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Absolutely. Veeam Kasten extends its Kubernetes-native protection to include virtual machines running in or alongside containerized environments. 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.

KubeVirt VMs are comprised of several Kubernetes resource types within a namespace. While many VMs can share the same namespace, users often need to apply different protection policies to specific groups of VMs. Manually matching the right resources and policies to each VM is very challenging. Kasten has thus introduced VM-centric protection policies. By automating detection of dependent resources, Kasten is removing a significant barrier in the journey from VMware to OpenShift by sharply reducing operational friction.

Restoring individual VMs from a Kasten restore point is difficult when it includes resources for many VMs. Veeam dramatically simplifies operations by providing a shortened list of resources for only user-selected VMs. Automatic linking of individual VMs and related resources takes complexity and guesswork out of the restore process, significantly easing ongoing operations.

This release introduces Native File Level Recovery. It allows a user to select and remotely mount individual PersistentVolumeClaims from a specified Kasten restore point without needing to copy all volume data back to the cluster. Rather than having to restore an entire clone of a VM from backup (and then manually retrieve/copy files and delete the clone), native FLR provides a streamlined process for recovery of individual files from a backup.

v8.5 release expands upon the VBR-only support introduced in v8.0 to include Kasten restore points exported to non-VBR locations (ex. S3, Azure Blob, Veeam Vault, NFS, etc.)

It broadens the strategic value of Azure federated identity protection with a unified, identity-driven framework across all profile types. Enterprises now enjoy consistent, secure, and automated credential management everywhere Kasten connects to Azure Blob storage. This ensures compliance and strengthens customer security across the board.

Kasten features several existing integrations with 3rd party secret and encryption key management solutions. These can be used to allow customer-managed secure storage of the primary encryption key unique to each Kasten cluster. This latest support broadens the security offering to Azure KeyVault. This delivers heightened resilience to this growing customer segment.

AI models use vector databases to store, index, and search unstructured data. As AI deployments grow, enterprises rely increasingly on these databases. With v8.5, customers can adopt and scale the next generation of AI workloads and data models. They can use these blueprints to implement their vector db protection strategy and know their data is secure, while future-proofing their business.

Adding support for exporting to SMB storage provides users with more choices that maximize their current storage infrastructure investments, protecting both legacy and next-gen workloads.

Kasten has long supported direct API integration to back up Kubernetes persistent volumes on vSphere using vSphere Cloud Native Storage and Changed Block Tracking for efficient incremental backups. This update adds support for using the standard vSphere CSI interface for backups, which is helpful in shared environments where direct access to vCenter is not available.