Frequently asked questions

Veeam® Backup & Replication™ is Veeam’s powerful industry leading backup and recovery engine that provides simple, reliable and flexible protection of all your cloud, virtual and physical workloads and so much more. With many advanced backup, restore, replication and continuous data protection capabilities, Veeam Backup & Replication is your single solution for backing up your entire environment, on-premises, in the cloud or anywhere in between.

There are also several value-added bundles that build on top of Veeam Backup & Replication, including the following:

Veeam Availability Suite™ takes the proven powerful backup capabilities of Veeam Backup & Replication and adds on the advanced monitoring, reporting and capacity-planning functionalities of Veeam ONE™ for added enterprise value.

Designed for small businesses, Veeam Backup Essentials™ offers the same functionalities as Veeam Availability Suite, but with packages and price points that are more appropriate for smaller businesses.

Designed for service providers, the Veeam Cloud & Service Provider (VCSP) Rental program offers pay-as-you-grow pricing via an à-la-carte offering to build Veeam-powered BaaS & DRaaS.

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Veeam Availability Suite is not a unique product. Instead it’s a value-added bundle that includes Veeam Backup & Replication plus the monitoring, analytics and reporting features of Veeam ONE. Since Veeam ONE is a common add-on to Veeam Backup & Replication, the Suite is the easiest and most effective way to consume Veeam ONE.

Veeam Backup & Replication continues to expand its capabilities and now features many capabilities that were previously only included with other products. Today, Veeam Backup & Replication protects the following workloads:

• Virtual: VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V and Nutanix AHV
• Physical: Microsoft Windows, Linux, Mac, IBM AIX and Oracle Solaris
• Cloud: AWS instances and Microsoft Azure virtual machines (VMs)
• Enterprise applications: SAP HANA and Oracle RMAN
• NAS file shares

These above features may have been licensed separately in the past. Now, all the following capabilities are included with Veeam Backup & Replication at no additional cost, within the Veeam Universal License (VUL).

• Veeam Backup for AWS and for Microsoft Azure
• Veeam Backup for Nutanix AHV
• Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows, Linux, Mac, IBM AIX and Oracle Solaris

Check out our feature comparison to learn more.

The monitoring capabilities of Veeam ONE are included in Veeam Availability Suite. These monitoring features are available only in environments where version 6.5 or higher of both Veeam Backup & Replication and Veeam ONE are deployed. To take advantage of all the integrated features, Veeam Availability Suite is the way to go.

Yes. Veeam Backup & Replication is capable of centrally deploying or connecting to both: 

• An existing Veeam Backup for AWS appliance to protect Amazon EC2 and Amazon RDS instances with native snapshots and optional backup to Amazon S3.
• An existing Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure appliance to protect Azure VMs with native snapshots and optional backup to Azure blob.
• Backups can also be copied to on-premises storage. Recovery options include full- and file-level recovery in AWS, in Azure, on-premises and to other destinations.

VUL licenses can be used to license AWS- and Azure-native backup and recovery, where one license is consumed per Amazon EC2 instance or Azure VM, regardless of whether the protection uses native snapshots, backup to Amazon S3, backup to Azure, backup copy on-premises or a combination of all four options.

Veeam Backup & Replication provides protection for VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V and Nutanix AHV, all with the same product. There are not separate versions required for each hypervisor. The VUL license provides support for all of the above hypervisors.

Veeam deployments are not hypervisor-specific, so that’s not a problem. To get started, simply purchase the correct number of licenses you need for your virtual environment. Any number or combination of your purchased licenses can be used for VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V or Nutanix AHV environments.

Yes. Veeam Backup & Replication supports backups for AHV with the VUL license, using one license per VM. Downloaded separately, the AHV proxy is a centrally deployable, purpose-built proxy appliance that’s designed to achieve better Nutanix API integration. Take advantage of Acropolis Changed Block Tracking (CBT), which delivers agent-less and application-consistent backups with flexible granular recovery and native interaction with Nutanix guest tools.

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Veeam Agents for Microsoft Windows, for Linux and for Mac, key components of the Veeam Cloud Data Management™ platform for the hybrid cloud, are small backup agents designed to provide comprehensive backup and recovery for physical and cloud-based workloads that run on servers, workstations, desktops, laptops and more. They are managed through a single console.

All versions of Veeam Agents for Microsoft Windows, for Linux and for Mac are sold and licensed with VUL and can be accessed with any of the VUL license packages. 

Yes. With the free editions of Veeam Agents for Microsoft Windows and for Linux, you can back up to a Veeam repository that’s backed by a licensed Veeam Backup & Replication server. However, you can’t have both the free and paid editions of Veeam Agents backing up to a Veeam repository at the same time; you must choose to use either all free or all paid agents.

All versions of Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows can be deployed in server mode to enable server-specific features (i.e.., application-aware processing, file indexing and searches, server-friendly scheduling and retention, etc.), making it the best choice for server backups of many enterprise applications.

Learn more about Veeam Agent deployment modes here:

USER GUIDE: VEEAM AGENT FOR MICROSOFT WINDOWS

USER GUIDE: VEEAM AGENT FOR LINUX

Veeam Agents have unique capabilities for servers and for workstations. Check out this feature comparison chart that shows what options are available for the protection of servers and workstations.

Veeam sells licenses in bundles of 10 portable licenses instead of just selling single product-specific licenses. Fortunately, VUL licenses can be used across multiple workloads with the following products and features including: Veeam Backup & Replication, Veeam ONE, Enterprise Plugins for SAP HANA and Oracle, Nutanix AHV backups, Network Attached Storage (NAS) backups and more. If fewer than five workloads are needed, try the free editions.

Veeam partners with an incredible ecosystem of cloud and managed service providers to jointly deliver services to customers in over 180 countries. This includes:

• BaaS and DRaaS for the data center:
  Offer on premises managed services, off-site backup and cloud-based, secondary site disaster recovery.
• BaaS for endpoints: Providing a direct connection to the cloud for remote worker laptops and servers.
• BaaS for cloud (AWS, Azure, Microsoft Office 365): Ensuring that customers can adopt the cloud with confidence thanks to managed services that execute a hybrid- or multi-cloud approach to backup.

To find a BaaS or DRaaS provider in your area, check out the Veeam-powered Services Directory.

Veeam Backup & Replication, and other related products, can be used by cloud and managed service providers to deliver a wide variety of services to customers, including BaaS and DRaaS for customer data centers, BaaS for endpoints and BaaS for cloud-based workloads, like AWS, Azure and Office 365.

To deliver these services on Veeam Backup & Replication effectively, we recommend that providers explore the capabilities in Veeam Service Provider Console, Veeam Cloud Connect and the broader portfolio of solutions to manage, protect and deliver services to end customers.

Yes! Depending on your use case, multi-tenancy is available. For example, when using Veeam Backup & Replication in an IaaS environment, a VMware vCloud Director integration is available. Additionally, when delivering off-site backup and DRaaS backups that are powered by your cloud environment, Veeam Cloud Connect is a product that natively integrates with Veeam Backup & Replication on-premises at a customer site and passes backups and replicas through a multi-tenant cloud gateway. Veeam Cloud Connect also offers VMware vCloud Director integration.

Yes! Veeam Service Provider Console, a purpose-built solution for cloud and managed service providers, snaps onto Veeam Backup & Replication, Veeam Agents and Veeam Cloud Connect to offer remote monitoring and management capabilities. 

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