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This article summarizes Veeam v13.1 and related release updates specifically relevant to the HPE and Veeam partnership, organized by product area: Veeam Backup & Replication, Veeam ONE, Veeam Recovery Orchestrator, Veeam Service Provider Console, and Veeam Kasten.
This article includes the features and integrations that are clearly related to HPE solutions in the supplied release materials.
The focus is on new HPE integrations, HPE platform support, and HPE-related feature enhancements that improve protection, recovery, observability, service provider operations, and protection for cloud-native applications.
Summary
In the v13.1 release and related release updates, Veeam significantly expands support for many HPE customers´ scenarios.
In Veeam Backup & Replication v13.1, the most notable additions include native support and enhanced usability for HPE Morpheus VM Essentials, as well as greater storage repository flexibility through multiple repositories within a single HPE StoreOnce Catalyst Store. The release also expands workload protection capabilities by enabling direct backup to HPE Cloud Bank, providing broader backup coverage across supported environments.
The update further introduces infrastructure enhancements designed to improve deployment and backup performance in HPE Storage SAN environments. These improvements include support for Fiber Channel, iSCSI, Direct SAN Access, and NVMe over Fiber Channel snapshot processing.
In addition, a new storage fleet management framework based on the Universal Storage API simplifies storage management and integration across the environment.
In Veeam ONE v13.1, visibility improves through monitoring, reporting, dashboards, and alarms for HPE Morpheus VM Essentials workloads.
In Veeam Recovery Orchestrator v13.1, the new recovery capabilities are highly relevant to HPE customers, especially cleanroom recovery with read-only repository access, enhanced recovery location configuration, centralized update management, Hyper-V stand-alone host recovery, and failback proxy selection for complex recovery plans.
The Veeam Service Provider Console 9.3 remains relevant to service providers managing HPE-centric Veeam services. VSPC 9.3 introduces Veeam Intelligence for AI-assisted operations.
When combined with Veeam 13.1 capabilities, it can support managed service offerings around StoreOnce-powered Cloud Connect repositories, Morpheus-based disaster recovery environments, immutable StoreOnce configuration backups, and advanced clean-room recovery workflows using read-only repository access.
Veeam Kasten for Kubernetes v9.0 adds support for using Veeam Backup & Replication repositories as Kasten backup targets, including HPE StoreOnce and DPA+X10K via Catalyst.
Veeam Backup & Replication v13.1
Veeam Backup & Replication v13.1 contains the largest set of HPE-related improvements in the provided materials. These updates span virtualization support, deduplication storage usability, and cloud-adjacent repository workflows.
HPE Morpheus VM Essentials integration
Veeam Backup & Replication v13.1 introduces stronger built-in support for HPE Morpheus VM Essentials as a protected hypervisor platform.
In practice, this accelerates adoption and reduces deployment friction for customers standardizing on HPE virtualization platforms, especially in new environments or during migration projects.
The release also adds application-aware processing for HPE Morpheus VM Essentials workloads. This means backups can be taken in an application-consistent state and can support granular recovery for major enterprise applications such as Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle Database, PostgreSQL, Microsoft Exchange, Active Directory, and SharePoint.
Application-Aware Processing – Veeam Backup & Replication User Guide
For customers, the practical value is substantial: backups become more recovery-ready, database and application restores become more reliable, and administrators can reduce dependence on separate, app-specific protection workflows.
Another improvement is the automatic injection of the VirtIO driver during restore for non-HPE backups recovered to HPE VM Essentials targets.
This is especially useful in migration and cross-platform recovery scenarios. Customers can restore workloads to HPE-based virtual environments with fewer manual adjustments, reducing recovery complexity and accelerating hypervisor transitions.
For customers evaluating HPE Morpheus VM Essentials as a destination platform, these enhancements make Veeam a practical migration and recovery bridge to the HPE virtualization estate.
HPE Cloud Bank expanded workload support
Veeam Backup & Replication v13.1 expands direct backup and backup copy support for HPE Cloud Bank to include more workload types. Previously, this workflow was primarily limited to VM backups. With this release, support extends to agent-based backups, enterprise application plug-ins, and unstructured data.
Veeam Backup & Replication can use HPE Cloud Bank Storage, located on HPE Alletra Storage MP X10000, as the target for backup and backup copy jobs.
HPE StoreOnce Supported Features – Veeam Backup & Replication User Guide
The practical benefit is that customers using HPE Cloud Bank as part of their storage and retention strategy can now protect a wider range of workloads without redesigning operational processes around separate targets.
This improves consistency across the backup environment, simplifies policy design, and allows organizations to extend HPE-backed storage usage beyond virtual machines into databases, physical systems, and file-based data sets.
HPE StoreOnce Catalyst usability improvements
Veeam Backup & Replication v13.1 improves support for HPE StoreOnce Catalyst by adding full user interface support for multiple backup repositories within a single Catalyst Store.
