SAN Support

Veeam and Hewlett-Packard have worked together to integrate SAN snapshot support directly into Veeam Backup & Replication. If you have a supported HP SAN available in your infrastructure, you can use their native snapshot functionality to perform backups. This places a lot less load on your infrastructure, and the time a VM snapshot has to exist is significantly lowered, ultimately speeding up the backup process.

At the moment, the following are supported:

  • HP StoreServ (3PAR)
  • HP StoreVirtual (LeftHand/P4000 series)
  • HP StoreVirtual VSA (Virtual Storage Appliance)

    Tip

    Veeam Backup & Replication v8 will introduce functionality for NetApp systems.

To be able to use SAN support features, the storage array needs to be added to the Veeam Backup ...

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