Question - Sangfor HCI

[TheRedGiant]

Hi,

i have 1 question on this, our vm currently running on SANGFOR HCI. is it veeam support for this platform?

now our backup running on Veritas, and we plan for change it later if veeam support do to backup & replication.

thank you.

[HannesK]

Hello,
yes, you can back up the VMs with the Veeam Agent for Windows or Linux.

If you are asking for support of the Sangfor hypervisor: there is no hypervisor based backup support like for VMware, Hyper-V and Nutanix AHV.

Best regard,
Hannes

[mikematrid0]

Hi @Hannesk, I have a scenario, one of our customer wants to deploy VM backup and VM backup replication to their DR Site using their existing Veeam License.

- Current HQ Infra running with Nutanix (KVM/AHV)
- DR Infra using Sangfor HCI (KVM/aSV)

Is it possible to do bare metal restore of Nutanix VM backups to Sangfor HCI VMs instead?, thank you.

[HannesK]

Hello,
and welcome to the forums.

Only the other way around would be possible. Backups done with agents on Sangfor and restore to Nutanix (instant recovery) would work.

Restore to Sangfor hypervisor should work with agent backups with bare metal recovery.

Best regards,
Hannes

[crojatti]

I am reopening this old conversation because today I received an email invitation to a Sangfor webinar on the topic: "Elevating Data Resilience: Veeam Agentless Backup Integration & Sangfor HCI 6.11.1 Enhanced Reliability" https://www.brighttalk.com/channel/18571

I would like to know if this is an officially supported integration by Veeam.
Can someone from Veeam please give us official information about this?

[Gostev]

I've no idea what are they talking about.

[Andreas Neufert]

It is a creative way that Sangfor uses our backups with their snapshots. They create a storage snapshot of the data and then use Veeam NAS file backup or other methods to backup the data. You need to reach out to Sangfor to get more details as it is their own backup method and needs to be supported by them.

You can use Veeam Agents and Bare Metal restore for backup with Veeam regular support as an alternative. As well cross platform restores possible that way (see above discussion).