Citrix Integration

[oreynoso]

Is Veeam planning to support Citrix?
We know we can backup VMs with agents, but we have long waited for Veeam to integrate with Citrix as the agent option does not meet our business / technical requirements.
Is Veeam working to support Citrix soon?

[PetrM]

Hi Orlando and Welcome to Veeam R&D Forums!

If you're talking about the support of Citrix XenServer, please have a look at this topic; there are no plans for it. Could you clarify why agent backup does not meet your requirements?

Thanks!

[oreynoso]

As far as we know, with the agent, we can recover the VM content but not the VM itself. Is there a way to recover the complete VM from Veeam?

[PetrM]

Hi Orlando,

Many thanks for the clarification. Nope, there is no way to do it with Citrix XenServer.

Thanks!

[oreynoso]

That's why we would like Veeam to support Citrix; what can we do to push this?

[PetrM]

Hi Orlando,

No actions from your side are required, your vote has already been counted

Thanks!

[oreynoso]

Hopefully, Veeam can support Citrix soon.

[tkolstad]

@oreynoso I'm not a Citrix guy, but maybe have a scripted restore within Citrix to be a post restore task? If you're using Orchestrator, I bet you'd be able to facilitate quite a bit!

[oreynoso]

@tkolstad We are not using Orchestrator, but we could find a way to get this to work, for example, by restoring the volume from the "bad VM" to a "new VM," etc. Still, we prefer to use another tool like Xackup that supports Citrix, which makes the restoring process more manageable.

Hopefully, Veeam can support Citrix soon.

Thanks,

[vanliyv]

Is there any change in this situation yet ?
While Citrix offers Xenserver as part of their UHMC licences, there is a huge opportunity to migrate to Xenserver for all Citrix customers.
Integration with Veeam backup is currently a showstopper.

Hopefully, Veeam can support Xenserver backup integration soon.

Thanks.

[Gostev]

I was told that in theory our XCP-ng integration should "just work" with Xenserver as well.
May be something to test once public beta of our XCP-ng support is out.

[vanliyv]

Thank you for your quick reply.
Is there a timeline yet for this functionality to be released ?

[DataNetSolutions]

Data Net Solutions Group is very interested in participating in the public beta for the XCP-ng Veeam backup solution. Please add our name to the list.
We have over 1000 hosts that we will need to migrate from VMware ESXi to the XCP-ng/Citrix Xenserver hypervisor as soon as possible.