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Veeam Kasten

Simplified Kubernetes Data Protection

  • Recover whole applications, not just data
  • Improve security and recovery readiness
  • Move apps across clusters and platforms
  • Protect VMs and AI workloads on Kubernetes

Benefits

Built for Change, Ready to Recover

Whether you run containers, modernize VMs, deploy AI workloads, or all three, Veeam Kasten delivers Kubernetes backup and recovery that keeps applications protected, portable, and secure across hybrid environments. Replace scripts and add-ons with one platform that simplifies operations and speeds recovery.

Restore What Matters, Fast

Quickly and reliably restore entire applications, including data, metadata, and configurations. Take the complexity out of recovery so teams can bounce back fast and stay focused on innovation..

Resilience You Can Rely On

Defend against ransomware, data loss, and human error with immutable, encrypted backups and policy-driven automation. Built-in service restores empower teams while preventing security gaps.

Expansive Portability, Minus the Pain

Simplify application mobility across clouds, clusters, and Kubernetes distributions. Enjoy the benefits of frictionless movement to support hybrid strategies and future-proof deployments.

The State of Kubernetes Protection

Containers in Production

87%

of companies are running or planning to run containers in production

Don’t Forget
Backups

26%

only back up the storage or underlying database components

Prioritize
Tools

25%

back up containers using a purpose-built tool

Understand Stateful Data

3%

say they have no stateful data and don’t back up containers

Source: 2024 Data Protection Trends Report

Why Back Up Kubernetes

Containers Move Fast—Stop
Data Loss Faster

Kubernetes is the backbone of modern infrastructure. But with agility comes risk, requiring resilience from Day 0 to prevent loss. Without purpose-built protection, recovery is complicated. And costly.

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Capabilities

See Why Enterprises Choose Veeam Kasten for Kubernetes

Explore the leading platform designed to secure, scale, and simplify modern infrastructure.

Policy Automation

Efficiently manage entire application protection – including data inside and outside the cluster – at enterprise scale.

Granular Restore

Maintain total control over what artifacts and data to restore, including data-only restore for running applications.

Automated DR

Recreate entire application stacks into the same namespace, or a new one automatically.

Immutable & Encrypted

Safeguard data against security events with air-gapped, immutable, and encrypted storage, including Veeam Vault as a fully-managed cloud storage target.

Least Privilege Access

Granularly assign permissions to data protection operations and resources on a per-application level.

SIEM Integrations

Ingest and aggregate SIEM data for governance and real-time threat detection, investigation, and analysis.

Cross-Cloud Portability

Mobilize applications across namespaces, clusters, and clouds for DR, test/dev, and performance testing.

Transform Across Distributions

Easily modify the specific contents of K8s resources when restoring or migrating across environments.

Enhanced Environment Isolation 

Seamlessly migrate between federated and non-federated clusters. 

Unified Resilience for VMs on Kubernetes

Automate policy-driven backup and lifecycle management for KubeVirt VMs.

Migration at Your Own Pace

Start with VM protection and add cloud native applications as your business requirements evolve.

Investment Optimization

Manage protection of all VM applications on a single platform. Pay only for what you need with a streamlined solution.

Intuitive GUI

Get critical insights into data protection operations via a state-of-the-art management interface.

DevOps Agility

Confidently deploy, update, and safeguard critical workloads, accelerating innovation while minimizing risk and operational overhead.

Effortless Operations

Provide simple and efficient operational control and the smoothest experience for new and experienced administrators.

Latest Release

Veeam Kasten for Kubernetes v9.0

  • Enterprise choice and scale
  • Multi-workload resilience
  • Security and observability
How it Works

Effortless Kubernetes Protection, From Click to Recovery

Veeam Kasten makes it easy to protect your entire Kubernetes application stack, from data to configurations. Explore how intuitive, end-to-end protection works in just a few clicks and get a consistent application to infrastructure view of your business.

Inside the Dashboard

Get hands-on with how simple Kubernetes protection can be. This interactive demo walks you through the Kasten UI, showing how to view your environment, define policies, and activate application-centric protection across your infrastructure in just a few clicks.

Unified Protection for VMs and Containers

Easily protect virtual machines running on or alongside Kubernetes with visibility, automation, and the same policy-driven approach used for containerized workloads.

Smooth Transitions Across Environments

Gain the flexibility and agility required to scale to the cloud with a simple solution for backup, DR, data security, and cross-region migrations without infrastructure overhead.

Cloud-Native Ecosystem

Data Protection & Management Solutions

Veeam Kasten

Kubernetes Data Protection Platform

Applications

  • Amazon RDS

  • MongoDB

  • PostgreSQL

  • K8ssandra

  • Kanister

  • EDB

  • Cassandra

  • SQL Server

  • MySQL

  • Elasticsearch

  • Kafka

  • Kubevirt

Kubernetes Distributions

  • EKS

  • AKS

  • GKE

  • Digital Ocean

  • Kubernetes

  • K3S

  • NKE

  • OpenShift

  • OKE

  • VMware Tanzu

  • SUSE Rancher

Kubernetes Virtualization

  • OpenShift Virtualization

  • SUSE Virtualization

Storage Infrastructure

  • AWS

  • Azure

  • GCP

  • Ceph

  • CSI

  • Cisco

  • Dell EMC

  • HPE

  • Infinidat

  • MinIO

  • Hitachi

  • OCI

  • Quantum

  • Lenovo

  • Zadara

  • Net App

  • Pure Storage

  • Vast

  • Veeam Data Platform

  • Veeam Vault

  • BackBlaze

  • Scality ARTESCA

  • Scality RING

  • Wasabi

Security Services

  • AWS

  • Azure

  • Kyverno

  • OPA

  • Red Hat

  • Vault

Packaging Options

Buying Veeam Kasten

Veeam Kasten pricing is simple and node-based.

