Introduction

Veeam Backup & Replication, the foundational component of Veeam Data Platform, delivers enterprise-grade data resilience for your entire hybrid estate, providing confidence in your protection, response, and recovery in the face of disaster and cyberthreats.

The data protection landscape is undergoing its most significant transformation in a decade. Customers are navigating hypervisor migrations at pace, facing an identity-centric threat environment where a single compromised Identity System or Provider can halt an entire organization, and managing sprawling hybrid estates that span physical servers, cloud workloads, and applications at enterprise scale. Veeam Backup & Replication v13.1 addresses all three with precision.

Built for a multi-hypervisor future

The market is moving away from widely established hypervisor dependency faster than most organizations anticipated, and the question every IT leader is asking is not whether to migrate, but where to land and how to get there without disruption. Veeam Data Platform v13.1 makes that answer straightforward. Native support for Citrix XenServer, XCP-ng, and Sangfor aSV joins an already broad hypervisor portfolio. The new Universal Hypervisor API (UHAPI) opens a Veeam certified, vendor-driven path for additional platforms to join the ecosystem; with Platform9 and VergeOS integrated in this release. A standardized KubeVirt backend accelerates the next wave of KubeVirt-based integrations. With cross-platform VM recovery, disk export, and seamless recovery of guest files and application data, Veeam is far more than a backup solution for your destination hypervisor - it’s the foundation that makes your workloads portable, wherever you’re headed.

Identity is the perimeter - Veeam protects it

Compromised credentials are the entry point for the majority of cyberattacks today, and Active Directory/Entra ID remains the single most targeted piece of infrastructure in the enterprise. When the forest falls, every authentication-dependent service falls with it. Veeam v13.1 delivers automated Active Directory Forest Recovery — turning what was once a multi-day expert-led crisis response requiring over 40 manual Microsoft-documented steps into a structured, wizard-driven process any trained administrator can execute, covering single-domain, multi-domain, and multi-tree topologies. Microsoft Entra ID protection gains persistent object relationship reconstruction, expanded coverage for organization contacts, device objects, and BitLocker recovery keys, and context-aware restore that handles encrypted properties inline. Identity is at the heart of your resilience strategy.

Enterprise-scale protection without enterprise-scale complexity

From ultra-large database protection at 100+ TB scale via the new Veeam Snap Scale engine, to Application Backup Repository turning the Veeam Hardened Repository into a managed, immutable NFS target for Oracle RMAN Incremental Merge and any application (including IoT devices) that can export or dump backups, v13.1 extends Veeam’s reach into workloads that once required separate, specialized tooling or appliances. Backup targets gain more flexibility, with expanded archive-class storage support and scale-out options. On security, additional enhanced malware detection for more workloads, Hybrid FIPS + Post-Quantum cryptography processing, firewall friendly single-port transport, and MFA across sensitive configuration operations harden the platform against today’s threats. And for administrators who want it, Veeam Intelligence becomes an optional companion that investigates and helps resolve issues directly; saving time without taking control away.