Symantec System Recovery Virtual Edition
Backs up to almost any disk storage device regardless of provider.

Features & Benefits:

Fast, automated, and flexible restoration options

• Quickly restores entire physical and virtual systems from local or off-site destinations in minutes, even to bare metal, dissimilar hardware, remote locations, or virtual environments with patented Restore Anyware technology.
• Restores files and folders while providing the ability to search multiple recovery points at the same time.
• Rapidly recovers granular Microsoft Exchange and SharePoint objects including mailboxes, folders, individual messages, or attachments in seconds from a single pass backup.
• Off-site copy functionality automatically copies recovery points to external drives, network shares, or even remote FTP servers.
• Administrators can easily restore a system from a remote location without physically visiting the system to perform the restore with patented LightsOut Restore technology.
• Administrators can easily restore a system from a remote location without physically visiting the system to perform the restore with patented LightsOut Restore technology.
• Hot imaging combines with the ability to restore to different hardware platforms on the fly and breaks the barrier of incompatible storage controllers and hardware abstraction layers.
• Create an all-in-one backup and recovery USB device to rapidly boot and recover any system.
• Option to select an .ISO image as the source for a custom recovery disk.

Advanced virtualization capabilities

• Integrates with VMware Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) for Data Protection (VADP) and Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS).
• Integrates with VMware Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) for Data Protection (VADP) and Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS).
• Automatically uploads VMware virtual disk files (VMDK) converted from recovery points directly to VMware ESX hosts.
• Simplifies testing and migrations—perform preflight testing of patches, application installations, configuration changes, or driver updates in a virtual environment before applying changes to production systems.
• Protects all virtual machines on a single hypervisor system with a single license of Symantec™ System Recovery Virtual Edition.
• Supports for the latest virtual environments including VMware, Hyper-V, and Citrix XenServer.

Advanced backup scheduling and AES security

• Easily schedules the conversion of physical recovery points (backups) to virtual systems (P2V).
• Schedule backups to run automatically, including event triggered backups, based on the parameters the administrator specifies without disrupting user or employee productivity.
• Captures a backup of a system in a pre-boot state, without having to install any software on the system with cold imaging technology.
• Captures and protects the entire system, including the operating system, applications, databases, all files, device drivers, profiles, settings, and registry or individual files and folders in one easy-to-manage recovery point.
• Ability to back up selective files and folders on a separate schedule than a full system backup.
• Saves recovery points to almost any disk storage device, including direct-attached storage; USB and FireWire drives and network storage; Network Attached Storage (NAS) and Storage Attached Network (SAN) devices and optical devices, CD, DVD, and Blu-ray.
• Built-in AES software encryption of backups both in flight and at rest ensures the security of critical business data.

Storage efficiency

Increase the speed of backup jobs and reduce data backup storage with integrated SmartSector™ and compression technologies. SmartSector technology speeds up the backup process by copying only the hard-disk sectors that contain data and compression technology reduces the size of the backup file by storing the same amount of data in fewer bits.

Scalable centralized management and mointoring—Included at no additional charge

Symantec System Recovery features an intuitive user friendly interface, which incorporates automated best practice decision making and reporting, centralized management (Symantec™ System Recovery Management Solution), designed to manage up to 10,000 Symantec System Recovery clients from a single console, and Symantec System Recovery Monitor for monitoring smaller environments. Together, they simplify the management and administration of any environment saving valuable time, resources, and money.

• Centrally deploys, configures, and manages Symantec System Recovery across an entire infrastructure.
• Create, edit, and distribute backup jobs, client settings, and client licensing policies.
• Monitor the current protection status of all managed systems with the at-a-glance consolidated Home Page view.
• View real-time status of backup jobs with the ability to filter on computer name, job type, job name, and IP address.
• Quickly identify and drill down to problem areas with a built in filtering system.
• Ability to set default configuration settings for an individual system or groups of systems, including performance throttling, network bandwidth utilization, and notifications via email or SNMP traps.
• Monitors local and network backup destination usage and historical trends
• Centrally access computer details including volume name, size, amount, and percentage of space used and last recovery point time and location.

Flexible, powerful reports

• Simplifies the tracking of an environment with powerful preset reports.
• Allows users to easily view past, current, and scheduled backup and recovery jobs across all sites.
• Exports reports to .csv, .html, Microsoft Excel spreadsheet, PDF, or .xml formats for easy distribution.

