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VMware Engine Protected offering
This page describes the Google Cloud VMware Engine Protected offering. Google Cloud
offers bundled pricing for both VMware Engine
and Backup and DR Service. You can backup and restore all of the virtual machines on
a VMware Engine node with first-party Backup and DR software
for only an incremental add-on cost per VMware Engine node. This
gives you centralized, fast, and cost-efficient backup and recovery capabilities
for your VMware Engine VMs.
Capabilities
VMware Engine Protected offers the following capabilities:
Dedicated, managed VMware Engine private-cloud-as-a-service that's
available globally, and sold and supported directly through
Google Cloud.
Backup management: Centrally managed, fast, and cost-efficient
incremental-forever backups.
Disaster recovery: Recover VMs across regions and projects.
Ransomware recovery: Instantly access different point-in-time backup copies
in parallel to quickly identify a desirable recovery candidate.
Test data management: Reduce time-to-test new patches and features, and run
business reporting and analytics against production data. Reduce management
burden with self-service auto refresh of data.
Key benefits
VMware Engine Protected offers several key benefits, including the
following:
Google-native solution: The Google Cloud-native Backup and DR Service
integrates with the Google Cloud ecosystem, including simplified
sign-on via SSO, seamless integration with Identity and Access Management (IAM),
Cloud Logging, Cloud Monitoring, Key Management, and more.
Low TCO: Efficient, incremental-forever backup leveraging changed-block
tracking significantly reduces the time it takes for you to perform backups,
minimizes impact on production servers, and optimizes bandwidth and storage
utilization to lower costs.
Achieve lower RTO: Instantly mount and access VMware Engine VMs
from backups stored in Cloud Storage. No need to first move backup
data to warm storage to access it.
Simplified pricing: VMware Engine Protected is offered at a fixed
price per node, regardless of the amount of data you protect or the number
of VMs, simplifying pricing and offering better cost predictability.
See the
VMware Engine pricing
page to review the pricing for protecting VMware Engine nodes in your
region.
Pricing details
Pricing is only for protecting VMware Engine—whole VM backups. It does
not include backup management charges for any agent-based backups, such as
charges for application consistent backups for SAP HANA, SQL Server, MySQL,
Postgres, or File System agents, for example. To estimate charges for
agent-based backups, the production size for each of these database types is
needed. Agent-based backups are priced according to standard
Backup and DR Service pricing. Backup landing storage costs are separate and
additional— VMware Engine Protected does not include storage.
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