Veeam is the leader in backup, recovery and data management solutions that deliver Modern Data Protection. Veeam provides a single platform for cloud, virtual, physical, SaaS and Kubernetes environments. Veeam backup provides confidence to their customers that customers’ apps and data are protected and always available with the most simple, flexible, reliable, and powerful platform in the industry.
In this modern multi-cloud era, Many organizations running their critical workloads across multiple locations including public cloud, private cloud and even in On-premise datacenter. Managing and controlling the data and data protection for the workloads running across the various locations has become harder than ever before.
We need a single, robust solution for comprehensive data management that is powerful and flexible enough to protect all phases of your evolving data life cycle and secure enough to stand up against cyber threats both now and into the future.
Veeam Backup & Replication is prepared to address the next generation of operational challenges head-on with a comprehensive set of enterprise-grade data protection capabilities. Powerful, reliable and easy to use, Veeam reduces operational overhead with flexibility that fits your business and market-leading reliability that you can count on.
Veeam Backup & Replication delivers dependable availability across all cloud, virtual and physical workloads with a simple, flexible and reliable solution. Protect your data no matter the location or workload type with powerful backup and instant recovery options.
Veeam Backup and Replication – Powerful and Modern Data protection
Veeam Backup & Replication is a 4-in-1 backup and recovery solution for storage snapshots, backups, replicas, and continuous data protection in one product. We don’t need separate products and licenses to manage various aspects of data protection such as backup, replication, protection, and disaster recovery. Veeam backup and replication is the one-stop solution for all your data protection.
You can modernize your data protection and eliminate downtime with Veeam Backup & Replication, the simple, flexible, reliable, and powerful solution for protecting your cloud, virtual and physical workloads. Which includes Microsoft Azure, Enterprise Apps, NAS, AWS, Windows, Linux, VMware and Nutanix.
Since we are more concerned about VMware in our blogs. We will talk about the Backup capabilities of Veeam backup and replication for VMware.
VMware backup & availability
Veeam Backup and Replication is specialized for many different types of recovery, allows extreme flexibility, all from a single-pass, image-level backup. By using the most advanced Instant VM Recovery® technology in the market, you can now initiate Instant Recovery of multiple VMs at once — making this the perfect solution for migration or for bringing multi-server applications back online fast.
Always providing support for the latest version of VMware, Veeam Backup & Replication is ready when you are to embrace new virtualization platform updates. As Veeam always releases new versions to match with the support matrix for the latest VMware vSphere releases. Currently, We have Veeam Backup and Replication V11 which is compatible to vSphere 7.0 (Upto U3). Let’s talk something about what’s new in V11.
What’s New with Veeam Backup and Replication V11
Veeam Backup & Replication v11 delivers the single platform for comprehensive data management that is powerful and flexible enough to protect each phase of the data lifecycle while handling all the complexities of a hybrid, multi-cloud environment. The following is a list of the major new features and enhancements added in V11.
Application-aware image-based backup
Some of the legacy applications are vulnerable to backups. I do personally notice that some of the legacy application gets affected when the backups are triggered by the backup software. We need a backup solution that should be application-aware to take the backups of the legacy applications.
Veeam Backup & Replication creates application-consistent, image-level backups of running VSS-aware applications, ensuring the successful recovery of business-critical applications and services and allowing for application-specific restore scenarios.
Next-generation Instant Recovery Engine
Speed and flexibility in a single recovery engine, Veeam Backup & Replication provides many flexible recovery methods, including Instant VM, file and multi-VM recovery from a single-pass, image-level backup.
Achieve low RPOs with CDP and assisted failover
RPO and RTO are the two key factors for any successful Disaster recovery. It is very important how soon we recover the data in case of failure with less data loss or zero data loss.
Veeam backup and replication avoid data loss and achieve ultra-low RPOs for critical applications with continuous recovery points and automated assisted DR failover, taking advantage of a ready-to-use VMware replica to your DR location until the issue is resolved
Backup from Storage Snapshots – No VM Snapshots
Veeam CDP captures all write I/O directly in the data path with the VMware-certified I/O filter driver, eliminating the need to create VM snapshots as with classic replication jobs. And with I/O level tracking, only the data actually changed is sent over to a DR site, as opposed to larger virtual disk blocks returned by changed block tracking
Meet demanding RPO requirements with little to no impact on your VMware production environment by leveraging Backup from Storage Snapshots, supported by the world’s leading storage providers.
Automated recovery testing
Many organizations have Disaster recovery strategies and planning. When it comes to real DR situations, It is very important how does the planning and strategy help to recover the environment. To familiarize themselves with the recovery strategy, organizations need to frequently perform DR testing with application validation.
It is not easy to perform the DR testing frequently because downtime for business-critical applications is needed during the DR testing. So need some mechanism to test the backups and replicas in an isolated environment without actually affecting the production applications. Veeam Backup and replication provide automated recovery testing.
Easily guarantee recoverability and security by automatically testing VMware VM backups and replicas in an isolated virtual lab with Veeam DataLabs™ SureBackup® and SureReplica.
Built-in replication directly from your backups
Veeam Backup and Replication reduces the read I/O on production VMware VMs by utilizing VM backups as a source for replication, delivered fast with WAN Acceleration as a part of Veeam’s Built-in Replication.
Kubernetes Ready
Many of the organizations are almost switched their workloads in the cloud-native architecture such as Kubernetes. One of the biggest challenges in running applications in Kubernetes is Data protection. Veeam Backup solved that challenge as well.
In Veeam Backup & Replication V11, Kasten K10 can now direct backups of Kubernetes clusters that leverage VMware-persistent volumes to a Veeam Backup & Replication repository, where its backup copy lifecycle can be managed, leveraging your existing infrastructure for Kubernetes backups.”
Lowest-cost archive storage
Achieve data retention goals while optimizing for cost. Automate your backup data lifecycle across cloud, virtual and physical Veeam backups to the lowest cost archive storage classes in AWS, Azure, and GCP, reducing spending by as much as 50X.
There are many other excellent new features are available with Veeam Backup and Replication. I would recommend you to download and trial Veeam Backup and Replication to test all these features. I am sure you will feel that the Veeam Backup and Replication is really a Modern Data protection solution to protect your workloads across multi-cloud and also in an On-prem datacenter environment.
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