At Veeam, the focus is on native integrations with hypervisors.
The road map is indeed full: from seven hypervisors, it could grow to thirteen by 2026.
The first managed environment was VMware, since its initial release in 2008. Hyper-V was added to it in 2011.
The third on the list was Nutanix AHV. The plug-in has existed since 2018. With the latest Veeam release (v13, launched this month), the appliance has been integrated into the backup server. The distribution of workers has been improved (images deployed on demand) and it has become possible to deploy a lightweight persistent agent on the VMs – eliminating the need for a privileged account.
The support for Red Hat Virtualization has been in place since 2021. As of latest word, it will be supported at least through the end of 2026 (Red Hat has abandoned this solution in favor of OpenShift).
Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager, another KVM-based solution, has been integrated since 2024.
For both, the latest Veeam release also includes the appliance within the backup server. The placement of workers has been improved (prioritizing those located in the same cluster as the VM) and it becomes possible to connect them to multiple networks. The retention strategy based on restore points is being replaced by a time-based policy, opening the way to immutability.
Proxmox in 2024, Scale Computing this year
Another hypervisor managed since 2024: Proxmox VE. Veeam 13 introduces—on paper—an important element: application-aware backup through VSS integration for Active Directory, Exchange, SharePoint, SQL Server, Oracle and PostgreSQL. It also broadens the availability of malware-detection capabilities (analyzing suspicious activity on the file system, threat detection, YARA scans after backups…).
The latest hypervisor added to the list was in September 2025: HyperCore, from Scale Computing. Its main capabilities at the moment are:
- Full or incremental backup
- Selection of VMs, tags and clusters as sources
- Possible exclusions at the VM and disk level
- Email notification for each job
- Customizable compression level and block size
- Restore to/from AHV, Proxmox, KVM, AWS, Azure and Google Cloud
XCP-ng, HPE VM Essentials and OpenShift Virtualization planned for 2026
Integrations with four additional hypervisors are planned for the first half of 2026.
Among them, XenServer (which Citrix has decided to revive in competition with VMware) and its fork XCP-ng.
The plug-in for XCP-ng (version 8.3 and later) has been in public beta since the end of September. It is preinstalled in a specific edition of the Veeam Backup & Restore 12.3.2 ISO. The capabilities are similar to those offered by the HyperCore plug-in, but VeeamZIP is not yet supported, as are VM or disk exclusions.
VM Essentials, from HPE, is also planned for the first half of the year. Veeam had officially announced its intention to develop a plug-in in June 2025. A beta should be available in December.
A Chinese hypervisor is also on the list: Sangfor, offered by a provider of KVM-based hyperconverged solutions.
The timeline is not as precise for OpenShift Virtualization: it will be in 2026, we are simply told.
Thus, the count would reach 12 hypervisors. If Veeam counts 13, it signals a project for a universal API intended to facilitate the integration of other solutions…
