VMware Live Recovery unifies cyber recovery and disaster recovery for VMware Cloud Foundation in a single management console. One flexible subscription covers ransomware protection with isolated clean rooms and automated site recovery with RPOs as low as 1 minute.
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Organizations face two distinct but related threats: ransomware attacks that encrypt production environments and backup infrastructure, and site-level disasters that take down entire data centers. Most teams manage these with separate tools from different vendors, creating gaps in coverage, inconsistent policies, and higher licensing costs.
94% of ransomware attacks now target backup infrastructure. Traditional backups connected to the production network can be encrypted alongside primary data, leaving no clean recovery path.
Live Cyber Recovery provides immutable, air-gapped recovery points with an isolated clean room. Push-button network isolation and live behavioral analysis identify clean restore points before recovery.
Manual DR runbooks take hours to execute under pressure. Without automated testing, teams discover recovery gaps during actual outages when it is too late to fix them.
Live Site Recovery automates recovery plans for thousands of VMs with one click. Non-disruptive testing validates your DR strategy without impacting production workloads.
Managing cyber recovery and disaster recovery with separate tools from different vendors creates inconsistent policies, integration complexity, and duplicated licensing costs.
Live Recovery unifies both capabilities in a single management console with one flexible subscription. Start with one capability and add the other as your needs change.
Ransomware attacks continue to escalate in frequency, cost, and sophistication. Organizations that lack unified recovery capabilities face extended downtime and significant financial impact.
of organizations hit by ransomware in 2024
had their data successfully encrypted
had backup infrastructure targeted during the attack
average cost of a ransomware attack
"When it comes to cybersecurity, we can sleep soundly."
— Gregory Schurgast, CTO, Vente-unique
Managed recovery environment with push-button VM network isolation. Immutable, air-gapped recovery points protect backups from ransomware encryption.
Live behavioral analysis identifies compromised snapshots. Guided restore point selection and a ransomware recovery workflow help teams recover with confidence.
Automated recovery plans orchestrate failover for thousands of VMs with one click. Non-disruptive testing validates your DR strategy without impacting production.
Policy-based management supports customizable replication and retention policies. Compatible with any storage and supports vSphere replication with RPOs as low as 1 minute.
A single subscription covers both cyber recovery and site recovery capabilities. Organizations can start with one and add the other as needs evolve.
This eliminates the cost and complexity of licensing separate cyber recovery and DR tools from multiple vendors. One console, one subscription, one support path.
Ransomware attacks now target backup infrastructure alongside production systems. Organizations need recovery points that attackers cannot reach and a validated path to clean recovery.
Live Cyber Recovery provides immutable, air-gapped recovery points stored in a managed recovery environment. Push-button network isolation creates a safe space to validate snapshots using live behavioral analysis before committing to a restore.
Large environments with thousands of VMs cannot rely on manual runbooks during an outage. Recovery plans need to be automated, tested, and validated before disaster strikes.
Live Site Recovery orchestrates failover for thousands of VMs from a single console. Non-disruptive testing runs against your actual recovery plans without impacting production, giving teams confidence that DR will work when it matters.
Many organizations manage ransomware recovery and disaster recovery with separate products from different vendors. This creates integration complexity, policy inconsistencies, and higher total cost of ownership.
Live Recovery combines both capabilities in a single management console with one flexible subscription. Teams get a unified view of their entire recovery posture without managing multiple vendor relationships.
Live Recovery combines both cyber recovery and site recovery capabilities under a single subscription. This comparison helps you understand what each component covers and why organizations choose the unified solution.
VMware Live Recovery is a unified data resiliency solution for VMware Cloud Foundation that combines two capabilities: Live Cyber Recovery for ransomware protection with isolated clean rooms, and Live Site Recovery for automated disaster recovery with RPOs as low as 1 minute.
Both capabilities are managed from a single console under one flexible subscription.
Yes. VMware Live Recovery is designed specifically for VMware Cloud Foundation environments. It integrates natively with VCF to provide cyber and disaster recovery capabilities across your private cloud infrastructure.
Live Recovery uses a single flexible subscription that covers both cyber recovery and site recovery capabilities. Organizations can start with one capability and add the other as needs change.
This approach eliminates the need to purchase, integrate, and manage separate recovery licenses from different vendors.
Live Cyber Recovery focuses on ransomware protection. It provides a managed recovery environment with push-button VM network isolation, live behavioral analysis, guided restore point selection, and immutable air-gapped recovery points.
Live Site Recovery focuses on disaster recovery. It provides automated recovery plans, non-disruptive testing, policy-based management, storage-agnostic replication, and vSphere replication with RPOs as low as 1 minute.
Yes. Live Cyber Recovery uses immutable, air-gapped recovery points that are isolated from the production network. The managed recovery environment includes push-button network isolation and live behavioral analysis to identify clean restore points before recovery.
This addresses the 94% of ransomware attacks that target backup infrastructure by keeping recovery points beyond the reach of attackers.
VirtualizationWorks helps organizations evaluate VMware Live Recovery for their VCF environment, plan deployment, and understand licensing options.
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