovery and protection of new and modified VMs. Hyper-V backup and restore are managed entirely from the DPX web interface, alongside the rest of your data protection.
Bring virtual machines back in minutes
When a VM goes down, DPX turns recovery into a quick, predictable operation instead of an all-day restore:
- Instant VM Restore maps a VM directly from snapshot storage and boots it without first copying data to the datastore, so users are back online fast.
- Restored VMs use minimal destination storage, and changes never affect the original backup.
- Rapid Return to Production migrates the running VM to permanent storage with Storage vMotion when you're ready to make it production.
- Full VM restore returns machines to their original or a new location whenever you need a complete copy.
Hypervisor backups that resist ransomware
A virtual machine backup is only useful if attackers can’t reach it. DPX pairs hypervisor protection with GuardMode early ransomware detection and immutable vStor storage, so your VM recovery points stay safe from tampering and deletion, and you always have a clean copy to fall back on. See cyber-resilient recovery.
Storage that fits your virtual estate
Send VMware and Hyper-V backups to vStor software-defined storage, NetApp systems, or the DPX Open Storage Server, then tier copies to cloud or tape. Deduplication and compression keep costs down, while long-term retention and archival handles the copies you need to keep for years.
Why teams choose DPX for hypervisor protection
Agentless and low-overhead
VADP, proxy servers, and Change Block Tracking protect VMware off-host with no agents inside VMs, for minimal impact on the workloads that matter.
VMware and Hyper-V, one platform
Protect both hypervisors from a single console, alongside physical servers, applications, and NAS — fewer tools, fewer blind spots.
Fast, clean recovery
Instant VM Restore brings machines back in minutes, while GuardMode and immutable snapshots help ensure the recovery point is trustworthy.
Hypervisor protection questions, answered
Which hypervisors does DPX protect?
DPX provides modern hypervisor protection for VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V. VMware is backed up agentlessly through VADP and DPX proxy servers; Hyper-V is protected through the DPX Backup Agent for Hyper-V on Windows Server 2016, 2019, and 2022.
Is VMware backup really agentless?
Yes. DPX uses VMware vStorage APIs for Data Protection (VADP) to back up virtual machines off-host through proxy servers, with no backup agent installed inside each VM. VMware Change Block Tracking means only changed blocks are captured after the first backup.
How fast can I recover a virtual machine?
With Instant VM Restore you can boot a VM directly from snapshot storage within minutes, then use Rapid Return to Production to migrate it to permanent storage with Storage vMotion. See DPX rapid recovery for details.
Can I recover a single file from a VM backup?
Yes. Beyond full VM and individual VMDK recovery, DPX supports file-level recovery from VMware backups using LUN mapping, so you can retrieve specific files without restoring the entire virtual machine.
How are my VM backups protected from ransomware?
DPX combines GuardMode ransomware detection with immutable vStor snapshots, so your hypervisor recovery points stay tamper-proof and you can restore a verified, clean copy. See cyber-resilient recovery.
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