Overview | Veeam Kasten Veeam Kasten for Kubernetes Overview The Veeam Kasten data management platform, purpose-built for Kubernetes, provides enterprise operations teams an easy-to-use, scalable, and secure system for backup restore, disaster recovery, and mobility of Kubernetes applications
Using Veeam Kasten Using Veeam Kasten The following sections provide an overview of how to perform common tasks using the Veeam Kasten dashboard The equivalent actions can also be performed via a Kubernetes-native API and are documented in the API and Command Line section
Veeam Kasten Best Practices Veeam Kasten Best Practices Introduction This guide describes the best practices for deploying Veeam Kasten on single or multiple Kubernetes environments Veeam Kasten offers a powerful, flexible, enterprise-ready backup, recovery, and workload mobility solution for cloud-native applications Audience This best practice guide, which is independent of any specific Kubernetes distribution, is
Accessing Veeam Kasten Accessing Veeam Kasten One of the considerations when installing Veeam Kasten is deciding how it will be accessible to users
Protecting VMs on Kubernetes | Veeam Kasten Protecting VMs on Kubernetes KubeVirt is an open source, Cloud Native Computing Foundation project that enables users to run and manage Virtual Machine (VM) workloads on Kubernetes As an inherently stateful workload, protecting VM-related manifests and volume data is critical Veeam Kasten officially supports Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization and SUSE Virtualization (Harvester) implementations
Helm based Installation | Veeam Kasten Veeam Kasten supports the following credentials types described below Service Principal If using service principal, the principal needs a contributor role on the resource group You also need to specify the resource group of the openshift nodes and the subscription id
Installing Veeam Kasten Veeam Kasten is available in two main editions, Veeam Kasten Free and Enterprise The Kasten product page contains a comparison of the two Veeam Kasten editions, also described below, but both editions use the same container images and follow an identical install process
Protecting Applications | Veeam Kasten Protecting Applications Protecting an application with Veeam Kasten, usually accomplished by creating a policy, requires the understanding and use of three concepts: Snapshots and Exports: Depending on the environment and requirements, one or both of these data capture mechanisms will be used Scheduling: Specification of application capture frequency and snapshot backup retention objectives
Release Notes | Veeam Kasten Release Notes 8 5 4 Release Date: 2026-03-06 New Features Added k10 kasten io freezeVM annotation support at the namespace level Any VM in the namespace that is not individually annotated will use this value Improvements Added support for disabling guest filesystem freezing for multiple VMs from the Virtual Machines dashboard Added support for accessing multiple filesystem partitions on a
Dashboard Overview | Veeam Kasten It is also possible to perform an interactive walkthrough of the Veeam Kasten dashboard via a Guided Tour The tour is available when the Veeam Kasten dashboard is accessed for the first time or via the Interface page of the Settings menu in the navigation sidebar System Overview The top of the Veeam Kasten dashboard displays a list of applications (currently mapped to namespaces), any