ShieldForce Disaster Recovery Cloud

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ShieldForce Disaster Recovery Cloud as a Service

Full protection against Financial Losses and Reputational Damage.

  • Provides you with a fast and stable solution to launch the exact copies of your machines on the cloud site.
  • Switch the workload from the corrupted original machines to the recovery servers in the cloud in case of a man-made or natural disaster
  • Manage the ShieldForce Disaster Recovery Cloud service from a single console.
  • Extend up to 23 local networks to the cloud, by using a secure VPN tunnel.
  • Failover the workload to the recovery servers when ransomware, zero-day or a natural disaster threatens your business.
  • Establish the connection to the cloud site without any VPN appliance deployment (the cloud-only mode).
  • Establish the point-to-site connection to your local and cloud sites.
  • Protect your machines by using recovery servers in the cloud.
  • Protect applications and appliances by using primary servers in the cloud.
  • Perform automatic disaster recovery operations for encrypted backups.
  • Perform a test failover in the isolated network.
  • Get help with phone and web support from ShieldForce.

Compatible with Windows 11, Windows 10, Windows 8.1 and the two most recent most recent versions of macOS.

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To speak with a sales expert, call 1-307-529-0549. Avaliable Mon to Fri from 8:00AM to 5:00PM Eastern Time.

Reduce potential downtime and financial losses

A well-orchestrated recovery program guarantees business continuity. We understand the cost of downtime for your business and the impact of financial losses.

We understand you require short recovery time for your mission critical servers and virtual machines.

We also understand you want easy-to-understand pricing, with or without local appliances, as well as simplicity in setting up and managing your Disaster Recovery Infrastructure.

Subscribe to the ShieldForce Disaster Recovery Cloud and enjoy peaceful business continuity.

Cloud Services Included

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SHIELDFORCE ADVANCED MANAGEMENT

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Features

Disaster recovery for physical and virtual workloads

Minimize downtime by enabling easy, scalable and efficient cloud-based recovery of all popular workloads including Windows and Linux physical servers and VMs, major hypervisors and Microsoft applications.

Point-in-time recovery

Prevent data loss and avoid data corruption with granularity of control over data protection and recovery capabilities. Restore systems and data to any recoverable point in the past, instead of to the latest one.

Disaster recovery orchestration

Simplify disaster recovery and increase operational efficiency by automating failovers and orchestrating disaster recovery procedures using runbooks – a set of instructions defining how to spin up your production environment in the cloud.

IPsec multisite VPN support

Strengthen security with IPsec multisite VPN support that integrates secure protocols and algorithms, so we can easily support you with multiple sites that are hosting critical data, systems, and applications with higher requirements for security and compliance.

Production Failover

Ensure quick and easy automated failover of your Production environment to an offsite server running in our Disaster Recovery Cloud.

Failover to a malware-free recovery point

Eliminate the possibility of reinfection by checking the list of recovery points available for failovers to see if a Malware or other indicator of compromise is discovered during the backup process. (ShieldForce Advanced Security required)

Site-to-site VPN connection

Enable a secure VPN connection between your local Site and the cloud recovery site to facilitate partial failover of tightly dependent servers on the local site. When one of the servers is recreated on the cloud site, the servers continue to communicate, ensuring minimal downtime.

Near-instant RPOs and RTOs

Achieve both RPOs and RTOs of less than 15 minutes. The ShieldForce RunVM engine enables best-in-class production and test failover speed, while flexible backup frequency policies lead to tighter RPOs.

Automated test failover

Save time and effort with a simplified, automated test failover. With the ShieldForce Disaster Recovery Cloud, You can perform scheduled test failover for any server on a monthly or weekly basis, giving you the confidence that you can recover quickly and successfully.

Execution monitoring

Gain visibility into disaster recovery orchestration with a detailed runbook-execution real-time view and execution history.

Frequently Asked Questions

Everything you need to know about ShieldForce Disaster Recovery Cloud

Your billing calculation will be determined by a few lines items which includes; your protected device (servers, VMs), (we charge a flat fee of $50/server/month) , the size of your backup storage (we charge a flat fee of $0.20/GB/server/month), the size of your disaster recovery storage ( we charge a flat fee of $0.25/GB/server/month), compute storage (this cost is determined by the vCPUs, RAM and number of hours of compute require to perform the recovery) and a disaster recovery dedicated IP address ( we charge a flat fee of $10/server/month).

If a disaster occurs, for example, a ransomware attack, zero-day attack, or a natural disaster, we would be able to fail over the workload to the recovery servers in a few minutes/hours thereby drastically reducing the impact of financial losses or reputational losses to your business.

To be eligible for this level of successful disaster recovery outcome you must subscribe to ShieldForce Disaster Recovery as a Service Offering for each of your servers and complete our comprehensive business requirement questionnaire here ShieldForce Customer Questionnaire for Data Backup and Disaster Recovery.

Protection with a recovery server has been tested for the following operating systems:
  • CentOS 6.6, 7.x, 8.x
  • Debian 9.x, 10.x, 11.x
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6, 7.x, 8.x
  • Ubuntu 16.04, 18.04, 20.x, 21.x
  • Oracle Linux 7.3 and 7.9 with Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel
  • Windows Server 2008 R2
  • Windows Server 2012/2012 R2
  • Windows Server 2016 – all installation options, except for Nano Server
  • Windows Server 2019 – all installation options, except for Nano Server
  • Windows Server 2022 – all installation options, except for Nano Server
Windows desktop operating systems are not supported due to Microsoft product terms. The software may work with other Windows operating systems and Linux distributions, but this is not guaranteed.

