The Veeam plug-in for HPE Morpheus VM Essentials moves you from agent-based protection to native, hypervisor-level integration with HPE’s HVM platform. Today, you can already protect HPE VM Essentials workloads with Veeam Agents, gaining application‑aware backups, immutability, and familiar Veeam management. The plug-in builds on that by integrating directly with the hypervisor so you can: - Use native changed block tracking (CBT) for faster incremental backups and reduced I/O impact. - Create application-consistent checkpoints via VSS (Windows) or the QEMU Guest Agent. - Centrally manage policies, scheduling, encryption, and immutability from the Veeam Data Platform. - Offload compression, encryption, and data transport to lightweight worker VMs that act as proxies for HVM workloads. - Use familiar Veeam transport modes such as HotAdd and NBD for efficient data movement. Operationally, it feels like extending Veeam Backup & Replication to one more hypervisor: 1. You select HVM as the hypervisor. 2. Choose the VMs you want to protect. 3. Configure storage, processing, and scheduling as you do for other platforms. There’s no separate UI and no extra appliance. The plug-in is installed on the Veeam Backup Server, which then communicates directly with HPE Morpheus Manager to coordinate checkpoints, backups, and restores. This gives you a more streamlined, scalable way to protect HPE VM Essentials environments while keeping a consistent experience across VMware, Hyper‑V, cloud workloads, Kubernetes, and now KVM-based HVM.

Veeam and HPE Morpheus VM Essentials are designed to help you rethink virtualization in a market that is moving beyond a single-hypervisor standard. Several shifts are driving this change: - Costs and licensing models for traditional platforms have evolved. - KVM-based hypervisors are giving organizations more choice and better economics. - Workloads now span legacy VMs, containers, and even bare metal. HPE’s portfolio, built on Morpheus software and delivered from edge to core to cloud (including via HPE GreenLake), is structured to support this mix: - HPE VM Essentials: A virtualization-only foundation focused on simplicity and cost efficiency, licensed per CPU socket with no incremental feature costs. - HPE Private Cloud Business Edition: Engineered systems based on HPE SimpliVity or dHCI with integrated management. - HPE Private Cloud Enterprise: Built on Morpheus Enterprise for full multi-runtime orchestration across VMs, containers, and bare metal. - HPE Private Cloud AI: Optimized for AI workloads and automation. HPE VM Essentials itself is more than a hypervisor; it’s a virtualization management platform for HPE’s HVM hypervisor, offering: - Predictable, per-socket licensing. - Enterprise capabilities like live migration, integration hooks for data protection, and secure secret management. - Automation via PowerShell and Bash scripting. - A clear upgrade path to Morpheus Enterprise for broader multi-runtime management. Veeam extends this foundation with consistent data protection across all these environments. With the plug-in, HPE VM Essentials becomes another first-class platform in the Veeam Data Platform, so you can: - Apply the same backup, recovery, and orchestration workflows across VMware, HVM, cloud workloads, and Kubernetes. - Restore HPE VM Essentials workloads to other on-prem hypervisors, alternate data centers, or public clouds like AWS and Microsoft Azure for DR. This combination helps you modernize your virtualization stack at your own pace, without locking data protection into a single platform or deployment model.

Veeam and HPE Morpheus VM Essentials are positioned to help you protect data, manage risk, and prepare for AI use cases across SaaS, cloud, and hybrid environments. On the data protection and cyber resilience side, Veeam Data Platform enables you to: - Protect, recover, and secure critical SaaS, cloud, and hybrid data. - Use fully managed backup and recovery for SaaS and cloud workloads. - Store backups in fully managed, immutable cloud storage to support secure and compliant recovery. - Protect hybrid and multi-cloud environments with self-managed backup and recovery software. - Protect and manage Kubernetes applications and data across cloud-native environments. Architecturally, Veeam and HPE align to the 3‑2‑1‑1‑0 rule: - 3 copies of your data. - 2 different media types. - 1 copy off-site. - 1 immutable copy. - 0 backup verification errors. HPE’s storage portfolio underpins this model: - HPE Alletra Storage MP X10000: All‑flash, high‑performance S3 storage, well-suited for backup reuse and AI workloads. - HPE Alletra Storage Server 4120/4140: General-purpose building blocks for scalable backup repositories. - HPE StoreOnce Gen4 and Gen5: High-performance deduplication and replication with updated Catalyst OS and hardware. For cyber incidents, Veeam provides: - Expert-led support to respond to ransomware attacks. - Clean, rapid recovery to minimize downtime. - Tools and training to help teams prepare for, respond to, and recover from cyberattacks. On the AI and data governance front, Veeam supports organizations that want to adopt AI, including GenAI, in a controlled way by helping you: - Discover shadow and cloud-native assets and accurately classify data. - Secure sensitive data across hybrid multicloud and SaaS. - Establish controls for safe AI adoption. - Assess and improve compliance with security best-practice frameworks. - Detect AI risk, protect AI systems, and roll back from AI-related mistakes. To support ongoing success, Veeam also offers: - Customer stories to guide solution selection. - Tools, documentation, and training to help you onboard and drive business growth. - An executive community with leadership resources, CXO networking, and insights. Together, Veeam and HPE Morpheus VM Essentials give you a way to protect and govern data consistently, build confidence in your cyber resilience posture, and create a more controlled foundation for AI initiatives across your hybrid environment.