In earlier workflows, this type of configuration required PowerShell and knowledge of a documented workaround. It can now be created, edited, and rescanned directly in the backup console.
For customers, this is a meaningful operational improvement. It makes StoreOnce environments easier to organize while still maximizing deduplication efficiency through subfolder-based repository design.
The release also adds configuration backup immutability on HPE Catalyst. This means Veeam configuration backups can now be stored immutably on HPE StoreOnce Catalyst repositories.
HPE StoreOnce Supported Features – Veeam Backup & Replication User Guide
The customer benefit is clear: the backup server configuration itself becomes better protected against ransomware, malicious deletion, and accidental change. Since configuration data is essential for rapid rebuilding and operational recovery, protecting it immutably strengthens the resilience of the entire environment.
In addition, v13.1 supports HPE StoreOnce OS 5.2.0 with Catalyst Client 5.2.0.
It matters in practice because it gives customers confidence that current HPE firmware and software baselines are aligned with Veeam supportability. This helps reduce hesitation about upgrading and simplifies lifecycle planning.
HPE Storage-related enhancements
While Veeam 13.1 does not introduce storage-array-specific features exclusively targeted at HPE Alletra, several infrastructure enhancements directly improve support for this platform.
These improvements are especially relevant to enterprise private clouds where HPE Alletra SAN architectures serve as the foundation for mission-critical workloads and where backup performance, connectivity resilience, and operational simplicity are key design goals.
Fiber Channel and iSCSI storage support
Veeam appliances now support attaching Fiber Channel (FC) and iSCSI storage devices, along with multipathing, enabling deployment in enterprise SAN environments.
In practice, customers can more naturally connect Veeam appliances to existing HPE Alletra storage fabrics, improve path resiliency, and reduce the need to redesign storage connectivity around backup infrastructure.
The practical benefit is a more enterprise-ready deployment model that fits established SAN standards and supports higher availability through multipath access.
Direct SAN support
Veeam Infrastructure Appliance now supports Direct SAN access over Fiber Channel and iSCSI.
Direct SAN Access – Veeam Backup & Replication User Guide
By accessing storage directly from the SAN fabric rather than traversing the production network, backup operations can achieve higher performance while minimizing impact on production workloads.
This enhancement is particularly relevant for heavily utilized HPE storage environments because it allows backup traffic to use the storage fabric more efficiently and helps preserve production network bandwidth for applications and users.
Backup from Storage Snapshots over NVMe/FC
Organizations operating modern NVMe-enabled storage arrays can now perform Backup from Storage Snapshots operations using NVMe over Fiber Channel. This capability reduces snapshot processing latency and further accelerates backup operations on next-generation storage platforms.
Customers running newer HPE storage architectures benefit from improved performance and scalability, as snapshot-based backup workflows can more effectively leverage high-speed NVMe/FC connectivity.
Storage fleet management framework
Veeam introduces support for storage fleet management systems through the Universal Storage API.
It creates the foundation for future integrations that can centrally manage multiple storage arrays through a unified management layer.
The customer benefit is both strategic and operational: it points toward more scalable storage integration models, less fragmented array management, and future opportunities to coordinate protection workflows across a broader HPE storage fleet.
Veeam ONE v13.1
Veeam ONE v13.1 extends observability for HPE-related workloads by supporting HPE Morpheus VM Essentials.
Monitoring and reporting for HPE Morpheus VM Essentials
Veeam ONE v13.1 adds broader hypervisor coverage, including HPE Morpheus VM Essentials. This means HPE-based virtual workloads can now be included in monitoring, reporting, and alerting workflows across the product.
The release notes also specify that HPE Morpheus VM Essentials data is available in key reports, including protection history, job history, backup inventory, immutable workloads, repository capacity planning, malware detection, protected VMs, and scale-out backup repository reporting.
The customer benefit is not just visibility, but comparability. Teams can evaluate Morpheus-based workloads using the same reporting framework they already use, which supports better capacity planning, SLA tracking, and executive reporting.
Support also extends to alarms and dashboards, including backup job state, unusual job durations, suspicious incremental backup sizes, restore activity, and related threat and backup dashboards.
In practice, this means problems affecting HPE Morpheus VM Essentials workloads can be surfaced earlier and handled using the same operational response patterns as other platforms. That consistency is valuable for both enterprise IT teams and managed service providers.
Veeam Recovery Orchestrator v13.1
The Veeam Recovery Orchestrator v13.1 enhancements are highly relevant to HPE customers because they strengthen cyber recovery, improve recovery targeting, and simplify orchestration in environments where HPE servers, SAN storage, and backup repositories form the infrastructure foundation.
Cleanroom recovery with read-only repository access
Cleanroom recovery with read-only repository access is one of the most important capabilities of Veeam Recovery Orchestrator 13.1 for HPE customers.
Object storage repositories can be connected in read-only mode, keeping cleanroom plans up to date while isolating them from production infrastructure. For customers using HPE Alletra MP X10000 as a resilient backup target, this enables recovery validation, malware investigation, and compromise analysis without giving the cleanroom environment write access to the protected backup source.
