Introduction

Veeam® Backup & Replication™ is a data protection and disaster recovery solution for VMware vSphere and Hyper-V virtual environments of any size and complexity. Combining all of the necessary functions in one intuitive interface, Veeam Backup & Replication serves to solve the most critical problems of virtualized infrastructure management and protect mission-critical VMs from hardware and software failures.

Veeam Backup & Replication can operate in two functionality modes: full mode and free mode.

• When you run Veeam Backup & Replication in the full functionality mode, you get a commercial version of the product that provides access to all Veeam Backup & Replication functionality.
• When you run Veeam Backup & Replication in the free functionality mode, you get a free version of the product — Veeam Backup Free Edition that provides limited capabilities. You can back up single VMs (create VeeamZIP™ files), recover VM data from VeeamZIP files, backups storage snapshots, perform file copy operations, migrate VMs and work with tape media.

This help describes the capabilities of Veeam Backup Free Edition. To learn about the capabilities provided by Veeam Backup & Replication, do one of the following:

• Switch to the full functionality mode and press [F1] on the keyboard or select Help > Help from the main menu.
• Access Veeam's documentation on the website: http://www.veeam.com/vmware-esx-backup/resources.html

Related Topics

• VeeamZIP
• Data Recovery
• File Copy
• VM Migration
• Veeam Explorer for Storage Snapshots
• vCloud Director Support
• Tape Device Support