Universal Hypervisors

Veeam Backup & Replication offers various data protection and disaster recovery features for universal hypervisors that are designed to support the oVirt KVM-compatible REST API. Specifically, you can perform the following operations:

  • Create backups of VMs running on a universal hypervisor and store them in backup repositories.
  • Create VeeamZIP backups of VMs running on a universal hypervisor.
  • Create several instances (copies) of the same backup data in different locations.
  • Restore VMs from VM backups created by Veeam Plug-in for Universal Hypervisor API to supported universal hypervisors.
  • Restore VMs from VMware ESXi and Microsoft Hyper-V to supported universal hypervisors.
  • Restore VMs from Nutanix AHV, HPE Morpheus VM Essentials, oVirt KVM, Proxmox VE, Sangfor aSV, Scale Computing HyperCore, XCP-ng and Citrix XenServer backups to supported universal hypervisor.
  • Restore VMs from Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google Cloud backups to supported universal hypervisors.
  • Restore physical machines from backups created by Veeam Agents to supported universal hypervisors.
  • Restore VMs from backups created by Veeam Plug-in for Universal Hypervisor API to Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google Cloud environments.
  • Restore VMs from backups created by Veeam Plug-in for Universal Hypervisor API to Nutanix AHV, Proxmox VE, Scale Computing HyperCore, HPE Morpheus VM Essentials, Citrix XenServer, XCP-ng and oVirt KVM environments.
  • Perform Instant Recovery of VMs and physical machines to VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V, Nutanix AHV and Proxmox VE environments.
  • Restore application items (such as Microsoft Active Directory, Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft DNS, PostgreSQL, Oracle Database and Microsoft SQL Server).
  • Restore files and folders of VM guest OSes.
  • Export disks of backed-up VMs running on a universal hypervisor to VMDK, VHD and VHDX formats.
  • Mount disks of backed-up VMs running on a universal hypervisor to any server and access data in read-only mode.

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