Red Hat OpenShift & Veeam Kasten

Modernize Rapidly, Defend Relentlessly

Unify protection for containers and VMs, and take control of your OpenShift workloads everywhere

Benefits

Unified Data Protection for OpenShift Anywhere

As enterprises modernize virtualized workloads, Kasten ensures those applications – and their data – stay protected, portable, and production-ready across any environment. Together, OpenShift and Kasten offer a trusted foundation for a modern hybrid and multi-cloud infrastructure.

Confident VM to Container Transitions

Migrate and protect virtual machines running on OpenShift Virtualization using the same scalable data protection workflows trusted across Kubernetes environments.

End-to-End Resilience for Modern Workloads

Ensure application and data resilience through every phase—whether onboarding legacy VMs, running stateful apps in production, or scaling across clusters.

Operational Simplicity at Enterprise Scale

Automate backup, recovery, and DR policies with operator-driven workflows built for OpenShift—reducing overhead for platform, DevOps, and SRE teams.

How Veeam Kasten Works With OpenShift

Data Confidence for Modern Applications

Purpose-built for Red Hat OpenShift, Kasten integrates seamlessly into your environment to simplify backup operations, accelerate app migration, and ensure consistent protection across containers and VMs. Whether you’re modernizing legacy workloads or scaling production clusters, Kasten provides the guardrails to move fast with confidence.

Unified Policy Engine for VMs & Containers

Apply consistent backup, restore, and DR policies across OpenShift Virtualization and Kubernetes-native workloads—managed through a single, declarative control plane.

Intelligent, Application-Aware Backups

Kasten recognizes and understands Kubernetes-native constructs like labels, namespaces, and Helm, delivering granular protection and rapid, environment-aware recovery.

Multi-Cluster Mobility & Disaster Recovery

Replicate apps and data between clusters and regions to enable fast recovery, workload portability, and cross-site high availability.

Features & Integrations

Integration Across Every OpenShift Experience

Kasten extends the capabilities of any OpenShift environment. With native integrations across the OpenShift stack and support for hybrid and cloud-native storage, Kasten is ready wherever OpenShift runs and goes next.

Confidently Onboard VMs Into Your Kubernetes Environment

Protect virtual machines alongside containers, streamlining backup and recovery across hybrid environments.

Move Apps and Data Across Clusters, Clouds, or Regions

Kasten simplifies migration and portability for Kubernetes applications, supporting flexible workload movement for scaling, testing, protection, and recovery.

Protect OpenShift on AWS and Azure With Cloud-Native Ease

Gain the flexibility and agility required to scale to the cloud with a simple solution for backup, DR, data security, and cross-region migrations without infrastructure overhead.

Check Out Our Customer Success Stories

Veeam Kasten is the most stable, simple to use and reliable to work with of available offerings in the market today. It includes many features out of the box that we would have had to build ourselves if we’d have chosen another option.

Johan Jansson

Zenseact

FAQs

What sets Veeam Kasten apart for OpenShift data protection?

Veeam Kasten offers a Kubernetes-native solution with deep OpenShift integration, providing scalable, secure and policy-driven automation for protecting cloud-native applications and virtual machines across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.

How does Veeam Kasten support backup and disaster recovery on OpenShift?

Kasten delivers seamless backup and DR capabilities tailored for OpenShift, ensuring operational simplicity and robust security through its application-centric approach and broad integrations with storage vendors.

Can Veeam Kasten facilitate application migration and mobility for OpenShift applications?

Absolutely. Kasten enables secure and efficient migration of applications and their data across OpenShift environments, simplifying development, deployment, and management of all the data in a cluster.

How does Veeam Kasten's Kubernetes-native design benefit OpenShift users?

Being Kubernetes-native, Kasten integrates quickly and seamlessly with OpenShift, accelerating enterprise modernization and cloud-native application delivery while reducing the complexity of day-to-day operations.

How does Kasten support OpenShift Virtualization?

Kasten provides unified backup and recovery for virtual machines moving to and running on OpenShift Virtualization, enabling consistent protection for VM data alongside containerized workloads through a single policy engine.

What is OpenShift Virtualization Engine (OVE) and how does Kasten support it?

OVE is a Red Hat offering that enables organizations to migrate, run, and manage virtual machines on OpenShift prior to container adoption—simplifying a transitional path towards broader modernization strategies. Kasten delivers the same enterprise data protection for VMs on OVE as any OpenShift integration, and offers special pricing aligned to a VM only model.

Radical Resilience is Our Difference

With Veeam by your side, you have the flexibility you want for today’s
hybrid cloud and the confidence you need for long-term success.

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