Restore to Google Compute Engine

Veeam Backup & Replication allows you to restore different workloads (VMs, Google VM instances, physical servers and so on) to Google Compute Engine as VM instances. A VM instance is a virtual machine in Google Compute Engine with a preconfigured combination of computing resources.

You can use Veeam Backup & Replication to perform the following operations:

• Restore machines to Google Compute Engine from backups.
• Migrate machines from the on-premises infrastructure to the cloud.
• Create a test environment in the cloud for troubleshooting, testing patches and updates, and so on.

Supported Backup Types

You can restore machines from the backups of the following types:

• Backups of VMware vSphere or VMware Cloud Director VMs created by Veeam Backup & Replication.
• Backups of Microsoft Hyper-V VMs created by Veeam Backup & Replication.
• Backups of virtual and physical machines created by Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows or Veeam Agent for Linux.

Backups must be created at the entire machine level or volume level.

• Backups of Google Compute Engine VM instances created by Veeam Backup for Google Cloud.
• Backups of Amazon EC2 VM instances created by Veeam Backup for AWS.

• Backups of Microsoft Azure VMs created by Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure.

• Backups of Nutanix AHV VMs created by Veeam Backup for Nutanix AHV.
• Backups of oVirt VMs created by Veeam Backup for OLVM and RHV.
• Backups of Proxmox VE VMs created by Veeam Backup for Proxmox VE.

In This Section

• Helper Appliances
• How Restore to Google Compute Engine Works
• Google Compute Engine IAM User Permissions
• Restoring Machines