Microsoft Azure

Veeam Backup & Replication offers various data protection and disaster recovery features for Microsoft Azure environments: Azure VMs, Azure SQL databases, Azure Cosmos DB accounts and Azure Files. Veeam Backup & Replication also allows you to back up and restore Azure Virtual Network (VNet) configurations.

Specifically, you can perform the following data protection and disaster recovery operations:

  • Create cloud-native snapshots of Azure VMs and Azure file shares.
  • Create image-level backups of Azure VMs and keep them in Azure Storage for high availability, cost-effective and long-term storage.
  • Create backups of Azure SQL databases and keep them in Azure Storage for high availability, cost-effective and long-term storage.
  • Restore entire Azure VMs, individual virtual disks, as well as guest OS files and folders.
  • Restore Azure SQL databases.
  • Restore individual files of Azure VMs.
  • Restore individual files of Azure file shares.

For backup appliances managed by Veeam Backup & Replication, you can perform the following operations:

  • Create backups of Cosmos DB accounts and keep them in Azure Storage for high availability, cost-effective and long-term storage.
  • Create backups of VNet configurations.
  • Restore Cosmos DB accounts.
  • Restore entire VNet configurations of Azure subscriptions, as well as specific items of VNet configurations of Azure subscriptions.
  • 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.

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