Virtualization servers and hosts
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The virtualization servers and hosts are an infrastructure that must be integrated with Veeam® managed infrastructure. During service deployment, the VMware Cloud Foundation for Classic - Automated instance is automatically registered. You can add the following types of servers and hosts to the backup infrastructure:
- VMware vSphere Server
- VMware Cloud Director
- Microsoft Windows Server
- Linux Server
- Hyper-V servers
- Veeam Backup for AWS servers
- Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure servers
- Veeam Backup for Google Cloud servers
- Nutanix AHV clusters
- Kasten K10 instances
General-purpose backup proxies
A general-purpose backup proxy is a component that operates as a data mover. The backup proxy processes jobs and delivers backup and restore traffic. General-purpose backup proxies can be used for the following operations:
- NAS backup - General-purpose backup proxies transfer data between a shared source file and a backup repository. In IBM Cloud®, a general-purpose backup proxy needs to be deployed if you are backing up IBM Cloud File services in Classic or VPC environments.
- Veeam agent and integration of storage system snapshot - General-purpose backup proxies transfer data between a storage system and a backup repository. You cannot integrate any storage system in IBM Cloud. During service deployment, a general-purpose backup proxy is deployed on the Veeam backup server.