Description

Veeam Backup & Replication

💡 Key Features

🔁 Backup

• Image-based backups of VMs and physical machines.

• Application-aware backups for Microsoft Exchange, SQL Server, SharePoint, Active Directory, and Oracle.

• Change block tracking (CBT) to optimize performance and reduce backup times.

• Built-in deduplication and compression to reduce storage usage.

• Backup to cloud storage like Amazon S3, Azure Blob, or S3-compatible providers.

💽 Recovery

• Instant VM Recovery to restart a VM directly from a backup file.

• Granular file-level recovery for Windows, Linux, and application objects.

• Bare-metal recovery for physical servers and workstations.

• Restore to dissimilar hardware, cloud, or different hypervisors (P2V, V2V, V2P).

• Automated recovery testing with SureBackup to verify backup integrity.

🌐 Replication

• VM replication for disaster recovery with near real-time sync.

• Failover and failback capabilities for quick disaster recovery operations.

• WAN acceleration for efficient offsite replication.

• Replication to a secondary site or cloud DRaaS provider.

🔐 Security and Compliance

• End-to-end encryption (in-flight and at-rest).

• Ransomware protection with immutability on backup repositories (e.g., Hardened Linux Repository, S3 Object Lock).

• Role-based access control (RBAC) for secure user management.

• Secure restore with antivirus scanning before recovery.

⚙️ Automation and Orchestration

• Veeam Backup Orchestrator for automated disaster recovery plans and documentation.

• RESTful API and PowerShell support for advanced scripting and integrations.

• Tag-based management for VMware vSphere environments.

📊 Monitoring and Reporting

• Integrates with Veeam ONE for real-time monitoring, reporting, and alerting.

• Backup success/failure tracking, performance metrics, and SLA reports.

☁️ Cloud Integration

• Cloud-native backups for AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud with Veeam’s cloud agents.

• Direct-to-cloud backups without requiring a local appliance.

• Backup and replication across cloud regions and accounts.