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Veeam Explorer for Storage Snapshots

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Veeam Explorer for Storage Snapshots is a technology in Veeam Backup & Replication that lets you restore VMware VM data directly from storage snapshots. Veeam Explorer for Storage Snapshots automates the process of data recovery for VMs residing on storage volumes, eliminates intermediate restore and manual operations. As a result, you can restore necessary VM data from storage snapshots in seconds.

Restore options with Veeam Explorer for Storage Snapshots include the following ones:

Instant VM Recovery
VM guest OS files restore (Microsoft Windows, Linux, FreeBSD and other)
Restore of Microsoft Active Directory objects
Restore of Microsoft Exchange objects
Restore of Microsoft SharePoint objects
Restore of Microsoft SQL Server databases
Restore of Oracle databases

Limitations for Veeam Explorer for Storage Snapshots

Veeam Explorer for Storage Snapshots the following limitations:

You cannot perform any kind of restore operation (Instant VM Recovery, VM guest OS files restore and application items restore) if a VMware datastore comprises several LUNs.
If a VM has several disks that are located on different VMware vSphere datastores, Veeam Backup & Replication will restore the following data:

[Instant VM Recovery] The restored VM will have only those VM disks that reside on the same datastore as the VMX file.
[VM guest OS files restore] You will be able to restore VM guest OS files only from those VM disks that reside on the same datastore as the VMX file.
[Application items restore] You will be able to restore application items only from those VM disks that reside on the same datastore as the VMX file.

[Multi-OS file-level restore] You cannot restore files directly to the original location from backups of BSD, Mac and Solaris VMs. You also cannot restore files directly to the original location from NSS filesystems. Use the Copy to option instead.

[For NetApp SnapMirror and SnapVault] You cannot perform Instant VM Recovery and restore VM guest OS files to the original location from snapshots on NetApp SnapMirror and SnapVault. NetApp SnapVault and SnapMirror are secondary NetApp targets that are not mapped to original VMs and datastores.

The file-level restore limitation applies both to Microsoft Windows and other file systems. Use the Copy to option instead.