Proven, trusted, and reliable

Symantec System Recovery protects more than one million systems in over 40 countries and is backed by a wealth of industry awards for best high availability/disaster recovery solution. It's a winning combination that makes Symantec System Recovery the gold standard in disaster recovery.

Symantec System Recovery 2013 portfolio

The Symantec System Recovery 2013 portfolio includes the following editions:

• Symantec™ System Recovery 2013 Desktop Edition
• Symantec™ System Recovery 2013 Small Business Server Edition
• Symantec™ System Recovery 2013 Server Edition
• Symantec™ System Recovery 2013 Virtual Edition
• Symantec™ System Recovery 2013 Linux Edition

System Requirements:

Operating Systems

Windows 32-bit or 64-bit operating systems:

• Windows Vista Ultimate
• Windows Vista Business
• Windows Vista Enterprise
• Windows XP Professional/Home (SP2 or later)
• Windows XP Media Center
• Windows 7 Ultimate
• Windows 7 Enterprise
• Windows 7 Professional
• Windows 8 Professional
• Windows 8 Enterprise
• Windows Server 2003
• Windows Small Business Server 2008 and 2011
• Windows Server 2008 SP1 / SP2
• Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1
• Windows Server 2012

Virtual platforms (for converted recovery points):

• VMware vSphere 4.0, 4.1, 5.0 and 5.1
• Microsoft Hyper-V 1.0, 2.0 and 3.0
• Citrix XenServer 5.0, 5.5, 5.6 FP1, 6.0 and 6.1

Please visit our support page for information on operating systems, platforms, and applications.

RAM

• The following are the memory requirements for each component of Symantec System Recovery:
• Symantec System Recovery Agent: 512 MB
• Symantec System Recovery user interface and Recovery Point Browser: 512 MB
• Symantec System Recovery Disk: 1 GB minimum (dedicated)
• LightsOut Restore: 1 GB

Available Hard Disk Space

The following are hard disk space requirements for Symantec System Recovery and other areas:

• When you install the entire product: Up to 700 MB is required for a full install, depending on the language of the product you select.
• Recovery points: Sufficient hard disk space on a local hard disk or network server for storing recovery points.
• The size of recovery points depends on the amount of data you have backed up and the type of recovery point that is stored.
• LightsOut Restore: 2 GB

DVD-ROM Drive

The drive can be any speed, but it must be capable of being used as the startup drive from the BIOS.

Symantec System Recovery uses Gear Software technology. To verify that your DVD writer is compatible, visit the Gear Software Web site.

You can look up information about your writer if you know the name of the manufacturer and model number of your writer.

Software

The following Microsoft .Net Framework versions are required for installing and using Symantec System Recovery:

• Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 SP2: Required to run the Symantec System Recovery installation program.
• Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0 or later: Required to run and use Symantec System Recovery. If the required .NET Framework versions are not already installed, the Symantec System Recovery installation program automatically installs them on your computer.

Symantec System Recovery Management Solution 2013

Symantec System Recovery 2013 Management Solution supports up to 20,000 installations of Symantec System Recovery for each installation of the solution. However, network performance varies greatly among organizations. The total number of supported installations of Symantec System Recovery may be more or less for your network. Network performance should be monitored to ensure that installations of Symantec System Recovery are not extended beyond the capacity and capability of your network.

The computer on which you install and use Symantec System Recovery 2013 Management Solution must meet the following minimum system requirements.

Minimum system requirements for 32-bit operating systems

Processor: Intel Pentium 4 CPU 2.0 GHz or faster

RAM: 2 GB or more

Available disk space: 20 GB or more

Operating system: Enterprise and Standard editions of the Microsoft Windows Server 2003 SP2 and Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 SP2 operating systems are supported.

Database: Express, Standard, and Enterprise editions of the following are supported:

• Microsoft SQL Server 2005
• Microsoft SQL Server 2008

Note: Symantec recommends that you install Microsoft SQL Server and Symantec System Recovery 2013 Management Solution on separate computers to avoid computer performance issues.

Software: The following must be installed on the computer on which you want to install Symantec

System Recovery 2013 Management Solution:

• Microsoft Silverlight 3.0 or later
• Symantec Installation Manager 7.1
• Symantec Management Platform 7.0 MR4

Note: Installation of Symantec System Recovery 2013 Management Solution is not supported on encrypted file systems.

Internet access: High speed Internet access is recommended at the computer where you install Symantec System Recovery 2013 Management Solution.

