A groundbreaking disaster recovery solution for VMware Infrastructure 3 that combines backup and replication in one product.

Veeam Backup is the first enterprise-ready solution that combines backup and replication in a single product for fast recovery of VMs running on your VMware ESX servers. Backup is easy, but recovery can be hard - and that's when the clock is ticking loudest. But with Veeam Backup, fast recovery is easier than you ever thought possible.

• Backup and replication combined.
• Support for ESXi and ESXi free.
• File-level recovery in seconds.
• Database-consistent backup.
• Reduced storage costs with data de-duplication.
• Faster backup and restore with synthetic backup.
• Replica rollback.
• Integration with VMware Consolidated Backup (VCB).

VMware Infrastructure

Hosts

• VMware ESX(i) 3.0 or later.
• VMware Server 2.0 (experimental)

Software

• Virtual Center 2.0 or later (optional).
• VMWare Consolidated Backup (VCB) framework 1.0 or later (optional). Ensure that your VCB framework is compatible with your ESX server version (refer to the official compatibility matrix).

Virtual Machines

Hardware

• All types and versions of virtual hardware are supported, except of Physical RDM (raw device mapping) and Independent disks. You can use disk exclusion functionality to exclude some of the unsupported disks from backup.
• Flat (pre-allocated) VMDKs are required for file-level restore. Sparse (thin-provisioned) VMDK disks are not supported.
• MBR disk partition table is required for file-level restore. GPT disks are not supported.

OS

• Any operating system supported by Vmware.
• Microsoft Windows VSS integration option is available for Windows XP, Windows 2003 and Windows 2008 guests only.
• Built-in guest file-level restore option supports Microsoft Windows and its file systems only (NTFS, FAT, FAT32). For the list of the operating systems and file systems supported by File Level Restore (FLR) plug-in, refer to the FLR plug-in release notes.

Software

• VMware Tools (optional)
• Microsoft Windows VSS backup option requires that your guest OS has VMware Tools, and all the latest service packs and patches installed.

Veeam Backup Console

Hardware

• Processor: Pentium IV CPU or faster (multi-core processors recommended). Using faster processors generally improves backup performance when using Best compression option.
• Memory: 512MB RAM.
• Hard Disk Space: 100MB.
• Network: 100 Mbit/sec or faster preferred due to performance considerations.

OS

• Windows XP SP2 or later.
• Windows 2003 SP2 or later.
• Windows Vista SP1 or later. Only 32bit operating systems are supported in the current version. Windows 2008 is not supported in the current version.

Software

• Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 or later (included in the setup)
• Microsoft Installer 3.1
• Microsoft SQL Server 2005 (Express Edition included in the setup)

Backup Target

Hardware

• Processor: Pentium IV CPU or faster (multi-core processors recommended for Linux targets). Using faster processors generally improves backup performance when using Linux targets.
• Memory: 256 MB RAM.
• Hard Disk: Using faster storage (high-RPM hard drives, RAID0 configurations) generally improves backup performance.
• Hard Disk Space: Sufficient disk space required to store the backup files.
• Network: 100 Mbit/sec or faster preferred due to performance considerations.

OS

• Microsoft Windows.
• Major Linux distributions (32bit editions only).
• ESX 3.0 or later.

Replication Target

Hosts

ESX Server 3.0 or later
Note: replication to ESXi servers is not currently supported.