Object Storage Repositories – Veeam Backup & Replication User Guide
The practical benefit is stronger cyber resilience: organizations can test and validate recovery from HPE-backed backup data while reducing the risk that an isolated recovery exercise or incident response workflow could alter production backup content.
Enhanced recovery location configuration
Enhanced recovery location configuration allows recovery plans to target specific Veeam Backup servers and repositories with more precision.
Editing Storage Recovery Locations – Veeam Recovery Orchestrator User Guide
This is relevant to customers using HPE Primera or HPE 3PAR.
Running HPE Storage Failover – Veeam Recovery Orchestrator User Guide
In practice, administrators can direct recovery workflows to the appropriate infrastructure tier rather than relying on broad or generic placement decisions.
The customer benefits are better operational control, improved alignment among recovery plans, and compliance requirements.
Veeam Updater scheduling and bulk management
Veeam Recovery Orchestrator 13.1 also improves update operations through Veeam Updater scheduling and bulk management.
Although this is not HPE-specific, it is valuable for large HPE customers where Veeam components may run across multiple HPE ProLiant servers, management sites, and recovery locations.
The practical benefit is reduced maintenance complexity: teams can coordinate patching windows, apply updates more consistently, and lower the operational risk caused by mismatched component versions across the recovery platform.
Hyper-V stand-alone host recovery
Support for Hyper-V stand-alone host recovery is relevant to customers running Microsoft Hyper-V on HPE ProLiant servers outside clustered designs, as well as to mixed-hypervisor environments that need flexible recovery options.
This enhancement broadens the range of valid recovery targets and can help organizations use available HPE compute capacity more effectively during a disruption.
For customers, the practical benefit is greater disaster-recovery flexibility, especially in remote offices, smaller data centers, edge locations, or temporary recovery environments where a full Hyper-V cluster may not be available.
Failback proxy selection for replica plans
Failback proxy selection for replica plans gives administrators more control over which proxy is used during failback operations.
This matters in complex environments where network routes, SAN connectivity, and site topology can strongly influence recovery performance.
By selecting the most appropriate proxy, customers can avoid inefficient data paths, reduce the risk of bottlenecks, and better align failback traffic with the intended HPE infrastructure design.
The practical benefit is more predictable failback behavior and improved confidence when returning workloads from a recovery site to production.
Veeam Service Provider Console 9.3
However, several VSPC 9.3 capabilities and adjacent Veeam 13.1 recovery enhancements are relevant to VCSP environments delivering managed services on HPE-backed infrastructure.
Veeam Intelligence for service provider operations
VSPC 9.3 introduces Veeam Intelligence into the service provider platform, enabling AI-assisted operations, troubleshooting, and management workflows.
For providers delivering managed services, this capability helps accelerate issue resolution and simplify day-to-day operations.
The practical benefit is that service teams can shorten investigation cycles, reduce operational effort, and deliver a more consistent support experience across multi-tenant HPE-centric backup and recovery environments.
New service opportunities around HPE-backed Veeam infrastructures
In combination with Veeam 13.1, service providers can now build services around StoreOnce-powered Cloud Connect repositories and Morpheus-based disaster recovery environments.
This creates new service opportunities while reducing operational complexity for providers managing HPE environments.
The practical benefit is a broader managed-service portfolio that combines cyber resilience, disaster recovery and operational automation.
Veeam Kasten for Kubernetes v9.0
Veeam Kasten for Kubernetes v9.0 introduces an important integration for HPE StoreOnce-based environments: Kasten can use a Veeam Backup & Replication repository as a backup target.
StoreOnce as a Kasten backup repository
This configuration is especially relevant because the VBR repository layer provides the supported path for using StoreOnce as the underlying backup target for Kasten-managed Kubernetes workloads.
In practical terms, HPE customers can simplify policy design, reduce repository sprawl, and align Kubernetes backup retention with their existing StoreOnce-backed Veeam repository architecture.
For HPE customers, the main benefit is architectural consistency. Kubernetes workloads protected by Kasten can now be incorporated into the same StoreOnce-centered protection strategy already used for virtual machines, physical servers, NAS, and enterprise applications protected by Veeam Backup & Replication.
Why should customers upgrade to Veeam Data Platform 13.1 now?
Veeam v13.1 meaningfully improves support for HPE virtualization, HPE storage and server-adjacent backup architectures, especially through HPE Morpheus, HPE StoreOnce, HPE Cloud Bank, HPE Storage systems, and HPE Proliant servers.
These updates help customers simplify deployment, improve recovery readiness, strengthen resilience, and operate HPE + Veeam-integrated environments with greater consistency, reliability, and observability.
References:
veeam_backup_13_1_whats_new_wn.pdf
veeam_one_13_1_whats_new_wn.pdf
veeam_orchestrator_13_1_whats_new_wn.pdf