What type of VMware backup does Veeam provide?

Veeam Backup & Replication is built for virtual environments. It operates at the virtualization layer and uses an image-based approach for VM backup. Veeam Backup & Replication does not install agent software inside the VM guest OS to retrieve VM data. To back up VMs, it leverages VMware vSphere snapshot capabilities. When you back up a VM, Veeam Backup & Replication requests VMware vSphere to create a VM snapshot. The VM snapshot can be thought of as a cohesive point-in-time copy of a VM including its configuration, OS, applications, associated data, system state and so on. Veeam Backup & Replication uses this point-in-time copy as a source of data for backup.

What type of VMware restore does Veeam provide?

Veeam Backup & Replication offers a number of recovery options for various disaster recovery scenarios: Instant VM Recovery enables you to instantly start a VM directly from a backup file. Instant VM Disk Recovery enables you to instantly restore a VM disk from a backup file. Entire VM recovery enables you to recover a VM from a backup file to its original or another location. VM files restore enables you to recover separate VM files (virtual disks, configuration files and so on). Virtual disks restore enables you to recover a specific hard drive of a VM from the backup file, and attach it to the original VM or to a new VM. Guest OS File Recovery enables you to recover individual guest OS files from Windows, Linux, Mac and other guest OS file systems.

What type of VMware replication does Veeam provide?

Veeam Backup & Replication lets you perform onsite replication for high availability (HA) scenarios and remote (offsite) replication for disaster recovery (DR) scenarios. To facilitate replication over the WAN or slow connections, Veeam Backup & Replication optimizes traffic transmission. It filters out unnecessary data blocks such as duplicate data blocks, zero data blocks, blocks of swap files and blocks of excluded VM guest OS files, and compresses replica traffic. Veeam Backup & Replication also allows you to use WAN accelerators and apply network throttling rules to prevent replication jobs from consuming the entire network bandwidth.

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How do I back up VMware and VMware VMs?

Begin by choosing a backup solution, like Veeam Backup & Replication, that understands and is designed to handle and take advantage of the dynamic nature of VMware backup.
To properly perform VMware backup and VMware VMs backup, you need to ensure that you have the time, throughput and storage needed to perform the backup.
Choose the best time — typically VMware backup, like any other core backup, is performed during off-hours.
Check to see if both the primary and/or secondary storage locations for the VMware backup have adequate space available.
Determine if any VMware VM backups will address any applications that require specific-processing to achieve application-consistent VMware backups.
If you plan to use any scripts prior to or post running the VMware backup job, create these before you begin.
Determine which VMware VMs will need to be protected and which ones will need to be excluded from backup.
For most cases, you can perform a single-pass backup of VMware, taking advantage of your backup solution working directly with VMware vSphere Storage APIs for Data Protection to ensure that all VMware VMs, their storage and configuration are protected and ready for recovery.

What is VMware replication?

VMware replication is a built-in feature to VMware that helps to provide disaster recovery of VMware virtual machines.
VMware replication tackles many use cases, including local data protection, disaster recovery between sites or providers and data center migration capabilities.
When used as part of your data protection strategy, VMware replication can provide yet another layer of fast recovery that is needed to meet the increasing demands of short recovery time objectives (RTOs) when recovering an entire virtual machine.
Key data protection and recovery applications, like Veeam Backup & Replication, inherently take advantage of VMware replication and VMware snapshots to provide replicas specific to points in time that can be used to instantly recover a VMware replication virtual machine.
VMware replication replicas created from VMware snapshots allow you to perform both on-site and off-site replication — on site for highly available virtual machines and off site for disaster recovery purposes.

How can I recover my VMware VM in case of disaster?

Recovering some or all parts of a VMware VM during loss or even VMware disaster recovery can be achieved just as you need it — the key is choosing the best method for your recovery scenario:

Instant VM Recovery — quickly achieve VMware disaster recovery of a single VMware virtual machine by running them directly from your Veeam backups to improve recovery time objectives (RTOs).
Instant VM disk recovery — immediately restore only the individual virtual machine disks directly from a backup file or as First Class Disks (FCD) in VMware.
Entire VM restore — Achieve full VMware disaster recovery by restoring an entire VM directly from a Veeam backup file or VMware replica back to its original or even a new location.
Guest OS file recovery — When VMware disaster recovery is only needed at the guest OS level, you can easily recover individual OS files and folders from the guests directly from Veeam backups, replicas and VMware snapshots without needing the storage footprint to recover the entire virtual machine.

What types of VMware backup are there?

For VMware backup, there are different levels of VMware that can be protected — ultimately based upon what your needs are to meet your recovery objectives. Solutions like Veeam Backup & Replication will provide block-level, image backups that may be leveraged for a full spectrum of recovery:

Host-level VMware backup — Apply VMware backup at the host level to ensure that you capture not only all of the currently residing virtual machines on the host, but also all the storage, configuration and metadata needed for even the most demanding recovery — including disaster recovery.
Guest-level VMware backup — Within each vSphere host, you can choose to select individual guests to include or exclude from VMware backup. This method allows you to protect individual guest-level operating systems and their associated files so that you can perform object-level recovery at the guest OS level.
Changed Block Tracking (CBT) — For all VMware backups, VMware provides a built-in capability that journals all changes made to a guest at the block level. Taking advantage of CBT allows VMware backup products like Veeam to only protect the actual data blocks of what has changed since the last backup, resulting in a much faster, smaller VMware backup.
Also, take advantage of advanced settings for VMware backup, including VMware Tools quiesce, which will help to freeze the file system during VMware backup. Backup software that supports VMware Tools quiesce for VMware backup will capture all blocks necessary for crash and application-consistent backups.

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