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VMware Backup and Recovery
Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Backup and Data Protection Platforms.
VMWARE DATA PROTECTION
Proven Resilience for VMware
Proof, Not Just Promises
Recover Clean, Not Compromised
Scan any restore point for malware before it goes back into production, catching hidden infections before they resurface.
Backups Ransomware Cannot Touch
Backups stay immutable and air-gapped, out of reach from attackers, rogue admins, or accidental deletion.
Recovery That Meets Your SLAs
Instantly recover any VM from its latest restore point, so downtime never turns into a missed recovery objective.
Capabilities
Beyond the Basics of VMware Backup
New VMs, Automatically Protected
Never let a new VM slip through unprotected. Tag or group it once, and every VM added to that group afterward is picked up by the right backup policy automatically.
Object-Level Recovery, Wherever the App Lives
Recover a single email, database table, or AD object without needing specialized skillsets or a sprawling set of tools, straight out of the same VM-level backup.
Backups That Test Themselves
Confirm that a backup is good before you need it, not during an outage. Every backup can be automatically spun up in an isolated lab and verified as recoverable.
Immutable, Air-Gapped Repositories
Keep backups untouchable by ransomware, rogue admins, or accidental deletion, whether through Veeam Data Cloud Vault, a hardened repository, object storage immutability, or a dedicated storage appliance.
Malware Scanning Before Restore
Avoid reinfection automatically, not as a lesson learned. Check a restore point for known threats before it goes back into production.
Storage Snapshot Integration
Take more frequent backups and restore in minutes, not hours, by combining VMware and storage array snapshots without touching production I/O.
Software-Defined,
Storage-Agnostic
Safeguard your backups on the storage you already own, from commodity disk to object storage, instead of being locked into one hardware vendor.
Restore Anywhere, Not Just Back to VMware
Keep your recovery options open even if the destination isn’t VMware. Move a VM from a backup straight to another hypervisor, or to Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud.
Veeam Software Appliance
Be secure from the first log-in. Deploy your backup on a pre-hardened, pre-configured Linux appliance built around a DISA STIG baseline.
Veeam Software Appliance
Your Fastest Path to Veeam Data Platform
Smooth deployment, secure from day one, managed from anywhere
Platform Editions
True Data Resilience
Available in three comprehensive enterprise-grade editions — our most powerful premium option delivers the complete, secure protection and best-in-class orchestration that can only be achieved with Veeam Data Platform.
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Resources
Protect where you are, not where you were
Data Trust & Resilience Report 2026
Ransomware and disruptive incidents aren’t slowing down.
2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™
Veeam named a Leader for the 10th time in a row.
The AI-Era Playbook
Six practices to close the resilience gap, from what good protection looks like to the proof that you're actually ready.
FAQ
How to Back Up VMware Data
- 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.
How to Recover VMware Data
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 Are the Types of VMware Backups?
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.