XCP-ng and Citrix XenServer

Veeam Backup & Replication offers various data protection and disaster recovery features for Xen environments. Specifically, you can perform the following operations:

  • Create backups of Xen VMs and store them in backup repositories.
  • Create VeeamZIP backups of Xen VMs.
  • Create several instances (copies) of the same backup data in different locations.
  • Restore VMs from Xen VM backups to the Xen environment.
  • Restore VMs from VMware ESXi and Microsoft Hyper-V to the Xen environment.
  • Restore VMs from Nutanix AHV, oVirt KVM, Scale Computing HyperCore, Proxmox VE, HPE Morpheus VM Essentials, Sangfor aSV backups to the Xen environment.
  • Restore VMs from Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google Cloud backups to the Xen environment.
  • Restore physical machines from backups created by Veeam Agents to the Xen environment.
  • Restore VMs from Xen backups to Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google Cloud environments.
  • Restore VMs from Xen backups to Nutanix AHV, oVirt KVM, Scale Computing HyperCore, Proxmox VE, HPE Morpheus VM Essentials, Sangfor aSV environments.
  • Perform Instant Recovery of Xen VMs to VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V environments.
  • Restore files and folders of Xen VM guest OSes.
  • Export disks of backed-up Xen VMs to VMDK, VHD and VHDX formats.
  • Mount disks of backed-up Xen VMs to any server and access data in the read-only mode.

Note

Restoring VMs to oVirt KVM and Google Cloud is currently not supported for Linux-based backup servers.

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