Veeam Agent for Windows / Linux (FREE edition)
Veeam Software
Free
Cold - full outage for the whole copy
Agent
Smb estates
Workload P2V P2C
What it is good at
Back up the physical server, boot the recovery media inside an empty VM, restore. A reliable, genuinely free P2V for a handful of machines.
Where it falls down
Manual, one machine at a time, and the restore window is a full outage.
Capabilities
- Automatic driver / guest tools injection
Cost and licensing
- Cost category
- Free — No licence cost from the vendor.
- Indicative price
- No licence cost for the FREE edition
- Licence model
- Veeam Agent FREE edition - no licence key, no expiry, full bare-metal recovery.
- How to license it
- Download from Veeam with a free account. The FREE edition covers volume-level backup and bare-metal restore, which is all a manual P2V needs. Paid editions add central management through the Veeam console.
- Lifecycle
- Current
- Vendor page
- https://www.veeam.com/windows-endpoint-server-backup-free.html
Pricing and licensing last reviewed 2026-09-18. Indicative only - confirm with the vendor.
Supported sources
- Physical server - Windows
- Physical server - Linux
- Physical desktop / workstation
Supported targets
- VMware vSphere / ESXi (vCenter)
- Microsoft Hyper-V (Windows Server)
- Proxmox VE
- Nutanix AHV (Prism)
- Plain KVM / libvirt (RHEL, Ubuntu, SUSE)
- Microsoft Azure (IaaS)
- Amazon Web Services (EC2)