NAKIVO for Physical Servers

NAKIVO Backup & Replication provides image-based, application-aware backup for physical Windows and Linux servers and workstations. It captures the entire machine's data while using VSS integration to ensure live applications — SQL Server, Exchange, Active Directory — are quiesced and captured in a consistent, recoverable state.

The real value for physical server environments comes from NAKIVO's Physical-to-Virtual (P2V) recovery capabilities. When a physical server suffers a hardware failure, you can instantly restore it as a VMware vSphere or Microsoft Hyper-V virtual machine. This dramatically reduces downtime — instead of waiting for replacement hardware to arrive (which in Australia can mean days for regional offices), you spin up the workload as a VM and keep the business running.

Bare-metal recovery to identical hardware is also supported for situations where you need an exact rebuild. Incremental backups keep backup windows short, and file-level granular recovery lets you restore individual files and folders without recovering the entire machine. For organisations with mixed physical and virtual environments, NAKIVO manages it all from a single web-based console.