Protecting Proxmox VE VMs with Commvault

Updated

You can use the Commvault software to protect VMs hosted in your Proxmox Virtual Environment (Proxmox VE). You can configure a hypervisor to represent your Proxmox VE cluster.

The Commvault software supports protection of Proxmox VE VMs with the following storage types:

  • Directory

  • NFS

  • CIFS

  • Ceph/RBD

  • LVM-thin

Note

You must be running the Commvault Platform Release 2024E (11.36) CU40 maintenance release or a more recent version to protect your Proxmox VE VMs.

Backups

Data You Can Back Up

  • VMs (Windows and Linux, powered on or powered off).

Backups You Can Perform

  • Full backups

  • Incremental backups

  • Synthetic full backups

Restores

Restores You Can Perform

  • Full VMs

  • Guest files and folders

Backups You Can Use for Restores

  • The most recent backup: For example, restore the most recent backup to its original location

  • A backup from a specific date: For example, restore data to a point in time before it became unusable

  • Backups from a date range: For example, restore data that was accidentally deleted