Try it by using the Free Enterprise Trial.

The full Enterprise Edition is available through multiple procurement channels: direct, partner, or marketplace (e.g., AWS, Azure, Red Hat, SUSE).

Enterprise Trial
FREE

For your sandbox and non production clusters



  • Up to 500 nodes for 60 days
  • Experience enterprise grade protection
  • Evaluate capabilities and workloads
  • Validate compatibility & performance
Veeam Kasten
for Modern Virtualization
Subscription-Based

For containerized VM-based applications and their data


  • Protect nodes running on OpenShift Virtualization Engine (OVE)
  • One/three/five year subscription
  • Unlimited nodes
  • 24.7.365 support
Veeam Kasten for Kubernetes
Subscription-Based

For your entire Kubernetes environment at scale


  • Protect all nodes
  • One/three/five-year subscription
  • Unlimited nodes
  • 24.7.365 support

Customers Protected by Veeam

Resources

Stay Updated With the Latest Kubernetes Insights and Trends

Kubernetes in the enterprise

Six Years of Leadership, One Clear Outperformer

Veeam continues to set the benchmark for Kubernetes data protection

Your Modernization Journey: Achieving Hybrid Resilience

Discover how Red Hat and Veeam support a secure, flexible modernization path by protecting today’s virtual machines (VMs) and enabling hybrid operations at your own pace.

Modernization Blind Spots

Map your path to modernization: From where you are to where you’re headed next, and how to build resilience along the way.

The New Recovery Reality

Uncover the new reality, evaluate your readiness, and learn how to keep your organization running no matter what.

FAQs

What is Veeam Kasten for Kubernetes?
Veeam Kasten for Kubernetes is an enterprise‑grade, Kubernetes‑native data protection platform securing modern workloads. It simplifies backup and recovery, disaster recovery, application mobility, ransomware resilience, and modern virtualization through policy‑driven automation and an intuitive user experience—at scale, across hybrid and multi‑cloud environments.
Does Veeam offer a fully managed storage option that is Kubernetes-compatible?
Yes. Veeam Kasten integrates with Veeam Data Cloud Vault, a fully managed, pre‑secured cloud storage service. Veeam Vault removes the complexity of managing infrastructure while delivering predictable costs and built‑in security. Get more information here.
What storage options are compatible with Veeam Kasten?
Veeam Kasten supports file, block, and object storage with a wide array of vendors across on-premises and cloud environments. It interfaces with storage via the Container Storage Interface (CSI) and provides direct integrations for efficient operations.
What happened to Kasten K10? Was it replaced?
Kasten K10 has been renamed Veeam Kasten for Kubernetes
It’s the same leading Kubernetes data protection and application mobility solution, now with a name that reflects its place in the Veeam platform. 
Which Kubernetes services and distributions are supported?
Veeam Kasten is integrated with leading Kubernetes distributions, including Amazon EKS, Google GKE, Azure AKS, Red Hat OpenShift, SUSE Rancher, Nutanix Kubernetes Platform, and more. It also supports upstream Kubernetes, relational and NoSQL systems, and various managed services across hybrid and multicloud environments.
How is Veeam Kasten installed?
Veeam Kasten runs on your Kubernetes cluster in its own namespace. Installation is streamlined via a single Helm command or through Marketplace integrations with our Kubernetes platform partners. For air-gapped or private networks, Veeam Kasten supports offline installations.
Which user interfaces does Veeam Kasten support?
Veeam Kasten offers a modern, intuitive GUI, a powerful command-line interface (CLI), and a cloud-native API. The graphical dashboard provides real-time visibility into application compliance across clusters and full control over data management tasks. Access is role-based, and users can easily switch between the GUI and CLI using reusable command breadcrumbs. Dark mode is also supported.
How does Veeam Kasten ensure security?
Security features include end-to-end encryption, immutable backups, granular Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), and support for multi-tenant environments. Veeam Kasten also provides policy‑driven access controls, detailed audit logging, and compliance‑ready reporting to support governance and regulatory requirements and integrates with SIEM systems for real-time threat detection.
How does Veeam Kasten’s automatic application discovery work?
Veeam Kasten integrates natively with Kubernetes to automatically detect and catalog all applications running in your cluster—no manual tagging or scripting required. It treats the application as the primary unit of protection, covering everything from persistent data across volumes and databases to Kubernetes-native objects such as ConfigMaps and Secrets. This ensures complete, consistent protection with zero guesswork.
Does Veeam Kasten support multi-cluster management?
Yes, Veeam Kasten provides a centralized dashboard for managing multiple Kubernetes clusters, allowing for global policy enforcement, real-time status monitoring, and streamlined operations at scale.
Can Veeam Kasten protect virtual machines running on Kubernetes?
Absolutely. Veeam Kasten extends its Kubernetes-native protection to include virtual machines running in or alongside containerized environments, including integration with Veeam Data Platform for file-level recovery of KubeVirt VMs. It also supports a variety of other targets, including S3, Azure Blob, Veeam Vault, and NFS. This gives you the same reliable backup, recovery, and application mobility for VMs as you get with containers—helping to secure legacy workloads, reduce complexity, and confidently migrate applications to modern infrastructure.
Do stateless and stateful Kubernetes applications get backed up differently?
Yes—because stateful applications retain critical data that must be protected. Stateless apps can be redeployed without data loss, whereas stateful apps rely on persistent storage such as databases or volumes. Veeam Kasten automatically identifies application components and ensures that stateful data—along with related configurations—are consistently captured and protected, so you don’t have to worry about the nuances.

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With Veeam by your side, your data and AI are protected, secure, and
ready for whatever comes next.

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