Protection with a recovery server has been tested for the following operating systems:
  • Windows Server 2008 R2
  • Windows Server 2012/2012 R2
  • Windows Server 2016 – all installation options, except for Nano Server
  • Windows Server 2019 – all installation options, except for Nano Server
  • Windows Server 2022 – all installation options, except for Nano Server
  • Ubuntu Server 20.04 LTS - Gen2 (Canonical)

Protection of virtual machines with a recovery server has been tested for the following virtualization platforms:
  • VMware ESXi 5.1, 5.5, 6.0, 6.5, 6.7, 7.0
  • Windows Server 2008 R2 with Hyper-V
  • Windows Server 2012/2012 R2 with Hyper-V
  • Windows Server 2016 with Hyper-V – all installation options, except for Nano Server
  • Windows Server 2019 with Hyper-V – all installation options, except for Nano Server
  • Windows Server 2022 with Hyper-V – all installation options, except for Nano Server
  • Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2012/2012 R2
  • Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2016
  • Kernel-based Virtual Machines (KVM) — fully virtualized guests (HVM) only. Paravirtualized guests (PV) are not supported.
  • Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV) 3.6
  • Red Hat Virtualization (RHV) 4.0
  • Citrix XenServer: 6.5, 7.0, 7.1, 7.2
    • The VPN appliance has been tested for the following virtualization platforms:
  • VMware ESXi 5.1, 5.5, 6.0, 6.5, 6.7
  • Windows Server 2008 R2 with Hyper-V
  • Windows Server 2012/2012 R2 with Hyper-V
  • Windows Server 2016 with Hyper-V – all installation options, except for Nano Server
  • Windows Server 2019 with Hyper-V – all installation options, except for Nano Server
  • Windows Server 2022 with Hyper-V – all installation options, except for Nano Server
  • Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2012/2012 R2
  • Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2016
The software may work with other virtualization platforms and versions, but this is not guaranteed.

The following platforms and configurations are not supported in ShieldForce Disaster Recovery Cloud:

1. Unsupported platforms:
  • Agents for Virtuozzo
  • macOS
2. Unsupported configurations:
    Microsoft Windows
  • Dynamic disks are not supported
  • Windows desktop operating systems are not supported (due to Microsoft product terms)
  • Active Directory service with FRS replication is not supported
  • Removable media without either GPT or MBR formatting (so-called "superfloppy") are not supported Linux.
  • File systems without a partition table
  • Linux workloads that are backed up with an agent from a guest OS and have volumes with the following advanced Logical Volume Manager (LVM) configurations: Striped volumes, Mirrored volumes, RAID 0, RAID 4, RAID 5, RAID 6, or RAID 10 volumes.
    • Workloads with multiple operating systems installed are not supported.
3. Unsupported backup types:
  • Continuous data protection (CDP) recovery points are incompatible. If you create a recovery server from a backup having a CDP recovery point, then during the failback or creating backup of a recovery server, you will loose the data contained in the CDP recovery point.
  • Forensic backups cannot be used for creating recovery servers.
A recovery server has one network interface. If the original machine has several network interfaces, only one is emulated. Cloud servers are not encrypted.

Yes, you can use a trial version of ShieldForce Disaster Recovery Cloud for a period of 30 days. Please note the following limitations for your trial:
  • You can use only 100 compute points. For more information about compute points.
  • You can use only 1 TB of cold Acronis Cloud Storage for storing backups.
  • No access to public internet for recovery and primary servers. You cannot assign public IP addresses to the servers.
  • IPsec Multi-site VPN is not available.

In Disaster Recovery, compute points are used for primary servers and recovery servers during test failover and production failover. Compute points reflect the compute resources used for running the servers (virtual machines) in the cloud.

The consumption of compute points during disaster recovery depends on the server's parameters, and the duration of the time period in which the server is in failover state. The more powerful the server and the longer the time period, the more compute points will be consumed. And the more compute points are consumed, the higher the price that you will be charged.

In the table below you can see eight different flavors for servers in the cloud:
Type CPU RAM Compute Points
F1 1 vCPU 2 GB 1
F2 1 vCPU 4 GB 2
F3 2 vCPU 8 GB 4
F4 4 vCPU 16 GB 8
F5 8 vCPU 32 GB 16
F6 16 vCPU 64 GB 32
F7 16 vCPU 128 GB 64
F8 16 vCPU 256 GB 128
Using the information in the table, you can easily estimate how much compute points a server (virtual machine) will consume.

If a disaster occurs, we can fail over the workload to the recovery servers in the cloud. At least one recovery point must have been created before failing over to recovery servers. When your local site has recovered from a disaster, we can switch the workload back to your local site by performing failback.

Pay with all major credit cards, and your subscription amount will appear on your credit card statements. For ShieldForce Secure business plans, you have the option to receive an invoice and, depending on your choice of services, you’ll be billed monthly or annually. Receive an email message when your invoice is ready to be viewed and, if a purchase order number is entered when you buy your subscription, that number is included in your invoice.

ShieldForce Customer Center gives you access to your tenant and to manage your subscription.

Choose a monthly commitment payment or an annual commitment payment for ShieldForce.
  • Monthly commitment payment: Pay month by month and cancel at any time.
  • Annual commitment payment: Sign up for a one-year subscription and benefit from a discount for using this payment option. By default, your billing plan will be set to annual billing. After your purchase you can change your billing plan to monthly billing in ShieldForce Customer Center.

You can cancel your subscription at any time, you may be entitled to a partial refund.

Your data is yours. If you decide to cancel your ShieldForce Secure subscription, you can download your data – for example, your files, folders on cloud storage -and save it to another device/location. You should save your date before you cancel. After you cancel your subscription, data associated with your ShieldForce Secure account will be avaliable to your tenant administrators (s) in a limited function account for 30 days. After 30 days all associated data will be deleted.

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