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# About Veeam Backup & Replication

## What is Veeam Backup & Replication?

Veeam Backup & Replication is a data protection and disaster recovery solution for virtual, physical and cloud environments. With Veeam Backup & Replication you can:

- Create crash-consistent and application-consistent backups of virtual and physical machines.
- Quickly restore physical machines, EC2 instances, Microsoft Azure VMs, Google VM instances, VMs, VM disks, guest OS files and application items.
- Perform backup health check to verify that backups are not corrupted and are ready for restoring.
- Create VM replicas and switch to them in case of a disaster.
- Automate transferring of backups to tapes and other external repositories.

Note that in this guide, we will not overview all the Veeam Backup & Replication capabilities. You can find them in the [Veeam Backup & Replication User Guide](https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/vbr/userguide/overview.html?ver=13).

## What Else Can I Do?

Veeam Backup & Replication provides utilities not mentioned in this guide that can help you secure and manage your data:

- [Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365](https://www.veeam.com/backup-microsoft-office-365.html?ad=menu-products): backup and restore solution for Microsoft 365 data.
- [Veeam Backup for Nutanix AHV](https://www.veeam.com/availability-nutanix-ahv.html?ad=menu-products): backup and restore solution for Nutanix AHV VMs.
- [Veeam Backup for Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager and Red Hat Virtualization](https://www.veeam.com/products/virtual/kvm-backup-recovery.html?ad=menu-solutions): backup and restore solution for oVirt VMs.
- [Veeam Backup for Proxmox VE](https://www.veeam.com/products/virtual/proxmox-backup-recovery.html?ad=menu-solutions): backup and restore solution for Proxmox VE VMs.
- [Plug-in for Veeam Backup for AWS](https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/vbaws/vbr_integration/overview.html?ver=6a): extension for integration with Veeam Backup for AWS.
- [Plug-in for Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure](https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/vbazure/vbr_integration/overview.html?ver=5a): extension for integration with Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure.
- [Plug-in for Veeam Backup for Google Cloud](https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/vbgc/vbr_integration/overview.html?ver=40): extension for integration with Veeam Backup for Google Cloud.

Veeam Backup & Replication also provides the following tools for monitoring and management:

- [Veeam ONE](https://www.veeam.com/virtualization-management-one-solution.html): real-time monitoring, reporting, alerting and managing tool for virtual and physical environments.
- [Veeam Management Pack for Microsoft System Center](https://www.veeam.com/system-center-management-pack-vmware-hyperv.html): Microsoft System Center extension for managing and monitoring VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V, and Veeam Backup & Replication.
- [Veeam Availability Orchestrator](https://www.veeam.com/availability-orchestrator.html): a tool for automated creation and testing of DR plans that comply regulatory requirements.