Free VMware Backup with NAKIVO

  • 1 year of free data protection and IT monitoring
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  • Up to 10 VMware vSphere VMs and 5 Microsoft 365 users

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NAKIVO Free Edition: Essential Backup for Small Environments

NAKIVO Free Edition:
Fast, Reliable Backup for VMware and More

Protect up to 10 VMware VMs with powerful backup, real-time replication and built-in monitoring – at no cost for a full year. Perfect for small VMware deployments or test environments. Need broader protection? Explore advanced editions as your infrastructure grows.

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Easily deploy NAKIVO’s solution in your environment and run your first backup in minutes.

One-click Windows installation
One-click Windows installation
Single-command Linux deployment
Single-command Linux deployment
Pre-configured VMware vSphere or Nutanix AHV VA
Pre-configured VMware vSphere or Nutanix AHV VA
Pre-configured Amazon Machine Image
Pre-configured Amazon Machine Image
Flexible installation on NAS devices
Flexible installation on NAS devices

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“I don’t worry about failed VM backups anymore because the solution is reliable. I can recover VMware VMs within 10 minutes. Flash VM Boot helps us to maintain 24/7 availability”.

Matt Mitchell, Web Developer at SEHD, University of Colorado
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“With granular recovery, we can restore files in just a few minutes, while previously it would have taken us hours to restore the entire VM that held it”.

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“We improved VM backup performance by at least 4X, as well as we no longer have to deal with failed backup jobs”.

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Running VMware at Scale?

The Free Edition is perfect for small VMware setups, but if you need cloud backup, advanced ransomware protection, full disaster recovery orchestration or support for VMware Cloud Director, take a look at the editions built for enterprise-grade protection.

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Can I protect hybrid environments with NAKIVO Free Edition for VMware?

Yes. You can protect only VMware VMs or combine with other platforms if your environment is mixed. With Free Edition, you can protect the data of up to 5 Microsoft 365 users and 10 workloads, which can be:

How does the Free Edition help secure backups and avoid single points of failure?

The Free Edition offers essential protection with encryption and local immutability using Linux-based repositories. You can store vSphere backups locally, offsite or on CIFS/NFS shares to reduce risk. For advanced ransomware protection like cloud immutability on Amazon S3, Wasabi, Azure Blob, malware scan or air-gapped backups on tape, consider upgrading to the Enterprise Edition.

What else can I do with the Free Edition besides VMware Backup?

In addition to VMware backup, the Free Edition allows you to create replicas of VMware and Proxmox VMs as well as Amazon EC2 instances. With Real-Time Replication, you can maintain an up-to-date copy of your VMs at a secondary site with recovery points as frequent as one second apart. This way you can instantly boot the replica in a disaster to meet tight recovery objectives.

You can also monitor key metrics across your VMware vSphere environment, including VMs, datastores and hosts, in real time. Analyze historical trends in CPU, RAM and storage usage to detect bottlenecks early and keep your infrastructure running at peak performance.

What recovery options are available in the Free Edition?

You can boot VMware vSphere VMs directly from backups for near-instant recovery and then migrate them to production for permanent use. Granular recovery lets you instantly restore individual files, folders or application objects. You can easily browse and recover data to the original or a custom location, with all access permissions preserved.