Hard Disk Manager 15 Premium combines all of Paragon's technologies and expertise in storage lifecycle management, data protection and sanitization within stand-alone physical and virtual Windows environments. It offers flexible Technician Licensing options for professionals managing mid-size groups of co-located servers.

Storage lifecycle maintenance for stand-alone virtual or physical Windows Server
- All-in-One solution for complete server maintenance and disaster recovery
- Innovative backup imaging technology
- Support for virtual disks
- Agentless protection of Hyper-V guest machines
- Works with Windows Server
- Works with Windows 10 Creators Update

Effective data and storage management
- Innovative backup imaging technology opens up 10x faster incremental imaging to the net, instant virtualization without restore, fast backup data de-duplication, etc.
- Differential and incremental backups, and exclusive file complements to minimize storage requirements and optimize backup speeds
- Exclude filters for enterprise-level applications provide for better backup performance, minimize backup storage requirements, and eliminate interference with special-purpose backup tools
- Task scheduling and scripting to combine multiple operations in one job and automate the execution (Paragon Retention Wizard and Cyclic Backup to VD Wizard)
- Any backup destination, including locally mounted/un-mounted partitions, external storages, CD/DVD/Blu-ray discs, flash drives, network shares, SFTP/FTP servers as well as the secured hidden partition (Backup Capsule)
- Remote connection of virtual drives through vSphere interface to accomplish drive partitioning, data exchange, or OS migration of Windows virtual environments hosted by ESX
- Any type of migration for Windows XP SP3 and later platforms ( P2V Copy, P2V Restore, V2P , V2V , P2P , Windows OS to SSD, etc.)
- Operation with virtual disks as if they were physical ( Connect VD )
- The fastest and safest partitioning engine on the market - our product does the job with minimal time and risk
- Automatic partition alignment optimizes the drive for performance and longevity (not all operations are supported**)
- Fast data exchange between physical and virtual disks, between virtual disks of different hypervisors, or between a virtual disk and its snapshots
- Exclusive optimization of NTFS file system (MFT defragmentation and shrinking)
- Easy management of several operating systems on one system

Encryption and secure wiping
- Windows BitLocker support in combination with pVHD enables to achieve exceptional protection of OS and personal data from unauthorized access and from data loss
- Encryption and password protection for backups guarantees security for confidential data
- 10 wipe algorithms including military and government data erasure standards of several countries to destroy all on-disk information or only remnants of deleted files / directories without affecting the used data
- Wiping SSDs: irreversible secure data destruction on SSD storage devices

Latest hardware and software support
- Support of VMware ESX 4.x/5.x, ESXi 4.x/5.x, VMware Server, MS Hyper-V R1/R2, Virtual Server, Virtual PC 2007, Windows Virtual PC, Oracle Virtual Box 1.0-4.x, VMware Player, Workstation 10.0, Fusion
- Complete support of GPT/uEFI configurations to successfully clone, migrate, virtualize or restore a 64-bit Windows system configured to the uEFI-based boot mode; to fix uEFI related boot problems
- Support for any Windows OS since XP SP3 including the latest Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2
- Latest hardware support, including all SCSI, IDE and SATA RAID controllers, SSD, AFD, 2TB+ and non-512B sector size disks, Blu-ray drives, USB 1.x/2.0/3.0 and IEEE 1394 (FireWire) devices, PC card storages, and many more...
- Support for GPT (GUID Partition Table) disks
- Support for Mcft dynamic disks (simple, spanned, striped, mirrored, RAID-5)
- Support for Windows Storage Spaces
- Support for Apple Boot Camp configurations



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