Veeam Backup & Replication
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Recovering VMware ESXi VM using Veeam
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| Developer(s) | Veeam Software |
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| Initial release | February 26, 2008 |
| Stable release |
9.5 / July 16, 2016
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| Operating system |
Windows Server 2008 R2or later Windows 7 or later |
| Platform | IA-32 |
| Available in | English |
| Type | Backup software |
| License | Trialware |
| Website | www |
Veeam Backup & Replication is a proprietary backup app developed by Veeam for virtual environments built on VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisors. The software provides backup, restore and replication functionality for virtual machines.
Veeam Backup & Replication operates at the virtualization layer. It backs up VMs at the image-level using a hypervisor’s snapshots to retrieve VM data. Backups can be full (a full copy of VM image) or incremental (saving only the changed blocks of data since the last backup job run). Backup increments are created using the built-in changed block tracking (CBT) mechanism. The available backup methods include forward incremental-forever backup, forward incremental backup, and reverse incremental backup. Additionally, there’s an option to perform active full and synthetic full backups.
Veeam Backup & Replication provides automated recovery verification for both backups and replicas. The program starts a VM directly from a backup or replica in the isolated test environment and runs tests against it. During the verification, the VM image remains in a read-only state. This mechanism can also be used for troubleshooting or testing patches and upgrades.
Veeam Backup & Replication supports software-defined storage technology. It allows organizing a scalable backup repository from a collection of heterogeneous storage devices. Backups can be stored on-premises, transferred to off-site repositories via the WAN, saved to tape media for long-term retention, or sent to cloud storage. Cloud storage support is available on an Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) model. Veeam's technology, Cloud Connect, provides integrated and secured backup to the cloud through Veeam-powered service providers.
Veeam Backup & Replication is storage-agnostic, yet has specialized storage integrations with some storage systems such as EMC VNX, EMC VNXe, HP 3PAR, HP StoreVirtual,, Nimble and NetApp. It uses storage system snapshots as a source for backups and recovery of VMware VMs with disks residing on storage volumes.. Veeam Backup & Replication also have build in direct NFS agent which allows to access NetApp snapshots directly from NAS storage bypassing hosts for backup, restore & storage scan operations.
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