8 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009you to limit the amount of CPU usage for the application to maximize the CPU’savailability for mission critical applications. Additionally, users can control hard disk drivewriting speeds and control network bandwidth used during backups, allowing minimaldisruption of business operations.A feature that allows you to suspend database activity for several seconds is provided sothat you can create a valid image of mission-critical applications such as MicrosoftExchange Server, Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle. This database suspension processsupports Microsoft’s Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS). If your database or operatingsystem does not support VSS, Acronis True Image for Microsoft Small Business Server willexecute your custom commands to execute database suspension.Supports Leading Edge TechnologyBusinesses today are moving to leverage the latest technologies, including dual-core, 64-bit processors and 64-bit operating systems. With Acronis True Image for Microsoft SmallBusiness Server, you can protect these new machines, as well as legacy servers, runninga single application with a common interface.Leverages Existing Technology InvestmentsThe product can leverage your current storage infrastructure by supporting a variety ofstorage media, so you can avoid costly hardware purchases to implement the solution.The product supports key storage technologies such as: Direct Attached Storage (DAS),Network Attached Storage (NAS), Storage Area Networks (SAN), Redundant Arrays ofIndependent Disks (RAID), tapes, USB and IEEE-1394 (FireWire) compliant storagedevices, CDs, DVDs, removable drives (Floppy, Zip, etc.) and shared storage. Moreover,the product ensures that you maximize the space on these resources with four levels ofcompression.Disk cloning and new disk deploymentAcronis True Image for Microsoft Small Business Server can be used to clone an imageonto multiple servers. For example, let’s say a company purchased several servers andneeds similar environments on each of them. Traditionally, the IT manager would installthe operating system and programs on every server. With Acronis True Image forMicrosoft Small Business Server, the IT manager would configure a single server, thencreate a disk image of the system. That image can then be duplicated onto multipleservers.If you need to upgrade the server hard disk drive, Acronis True Image for Microsoft SmallBusiness Server simplifies the task to few mouse clicks creating the exact copy of your olddisk to a new one and adjusting partitions size to fit a new hard disk.Volumes conversionAcronis True Image for Microsoft Small Business Server can back up and recover dynamicvolumes.Dynamic volume as is can be recovered over the same volume or unallocated space of adynamic group. Acronis True Image for Microsoft Small Business Server has necessarytools for any-to-any disks conversion in terms of basic disks and dynamic volumes of anytype (simple, spanned, striped, mirrored or RAID 5). The tools are available in bootableprogram version as well. Having booted the Acronis environment, you can easily preparethe desired dynamic group on bare metal or a computer with non-Windows operatingsystem.
