Deduplication technology in Altaro VM Backup improves storage efficiency by reducing redundant data, but its impact depends on the client's willingness to pay for additional services due to cost constraints.

Overall, I would rate Altaro VM Backup as a ten out of ten.

If you have VMs to backup, Altaro is the BEST solution for us and many others alike. I would suggest that you do your homework because everybody's needs are different, and make sure that you test Altaro. You may not need to waste any more time on anything else because it just works!

I'm extremely happy with this solution. It's a complete solution. I would give it a ten out of ten.

My advice to someone considering this solution is to play around. This is what I ask my students to do, and they play around on Hyper-V on the Windows 10 Pro Edition. It doesn't have all of the features but it's the best that you can get. That's my advice, you don't have to buy anything. You have Windows 10 Pro Edition and you can experiment with Hyper-V on your machine or notebook.

The software is great and does what I need for an application. I have no complaints and as long as the backups never become corrupt from the software, I will continue using Altaro.

Altaro VM Backup is a hassle-free virtual machine backup software solution for Hyper-V and VMware. The intuitive interface allows you to set up and perform backups and restores easily.

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It is really made for smaller deployments. It is for five or six VMs.

I would give it a nine out of 10.

Test multiple solutions for at least two weeks, validate DR scenarios, and the storage required for each solution and scalability.

Install the trial version so you can see how easy it is.

Try it. It’s easy to install and manage its performance.

I definitely recommend Altaro.

Give it a try as it's very easy to setup and works like charm. Also, the pricing model is very good.

• Make sure you have the relevant expansion/space for growing VMS and VSS
• If there is not enough free disk space for VSS to run you will get crash consistent state backups
• Enable shadow copy (previous versions) restore on files servers if using REFS files system as its not supported

I recommend this solution, although I have encountered some complexities with it.

I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.

Wait for the new version 7 the beta that im testing is very quick

If you only have a Hyper-V environment with several nodes, you should dedicate one server for hosting the backup solution (depending on the number of the virtual machines hosted on each node). Or you can install several Altaro Hyper-V Backup instances and connect them to one management software. I am sure that guys at Altaro will help you out with the deployment scenario.

Estimate what you need. It is very important because Altaro Hyper-V Backup has multiple editions which contain different features. For example, the standard edition doesn’t support the clusters.

Make sure you have enough disk space, especially if you use replication. Also, as the two have managed to butt heads on occasion, causing VMs to be put into a paused state due to snapshots that haven't merged. It can then be a timely job to shut the machines down and merge them back in.

Just try it for free.

On a scale from one to ten when one is the worst and ten is the best, I would rate Hyper-V as a seven. It is not the best but it is good.

It is a great lesson in keeping it simple. It just works and you get save much more of your hair.

The wide range of changes that you can make are very good. However, timings of the backups take quite a while however this is to be resolved with the CBT feature that they're rolling out in the coming months. It would however be nice to throttle bandwidth/ disk activity during set periods of times. They offer a free license for two VMs or less. A lot of features are disabled, but give it a go and like it, purchase it.

Try it! You will not be disappointed.

We use both the cloud and on-premises deployment models. We're a reseller of the solution.

I'd definitely recommend the product. I'd rate it nine out of ten.