The new version of Veeam Backup was recently introduced & Replication, the first major backup and replication product for virtual environments with VMware. They have developed advanced technology that allows a virtual machine to be run directly from the backup file, call: vPower (Virtualization-Powered Data Protection), The functionalities it offers:

• Instant recovery of VMs: Restore an entire machine from backup in minutes.
• U-AIR (Universal Application Item Recovery): recovers individual objects from ANY virtualized application.
• Verify recovery with SureBackup: Automatically verifies the recoverability of all backups.
• SmartCDP: More complete recovery: vPower leverages the latest technology advancements in VMware vSphere 4 and vStorage – including modified block tracing and thin-provisioned disks – to provide unprecedented replication speed.
• Instant File Recovery (Patent Pending). With vPower, You can quickly recover an entire virtual machine or an individual file from the same backup (Latest) at the image level.

vPower allows you to verify if backups are recoverable using SureBackup (Fully guaranteed payback). vPower automates the recovery verification process, using the resources available in your production environment (or testing). For this recovery check, vPower creates a virtual machine in an isolated environment and runs it directly from the backup file. Start the virtual machine, Start the operating system, and check that everything is working normally.