Project challenge

The Waverly-Shell Rock Community School District is located in the Waverly and Shell Rock communities in northeastern Iowa. The district consists of seven schools and is located between elementary schools, middle schools and high schools. The Waverly-Shell Rock Community School District serves approximately 2,178 students and employs 162 teachers.

The Waverly-Shell Rock Community School District virtualizes their environment on Microsoft Hyper-V, which now handles 13 physical servers and 11 virtual hosts. Hyper-V VM storage area for critical data and IT systems, including domain controllers, print servers, file servers, imaging, wireless monitoring and physical plan security. In particular, teachers' files and student information, such as personal data, attendance records, grades, and graduation records, must always be protected. Therefore, the Hyper-V VM should maintain data availability for the zone and provide access to that data for students and teachers at any given point in time. It is vital that teachers and students have access to this information 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

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solution

NAKIVO Backup&Replication is an enhanced data protection solution that provides a wide range of features to protect the Hyper-V environment and support Synology NAS devices. Matt investigated the VM backup solution through Google and the Synology App Center and reviewed several online comments about NAKIVO Backup&Replication. During the week of testing, the product was purchased to protect the virtual environment of the school district.

Matt appreciates the integration of NAKIVO Backup&Replication with Synology NAS servers, not only because of the shorter installation time, but also because all VM data protection components are integrated into a largely manageable system.

Not only does NAKIVO Backup&Replication, which is installed on the Synology NAS, provide faster installation and configuration, but it also provides faster VM backup because one of the main requirements in the region is to have fast and reliable backups. The backup speed has been increased by at least 2 times. Schedule backup jobs at night, and average permanent incremental backup jobs are usually completed in one hour.

Thanks to Hyper-V's Native Resilience Change Tracking (RCT) technology, this area can transfer changed data blocks to the backup repository, which can increase VM backup speed without running a full backup. Up to 1,000 recovery points can be restored for each Hyper-V backup and rotated by day, week, month and year. Hyper-V RCT technology is ideal for permanent incremental backups, a feature that saves time.

Finally, using the previous backup solution, Matt didn't have any reporting and notification features built into the product. With NAKIVO Backup&Replication, Matt had automatic reporting and email notifications, so he managed to save his personal time spent managing the backup system. .

User revenue

NAKIVO Backup&Replication, installed on Synology NAS, provides a more modern way for Waverly-Shell Rock Community School District to protect their data and systems. This product reduces deployment time, reduces complexity, and increases the speed of VM backups in the region. Now, permanently incremental VM backup jobs can be completed in less than an hour, which is at least 2 times faster than before. In addition, through reporting features such as automated reporting and email notifications, Matt managed to reduce backup management time. NAKIVO Backup&Replication runs on the Synology NAS box, providing powerful features, improved VM backup speed, and excellent reporting. In addition, the license cost of NAKIVO Backup&.