NAKIVO Backup & Replication
NAKIVO
Paid
Warm - seeded online, short cutover window
Both
Mid estates
Workload V2V P2V V2C
What it is good at
Notably cheaper than the tier-one backup vendors, with cross-platform recovery that covers Proxmox and AHV - handy for mid-market VMware exits.
Where it falls down
Restore-based migration; smaller ecosystem.
Capabilities
- Changed-block tracking / incremental sync
- Wave / batch orchestration
- Agentless operation
- Encryption in flight
- Rollback / failback after cutover
Cost and licensing
- Cost category
- Paid — Commercial licence required.
- Indicative price
- Per-socket or per-workload perpetual/subscription; free trial and a free edition for small use
- Licence model
- Perpetual per-socket (hypervisor hosts) or per-workload subscription. NAKIVO also offers a limited free edition.
- How to license it
- Buy from NAKIVO or a reseller and apply the licence in the Director web console. Sizing is per CPU socket on the source hosts or per protected workload.
- Lifecycle
- Current
- Vendor page
- https://www.nakivo.com/
Pricing and licensing last reviewed 2026-09-18. Indicative only - confirm with the vendor.
Supported sources
- VMware vSphere / ESXi (vCenter)
- Microsoft Hyper-V (Windows Server)
- Nutanix AHV (Prism)
- Proxmox VE
- Physical server - Windows
- Physical server - Linux
- Amazon Web Services (EC2)
Supported targets
- VMware vSphere / ESXi (vCenter)
- Microsoft Hyper-V (Windows Server)
- Nutanix AHV (Prism)
- Proxmox VE
- Amazon Web Services (EC2)