Veeam Expands Integration Capability With SAP HANA Backup Certification

New Veeam Availability Suite 9.5 Update 4 includes SAP Certified integration for SAP HANA, enhances backup and disaster recovery capabilities

Veeam® Software, the Intelligent Data Management™ Backup solutions has the announced Veeam Plug-in for SAP HANA, a SAP® Certified Integration for SAP HANA®, as a part of Veeam Availability Suite 9.5 Update 4. With this latest release, Veeam provides an SAP-certified backup and recovery solution, allowing enterprise customers to seamlessly integrate native SAP HANA backup with the industry-leading Veeam Backup & Replication™ solution.

SAP HANA is a business-critical database platform that simultaneously processes transactions and analytics for many enterprise workloads such as SAP S/4 HANA, SAP BW Data Warehouse, and SAP Business ONE today; it is critical that enterprises always maintain access to these databases.

“This latest release brings Veeam’s history of innovation, ease of use and reliability to business-critical enterprise applications,” said Ratmir Timashev, co-founder and Executive Vice President (EVP) of Sales & Marketing at Veeam. “In addition to the new major enhancements in Veeam Availability Suite 9.5 Update 4, we’ve also included an SAP-certified backup and recovery solution. Now SAP HANA enterprise customers can take advantage of Veeam’s No.1 backup solution for their mission-critical, performance-sensitive SAP HANA environments, leading to lower management overhead with a more intuitive, integrated and seamless solution to address the business-critical demands required for application and data Availability.”

Key integrations and benefits of this new Veeam and SAP solution include:

• Easy to integrate and SAP certified BACKINT plug-in;
• Gives SAP Administrators 100 percent control of the backup and restore processes;
• Efficient performance and scalability with Veeam’s Scale-out Backup Repository (SOBR™), as multiple repository servers can be used in parallel to boost backup and restore performance and to scale across multiple storage systems.

In addition to the new plug-in, Veeam provides disaster recovery support for applications including SAP S/4 HANA, SAP BW Data Warehouse, and SAP Business ONE; supported environments include:

• VMware-based workloads with outstanding features like Instant VM Recovery and DataLabs for copy data management, and Storage Integrations including HPE 3PAR, NetApp AFF, Pure FlashArray and Dell EMC Unity
• Hyper-Converged Infrastructure systems like Cisco HyperFlex, NetApp HCI, Nutanix AHV and others

Protection of physical servers and cloud-based workloads such as Microsoft Azure, Azure Stack and Amazon EC2