Last time, we covered the fundamentals of Veeam’s Cloud Tier functionality. I noticed a few technical details in that post that needed clarification, so if you’re looking for the updated version, just drop me a message with “Cloud” and I’ll share the corrected version.

Today, we’re diving deeper for those of you who want to understand the sophisticated architecture behind Veeam’s cloud storage optimization.

One of the first things you’ll notice when using Cloud Tier is that Veeam maintains full recovery capabilities regardless of where your backup archives live—whether in your local data center or in cloud object storage. This includes Veeam’s groundbreaking Instant VM Recovery technology, which we pioneered back in 2010. If you want to explore that technology in detail, I covered it thoroughly in this earlier post about vPower NFS.

On January 23, 2019, Veeam released VBR 9.5U4, which was the most feature-rich update in the product’s history. This update included a series of cloud-related feature modules, and this article will discuss in detail the most important one among them: cloud object storage.

In VBR 9.5U4, you can use Amazon S3, Microsoft Azure Blob, IBM Cloud Object Storage, and various other S3-compatible object storages, which means that for our domestic users, AliCloud OSS and Tencent Cloud COS are also perfectly supported.

Now that we’ve covered the installation and configuration of Veeam Availability for Nutanix AHV (VAN) in our previous article, it’s time to dive into the core operations that make this solution so valuable. Today, we’ll explore how VAN handles backup and recovery operations for your AHV virtual machines.

What I find particularly interesting about VAN’s approach is how it bridges the familiar Veeam workflow with the unique requirements of Nutanix environments. While the concepts remain consistent with traditional Veeam Backup & Replication (VBR), the implementation details reflect thoughtful adaptation to the AHV ecosystem.

I’m thrilled to share that Veeam Availability for Nutanix AHV (VAN) has finally been released! As someone who works extensively with both Nutanix and Veeam technologies, I’ve been eagerly anticipating this integration. Today, I want to walk you through everything you need to know to get started with this powerful new tool.

VAN comes as a Proxy Appliance that you can download directly from the Veeam website. Once you extract the ZIP file, you’ll find a disk image in VMDK format. Just like other Veeam products, you can grab a 30-day trial license to test everything out before committing.

One question I get asked frequently is whether Veeam supports application-level recovery for specific databases. The interesting thing about this question is that the answer has nothing to do with which database you’re using — it’s always yes.

That’s because Veeam includes a powerful feature called U-AIR (Universal Application-Item Recovery) that makes application-level recovery possible for virtually any system.

Today, I want to walk you through a practical MySQL recovery scenario to show you how this works in practice.

Imagine recovering terabytes of data in minutes instead of hours. What if you could run virtual machines directly from backup files without any restoration process?

This isn’t science fiction—it’s Veeam’s vPower technology, a breakthrough that fundamentally changed how we think about data recovery in virtualized environments. When Veeam introduced vPower, they didn’t just improve an existing process; they created an entirely new paradigm for virtualization data protection that still influences the industry today.