Microsoft Azure

Veeam Backup & Replication with Microsoft Azure Plug-in for Veeam Backup & Replication allows you to add Microsoft Azure backup appliances to Veeam Backup & Replication and manage data protection and recovery operations for all these appliances from a single Veeam Backup & Replication console. You can use Veeam Backup & Replication with the installed plug-in to perform the following operations:

  • Data protection
  • Create image-level backups and cloud-native snapshots of Azure VMs.
  • Create backups of Azure SQL databases.
  • Create backups of Cosmos DB accounts.
  • Create cloud-native snapshots of Azure Files.
  • Create backups of virtual network configurations.
  • Create backups of the Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure configuration database.
  • Data recovery
  • Restore entire Azure VMs, individual virtual disks, and guest OS files and folders.
  • Restore Azure SQL databases.
  • Restore Cosmos DB accounts.
  • Restore Azure Files.
  • Restore entire virtual network configurations of Azure subscriptions.
  • Restore specific items of virtual network configurations of Azure subscriptions.
  • Restore individual files of Azure VMs and Azure Files.
  • Restore entire Azure VMs to AWS, Google Cloud and Nutanix AHV.
  • Perform Instant Recovery of Azure VMs to VMware vSphere and Hyper-V environments, and to Nutanix AHV clusters.
  • Restore the Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure configuration database to the same or another backup appliance.

For more information, see the Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure User Guide.

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