VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V Recovery

Barracuda Backup uses the VMware vSphere Storage APIs - Data Protection to perform image-level backup and recovery of VMware vSphere virtual machines (VMs). VMs can be recovered back to the original host or cluster, as well as any other host or cluster; whether or not it was previously backed up with Barracuda Backup.

For Microsoft Hyper-V, Barracuda Backup leverages the Barracuda Backup Agent for Windows to perform image-level backup and recovery of Hyper-V VMs. VMs can be recovered back to the original host, as well as any other host; whether or not it was previously backed up with Barracuda Backup.

The following types of recovery can be performed for VMware vSphere VMs:

• Entire VM recovery

• Entire VM download

• File and folder download (LiveBrowse)

• Instant VM recovery (LiveBoot)

• Cloud VM recovery (Cloud LiveBoot)

The following types of recovery can be performed for Microsoft Hyper-V VMs:

• Entire VM recovery

• Virtual machine disk download

• File and folder download (LiveBrowse)

• Cloud VM recovery (Cloud LiveBoot)