Sangfor Technologies has integrated its Sangfor aSV hypervisor with Veeam Backup & Replication 13.1 via a dedicated plugin. This support allows organizations already using Veeam to maintain their usual backup and recovery procedures when moving workloads to Sangfor infrastructure.
The integration allows you to add Sangfor hosts directly to Veeam backup infrastructure and manage virtual machine protection and recovery. Supported features include Changed Block Tracking, full virtual machine recovery, file restore, and various incremental and full backup modes.
An alternative for the virtualization market
Changes in licensing models, increasing operating costs and revised infrastructure strategies are leading many European companies to evaluate alternatives to their current virtualization platforms, including those based on VMware. Compatibility with existing backup tools is one of the aspects that must be taken into account during these processes.
Sangfor HCI brings together compute, storage, networking, virtualization and integrated security into a single platform. According to company data, Sangfor has helped more than 12,000 organizations migrate from VMware and serves more than 28,000 cloud customers worldwide. The company was positioned as a Visionary in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Server Virtualization Platforms.
Migration and optimization of resources
In addition to Veeam support, Sangfor HCI incorporates a transfer engine for cold migrations and cloning. This system transfers only valid data, skips unused blocks, and processes transfers concurrently to take advantage of available storage and network capacity.
In lab tests conducted by Sangfor with disks ranging from 500 GB to 3072 GB, cold migration and cloning operations were up to five times faster than with the native VMware implementation. The platform also supports phased migration processes, temporary coexistence of environments, and disaster protection.
Integration allows Sangfor hosts to be added directly to Veeam backup infrastructure
Another of the platform’s capabilities is Memory Tiering, which combines DRAM memory with compatible NVMe SSD drives to expand the effective available memory capacity. Frequently used data remains in DRAM, while less used data is moved to NVMe storage.
This feature is available in supported Sangfor HCI and Sangfor Cloud Platform deployments starting with version 6.11.3, subject to hardware requirements and workload characteristics. It is mainly aimed at development and test environments, non-critical cache services and microservices with moderate loads. It is not designed to replace the high-performance DRAM memory needed in applications such as GPU-intensive AI training or systems with extremely low latency requirements.
«Migration to a new virtualization platform requires evaluating aspects such as transition times, compatibility with existing tools and infrastructure costs. These are issues that companies must take into account when reviewing their technological environments,” says Timo Chen, Country Manager Iberia at Sangfor Technologies.
In Spain and Portugal, Sangfor supports these projects through its local team and channel partners.
