Storware Backup & Recovery (vProtect)
Storware
Paid
Warm - seeded online, short cutover window
Agentless
Mid estates
Workload V2V
What it is good at
Built specifically for the open-source and alternative hypervisor world - restore a VMware backup directly into AHV, Proxmox, OpenStack or KubeVirt.
Where it falls down
Smaller vendor; confirm your exact platform versions.
Capabilities
- Changed-block tracking / incremental sync
- Wave / batch orchestration
- Agentless operation
- API / CLI automation
Cost and licensing
- Cost category
- Paid — Commercial licence required.
- Indicative price
- Per-VM or per-socket subscription
- Licence model
- Subscription licensed per protected VM or per CPU socket.
- How to license it
- Quote from Storware or a partner; licence file applied in the Storware console.
- Lifecycle
- Current
- Vendor page
- https://storware.eu/
Pricing and licensing last reviewed 2026-09-18. Indicative only - confirm with the vendor.
Supported sources
- VMware vSphere / ESXi (vCenter)
- Nutanix AHV (Prism)
- OpenStack (Nova / KVM)
- Red Hat Virtualization / oVirt (legacy)
- Proxmox VE
- XCP-ng + Xen Orchestra
- Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager / Oracle VM
- Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization (KubeVirt)
- Plain KVM / libvirt (RHEL, Ubuntu, SUSE)
- Microsoft Hyper-V (Windows Server)
Supported targets
- Nutanix AHV (Prism)
- OpenStack (Nova / KVM)
- Proxmox VE
- XCP-ng + Xen Orchestra
- Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization (KubeVirt)
- Plain KVM / libvirt (RHEL, Ubuntu, SUSE)
- Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager / Oracle VM