PHD Virtual Technologies Announces immediate availability of PHD Virtual Backup for Citrix XenServer

by Patrick Redknap on August 25, 2010

PHD Virtual Technologies, pioneer and innovator in backup and recovery for virtual machines, announces immediate availability of PHD Virtual Backup for Citrix
XenServer®
. The new backup and recovery solution is purpose‐built for the growing number of virtualized XenServer environments and is verified to work with XenServer as part of the Citrix Ready® program.
PHD Virtual provides the ability to back up and restore business‐critical information quickly and efficiently, directly within the XenCenter® management console, providing a single pane of glass to manage virtual machine backups. With support for XenServer, XenDesktop® and XenApp™ customers can leverage the same solution across their entire virtual environment.

“PHD Virtual is a value‐added XenServer ecosystem partner,” said Lou Shipley, Group Vice President and General Manager, XenServer Product Group, Citrix Systems. “The new PHD Virtual Backup for XenServer product provides our joint customers a robust, integrated and scalable backup and recovery solution as they accelerate the virtualization of mission critical applications.”

“We are excited about the release of PHD Virtual Backup for Citrix XenServer,” said Ryan Spaeth, Senior Engineer, Mason Valley Quicknet. “Our testing of the beta release has demonstrated that we can reduce our backup window and decrease the time it takes to restore virtual machines in our environment. The direct integration with XenCenter gives us a solution that is incredibly easy to use and provides a single location to configure and manage all of our virtual machine backups.”

PHD Virtual Backup is recognized as the most scalable backup and recovery solution on the market with the highest performance for virtualized servers. Leveraging the unique VBA™ Architecture, PHD Virtual delivers a robust backup solution that integrates directly into the virtualization infrastructure leveraging
virtual appliances for backup and recovery of virtual machines. This unique approach provides a solution that efficiently scales to meet growing demand without the need for dedicated proxy servers, additional hardware or software agents.

“We are seeing growing adoption of XenServer as our customers increasingly virtualize their critical workloads and are excited to extend our award winning backup and recovery technology to the XenServer platform,” said Thomas Charlton, Chairman and CEO of PHD Virtual Technologies. “This new product complements our strategy of providing best in class backup and disaster recovery for virtual infrastructure and supports our customers desire to have flexible solutions for heterogeneous hypervisor environments. Feedback from our beta testers has confirmed that our solution is fast, efficient and easy to integrate into their XenServer environments.”

Customers can dramatically accelerate reliable backup and recovery of XenServer virtual machines leveraging unique patent pending technologies included in PHD Virtual Backup:

  • TrueDedupe™ Technology – patent pending source‐side data deduplication and compression technology dramatically reduces the amount of data stored across multiple virtual machine backups reducing network bandwidth utilization and target storage requirements by up to 90% on averag
  • SureRestore™ Technology – Provides increased confidence in your ability to restore from backup by verifying data both during the backup and restore processes ensuring data integrity. Selfhealing is provided by automatically detecting and repairing corrupt data blocks.


  • PHD Virtual’s solution for Citrix XenServer backup is now available. Download a free trial version of PHD Virtual Backup for XenServer today. Please register and attend for an upcoming webinar on PHD Virtual Backup for Citrix XenServer August 26 and Sept 1.

    Visit the PHDVirtual.com for our entire webinar calendar.

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