The most valuable feature of Altaro VM Backup is its ability to backup and restore various types of data, including Active Directory, application servers, and SQL Server databases. This ensures continuity even in the event of hardware failure, with the option to restore entire machines seamlessly without disrupting connectivity or network configurations.

The most valuable feature is the dashboard, which shows everything you need to see at a quick glance. It doesn't stop there; it goes into detail on the status of your storage devices and how much space you have available, along with how much you have saved with deduplication.

Deduplication is another great feature that saves so much space on your backup storage that it is sometimes hard to believe.

The backup graphs are awesome also, helping you see your information at a glance.

The CDP backup feature is very nice, as it allows you to take backups at high frequencies and with application consistency.  

It's a bare-metal solution, that's number one. I use it in my teachings for my students. I oblige them to use it on Windows 10 Pro Edition. I'm using it myself on the surface. All of the features are fantastic and also the management from Microsoft dealing with multiple machines is great. The whole package is excellent for me. 

The GUI interface is desirable we can't function without it. We love it and our clients love it. We don't get stuck in trying to navigate through a bunch of diagnostic pages, home pages, and stored data. What you need is just a couple of clicks away.

Altaro makes everything much easier to perform on time-sensitive client sites. Clients seem to like the idea of having a backup of their VM without taking a day to back up all of their data.

Key features:

• Easy to install and use
• Built for virtual environments
• Multi-hypervisor support (Hyper-V and VMware)
• Offsite backups boosted by WAN acceleration
• File and Exchange item level restore
• Backup live VMs with no downtime
• MS VSS Integration
• Cluster shared volumes aware scheduling
• Restore to different Hyper-V host or clones
• Central management console
• Compression and encryption
• Supports WS2008 R2, WS2012 and WS2012 R2
• Supports ESXi, vSphere, and vCenter 

Reverse Delta is Altaro proprietary backup deduplication technology. With Reverse Delta, the latest version of a file is always made available in its entirety, not as a delta file. This means that if you require the latest version of a file, it is possible to access it directly from your backup drive without having to rebuild the file from delta files. The delta files are only used if you want to build a previous version of the file; building one delta file at a time for each version as you travel back in time in the reverse direction. 

This works for both Hyper-V and VMware.

We frequently use the Granular Restore option for when our users accidentally delete files or to recover emails from mailboxes. We have found that to be a must-have feature and it comes with the solution at no extra cost.

We use the latest feature in Altaro called CDP (Continuous Data Protection) to back up our VMs as often as every five minutes. It allows us to make sure no data is accidentally deleted or overwritten.

The ability to test the backups, without having to manually mount the VHDs after restore, allows us to check the integrity of the backups. This is crucial for us.

It is an excellent product. It is easy to deploy, stable, and fast. Their support is excellent.

Valuable features for us include quick recovery, compression, and deduplication. The mix of these features leads to a reduced backup footprint while having guaranteed fast recovery in case of DR.

• Backup live VMs
• Backup to multiple locations
• Restore to a different Hyper-V host machine

Easy to use and to emplement
Offsite – onsite copy
Deduplication
Automatic restore and consistance tests
VMWare and MS are both supported
Boot a backuped VM directly 

• The ability to backup live VMs
• Offsite backup replication to a removable drive or physical offsite location
• Granular restore ability, including Exchange Server item level restore

The great features are

• The possibility to backup Linux machines online
• Off-site backup
• Fire drills
• File level restore

• Item level restore
• Offsite copies

• Great backup features for all my Hyper V machines.
• Excellent for offsite backup as an add on function
• Easy restore for entire virtual machine files and sandbox option
• Well priced
• Excellent support and team behind this product

• Hyper-V VM & Hyper-V host or node backup and retention schedules
• Exchange item level restore
• In the new version, you do not have to install the backup software itself onto a Hyper-V host

• Cluster shared volumes backup
• Back up live virtual machines which use Microsoft VSS technology
• File level restore

VM backup and the item level recovery are the most valuable features.

• Shiny and new looking. 
• All backup features look nice. 
• Ability to restore to any host. 
• File level restore on FPS and Exchange.
• There is a free version for Hosts with 2 VMs.

It works fine and is easy to use.

In Hyper-V, I think there are many valuable features. Replication between the different hosts, high availability, live migration — where I can migrate between one host to another — as well as incremental disaster recovery, are very good. These solutions are based on Hyper-V in two distinct geographic sites. But my interest in this feature is that I implement it in the VMware infrastructure because the rest of my infrastructure is based on the VMware.

We use Altaro with onsite and offsite features, so even during ransomware attacks we never were at risk as daily backups weren't connected to the local network. The Cloud Management Console is very helpful as we can manage and check our backups from around the world. Just last week, Altaro added some new features like continuous data protection, which will be the next feature we test.

• Ease of setup 
• Ease of recovery of VMs

Generally, the entire program is brilliant, and there isn't any one feature that I can pick out. However, I'd always recommend using the Altaro offsite backup server as this works brilliantly.

Simplicity and reliability. I had some difficulties activating the product but after the activation phase all went smooth.

• Automated live Hyper-V backups of full VMs.
• Excellent compression and deduplication with off-site WAN backup included.
• Retention policies and reporting included.
• Granular file-level restore and Exchange restore.
• Automated validation of backed up VMs.
• Central management possible.

The ease of use of the solution is its most valuable feature. The interface is also excellent.