VMware vSphere & ESXi Backup and Recovery

Storware protects VMware vSphere and ESXi agentlessly, through VMware's own APIs (VADP) — nothing in your guests, nothing on the hypervisor OS. Full and CBT incremental backups, instant restore, and a direct migration path from VMware to OpenStack.

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OpenStack Supported since 2015 • Instant Restore • Incremental Backup (ceph cbt) • V2V Migration • ISO 27001 Certified • Open REST API

Agentless and certified

Backup through VADP, with no agents in guests and no access to the hypervisor OS. Nothing to deploy or patch inside your VMs.

Freedom of choice

No vendor lock-in on hypervisor or destination. Protect across platforms and send backups to file systems, object storage, or enterprise backup providers.

Simple, transparent licensing

Per-VM or per-socket, one platform, one model — with 24/7 human support. No feature tiers, no per-platform fees.

Fast recovery, minimal downtime

Instant restore boots a VM straight from backup storage; Live Storage Migration moves it to production storage in the background.

Agentless backup via VADP

Storware reads virtual disks through VMware's vStorage APIs for Data Protection. No agent footprint, no hypervisor OS access.

Hot-Add and NBD transport modes

Storware selects the fastest available path: LAN-free Hot-Add when the proxy shares datastore visibility, with automatic fallback to NBD over the management network.

CBT incremental backups

Incrementals use VMware's Changed Block Tracking, reading only changed blocks. Storware auto-detects CBT and resets it on each full backup to keep a reliable baseline.

Synthetic backups

Incrementals are synthesized into a complete, independent image, so there's no backup-chain merging at restore time — faster recovery that scales across large VM estates.

Instant restore + Live Storage Migration

Mount a VM directly from backup storage as a temporary vCenter datastore and power it on in moments; Storage vMotion then relocates it to production storage without interruption.

Granular and disk-level restore

Recover a full VM, individual virtual disks, or single files — to the original location or an alternate ESXi host or datastore.

V2V migration to OpenStack

Restore VMware backups directly into OpenStack, with no intermediary conversion tooling. (VMware → OpenStack is the supported V2V path.)

Recovery Plans with schedulable DR testing

Define multi-step recovery workflows, including network and disk-layout changes, and run them on a schedule for non-disruptive recoverability validation

Open REST API and policy assignment

A documented REST API for self-service and third-party integration; assign VMs to policies by VM tag or name regex.

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See Storware Backup and Recovery for VMware in action

Adding a vCenter or standalone ESXi host takes minutes — from there, watch Storware run image-based backups over Hot-Add and NBD, capture CBT incrementals, and recover a VMware VM through instant restore. No agents, no separate console: full and granular recovery, straight from the Storware WebUI.

Backup Flow

IT teams today manage sprawling environments across virtualization, containers, cloud, and storage. Each demands its own backup approach. The complexity grows faster than the solutions.

Connect

Add vCenter or a standalone ESXi host. Storware works through the vSphere APIs (VADP) over port 443 — no agents, no changes to your VMs.

Protect

Image-based full backups and CBT incrementals move over Hot-Add (LAN-free) or NBD, auto-selected. Application-consistent quiesced snapshots and pre/post command execution keep data recoverable.

Recover

Restore a full VM, individual disks, or files; boot instantly from backup with Storage vMotion to production — or migrate the VM straight to OpenStack.