Article - How to Get started with Veeam Free Edition

The 3 most powerful categories of Veeam:

VeeamZIP:

• allows ad-hoc backup of running machine without the need to power off the VM
• Only need to specify what VM to backup and where the backupfile should reside. The backup is deduplicated and compressed to save on storage
• Useful when you need to update a VM before applying any updates or patches
• Useful when you need to archive a VM. The backup is deduplicated and compressed before removing it from the infrastructure.
• Useful when you need a copy of the VM to a remote host or test lab. The backup encapusulates VM configurations settings making it easier to run at a different location
• VeeamZIP is very efficient. Has a fast processing engine and optimizations.

Powerful and flexible restores:

• Supports various recovery scenarios like recover an entire VM, recover guestOS or recover individual applications.
• Can restore file directly from deduplicated and compressed backups without extracting the VM from the backup
• Can restore an entire VM to the same location or elsewhere
• Can restore a VM disk and connect it to the original or recovered VM
• Can restrore guest files from backups without extracting the VM from the backup

Quick Migration (VMware):

• move a VM between hosts or datastores with minimal downtime
• Works well in environments with slow or latency connection issues

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