FAQ 2202: Veeam Backup & Replication Storage Plug-in

Use Cases and Suggested Practices Guide

Introduction

Veeam is a popular solution used by thousands of IT organizations to backup virtual machine (VM) snapshots in VMware environments. To make the backup process faster and easier, Veeam has developed the Universal Storage API, a plug-in specification that allows storage vendors to integrate with Veeam Backup and Replication (B&R) to create storage snapshots and then back them up efficiently.

DataCore’s flagship software-defined solution, SANsymphony, offers a Veeam Universal Storage API plug-in, that enables Veeam B&R to use storage snapshots. The storage snapshots can be used irrespective of the brands and models of devices in the virtual storage pool, even if those devices do not offer a Veeam plug-in. These range from onboard NVMe flash and All-Flash Arrays to HDDs. The same streamlined backups apply equally well in the hyperconverged infrastructures, providing flexibility and vendor independence.