Veeam Data Platform (Backup & Replication)

What it is good at

If you already own Veeam you already own a cross-platform mover. Instant Recovery restores a backup of anything as a VM on vSphere, Hyper-V, AHV or Proxmox, and Direct Restore to Azure/EC2/GCP covers V2C. One backup, many possible targets.

Where it falls down

Restore-based, so cutover means a full or seeded restore plus a final incremental - plan the window. Not a continuous-replication tool for zero-downtime moves.

Capabilities

• Changed-block tracking / incremental sync
• Wave / batch orchestration
• Agentless operation
• Non-disruptive test migration
• Rollback / failback after cutover
• Encryption in flight
• Automatic driver / guest tools injection
• API / CLI automation
• Programme reporting / audit trail

Cost and licensing

Cost category

Paid — Commercial licence required.

Indicative price

Veeam Universal Licence (VUL), typically sold in 10-instance packs

Licence model

Veeam Universal Licence - portable instances that can be applied to VMs, physical servers, cloud instances or workstations. Per-socket perpetual licences still exist for legacy estates but VUL is the current model.

How to license it

Buy VUL instance packs (annual subscription, 1/3/5 year) from Veeam or a ProPartner, or via the AWS/Azure marketplace. A licence file is uploaded to the Veeam console. Veeam Community Edition is free for up to 10 instances and can do cross-platform Instant Recovery - enough for a small migration.

Lifecycle

Current

Vendor page

https://www.veeam.com/products/veeam-data-platform.html

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
• Regional / sovereign cloud (OVH, T-Systems, G42, STC, etc.)
• Physical server - Windows
• Physical server - Linux
• Microsoft Azure (IaaS)
• Amazon Web Services (EC2)
• Google Cloud (Compute Engine)
• Red Hat Virtualization / oVirt (legacy)
• OpenStack (Nova / KVM)
• Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager / Oracle VM
• XCP-ng + Xen Orchestra

Supported targets

• VMware vSphere / ESXi (vCenter)
• Microsoft Hyper-V (Windows Server)
• Nutanix AHV (Prism)
• Proxmox VE
• Microsoft Azure (IaaS)
• Amazon Web Services (EC2)
• Google Cloud (Compute Engine)
• Physical server - Windows
• Physical server - Linux