Data Sheet

Data Protector
OpenText Data Protector is an enterprise grade backup and disaster recovery solution for large,
complex, and heterogeneous IT environments. Built on a scalable architecture that combines secu-
rity and analytics, it enables customers to meet their continuity needs reliably and cost-effectively.

Product Highlights creation of workflows which can be imple- Key Features

An enterprise class, data centric backup and mented via content packs to automate a vari-
■ Standardized protection
disaster recovery solution, Data Protector ad- ety of backup and recovery processes.
■ Application-consistent recovery
dresses the challenges of complexity, scalabil-
ity and data security of today’s dynamic and Key Benefits ■ Advanced virtual server protection
diverse IT environments. Based on a unified, ■ Standardized protection—a unified and ■ Storage integrations
flexible multi-tier architecture, Data Protector scalable architecture enables centralized
■ Cloud as storage tier
enables centralized data protection across data protection across physical and
physical, virtual and cloud environments. virtualized environments, disparate ■ Automated DR
operating systems, and critical ■ Information retention
Data Protector is offered in two editions: Data applications from core data centers ■ REST API access
Protector Premium which supports hybrid to remote sites.
environments (virtual and physical), and Data ■ Security model
– Data Protector’s comprehensive support
Protector Express designed for backup and matrix enables data protection across a ■ Predictive analytics, automation and
restore of virtual environments. Integrated orchestration
range of locations, applications, formats,
reporting includes reports on configurations, storage platforms, operating systems ■ Extensive hypervisor backup
storage pools and media, compliance, sessions and hypervisors to a range of backup ■ Container protection
in timeframe, backup settings, and many other targets, including disk, tape and cloud.
advanced repor ts, allowing administrators to ■ Microsoft 365 Online backup and restore
■ Application consistent recovery—leading
effectively monitor their backup environment. ■ Flexible cloud storage provider targets
business application integrations extend
server backup, automated point-in-time
As storage and application usage has evolved
recovery, and granular restores to
so too must its protection. Data Protector for
application owners, enabling them to
Cloud Workloads is a Data Protector exten-
service their own backup and recovery
sion that provides wider backup protection
requirements based on the backup
in cloud, virtual, container, and on line ap-
infrastructure defined by IT.
plication environments. It gives multiple op-
tions in the choice of hypervisors that can be – Backup extension agents for business
deployed and enables maximum flexibility in applications including Microsoft
the choice of cloud provider backup targets. Exchange, Microsoft SharePoint,
Online application data protection is provided Microsoft SQL, Oracle, SAP, SAP HANA,
for Microsoft 365 suite of products including IBM Db2, Sybase ASE, PostgreSQL,
Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, OneDrive and MySQL provide application-aware
for Business and Teams. backup and recovery.
– Automated transaction log backup and
Data Protector also offers automation and truncation enables application recovery
orchestration capabilities which enable the down to a specific point in time.
Data Sheet
Data Protector

