Symantec System Recovery 2011 Server Edition Media Kit

To sustain your operations, your business and even your brand, you need to recover from a system failure as quickly as possible. But manual system recovery processes and solutions that depend on user intervention prolong system downtime - and potential losses.

Symantec System Recovery 2011 Server Edition is a server backup solution that delivers fast and reliable system recovery to help you minimize downtime and meet recovery time objectives with confidence. Quickly restore physical and virtual systems in minutes, even to bare metal, dissimilar hardware, remote locations, or virtual environments. With more than 787,000 protected systems, Symantec System Recovery 2011 Server Edition is proven, trusted, and reliable backup server software.

New Features

• Updated support for the latest Microsoft Windows, Linux, VMware, Microsoft Hyper-V, and Citrix XenServer operating systems and applications

With Symantec System Recovery 2011, we continue to build on our proven track record of comprehensive system protection for the latest Windows, Linux, VMware, Microsoft Hyper-V, and Citrix XenServer operating systems and applications including:
• SharePoint 2010
• Exchange 2010 SP1
• SQL 2008 R2
• VMware vSphere 4.1
• VMware ESX 3.5 update 5
• Citrix XenServer 5.6
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP3, 11 and 11 SP1
• Red Hat Linux 5.4, 5.5 and 6.0

• Granular Recovery support for SharePoint 2010

Recover Microsoft SharePoint 2010 server documents in seconds from a single system recovery point.

• Enhanced Symantec System Recovery Management Solution

  The Symantec System Recovery Management Solution is a highly scalable centralized management solution designed to centrally manage up to 2,500 Symantec System Recovery clients from a single management server. It can be installed to and hosted on a Windows 2008 R2 64-bit server.

• Enhanced customizable recovery disk wizard

  Additional flexibility has been added to the customizable recovery disk wizard with the option to select an .ISO image as the source for a custom recovery disk.

• All-in-one backup and recovery USB device

  With new wizard functionality, you can easily transform a USB device into a bootable Symantec System Recovery Disk device to help reduce boot time and speed up the recovery process. Adding this boot functionality gives you the ability to create an all-in-one backup and recovery device that contains the backup and can act as a bootable recovery media for restore operations.

Key Features

• Restore physical and virtual servers from local or off-site destinations in minutes, even to bare metal, dissimilar hardware, remote locations, or virtual environments
• Offsite Backup Copy to FTP location or secondary disk drive for enhanced disaster recovery capabilities
• Perform seamless, automated physical to virtual (P2V) and virtual to physical (V2P) conversions
• Capture and protect the entire system, including the OS, applications, all files, device drivers, etc. in one easy-to-manage recovery point with image-based technology
• Schedule server backups to run automatically, including event triggered backups, without disrupting user productivity
• Built-in AES software encryption of server backups ensures the security of critical business data

Key Benefits

• Dramatically minimize downtime and avoid revenue and employee productivity losses in the event of a system failure
• Meet strict recovery time objectives with fast, automated system recovery that takes just four simple steps
• Recover what you need, when and where you need it, including individual files, folders or complete systems in minutes
• Eliminate the need to have duplicate hardware on standby for recovery purposes and save on hardware costs
• Easily perform hardware refreshes and migrations
• Simplify IT administration by centrally managing backup server and recovery tasks for multiple servers across your entire organization with Symantec System Recovery Management Solution (included at no charge)

Symantec System Recovery 2011 Data Sheet

System Requirements

Operating Systems

Windows 32-bit or 64-bit operating systems:

• Windows Server 2003
• Windows Essential Business Server 2008 and 2011
• Windows Server 2008 SP1 / SP2
• Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1

Processor

233 MHz or greater, as required by the operating system

RAM

Memory requirements per key components:

• 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)
• Symantec System Recovery LightsOut Restore feature: 1 GB

Available hard disk space

• When installing the entire product: Up to 430MB, depending on the language of the product you are installing
• Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0: 280 MB of hard disk space required for 32-bit computers, and 610 MB for 64-bit computers
• Recovery points: Sufficient hard disk space on a local hard disk or network server for storing recovery points
• Symantec System Recovery LightsOut Restore feature: 2 GB

CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drive

The drive can be any speed, but must be bootable from the BIOS in order to boot the Symantec System Recovery Disk CD-ROM. Symantec System Recovery uses Gear Software technology. Software

• The .NET Framework 2.0 is required to run Backup Exec System Recovery. If the .NET Framework is not already installed, you will be prompted to install it once Backup Exec System Recovery is installed and your computer is rebooted
• Additionally, Microsoft Outlook 2003, 2007, or 2010 is required for granular Exchange recovery

Virtual platforms (for converted recovery points)

• VMware vSphere 4.0 and 4.1
• VMware ESXi 3.5, 4.0, and 4.1
• VMware ESX 3.0, 3.5, 4.0, and 4.1
• VMware Server 1.0 and 2.0
• VMware Workstation 4, 5, 6, and 6.5
• Microsoft Hyper-V 1.0 and 2.0
• Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2 and later
• Citrix XenServer 4.x and 5.x

Symantec System Recovery 2011 Management Solution
(32-bit operating systems) Processor

• Intel Pentium 4 CPU 2.0 GHz or faster

RAM

• 2 GB or more

Available hard disk space

• 20 GB or more

Operating System
Enterprise and Standard editions of the following Windows operating systems are supported:

• Microsoft Windows Server 2003 SP2
• Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 SP2

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

• Microsoft SQL Server 2005
• Microsoft SQL Server 2008

Note: Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express Edition is included on the Symantec System Recovery 2011 Management Solution media. Symantec recommends that you install Microsoft SQL Server and Symantec System Recovery 2011 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 2011 Management Solution:

• Microsoft Internet Information Services
• Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 SP1
• Microsoft ASP.NET
• Microsoft Internet Information Services 6.0
• Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.0 (and 8.0 in compatibility view)
• Microsoft Silverlight 3.0 or later
• Microsoft Windows Installer 4.5
• Symantec Installation Manager 7.0
• Symantec Management Platform 7.0 SP5

Note: Installation of Symantec System Recovery 2011 Management Solution is not supported on encrypted file systems. High speed Internet access is recommended at the computer where you install Symantec System Recovery 2011 Management Solution.

DVD-ROM drive

• Required for installation

Symantec System Recovery 2011 Management Solution
(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

• 4 GB or more

Available hard 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: Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Express Edition is included on the Symantec System Recovery 2011 Management Solution media. Symantec recommends that you install Microsoft SQL Server and Symantec System Recovery 2011 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 2011 Management Solution:

• Microsoft Internet Information Services
• Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 SP1
• Microsoft ASP.NET
• Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) 7.5
  Note: The IIS 6.0 compatibility mode must be enabled.
• Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.0 (and 8.0 in compatibility view)
• Microsoft Silverlight 3.0 or later
• Symantec Installation Manager 7.1
• Symantec Management Platform 7.1

Note: Installation of Symantec System Recovery 2011 Management Solution is not supported on encrypted file systems. High speed Internet access is recommended at the computer where you install Symantec System Recovery 2011 Management Solution.

DVD-ROM drive

• Required for installation

Symantec System Recovery 2011 Software Compatibility List

Product information, specifications, and compatibility are for advisory purposes only, and is the buyers full responsibility to verify with the manufacturer prior to ordering.