NAKIVO for VMware

NAKIVO Backup & Replication delivers full agentless data protection for VMware vSphere and VMware Cloud Director environments. It interfaces directly with VMware APIs to capture entire VMs — disks, configuration, the lot — and uses Changed Block Tracking (CBT) to copy only modified data during incremental runs. The result is dramatically shorter backup windows without touching your production workloads.

Where NAKIVO genuinely stands out for VMware shops is Real-Time Replication. You can create continuously updated VM replicas with update intervals as low as one second — that's near-zero RPO without the complexity of storage-level replication. When something goes wrong, Flash VM Boot lets you spin up a VM directly from backup storage in seconds, buying your team time to perform a proper restore in the background.

LAN-free data transfer via Hot Add and Direct SAN modes keeps backup traffic off your production network entirely. For larger VMware estates running HPE 3PAR, Nimble, or Alletra storage, the Enterprise Plus edition can trigger Backup from Storage Snapshots — offloading the snapshot work to the array itself. It's the kind of efficiency that makes a real difference when you're backing up hundreds of VMs nightly.