Supported Platforms

Veeam Backup & Replication supports protection for the following objects and applications.

Protected Objects

With Veeam Backup & Replication, you can back up and restore the following objects:

  • Virtual machines:
  • VMware vSphere VMs
  • VMware Cloud Director VMs
  • Microsoft Hyper-V VMs
  • Nutanix AHV VMs
  • oVirt VMs*
  • Proxmox VE VMs
  • Scale Computing HyperCore VMs
  • HPE Morpheus VM Essentials VMs
  • Cloud workloads:
  • AWS EC2 instances
  • AWS RDS resources
  • AWS DynamoDB tables
  • AWS Redshift clusters
  • AWS Redshift Serverless
  • AWS EFS file systems
  • AWS FSx file systems
  • AWS VPC configurations
  • Microsoft Azure VMs
  • Microsoft Azure SQL databases
  • Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB accounts
  • Microsoft Azure file shares
  • Microsoft Azure virtual network configurations
  • Google Cloud VMs*
  • Google Cloud SQL instances*
  • Google Cloud Spanner instances*
  • Microsoft Entra ID data
  • Unstructured data:
  • File servers
  • File shares
  • Enterprise NAS systems
  • Object storage repositories
  • Physical machines. To back up machines running Windows, Linux or macOS operating systems, Veeam Backup & Replication uses backup agents installed on each computer. Veeam Backup & Replication operates as a centralized control center for deploying and managing Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows, Veeam Agent for Linux, Veeam Agent for Mac, Veeam Agent for Oracle Solaris and Veeam Agent for IBM AIX. For details, see Veeam Agent Backup.

* - Available on Microsoft Windows-based backup server.

Protected Applications

Native functionality of Veeam Backup & Replication allows you to create application-consistent backups for:

  • Microsoft SQL Server
  • PostgreSQL
  • Oracle Database
  • Active Directory
  • Microsoft Exchange
  • Microsoft SharePoint

Also, you can install the following additional tools:

  • Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365: for full protection of Microsoft applications.
  • Veeam Plug-Ins for Enterprise Applications: for integration of Veeam Backup & Replication with Oracle RMAN, SAP HANA Backint, and BR*Tools.

For the full list of supported platforms, see the Supported Platforms, Applications and Workloads section in the Veeam Backup & Replication User Guide.

Tip

In this guide, we overview VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V and Microsoft Windows computers.

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