VMware replication is a built-in feature to VMware that helps to provide disaster recovery of VMware virtual machines.For most cases, you can perform a single-pass backup of VMware, taking advantage of your backup solution working directly with VMware vSphere Storage APIs for Data Protection to ensure that all VMware VMs, their storage and configuration are protected and ready for recovery.Determine which VMware VMs will need to be protected and which ones will need to be excluded from backup.
If you plan to use any scripts prior to or post running the VMware backup job, create these before you begin.
Veeam Backup and Replication Product Brief Includes:ĭownload now to read the full product brief. Version 11 of the product, shipped in February 2021, brought Veeam’s Instant Recovery capability – a hallmark of its support for VMs – to NAS file shares (in addition to Microsoft SQL and Oracle databases). Storage-agnostic changed file tracking is included to support devices that do not natively have changed file tracking. Highlights include the use of incremental forever backups to avoid the periodic full backups required by theNDMP protocol-enabled backups that the product previously relied on. 2020 enhanced support for network-attached storage (NAS) arrays. The launch of Veeam Backup & Replication Version 10 in Feb.
The Veeam components can be deployed all-together, or across many physical or virtual Windows or Linux systems. Sources for data protection are the VM datastores, the system storage for physical servers, and the cloud storage service for cloud-based workloads. Veeam Backup & Replication executes in a physical or virtual machine (VM). Veeam’s SaaS-delivered support for AWS-native sources (including EC2, EFS and RDS), Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure IaaS, Microsoft Azure SQL, and Microsoft 365 is covered separately in Evaluator Group’s Backup-as-a-Service Research. Today, Veeam supports multiple versions of VMware ESXi, and it includes agents to back up various versions of Windows Server and the Linux and UNIX operating systems (OSes). Veeam has since added support for additional hypervisors (including Microsoft Hyper-V, Nutanix AHV and Red Hat Virtualization), for physical servers, for cloud-delivered resources, and, through its Kasten acquisition in 2020, for containerized environments. When it was introduced in 2008, Veeam’s core product, Veeam Backup & Replication, exclusively protected VMware environments.
Veeam entered the data protection software landscape in 2006.