Minimum system requirements for 64-bit operating systems

Processor: Dual Processor Dual Core with 2.53 GHz or faster

Note: An Intel Itanium 2 processor is required for Windows Server 2008 R2 for Itanium-Based Systems.

RAM: Minimum 2 GB, recommended 4 GB or more

Available disk space: 20 GB or more

Operating system: Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2, Enterprise Edition, or Standard Edition

Database: Express, Standard, and Enterprise editions of the following SQL servers are supported:

• Microsoft SQL Server 2005
• Microsoft SQL Server 2008
• Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2

Note: Symantec recommends that you install Microsoft SQL Server and Symantec System Recovery 2013 Management Solution on separate computers to avoid computer performance issues.

Software: The following must be installed on the computer on which you want to install Symantec

• Microsoft Silverlight 3.0 or later
• Symantec Installation Manager 7.1
• Symantec Management Platform 7.1 SP2

Note: Installation of Symantec System Recovery 2013 Management Solution is not supported on encrypted file systems.

Internet access: High speed Internet access is recommended at the computer where you install Symantec System Recovery 2013 Management Solution.

Symantec also recommends that you familiarize yourself with the Symantec Management Platform by reviewing the "Symantec Management Platform Installation Guide."

Symantec System Recovery Monitor 2013 System Requirements

The following Microsoft Windows 32-bit or 64-bit operating systems are supported:

• Microsoft Windows XP (All Editions)
• Microsoft Windows Server 2003 or R2
• Microsoft Windows Vista (All Editions)
• Microsoft Windows Server 2008 or R2
• Microsoft Windows 7 (All Editions)
• Microsoft Windows 8 (Desktop Edition)
• Microsoft Windows Server 2012

The minimum system requirements to run the Symantec System Recovery 2013 Monitor application:

• Microsoft.NET Framework 4.0

Prerequisites for the Host Computer

The following are the requirements to run this version of the Symantec System Recovery 2013 Monitor:

• 25-MB installation disk space
• Microsoft Windows display resolution set to 1024 x 768

To enable the View Console link, ensure that one of the following versions is installed:

• Symantec Backup Exec System Recovery 9.0.5
• Symantec System Recovery 10.0.2 or higher

To enable communication with remote computers, add the DCOM port [Default: TCP port 135] and the Symantec System Recovery service [default location: C:\Program Files\Symantec \Symantec System Recovery\Agent\vprosvc.exe] to the firewall exceptions list.

Prerequisites for the Client Computer

Ensure that the Symantec System Recovery service is operational. For more information about Symantec System Recovery service, see the Symantec System Recovery 2013 User Guide.

To enable communication from the host computers, add the DCOM port [Default: TCP port 135] and the Symantec System Recovery service [default location: C:\Program Files\Symantec \Symantec System Recovery\Agent\vprosvc.exe] to the firewall exceptions list.

Ensure that the Simple File sharing option is disabled for the following versions of Microsoft Windows:

• Microsoft Windows XP (All Editions)
• Microsoft Windows Server 2003 or R2

For more information about disabling the simple file sharing option, please visit: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307874

If you use a standard user account with administrator privileges to add and monitor a remote computer, you must turn off the User Account Control (UAC) setting on the remote computer. You are not required to turn off the UAC setting, if you are using a default administrator account.

Ensure that the Backup Exec System Recovery 9.0 or higher is installed on the client computer.

Options:

Symantec System Recovery Monitor (Included at no additional charge)

The Symantec System Recovery Monitor solution is a simple, standalone, lightweight management solution for managing up to 100 clients.

Symantec System Recovery Management Solution (Included at no additional charge)

The Symantec System Recovery Management Solution is a highly scalable, centralized management solution designed to centrally manage up to 20,000 Symantec System Recovery clients from a single management server:

• Centrally deploy, configure and manage Symantec System Recovery across your organization.
• Create, edit, and distribute backup jobs, policies, installation packages, upgrade packages, and client settings for local and remote systems.
• Monitor the recovery point status of Windows and Linux servers and Windows desktops/ laptops across your organization.
• Remotely recover one drive, multiple drives, or an entire computer.
• Troubleshoot and resolve backup policies remotely.
• Simplify the tracking of your environment with powerful preset reports.

Tip: For customers managing smaller Symantec System Recovery environments e.g. less than 100 protected clients, consider using Symantec System Recovery Monitor or the user friendly client console, rather than Symantec System Recovery Management Solution, for remote administration purposes. For more information, see http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/337689.htm.

Documentation:

Download the Symantec System Recovery 2013 Datasheet (PDF).