– The Granular Recovery Extension (GRE) integrations provide zero-impact protection and via a gateway. Cloud integrations have
feature enhances the application and rapid recovery; compression and been greatly extended and more details
management GUI with an administrator federated deduplication deliver cost are available in the Data Protector for
option to search and recover individual efficiencies and better utilization of the Cloud Workloads section.
items. IT infrastructure. – Native integrations with the Microsoft
■ Advanced virtual server protection— – Zero Downtime Backup integration with Azure and Amazon S3 storage cloud
hypervisor integrations and support offer HPE storage and NetApp SnapMirror allows you to seamlessly use it as a
virtual machine protection inheritance enables Data Protector to create, backup target.
and instant recovery options for virtual backup, – Integration via the Microsoft StorSimple
environments. and catalog space-efficient, application- cloud gateway appliance delivers
– Native integrations with VMware and aware snapshots. The Instant Recovery enhanced performance and data
Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisors deliver feature meets the strictest levels of optimization for larger cloud backups.
agentless backup and protection service and recovery expectations by
– Data Protector integration with HPE
policy inheritance. staging the desired number of snapshots StoreOnce Cloud Bank enables
– Hardware-assisted agentless backup on the storage array itself. With a storage seamless data transfer between
augments the standard hypervisor array being the first point of recovery, on-premise backup data sets and
backup capabilities by leveraging applications can be restored instantly. cloud targets such as Amazon S3 and
storage snapshot integration to – Integration with HPE StoreOnce Catalyst Microsoft Azure without the need for a
complete the backup operation. and Dell EMC Data Domain Boost enables separate appliance such as a gateway.
By offloading the processing and
federated deduplication which can run There is no need for data rehydration,
movement of backup data from the
either on the application server, on the and since all metadata is transferred
hypervisor layer, Data Protector
media server, or on the target backup to the cloud target, restores are
improves backup performance
appliance, reducing network bandwidth possible even after the loss of the
and virtual machine availability.
consumption. Once the data is dedupli- HPE StoreOnce device.
– Advanced VMware restore options cated, it is seamlessly moved across – HPE Cloud Volumes support for
for HPE StoreOnce and Dell the backup stack without rehydration. extending Disk Systems storage
EMC Data Domain include:
– Certified with HPE Nimble Storage, capacity or offloading data into the
• Cached Granular Recovery, which al- cloud. Utilizes Backup Stores acting
HPE SimpliVity and HPE Alletra.
lows the recovery of select files from a like StoreOnce Catalyst devices.
VM backup image directly – Integrations with other 3rd party storage
from a supported backup target vendors such as Dell EMC, NetApp and ■ Data Protector Deduplication (DPD)—
Hitachi for NDMP-based backup and integrated software deduplication delivers
• Virtual Machine Power On allows
recovery and/or snapshot. Support for performance improvements over the
VMs to be powered on instantly from
3-way NDMP for NetApp, Dell EMC Isilon network and cost saving through
Data Protector’s backup images that
and Unity platforms. storage optimization.
reside on supported devices
– Nutanix AHV support for backup and – Enterprise features normally only
• Live Migrate powers on a VM
restore of VMs found in dedicated deduplication
from a backup image residing on a
appliances.
supported device, and simultaneously – HPE Cloud Volumes support for
starts the VM restoration to the speci- extending Disk Systems storage – Deduplicate data at source and target
fied destination. capacity or offloading data into the sides. Data stays deduplicated in transit
– For more extensive hypervisor backup cloud. Utilizes Backup Stores acting for better network bandwidth use.
support beyond VMware and Hyper-V, like StoreOnce Catalyst devices. – Highly scalable to over 1PB of source
read the information in the Data Protector ■ Cloud target integrations—Data Protector data.
for Cloud Workloads section. offers a choice of cloud solutions, both – Support for Linux and Windows, and
■ Storage integrations with 3rd party native with Microsoft Azure and Amazon S3 supports multiple folders and mount
storage arrays—array-based snapshot and S3 API-compliant Ceph and Scality, points.

2
■ Automated disaster recovery (bare-metal Hyper-V, IDB Files, Disk image and for influencers to monitor backup
recovery)—centralized bare-metal NDMP backups. processes.
recovery from or to physical and virtual ■ Security model—a secure and simplified – Operations Orchestration (OO) enables
systems from any backup set at no communication between the Data Protector creation of workflows which can be
additional cost. components creates a highly reliable implemented via content packs to
– Enhanced Automated Disaster Recovery and secure backup environment with automate a variety of backup and
(EADR) provides backup of application low overhead. recovery processes.
data as well as system data including – Protocols encrypt traffic over the wire. – Rapid root-cause analysis identifies
operating system files, drivers, and files issues before they escalate into outages
– “Secure peering” sends all communication
required for the initial boot process. and data loss that hurt business
between Installation Server and Data
Enabled with a simple check box in the operations.
Protector Cell Manager including
Data Protector GUI, EADR includes the
commands via a secure Transport – Built-in predictive analytics engine
necessary image information in full
Layer Security 1.2 channel. provides trends and scenario-based
backups for a full system recovery.
– “Trust” verification for Cell Manager/ modeling, potential scheduling conflicts
– Disaster recovery images can be and resource contentions, and the
Installation Server relationships.
created from any existing file system impact of new workloads on backup
or image backup including object – Centralized Command Execution.
infrastructure (physical capacity,
copies, without needing to create – Common Criteria Certified providing network load, and device load)—
a separate special backup for assurance of the application of enabling better management and
system recovery. rigorous processes, implementation planning of backup resources.
■ Information retention—automated and evaluation of software security.
retention and replication management ■ Predictive analytics, automation and Data Protector for Cloud Workloads
across different backup media, storage orchestration, and reporting—tools Modern workloads demand a new level of data
tiers, and locations for compliance and for backup administrators to efficiently protection to address their specific needs.
efficient long-term data retention. manage the backup environment by OpenText Data Protector for Cloud Workloads
– Data Protector creates a tiered recovery gaining insight into key performance (DP4CW) provides a stable, agentless backup
architecture by managing data protection indicators, conducting advanced and snapshot-management solution for vir-
(backup, recovery, and replication) on monitoring and reporting, and automating tual machines, containers, storage providers,
primary storage devices, disk-based and orchestrating backup processes. and applications working on-premise and in
backup appliances (both physical and – Dashboard reports provide valuable the cloud. DP4CW supports multiple backup
virtual), tape, and cloud. insights into performance indicators destinations for convenient data storage plan-
– Automatic Replication Synchronization of backup and recovery, allowing ning including local filesystem or an NFS/CIFS
automatically shares metadata IT administrators to filter, change, share, or object storage (cloud providers), ex-
information between Data Protector and modify views. tending the already extensive backup capabili-
Cell Managers that are managing – Advanced integrated reporting in Data ties of Data Protector.
two replicating backup devices (HPE Protector Premium allows administrators ■ Hypervisor integrations—a wide range
StoreOnce or Dell EMC Data Domain to view client backup statistics, licensing, of hypervisors are supported to extend
appliances) providing multiple options sessions, schedules information, etc., protection for virtual machines beyond
for restoring data and applications. in order to effectively monitor the Hyper-V and VMware.
■ REST API access—an authentication backup environment. – Full and incremental backup protection
and authorization layer enables seamless – Reporting Server is also available for for KVM, Oracle VM, AWS EC2, Nutanix,
integration of data protection tasks with traditional licenses and Citrix Hypervisor.
customers’ service portals or applications. – Business Value Dashboard (BVD) – File level restore with AWS EC2 and
– Self service restore of File Systems, provides point in time backup data Citrix XEN, and including mountable
SQL Server, SAP, Oracle, VMware accessible anywhere from any device backups for KVM, and Oracle VM.

