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.
VMware vSphere
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)
Microsoft Hyper-V
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)