Hi everyone,
I’m not going to try and frame this as some dramatic, doomsday story for either VMware or VRO, but acknowledge the current market conditions.
Backdrop for discussion
We are all hearing stories of people abandoning VMware due to pricing concerns etc, and the increase in market fragmentation. Organisations scattering across jumping to Microsoft Hyper-V/Azure Stack, organisations embracing the cloud such as hyperscalers, organisations embracing OpenShift, Proxmox, KVM, XenServer etc.
Source VM Workloads
Now, we know that today Veeam supports Agent backups and vSphere backups as the source for a VRO recovery plan. Overall, this means that we don’t need to worry too much about backup source support because if it’s not vSphere, the source can be protected in-guest with an agent for now.
Destination Compute Location
This is where the core of this post comes in. Currently VRO supports restoring to vSphere or Azure. So if an organisation moves away from VMware, the only recovery location they can leverage is Azure currently, which could impact their ability to recover.
I’m not necessarily after an official response from Veeam here as to where this product will go and which hypervisors will be supported in the longer term, because I’m sure they’ll make any announcements and I’m confident that many discussions are taking place around this. But I ask you in the community, where would you like to see Veeam go next with this product?
From my perspective, Hyper-V is the next most mature product, and has ultimately worked for a long time with strong commitment of resources from Microsoft, whilst for cloud compute AWS will make sense for diversity of cloud platforms. What about you? Are you seeing a particular hypervisor getting a lot of demand, that Veeam have stated interest or support for? What do you want to see from Veeam for VRO?