What is Veeam?

Veeam Software is a company specializing in data backup, recovery, and disaster recovery solutions. It offers powerful tools to back up and restore systems operating in virtual, physical, cloud-based, and hybrid environments, ensuring business continuity in case of failures.

🔍 Introduction to Veeam

The core product of Veeam is Veeam Backup & Replication. With this solution, users can:

• Back up virtual machines (VMs), physical servers, and workstations

• Protect cloud services like Microsoft 365 (Outlook, Teams, OneDrive)

• Prepare disaster recovery scenarios

• Perform instant backup and recovery tests

🧰 How to Use Veeam?

1. Installation

• Veeam Backup & Replication is typically installed on a Windows server.

• After installation:

  • Configuration is done via the management console

  • Backup targets (such as storage devices) and sources (like VMware ESXi, Hyper-V, physical machines) are defined

2. Backup Operations

• Backup policies are created for specific machines, files, or applications

• Scheduled backups can be configured (daily, weekly, hourly)

• Backups can be stored on various targets such as:

  • Local disks

  • NAS

  • Cloud storage (AWS, Azure, Wasabi, etc.)

3. Restore (Recovery)

• Entire virtual machines can be restored

• Granular recovery allows restoring specific files or application items (e.g., an individual Exchange email)

• Instant VM Recovery enables immediate startup of a virtual machine directly from backup

4. Replication

• Virtual machine replicas are kept continuously up-to-date at a secondary location

• In case of disaster, operations can continue using these replicas

🌐 Supported Environments by Veeam

• Virtual: VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V, Nutanix AHV

• Physical: Windows and Linux servers/workstations

• Cloud: AWS, Azure, Google Cloud

• SaaS: Microsoft 365 (Exchange, SharePoint, OneDrive, Teams)

📊 Common Use Cases for Veeam

• Backing up all virtual machines in a data center on a daily basis

• Backing up Microsoft 365 user data to a secure location outside the cloud

• Rapid system recovery after a ransomware attack

• Geographical backup and disaster recovery planning

✅ Advantages of Veeam

• Easy installation and user-friendly interface

• Extremely fast backup and recovery

• Instant recovery capabilities

• Broad platform support

• Advanced reporting and monitoring tools