www.microfocus.com/opentext 3
 – Depending on hypervisor, capabilities – Option to exclude specific volumes and
also include application consistent restore individual files.
snapshots, option to exclude specific – Disk attachment backup strategy using
volumes, changed block tracking (CBT), Cinder.
LVM thin-pool support
■ Containers—Backup support is provided
■ OpenStack and OpenShift—this scripted for Kubernetes, Proxmox and OpenShift.
solution enables VM Workloads in AWS EC2
■ Microsoft 365—Online applications offer
to be snapshotted first then replicated into
many advantages but they only provide
AWS S3 storage. This offers the advantage
minimal data backup support. Data Protector
that backup data is separated from live
for Cloud Workloads’ backup capabilities
data and it is then possible to make use
are extensive, offering many usable Connect with Us
of Data Protector scheduling, reporting,
features on a scalable architecture. OpenText CEO Mark Barrenechea’s blog
and monitoring for your hybrid-IT
approach. – Restore to cloud or to local systems.

– OpenShift backup of metadata and data – Automatic synchronization of users.

in persistent volumes – Cross-account migration of files/mails.
– Automatic pause of running deployments – Quick search and find. Technical Specifications
for consistent backup. – Exchange Online: emails, contacts, The Data Protector Cell Manager software
– Option to exclude specific persistent calendar, and events can be installed on Windows, Linux, and HP-
volumes. UX systems. Data Protector for Cloud Work-
– SharePoint Online: Sites
loads can be installed on Linux and CentOS
– OpenStack backup of instance metadata – OneDrive for Business: Files systems. For additional specif ications, go
and data in QCOW2 volumes. – Teams: Teams chats, 1on1 chats, to QuickSpecs on www.microfocus.com/
– Full and incremental backup Teams document libraries and sites. dataprotector.

Data Protector Express and Premium are available with the following features. Licenses:
For a breakdown on features and capabilities for Data Protector for Cloud Workloads, Data Protector and Data Protector for Cloud
see its specific data sheet. Workloads each require a seperate license.
Data Protector Express Data Protector Premium Licenses are available as capacity based
(Virtual) (Hybrid) per TB, on front-end capacity. Subscription
  licenses are also available. Data Protector
 Standardized protection across enterprise     Express is a socket based license.
     
Languages Supported:
Application-Consistent Recovery
English, French, Japanese, and Simplified Chinese
 Mission-critical applications and databases X
support (agent-based)
Learn more at
Granular recovery X
microfocus.com/dataprotector
Backup and Recovery for Virtual Environments
microfocus.com/products/
Agentless VM consistent backup X X
data-protector-for-cloud-workloads
Advanced restore operations X X
www.microfocus.com/opentext
Best-in-class Platform and Cloud Integrations
Comprehensive support matrix X X
Integrations with storage X X
 Cloud integrations X X
Disaster Recovery
 Bare metal recovery for Windows and Linux X X
 Bare metal recovery for UNIX X
Orchestration, Automation and Monitoring
 Basic integrated reporting X X
 Advanced monitoring and reporting X
 Business dashboards X X
 Flexible orchestration and automation X X

260-000147-001 | O | 03/23 | © 2023 Open Text