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Top 5 Best Free Backup software for VMware and Hyper-V Infrastructure

Data is very much essential for running any business smoothly. Ensuring the availability and recoverability of data is also most important for any organization. Every organization should be having some sort of backup mechanism to make a copy of important data and also ensures it to be reused to avoid the data loss, when there is disk or server failure happens. Backup is important aspect of infrastructure to run to business in case of data loss due to server crash, hard disk failure and also in disaster situations.

Backing up important data is one of the disaster recovery practices. In this Modern cloud era, most of the organizations moved their workloads into the virtualization environment.  The way servers were backed up in traditional physical servers is completed changed when they are running in a virtual environment such as VMware vSphere or Microsoft Hyper-V.  No need to install any backup agents in the servers to backed up in the virtual environment. Take a look at my article which compares VMware vSphere vS Microsoft Hyper-V

Not many of the small scale environment can afford for the backup of their virtual machines. Not to worry. There are many free backup software’s are available to backup virtual machines with very good features. I am going to list some of the Top 5 best free backup software for virtual machines running in VMWare vSphere  and Microsoft Hyper-V.  The order listed here may not have any preference of  1 or 2 or any order. I have explained some of the important features of each of the free backup software in an infographics style for better understanding.. This order purely based on my views.

Veeam Backup Free Edition (VeeamZIP)

Veeam has pioneered a new market of Availability for the Always-On Enterprise by helping organizations meet recovery time and point objectives (RTPO) of less than 15 minutes for all applications and data.

Veeam Backup, master in the virtualization backup industry offers its free version of  Virtual machine backup called “Veeam Backup Free Edition” for both VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V virtual machines. Veeam Backup Free Edition is a must-have FREE tool for ad-hoc virtual machine (VM) backup, restore and management

 

Veeam Backup Free Edition is the perfect solution because it provides a handful of Backup features for Virtual machines in both VMware vSphere and also for Microsoft Hyper-V

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Nakivo Free VM Backup and Replication 

NAKIVO develops a fast, reliable, and affordable data protection solution for VMware, Hyper-V, and cloud environments. Over 10,000 companies are using NAKIVO Backup & Replication to protect and recover their data more efficiently and cost-effectively, while over 140 hosting, managed, and cloud services providers are using NAKIVO’s software to deliver VM BaaS and DRaaS to their customers. With NAKIVO Backup & Replication, you can increase VMware backup performance, improve backup reliability, speed up recovery, and, as a result, save time and money. Nakivo also offers Free VM Backup and Replication for VMware & Hyper-V.

 

Download Nakivo Free VM Backup & Replication 

Vinchin Backup & Recovery – Free Edition

Vinchin carries its next-generation data protection solution Vinchin Backup & Recovery for 10+ mainstream virtual platforms including VMware and Hyper-V, performing as the most compatible and easy-to-use VM backup product in the market. 10000+ customers from finance, telecom, government, and many other industries in over 60 countries choose Vinchin Backup & Recovery for complete BaaS and DRaaS services. The product is driving the best performance of modern IT infrastructure with its advanced and reliable data backup and disaster recovery features. Vinchin Backup Free Edition is also available for users to get their critical data in virtual machines fully protected in 10-15 minutes.

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Vembu BDR Suite Free Edition

Vembu backup offers Vembu BDR Suite simplifies Backup, Recovery and Disaster Recovery at affordable pricing thus empowering small businesses with an enterprise level product. The products under Vembu BDR Suite caters to all types of requirements of a small and medium businesses varying from simple IT setup to complex & sophisticated  data centers in varied IT environments. Vembu BDR Suite  is designed for diverse environments like VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V, Windows, Linux and Mac. Since the companies are moving towards hybrid deployments, Vembu BDR Suite also provides flexible deployment options like offsite, cloud, on-premise and hybrid cloud.

Vembu Backup also offer Free Version of backup software called “Vembu BDR Suite Free Edition”  which offers Backup and Recovery for both virtual and physical environments forever with no costs involved. With agentless backups for virtual environments, multiple recovery options, in-house file system for efficient storage management and secured data transmission, Vembu BDR Suite presents a free edition software which is best suited for all types of businesses who wish to experience the simple and comprehensive backup and recovery solution.


Vembu BDR Suite Free Edition is suitable for both virtual environments like VMware, Hyper-V and also for physical servers, workstations, thus catering to all types of data centers

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Altaro VM Backup – Free Edition

ALTARO is one of the Fast-growing developers of user-friendly backup solutions for small and mid-market businesses. Altaro VM Backup – Free Edition allows you to back up two VMs per VMware host for free (forever) on unlimited hosts with, the easiest to use solution for VMware backups. Make backing up and restoring your VMware VMs hassle-free and easy.

 

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