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snapshots korgrid provides comprehensive, built in data protection and business continuity capabilities that safeguard your critical operations from cyberattacks, ransomware, hardware failures, accidental deletions, natural disasters, and extended outages unlike traditional solutions that require separate backup software and complex integrations, korgrid delivers enterprise grade bc/dr functionality natively within the platform core capabilities snapshots point in time protection capture comprehensive point in time copies of your entire infrastructure or individual components for rapid recovery with minimal data loss what you can protect complete systems (system snapshots) everything in your environment individual virtual machines specific workloads with customizable schedules nas volumes file level data with granular recovery options tenant environments isolated customer or departmental systems recovery scenarios roll back entire system after failed updates or security incidents restore individual vms without affecting other workloads recover accidentally deleted files from nas snapshots quickly spin up development environments from production snapshots key features automated scheduling with flexible retention policies space efficient storage through deduplication application consistent snapshots with guest agent integration instant snapshot creation with minimal performance impact replication site sync replicate vergeos and vmware systems and data to korgrid for comprehensive backup and disaster recovery protection replication capabilities automated synchronization with customizable schedules and retention bandwidth optimization with compression and throttling controls encrypted transmission ensuring data security in transit multi site support for complex replication topologies common deployment scenarios offsite backup replicate to secondary data center for data protection disaster recovery maintain hot standby site for business continuity multi location distribution keep data synchronized across branch offices cloud archival long term data retention advanced features incremental sync technology minimizes bandwidth usage automatic failover and failback capabilities cross site workload mobility centralized monitoring and management repair servers intelligent data recovery system that automatically attempts to repair corrupted or missing data blocks by retrieving them from synchronized remote systems how it works monitors data integrity across the korgrid infrastructure automatically detects and attempts to repair data inconsistencies leverages site sync destinations as repair sources operates transparently without administrator intervention benefits reduces recovery time from hardware failures minimizes the need for full system restores maintains data availability during repair operations provides additional layer of protection beyond traditional redundancy vsan korgrid's virtual storage area network (vsan) is a fundamental component that tightly integrates storage into the virtual data center (vdc) product it provides a distributed, multi tiered storage foundation for all workloads key features direct management of storage hardware eliminates storage abstraction layers for improved performance comprehensive monitoring and reporting real time visibility into storage performance, capacity, and health intelligent load balancing automatically distributes i/o across available storage devices data efficiency built in deduplication reduces storage consumption data integrity continuous bit rot detection protects against silent data corruption self healing automatic recovery from hardware failures horizontal scalability add storage capacity and performance by adding nodes effortless virtual disk management storage abstraction provides simplified and flexible virtual disk provisioning and management more information can be found here docid\ fst1mj3ahosv1guofhgzw integrated data protection snapshots point in time copies for quick recovery replication copy complete systems along with data to another location for archival and disaster recovery backup integration compatibility with external enterprise backup software file level storage file management easily upload and manage individual iso images, vm disk images, and other files to use in your system and share among sites and tenants network attached storage (nas) embedded nas services allow you to create volumes for file level access within your tenant, in order to share across workloads, easily import/export data for backups or migration, mount external file systems, and more